by Sarah | Dec 11, 2011 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Simple Things, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
1. Less is More
The girls have yet to learn that when it comes to ornaments – less is more.
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2. Holiday Lights
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3. Ornaments
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4. Cup of Cheer
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5. Nativity
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A Simple Thing:
My kids looking at classic window displays like I did at their age.
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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 | Nov 26, 2011 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Simple Things, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
Christmas on the square. A photo walk with the kid. Trying to find photos to fit all the hunt items is a little tough, and I fudged on a couple while I had extras for others. Here we are :D.
1. Waiting
Waiting for Spring
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Waiting for Snow
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2. Foliage
The leaves of a pine wreath
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There weren’t any leaves left on the trees, so I got this cool bark. It looks like camouflage.
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3. Candid
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4. Knife Fork or Spoon
A Fork in the Road
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5. Rule of Thirds
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A Simple Thing:
This heart shaped rock I found on my photo walk is my simple thing this week.
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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 | Nov 19, 2011 | Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Simple Things, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
After missing last week, and cramming everything in last minute this week, I’m looking forward to actually having some time this coming week to get SHS done more efficiently. In the meantime, here’s my submissions for this week. I almost caved and did this all archive photos since I had so many relevant photos to the prompts, but I decided to settle for as many new pictures as possible and adding some smaller versions of archived photos when I knew I just HAD to. (it happened a few times…) Unfortunately no time for my usual quotes accompanying the pictures this week 🙁 I’ll return to that next week.
1. Mainly 1 Color
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2. Around the Home
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3. Reflection
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4. Writing
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5. Water
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A Simple Thing:
We’re dog sitting my parents dog this week. Her big expressive brown eyes are my simple thing this week.
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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 | 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 23, 2011 | Paper Heart Camera, Photography, Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Simple Things, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
As the lead-in states it was a see-saw week. Very cold temperatures to start, ending with a gorgeous couple of days. We took advantage of one of the days to go to the zoo. You’ll have to go to my Flickr account to see ALL of those pics – only a couple are here.
1. Words
Words are things; and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
~Lord Byron (Don Juan)
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More than Words
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2. Under
I’m eighteen years behind in my ironing. ~Phyllis Diller
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It’s my ironing board. Yup. Figured it would make for some interesting lines and shadows. Only light is daylight and a flashlight used to cast shadows for fun.
3. Orange
Orange is the happiest color. ~Frank Sinatra
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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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4. Fly
I had a picture of a bird, but I didn’t want to go typical. I loved the jellyfish…floating and soaring through the water on pure instinct alone.
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Another one for a-typical. A leaping lemur mid-flight. I have a much better one in my archives, but I didn’t want to dig this week.
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5. Always look on the bright side
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose desire for things beyond your reach. ~Lyn Yutang
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It was cold, dark, and rainy outside – but bright, warm, and cozy inside.
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A Simple Thing:
I have two simple things this week. I simply could not chose. First is my girls – who asked me to take a picture of them at the zoo and posed so beautifully for me. The second is a zebra picture I took. It’s almost SOOC – I just had to adjust the exposure a tiny bit. Otherwise, no cropping or anything. It makes me so happy at it’s gorgeous simple complexity that I had to add it into my simple things.
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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.
