Week 17 and Week 18!

Week 17 Landscape - Urbanscape:  Most landscapes are wide open spaces of natural beauty...this week find the beauty of the urbanscape/cityscape.

Week 18 Landscape - Wide Angle/Panorama:  This is a great opportunity to explore panorama stitching and create a wide sweeping landscape.

This was just done on my cell phone as a panorama.  Still pretty though!

More ~Photo Challenges

So I got a bit delayed again but he are a couple more weeks of photo Challenges!

Week 15 - Artistic: Metal Cold, hard steel.  Shiny Aluminum.  Or even rusted and broken down.  Find your inspiration in metal this week.

So this is my take on it!  I really like it with the dewy spider webs.


Week 16 - Portrait: Movement: Most portraits are stationary, so this week explore adding some movement.  Dancing, twirling, or even hair flips.

So I struggled to get these 100% .  I wanted the movement blur but don't think I nailed it as well as I could!  Hmmm.  Still good practice!!

A week ahead! Photo challenge fun!

Well - check me out!  I've had a great week with the photo challenges.  Perhaps feeling inspired after my big catch up!

Week 13 - Portrait: High Key expose to the right and create a light, airy high key portrait.

Okay so technically I'm not sure if I nailed this.  Was it my right or his?!  And really what does high key mean....so for the novice who is trying to make this fun.....this was the result.

But in fact the one I really like is the one below.  The light isn't so exposed on the right but it's more light and airy.  Thoughts?

Week 14 Landscape: Zoomed in most landscapes are wide sweeping images.  Try an alternative zoom in instead.  

Well this turned into more of a series of images in order to fulfil the brief.  I get what the challenge is trying to do.  Push to think outside the box.  It's good! 

So very far behind!

So life happened and my challenges stagnated.  Largely due to the week 7 challenge:    I had in my head something I wanted to do but couldn't get it. 

Week 7: Portrait.- Faceless.  Tell someone's story without showing their face.

So finally I choose my son, his love of climbing, sprained wrist and all.  Although it wasn't the image in my head it still worked for me!

Week 8: Artistic - texture.  The artistic inspiration this week is texture.  You should almost be able to feel the image.

I love light in trees...it makes me want to go through them looking for a secret garden.  The way the light is highlighting the leaves lets me be right there....peering through as they rustle as I pass to adventures unknown.

Week 9: Shadow - The opposite of light is dark, the absence of light is shadow.  Interpret this into a masterpiece.

Okay so I'm not sure about masterpiece but I do love this image in terms of shadows.  The light was almost gone as the sunset but the colours against the shadows of the trees had me captivated....

Week 10: Portrait - Environmental.  Show a subject in their natural habitat.  Their place of work or hoppy is a great start.  Tell their story with the environment.

This is a happy place for my Miss 11.  Nose buried in a book, lying on her bed or floor, enthralled by a story.  

Week 11: Landscape - reflection.  Find a way to show your landscape/natural beauty in reflection.  

Again this doesn't quite hit the mark in terms of the brief but I guess things are up for interpretation!  It's not a landscape as such but it's my view.  There is a trough for our stock which has trees we planted growing nearby.  The view from the window out to the paddock doesn't often remind me of how much the plants have grown but this does.  So it is a landscape from a different view point. 

Week 12: Artistic - transportation.  Our world is one defined by how we get around.  Literal or interpretative, find inspiration in transportation.

Once again my interpretation has taken over!  Yes we use cars to get around but for me to get "away" I disappear on many other journeys.  Some journeys are harrowing, some familiar and some are funny.  In any case I believe that sometimes the best way out of your head space, problem or circumstance can be a short trip away in a book.

So that's me!  All caught up.  I'm hoping that I'll be on to it a bit more from here on in.  Feel free to give me feedback! 

  

Candy?!

Interesting Challenge this week.  Artistic.....Candy!  "Your artistic interpretation this week should be inspired by something sweet."

Say what?!

I was wracking my brains for a few days till I came up with this.....

It was the swirls of lollipops that inspired this image.

But what is it?

Why it's red cabbage of course! :-)

Week 5: Landscape.....

The backstory to this photo was that I was feeling EXTREMELY anxious....that's my kids out there in the waves.  From where I was standing those were HUGE waves.  My husband assured me that they were fine, and ended up going in to appease me!

You can see the bad weather rolling in and it felt foreboding, by the time we got back to our camp it started raining. 

The challenge seems to be going well ......feedback welcome!

:-) Jane

Week Three and Four - DOUBLE WHAMMY!

Week Three:

So this need to be something shot in Red that inspired me.  It was meant to be 'artistic'!! It needed to be the focus of the image.

Fortunately for me we have been camping, in a red tent in the rain!  Thus.....this

Week Four:

The brief for this was a headshot.  Thankfully I had an obiliging model in between swimming and collecting shells!

So this was a quick post to get me up to date!  YAY!  Still on track!

Week 2 Landscape Challenge!

Week 2!

The challenge this week was to shoot a landscape.  However I wanted to make sure it wasn't one around home.  I am lucky enough to live in a magic spot and have wonderful view but for this challenge I wanted a spontaneous landscape!  

So driving home from lunch out I saw this view - vines for Africa, big blue sky and grass waving in the wind - the perfect Hawkes Bay Summer's day!

I wonder what next week's challenge will hold!

Photo Challenge 2019

Happy 2019!

This year I have set myself a goal of a photo challenge - one photo a week from a list of set tasks.

I tried to do this last  year and failed terribly.

So, but putting it here I am accountable, well sort of!

Anyway Week One - Self Portrait

This was hard.  I really hate being in front of the camera.  I have some weight issues (that is another whole blog post), am not in love with my hair and am in total holiday mode so very lax with the attention to appearance - just liking hanging out, pottering and certainly had to push myself to get this done before the week was up.  However it's done.

Looking at this photo I actually don't see the weight, hair or appearance stuff.  I just see me at home.  So overall it's a win.

Watch this space for my journey this year - and if you don't see any posts...hassle me!