30 Day Photography Challenge {day 12-18}

Wow I've been really behind on this challenge. I should probably be done already, but life happens. A couple weeks ago I got sick with the stomach flu. My husband stayed home to take care of the kids while I stayed in bed for 2 days and on day #2 the kitchen faucet broke which led to a flood in my office. The following week our sump pump got stuck and the laundry room flooded. Yesterday we got a TON of rain and the laundry room again flooded. To sum it all up, we've been dealing with a lot of water around here.

Here's what I have thus far.

Day 12: Sunset

You can't really see the sunset from our house. This is actually the view out our bedroom window. There are too many trees and houses in the way to see it from our house. I could have gone outside down to the park around the corner to maybe get a bette view, but who has time for that?

Day 13: Yourself with 13 things

13 of our favorite children's books. We have about 5 billion more in our house. (okay, maybe that is an overexageration, but we seriously have a bookshelf in every room of our home except for the bathrooms)

Day 14: Eyes

You gotta love those baby blues.

Day 15: Silhouette

This one was difficult. I wasn't really sure how to do it. I used the door for back lighting to hopefully create a silhouette... it kind of worked?

Day 16: Long exposure

This is the waterfall in the rainforest at the zoo.

Day 17: Technology

The iPad. We use it to listen to Pandora A LOT.

Day 18: Your shoes

If you didn't guess, mine are the shoes in the middle cubby. The boys share one and Dan and I have our own. It sort of keeps the entry way organized.

Up next, something orange.

30 Day Photography Challenge {day 8-11}

Day 8: A bad habit

My almost 3 year old tends to throw fits whenever he doesn't get his way. It's pretty pathetic.

Day 9: Someone you love

My incredible husband. He doesn't like having his picture taken and said "Why don't you just take one of the boys?" My response? "Because I take pictures of them all the time." Geesh.

Day 10: Childhood Memory

I kind of posted about this earlier, but this is my necklace that I wear pretty much all the time. When I was 4 years old I had a brain tumor and while I was in the hospital my dad called Bishop Gerber to come see me. The Bishop brought me this miraculous medal that had been blessed by the Pope. When I was little I was only allowed to wear it to church on Sundays. By 7th grade it was a daily accessory.

Day 11: Something Blue

Collin's car he got from the treasure box at school. He was very proud of himself for putting the stickers on all by himself.

Next up a sunset. Too bad you can't see it from our house because of the trees and other houses. That one might have to wait...

30 Day Photography Challenge {day 2-7}

Day 2: What you wore today

It was a lazy Friday (the 13th) so I wore sweats and my long sleeved WSU shirt. I always wear socks because my feet are always cold, and my necklace is an every day accessory. It was given to me by Bishop Gerber after I had a brain tumor removed when I was 4 and has been blessed by Pope John Paul II.

Day 3: Clouds

This challenge was difficult for me. From our house there isn't a lot of open sky, lots of trees in the way, and I don't have fancy camera lenses. I'll have to work on my cloud pictures in the future.

Day 4: Something Green

 a laundry basket





a wash rag

I had a hard time finding something green.

Day 5: From a high angle

little man all dressed for church

Day 6: From a low angle

 Like the drool all over his face? That is what a child who just enjoyed a cinnamon roll looks like.

This one doesn't show the angle as much, but I adore this picture. He had to have 2 puppies to snuggle with.

Day 7: Fruit

Tomorrow's challenge is to photograph a bad habit. I'm not sure wha I'll be taking a picture of yet.



edited

I submitted a phot of my boys to a blog for photo editing. You can view it here. She does link up parties every month to give people a chance to have a photo edited by her. Someday I'll be able to do it all by myself, but for now it was fun to see what someone else did with it.

photo editing

I've been having fun attempting to edit photos. All I have right now is Picasa and Picnik (and Gimp which I can't figure out). So here is a before and after picture of Dylan at about 6 months old.

Isn't he sweet?

30 day photography challenge

I got the idea to do the 30 day photography challenge from my friend Marie, over at The "Linc Between Us.
I got a new camera a few months ago and love taking pictures of my boys, but this challenge will help me to broaden my photographic horizons. It's about time I learn how to really use my camera.


So here is day 1: self-portrait

Like Marie, I probably won't post every day, but may post a few days in one.
Who else would like to join us on this journey?