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Weekend Photo Challenge:: Capturing Christmas

Happy Friday everyone! We are exactly eight days until Christmas. Can you believe it? I can't, mostly because I am nowhere near ready. The house is ready, the kids are ready...but I'm not quite prepared. The last couple of weeks I have found myself taking lots of pictures of my house in all it's Holiday glory. Our Christmas tree, our mantle hung with stockings, our advent calendar and favorite ornaments. This week I want you to look around your house and find something that means the most to you; an ornament your kids made for you or something that reminds you of your own childhood or just something you bought yourself just because you loved it. This book, which just recently lost it's cover,  is one of my most favorite Christmas things I own. I love the book but mostly I love it for sentimental reasons. The inside cover is inscribed to me from my dad when I was little, one of my very first books. This weekend take a few minutes to Capture Christmas around your house and come back and share it with us!

~Amy

Weekend Photo Challenge:: Decking The Halls

 

 
This week's Photo Challenge is easy. Most of you shouldn't have to look very far at all for inspiration this week. I think it is safe to say that many of us have our homes decorated and Christmas/Holiday projects are now in full swing. Show us how you have decked your halls; your tree, a favorite ornament or something you are currently working on. And if by chance you haven't decorated yet or started on any of those projects on your to-do list yet, maybe this will be just the inspiration you need. 

Happy shooting!

~Amy

Weekend Photo Challenge:: Attitude

 

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends and I hope you are able to enjoy a long weekend full of some of your favorite things. I think you should take a break from all the left-overs and Black Friday craziness and make a date with your cameras though because this week's Photo Challenge is a fun one. The theme this week is "Attitude". Express yourself, capture it and share it with us. Your attitude can be expressed through your clothes, your art, your tattoos, music...there are no rules here. My photo: Little black Converse complete with flames, they just scream Attitude to me. Now if only these awesome little shoes came in my size!

~Amy

Weekend Photo Challenge:: Capturing The Light

 

Another Friday, another challenge! Just think, by next Friday Thanksgiving will already be over. It seems crazy to me that the Holidays are almost upon us. So before it gets too cold to be outside at all, you should get out there and take advantage of the sunlight while you can. This week's challenge is to capture the light, that gorgeous sunlight. I love this picture of Wyatt and my new score, a Polaroid Land Camera. I just love the looks of this camera and I am currently on a mission to find film to see if it works (fingers crossed!).  And if it doesn't  work, I think it is an awesome $5 prop.  So go get out your real, working camera and find the sunlight. Whether you are photographing a person or an object, make sure the light is right behind them, not in front of them. Sometimes it takes  a minute of moving positions or changing your settings and focus to find the light, don't give up. Keep looking until you find that perfect sun flare and then click away!

~Amy

Weekend Photo Challenge :: Patterns

This week's Photo Challenge should be a super easy one for everyone. I am challenging you to photograph and share some of your favorite patterns and/or designs. Scrapbook paper, a shirt,  wallpaper...you name it. This little quilt is one of my very favorite rummage sale finds. It's an odd size (maybe originally meant to be a table runner) but I just love it and we actually use it quite a bit. For baby dolls, or picnics and on our dining room table. It's old and a little worn and filled with bright, yet vintage, fabric scraps. Just perfect. So get busy and show us some of your favorite patterns or designs, I can't wait to see your favorites! Happy Friday!

 

Weekend Photo Challenge:: Peaceful

 

Happy Friday! How did it happen that it is November already, anyway? Early November seems to be a little quiet for me before the start of the crazy Holiday season that comes a little later in the month. For this little bit of calm before the storm, I am grateful. This week I want to challenge you to photograph something in your world that brings you peace. Your family, a cup of tea, crafting...whatever it is, photograph it and share with us what says "Peaceful" to you. My photo this week is of a statue in a local cemetery. It may seem odd to some but I find cemeteries very peaceful and often beautiful and this angel statue is no exception. Remember to add your photos to the Flickr group so we can all see what you find Peaceful in your little world. Happy shooting!

~Amy