Photo Challenge

"thrift"




pics from my phone (yes, I sometimes take pictures on my phone. no, I do not carry my good camera everywhere I go. :)

J man enjoying the ride with me!

Photo Challenge # 46

This week's challenge is:

a Self-portrait featuring a physical attribute that you find endearing or beautiful about yourself- something that you feel makes you uniquely "you".
Submit one photo.
This photo can be color or black and white.
Go ahead and "tweak" it if you feel like it!

To see this week's entries, click here!

10 of 365

My physical attribute that I find endearing about myself: my super-pale (some may even call it pasty) skin.
Give me a break, though. It is the middle of winter in the upper midwest, and I come from some pale-skinned lineage. But really, I do like the fact that my skin is so white, since I like to wear black a lot :)


Any feedback is welcome, thanks for looking!

Em

Family photos

As a gift for my parents, I am putting together an album of each of us "kids" and our families- I tried to get everyone's pictures throughout the year, but it came down to Christmas, and we still hadn't gotten a couple of them. So here they are:

My oldest brother, Chris, and his family: Jenny, Lily, and Evie


My brother, Jonnie, and his family: Kimmy, Bekah, Alyssa, and Ben


And, of course, my parents:

aren't they just so cute?!?!

Em

Sledding!

A fresh blanket of snow
A brand new world
a brand new playground.

Family Christmas

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

I thoroughly enjoyed my time away from home at my parent's home with all of my family.
We sure did have fun!

"ketchup" day: challenge #44

The challenge:
Shoes

The goal of this challenge is to take something ordinary and make it look extraordinary.

Since I had 6 concerts last week, this challenge is a tribute to that time spent singing and performing...


to see the other entries, please click here.

"E flat"

and comments, criticisms are welcome! I really want to grow as a photographer, and any input is appreciated!
Thanks :)

Em

"Ketchup"day: challenge #43

This challenge was "toys"
with a little boy running..er, climbing...everywhere, it has definitely been more of a challenge to get these done, but he definitely remains my inspiration!
We were also supposed to tell a story, but I'd like to know what you think the story is!
to see the other challenges, visit www.weeklyphotographychallenge.blogspot.com

This lovely set of wooden animals was a gift for his first birthday- aren't they fun!!

Photo Challenge 42

Good Saturday, everyone!
I finally got my challenge done this week, despite the fact that I didn't have my camera with me.
Yup, you heard me right- I didn't have my camera. But I did have my phone :)
Today was the first time that I went hunting in over 2 years, and I decided to use my phone to take pictures of my surroundings. It's not often that I am up before sunrise (on purpose, anyway) so I used that. The sky was absolutely brilliant blue just before the sun came up, and I couldn't quite get the beautiful panorama around me, so I took a whole bunch of pics and put them together on my new laptop with photoshop.My laptop has bluetooth, and so does my phone, so I (jonathan, actually) figured out how to make the two of them talk to each other, and I could upload the photos from the phone directly onto the computer, no cords required. Whoa, how cool is that?!?!



I had to admit, the above photo was inspired by my dad's entry, with layering the sky in different angles and stuff to get this neato effect... so thanks, dad!







This week's challenge was to take pictures of the sky, and you can see other people's entries and the rules for the challenge when you click here.

Em

Photography Challenge

The autumn of beauty is still beautiful...

~Latin Proverb

Photo Challenge

I had this GREAT idea for this particular photograph for this week's challenge- and I was actually able to execute the photograph!!!
We were supposed to take a picture of our subject through something- anything, really, and I thought how cute would it be to have this couple framed in the photograph.
I had the ultimate pleasure of taking engagement photos for an artist friend (who happens to also be named Emily) She and Rick really interacted well and truly had a great time with each other while I took their pictures.
Thanks for going along with this idea, guys!!!





To see the other entries and to check out the rules, click here


~Em

Photo Challenge #29

I gotta admit- I love this challenge :) (I am not biased at all)

Here are the rules (and the other entries)

I had in mind the exact place that I wanted to go because there was absolutely BEAUTIFUL graffiti all over this abandoned building. But when I got there, somebody whitewashed ALL of those walls. AACH! I was totally bummed, but fortunately there were some freshly tagged areas, as well as spots that were missed by the whitewash.
Another "issue" that I ran into was that I couldn't get onto the property- it was surrounded by chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. So 2 of these shots were taken with my camera up against the chain link, which actually helped to create a natural vignette.

Oh, and did I mention that I took these right after an actual photo shoot- so here I am, a little white girl, walking around with my huge professional digital camera, wearing my nice clothes, in a place that was abandoned. In a neighborhood that, well, you wouldn't find too many gals like me hanging out there. But that just added a little more excitement to the whole thing :)

Thanks for stopping by!
~Em

Photo Challenge #21

The challenge this week was to enter 5 photos of water.
This actually was more of a challenge than I first anticipated it to be- yes, it was beastly hot here, so you would think that I would LOVE to be out in the water, but that just meant that I would have another really big, heavy, black object to haul with me along with my baby.
Well, I cheated a little..... but, tweaking was allowed, so I took the artistic license to create a series with the same picture. Can you say.... Andy Warhol?!?
Let me know your thoughts, any comments are appreciated!
~Em
(you can click on the picture to see it bigger :)

This weeks Photo Challenge

This week's challenge was a great exercise in the use of light- the details of the challenge are a little confusing, but basically we had to take pictures of the same object in a window at different times of day- one picture at the same angle each time, and another picture at what we felt was the best angle for that time of day.
These three are the "same angle" --yeah, I know- the nighttime one is a little off- but my hubby was busy working on rebuilding a computer in the same room, and things were moved all around, so I couldn't quite get at the same angle. The little glass jar was never moved, though- it stayed in the exact same spot all day.

7:30 am

2:30 pm

10:30 pm

and here is the set of different angles of the same jar- how I felt it worked the best with the light I had :

I chose this setup because I wanted to capture the dappled morning sunshine and the light passing through the jar onto the windowsill. 7:30 am

I decided to do a more detail shot for the afternoon, since the light isn't as dramatic as the morning- and I took the picture from below, so that the background included the blurry leaves- I like the painterly look of this one :) 2:30 pm

For the nighttime shot I did something a little more "outside the box"- so I physically went outside the box...er, house. This is taken from the outside looking in. 10:30 pm

I would love to hear your ideas/critiques on this- even if you weren't part of the challenge- good or bad, I enjoy hearing other's ideas on what I've done. Thanks a lot, everyone!
~Em

Photo Challenge #18

Here are the basics to this week's challenge:
This week's challenge is to photograph numbers 1-7 (my father always make us do things in prime numbers when I was a child, since I thought 12 photos would be overwhelming we'll just stick with 7).

Rules:
1.) 7 photos total (If you feel ambitious go ahead and do all 12), one photo for each number.
2.) your photos can either represent the number or have the actual number in letters or numbers.
3.) B/W or Colour
4.) Tweaking is allowed.
5.) Photos should be submitted by either Friday, May 29 or Sat. May 30
5.) Have Fun!


I was really awesomely inspired by this week's challenge...in fact, I plan on going further with it to make a personal project of it. Something like "99 years"..still working on the full concept, though. We'll see how far it goes!







ok, so I was going to stop in by my cousin's house yesterday, cuz they have a 6 and 4 year old, but they are in Montana. Sorry ;(

Photo Challenge- Man vs. Nature

Thus weeks photo challenge was to take 3-5 pictures with the theme of man vs. nature:








and, finally, this one's for you, Erin :).....