Texture Test

Patti's photo challenge of the day was "texture". I was out all day at Lynn's, never expected to be there so late, so I had to scurry around her backyard at 8:00pm looking for a shot. This is a piece of her back fence.

Extreme Closeup!

My turn to challenge the girls again, and my challenge was ... well my post title kind of makes that clear. ;)

Here's my less than thrilled subject - dogs really do not like being photographed!
Thanks Jack, you turned your head away for this shot and it wound up being my favorite. A happy accident.

A numerical challenge

Ruth challenge for yesterday's photo : "number(s)".
Hmmm.... I was hoping to come up with some clever, artistic idea, but alas, this is all I could think of:

Bird in Flight Photo Challenge

Curtesy of Patti - ugh!
This was not easy, I just don't have the lens (or talent) for anything decent.
After my first round of attempts I thought this was going to be my best bet. ;)



What? It's kind of a bird! :)

But later in the day I tried again and got this less than stellar shot of a Robin exiting our bird bath:



This was him in full bath mode:



Next time I'll get closer because he didn't seem very afraid of me at all.

You can find Patti's bird here and Ruth's here.

A Breanna Layout

I hate when you only buy 1 piece of paper from a collection but then want to make a 2 page layout with it. I had to try to make it work. Not sure about the result but hey, it's done. The pictures were taken last June after a terrible wind storm. Seems like we're having a lot of those lately. Yet there are still those who deny climate change...

Click on it to see it bigger. :)

First Photo for a Friendly Challenge

Patti, Ruth and I are beginning a month long photo-a-day challenge today. The first one was my challenge: a landscape photo with a dominant foreground item.

My plan for a late afternoon walk with camera in hand didn't quite turned out as expected. The weather turned on us, again, but I forced myself to go anyway and embrace the grey landscapes that I found down by the river.

So here it is, my first photo for our challenge. I've cribbed a bit from Ruth on the presentation side, I like the framed look.



Click to find Ruth's http://clickclicketyclick.blogspot.com/
and Patti's http://photobug-rocklady.blogspot.com/

Couple of Alex Layouts

I’ve been fairly productive this past week, managed to get 3 layouts done. I hope they’ll show bigger if you click on them. First time and all... ;) Here are the 2 I made for Alex' album:


This first one had something bizarre happen to the photos during the scan. Very odd. The photos don't have weird streaky, splotchy stuff going on IRL...



When Alex got his latest pair of glasses (after losing the first pair and breaking the second), he was being his usual uncooperative self about letting me take a picture. So I used Jack as my excuse, because he doesn't often say no to pictures with Jack.

He was so excited to get this pair of glasses. He purposely chose a funkier pair this time, inspired by his latest American Idol fave - Danny Gokey. Cute!!! By the end of the season he had become an Adam fan though, but I'm glad he looked up to someone with glasses for at least a little while. It's so different than when I was a kid and glasses automatically made you a nerd. Now they're actually a desired accessory. Go figure!