Sunday, January 15, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Playing With Natural Light
Every day I am learning something new. More and more I realize I'd like to do this for a small side job. I enjoy it. I always have, but it's only in the last few years that Michael and I have started talking about doing it. It wasn't ever a possibility with a point and shoot, but now it's a dream I can actually see in my grasp with the right experiences and teachers. (Luckily I know some amazing photographers that I can ask questions whenever!)
Today I played around with natural light. Not always easy with two wiggling boys, but we had fun!
Monday, January 9, 2012
Let's Face It
Yes, I have an amazing camera, but it also helps to have my amazing sons on the other side of my lens!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Show Off Your Shot: Beauty
There are not many things I love about Idaho. The sunsets are one of the things I can't get enough of.
The Simple Things
I love this photo challenge, hosted by Simple As That. It urges you to take a step back to look at (and photograph) the simple things in your life. I love it for two reasons. 1) Everyone needs the reminder to step back and take a look every now and then and 2) It gives me an excuse to take even more pictures of my favorite little subjects. :0)
So here is my first The Simple Things post! I look forward to posting many, many more.
Come Join In!
Friday, January 6, 2012
A Week Through My Lens: Week 1
I decided, since I have this great new blog dedicated to my photography, that I should have a great new photography challenge to go along with that blog. It seems logical, right?
The trick is, what kind of photo challenge. I don't really want to assign people something that they should post every week. What if they haven't taken any photographs that meet my requirements? Am I assigning homework at that point? No thank you. People should photograph what they want at the time. After all, some weeks I have pictures of flowers and mountains and some week I have pictures of the animals. I always have pictures of my boys, of course. :0)
Then it came to me. How about something where people could post a collage, or even just a lot of individual pictures, showing off their week? It could be anything from a football game to a first day of dance class to a bunch of pictures of clouds. Either way, it is a way to show off what you did that week...and it's motivation to keep up with picture editing, even if it's only week by week. (I say this after 4 hours of going through pictures last night, and I am still only up to Thanksgiving!)
So, here it is! The first ever, week one, of A Week Through My Lens. Excited yet? I know I am. :0)
Here's my week:
Here's my week:
Here's how you play:
1. Keep your eye out during the week for interesting things to take photographs of. It doesn't matter who or what it is, the idea is to be out there taking pictures.
2. Every weekend blog about a week through your lens. Show off your pictures in a collage or just in a long post. Again, it doesn't matter how many. One great photograph is just as good as 100 great photographs. Share the story of your week in words or just let the pictures tell the story...doesn't matter. Just get those pictures in a blog! Make sure you put my A Week Through My Lens button in the blog somewhere, or at least a link back to Life Through My Lens.
3. Come back here to Life Through My Lens and link up your blog post. (Please leave a link to your A Week Through My Lens post, not just your blog!)
4. Check out some of the other people who have linked up and see what they did this week! Make it fun for everybody!
5. The most important part...HAVE FUN!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Show Off Your Shot: Happy New Year
Show Off Your Shot is something I've recently discovered over at And Then She Snapped. I love the idea. I love to show off my photographs, especially of my boys, so it's the perfect thing for me.
In honor of the holiday, this weeks Show Off Your Shot is of the little man on his very first New Years Eve. Yes, he was up at midnight. He got a kiss from his Mama.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Life Through My Lens
To celebrate my amazing new camera, I decided to start a photograph blog. No words (at least not many...because I can't promise there will be no words at all...it is me after all), just our lives as I see it through my lens.
I have always loved photography. I get it honestly. My grandmother has, literally, thousands (probably tens of) of photographs that she has taken in her life. When we went on vacations, my souvenir money was always spent on developing my pictures when we got home instead of the little trinkets most people buy. I could never have enough wall space to hang all the photographs I want to, though I will try. I probably have the best documented children in the world, though they will probably hate me for it one day. lol! I would love to one day do photography for others, but for now, my family are my victims. :0)
I hope you enjoy seeing my life as I do. Through my lens.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)