by Sarah | Aug 26, 2012 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Show & Tell
So the kids are back in school. This is excellent save for one thing…
They brought home that horrible “School has started summer is ending” beast of a cold. Molly sick on Monday, me sick the rest of the week…well, my camera got neglected in favor of me sleeping. Sooo…another week of archive draws. Sorry.
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
1. School
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ~Benjamin Franklin
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School is in, leaving the playgrounds barren. (Still one of my favorite shots)
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2. Rule of Thirds
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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3. Side Profile
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ~Ivan Panin
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
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4. Small
A small world appears within the Christmas windows.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow. ~John Dryden
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5. Motion
I lived to write and wrote to live. ~Samuel Rogers
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Since I’m addicted to quotes w/ my images I’ve started to link to the Sunday Citar over at Fresh Mommy Blog w/ my photo posts every Sunday. It’s a great way to combine two of my loves 🙂
You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.
Scavenger Hunt Sunday is run by the beautiful Ashley. Head on over to see more Hunters.
by Sarah | Nov 5, 2011 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Show & Tell, Simple Things, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
Halloween, a new job, gorgeous sunrises and lack of time led to a hectic lead up to my Scavenger Hunt items!
1. Food
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight. ~William Shakespeare
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2. Purple
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~Bill Watterson
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*There is no purple anymore. The “purple” crayon is called violet. Why is there no purple anymore? Who needs fancy names in crayons?
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. ~Dorothy Day
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3. In Disguise
I call them Thing One and Thing Two. ~Dr. Seuss
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Tell: I call them Thing 1 and Thing 2 as well. Of course, Thing 1 is the older of the two. They already had the t-shirts & I just knew this would make a quick & cheap costume idea. The girls had a blast.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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4. Shapes
I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star. ~Sojourner Truth
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton
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5. Photographers Choice
What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it. ~Vincent van Ghogh
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Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings. ~Thomas Hardy
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A Simple Thing:
The first sunrise picture I took this week. It’s SOOC and makes me happy.
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You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.
Scavenger Hunt Sunday is run by the beautiful Ashley. Head on over to see more Hunters.
by Sarah | Oct 30, 2011 | Paper Heart Camera, Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Show & Tell, Simple Things, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
A couple selections might be a stretch. I was swamped this week & didn’t get as many pictures as maybe I could have. Also, it got COLD this week. It didn’t make me excited to get out. Then again – at least it didn’t snow here!
1. Macro/Close-up
Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that’s heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev’n the bees lag at the summoning brass.
~Leigh Hunt
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2. Found Texture
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. ~William Hazlitt
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, then be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau
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3. Home
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ~Thomas Jefferson
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4. Cover
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Tell: It’s what we use to cover our little imperfections. Makeup. I wanted to do something different than a dead on shot – enter my trusty mirror & the reflection. Ordinary objects take on new life.
5. The Tree
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. ~Faith Baldwin
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. ~Emily Bronte
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Autumn is like a second spring where every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus
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A Simple Thing:
One of our prompts this week was “The Tree.” It was the one above all the others that spoke to me. I love getting trees caught in the lens of my camera. Every shot is different in so many ways. Today’s simple thing is a shot of our tree in the front yard that has some moss growing on it’s north face. I got a good close up shot of the bark. Textural, abstract.
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You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.
Scavenger Hunt Sunday is run by the beautiful Ashley. Head on over to see more Hunters.
by Sarah | Oct 15, 2011 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Show & Tell, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
I was pretty much elsewhere in my head this week. I got most of these at the absolute last minute…like tonight (Saturday night). Hoping for a much more creative week next week.
1. Abstract
What is a weed? A plant whose virtures have never been discovered. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. ~Walter Benjamin
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2. Round
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. ~Giuseppe Mazzini
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I had a few ideas for round. My headphones were my favorite. I wear them all the time when I’m writing. They’re also my salvation when hubby is watching horrible scary movies.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. ~Og Mandino
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Our end table lamp is so perfectly round I had to use it. I wish I’d been able to get my camera high enough to get the outer ring too. But I love that the bulb is a circle within the circle of the lampshade.
3. Fire
If you don’t light fires, smoke won’t get in your eyes. ~German Proverb
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From a little spark may burst a flame. ~Dante Alighieri
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4. Faces in Unusual Places
This is another one I struggled with. Then tonight in one of her fits, Angel decided to hide her face IN the couch. It hit me, that was a face in an unusual place. Yeah, it’s a stretch, but really…I had nothing.
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5. Stars
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
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When it is darkest, men see stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Simple Thing:
My simple thing for this week is my Riley. The girls is a future model. The camera loves her, and every time it’s pointed even close to her direction, she posing. This was at Brandon’s last cross country meet. She saw me with the camera and it was five minutes of constant motion, posing and turning, and posing again.
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You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.
Scavenger Hunt Sunday is run by the beautiful Ashley. Head on over to see more Hunters.
by Sarah | Aug 31, 2011 | Photography, Show & Tell
This weeks prompt – MUSIC (self-portrait)
SHOW:
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TELL: When I hear music I either sing or dance…and seeing the prompt this is the exact vision I had in mind…those symbols are hand drawn by me onto my feet for this challenge 🙂
“While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.” ~Hans Bos
by Sarah | Aug 24, 2011 | Photography, Show & Tell
Trying to get off my duff, and pick up my camera more, I started looking into some photo challenges. So, here is my first entry into Paper Heart Camera‘s “Show & Tell” Challenge.
This weeks prompt – WATER
SHOW:
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TELL: Dropping some dye in water. My lighting was off making the glare on the glass, but I still love this pic (and will retry again at a later date)
