Picture Inspiration

This week’s theme: Grateful Day. This was taken the day after Thanksgiving. I was grateful for the company of my son, the beautiful sunshine and warm weather, the gorgeous zoo and park that we were so lucky to be able to enjoy, the quiet and peacefulness of the path at that moment, and the fact […]

This week’s theme was “Leaving Textures” and it was all about finding “seasonal” textures. I went with the literal interpretation (leaves) for two of the shots, and one of a birch tree shedding. I actually took quite a few photos that I liked, but went with these three because I felt they were closest to

I went with the “alternative prompt” again this week, since I only loaded Photoshop onto my laptop last night, and have not had a chance to play with the texture files. In fact, that may have to wait until after Christmas. I am hoping to take some online Photoshop and photography classes then, too. The

This week, we are starting a series on texture. We have an assignment to integrate provided texture files into one of our photos, but I need to get Photoshop first. I could not figure it out in Gimp. So, I went with the alternative prompt: "Smooth."

This week’s theme: “Oh My Gourd!” We were asked to shoot pumpkins in particular.  I also used today’s 365 image.

This week’s theme was “Hand-Held.” An easy one. Above is my hand holding a leaf by Barber’s Pond. Below are two photos I took with the assistance of my very patient hand model. 🙂

Theme: Long and Tall. I shared this tall leaf from a corn stalk, and these long reflections in the water.

Week 31: Extreme Crop Technically, this week was supposed to be about taking a photo and then cropping it in an interesting way, but I just took an extreme close-up of the “giant golf ball” at Epcot. I was being a little lazy on vacation week. Week 32: Fly on the Wall I used another