Photography
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May Photography Challenge Tips – Week 1
Well I’ve had to follow through now, I offered a challenge and you picked up the gauntlet:) Plan is, we’ll snap away through the week’s challenges and showcase seven masterpieces on Mondays in May (hey, alliteration naturally!;) linking back here so we can ooh and ahh. Keeping in mind whilst I’m a rank beginner, I have been reading various tips and books. I thought I’d share a few of the ideas I’ve gleaned that I’m ruminating as I snap away this first week. Day 1: A photo from a high angle Climb up on a chair, a table and you’d be surprised at how much background clutter you can eliminate. Background clutter is…
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My May Photography Challenge
Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion it is vitally important to be involved in a creative pursuit, an opportunity to ‘re-boot’. During the last few months I have turned my creative energies towards photography, keen to improve my skills. Whilst ‘chopping off heads’ is a ‘skill’ of the past, I have plenty of room for improvement. Browsing through pinterest I found a few photography challenges, a great way to help me focus, however none of the challenges were quite ‘me’, so I’ve tweaked and added. Realising my interest is in specific areas I focused my challenge there; my family, our bushland and landscape. Over the month of May…
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During This Christmas Season
Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Christmastide From our home to yours.
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House Paddock Through the Lens
Looking up the driveway. Flowers along the fenceline Arrangement at the top of the drive. Looking down towards the front dam. ‘Spot’, our neighbour’s horse. Rainbow Lorikeets enjoying the fireweed. Wild ducks on the front lawn. Mother and Joey Two ‘roos grazing. Love the mountains. Enjoying our new camera:) (Photo credits shared with Michelangelo and Princess)
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Christmas Eve
What a busy, preparation filled, expectant day. Baking to be done, house to be tidied, presents to finish wrapping, still more presents to be completed. Keeping a reasonable sense of calm, although when PC came home and confessed that he spent just a little more, I was so grateful, it meant one less present to sew. I even managed to snap a few photos of the children before we headed off to ‘Midnight Mass.’ Midnight Mass in our parish is at 8pm and as the girls sang in the choir this year we headed in a little early. Christmas Mass is such a peaceful, joy filled time with Our Lord.…
