Shutter Sisters Inspiration

I enjoy the daily bits of inspiration from Shutter Sisters. Today's bit revolved around the clean slate of the new year.

Sometimes it's tough for me to follow through with various creative assignments depending on what's going on in my life and whatnot but I just really liked this one so I thought I'd give it a shot. With all the chilly gray brown and white around us these days I felt like this would be a great opportunity to look a little closer for the colorful, the cheery, and the cozy. Here's the assignment:
January Homework Assignment (Starting Monday):

1) Take one photo everyday until Jan. 31st that is colorful, cozy, cheerful or just makes yousmile.

2) Do something creative with your hands 5 days a week. It could be drawing, painting, origami, scribbling, doodling, writing, or anything else. But it may not involve a camera or a computer.

I've decided that I'm going to count culinary exploits as 'something creative with my hands' as well. I'll be keeping a log of my photos, and photos of the things I make by hand up on my flickr page. Let me know if you decide to join. I'd love to see your photos.


PS: The diptych above is of some awesome eggnog cupcakes. I got the recipe from Annie's Eats. The cupcakes had a great flavor, were super moist and the icing was REALLY sweet. I don't prefer the sugar icings as much as cream cheese variety, so I think next time I'll experiment with a different icing.

Photo Week: Auto-Settings

This week Photo Week is inspired by our camera's Auto-Settings

Share your work with Steph as she hosts this week's challenge.

Monday - LandscapeIt's a secret little landscape.

Tuesday - Macro

Alex was driving me around Lebanon to shoot some photos of our small TtV style and when I got back in the car this little guy was sitting on my door. He flew off onto a fence where I shot the rest of the photos.

Wednesday - Portrait

My sweet niece Sylvia Q.

Thursday - Action

My other sweet niece Margot being pushed on the swing by Uncle Alex.

Friday - Nighttime

Blue Friday

Happy Blue Friday Everyone!!! I decided to play with my idea of Friday in addition to the color blue for this post. The long weekend is here which means time to put my feet up, enjoy a cold one, and spend some time in the lovely outdoors! Hooray for Fridays!

I had so much fun sharing photos with everyone during color week. I loved seeing all of the daily photo posts and reading all of the comments. Everyone really seemed to enjoy the project as well. I think that the color topic was a fun, easy way to get us back in the habit of carrying our cameras around with us. Nice work everyone, I was most impressed.

For our next task, I had an idea. What if we use the entire week to complete our exercise. This way, you can post photos as you take them throughout the week, but if you would like to spend more time on a photograph, there's not the investment of spending that kind of time every day. By the end of the week we should have a set of photos that reflect the theme, but whether you decide to take them each day or all in one day doesn't matter.

I'm going to 'tag' Steph as our next Photo Project host. See her blog for info on the next project and the list of participants.

Check out Steph's Blog for the next Photo Project

Alex
Ashley
Beth
Cambrie
Eric
Greg
Jen
Justin
Mindy
Nicole
Sara
Scott
Shelly
Steph
Sue

Thursday - Green

The rest of my greens are up here on my flickr site.

Well, I only got a few greens before our battery died! booo! I was so excited, Alex and I were gonna go on a bike ride and capture some of the green country around us. Oh well, the ride was still nice, even if we don't have any photos from it. Luckily we got a few in the back yard.

Tomorrow is our last exercise for color week!

Blue will be a nice color to end on. I'm super impressed with how everyone has kept with this challenge this week. It's kind of a lot to do every day! Kudos to all who've participated. I really have enjoyed seeing everyone's awesome photos and reading all of the comments.

Alex
Ashley
Beth
Cambrie
Greg
Jen
Justin
Mindy
Nicole
Sara
Scott
Shelly
Steph
Sue

Wednesday - Yellow

The rest of my yellow photos are posted here on my flickr site.

I loved seeing the honey bee's legs up close once I looked through my photos. It was such a brief moment that he was buzzing around the sunflower that I hardly noticed it at first. As you can see, my day involved a bit of laundry out to dry and some pretty yellow flowers. Photo project proves to be the most relaxing part of my day yet again. :)

Again, lovely photos everyone! I just adore the insight into the individual personal lives of everyone participating. The different perspectives, the various subject matter, wonderful all around! Tomorrow Greeeeeeeeeeeen!

Alex
Ashley
Beth
Cambrie
Greg
Jen
Justin
Mindy
Nicole
Sara
Scott
Shelly
Steph
Sue

Color Week Continues! Tuesday - Orange

You can see the complete set here at my flickr site.

I totally ignored my better judgment to wait until the sun was at a more agreeable angle today and went out over my lunch break to grab some orange photos. (I know the truck is more 'rust' than orange, but I just had to share. What a strange little town!)

Nice job with the orange photos everyone! Tomorrow, Yellow Wednesday!

Alex
Ashley
Beth
Cambrie
Greg
Jen
Justin
Nicole
Sara
Scott
Shelly
Steph
Sue

Color Week Begins! Monday - Red/Pink

A quick glimpse into my Red Monday. For more check out my 'Red' flikr set.

Great job everyone else who got their camera out today! I was most impressed by all of you tapping into your photographic creativity!

Alex
Ashley
Cambrie
Greg
Eric
Jen
Justin
Sara
Scott
Shelly
Steph
Sue

Color Week!

So Steph and I were having breakfast the other day and we decided that it would be cool to have a simple excuse to pick up the camera every day for one week. So we decided to do a "color" week where each day we would take 3 or so photos based on the chosen color of the day and post it on our blog.

If you'd like to join us in this little project, when you post your first red/pink photos on Monday email me with your blogsite/flickr page.

I'll keep a running list of participants beneath each color post next week and we'll be able to share our photos. I cant wait to see what everyone comes up with. :)

A couple weeks down the road we may do another one and call it pattern week, or reflection week, or whatever theme we want to play with. We just wanted a task that wouldn't take a lot of time, and that we could share with each other and get inspired by each other. Who knows, after a couple of these themes we might end up with some cool frameable art to give away as gifts or hang in our homes. At a minimum it will be a fun little task giving us an opportunity to learn more about the way we take photos.

Colors for Color week!

Monday - Red/Pink
Tuesday - Orange
Wednesday - Yellow
Thursday - Green
Friday - Blue