Day 12 - Portrait

Twelfth Day, Portrait.

I've already done a self portrait and my husband's camera shy. So I used a squirrel for my portrait personality. It's so cute. 

Day 11 - Landscape

Eleventh Day, Landscape.

This is a panorama landscape of the field just over from us. It turned out great, nice and green and very little horizon.

Day 13 - Dynamic Tension

Dynamic Tension

Day 10 - Lens Flare

Tenth Day, Lens Flare. 

I've never heard of this but I guess that I can't say this anymore. I'm learning new things everyday because of this challenge. 

Today's was a Lens Flare, it took a lot of test shots to capture, but I did it :) I got the picture. Its of a tree and not a person but I got it :) 

Day 9 - Bokeh

Ninth Day, Bokeh. 

A definition for Bokeh is... the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens.

I've seen this term allot since I started this challenge but never knew what it was... but as I've recently learned I've taken allot of pictures with Bokeh.

Day 8 - Sunset

Eighth Day, Sunset. 

I've been taking these pictures since a long time ago, since I had a film camera. Please note that again, I didn't skip a day, I took the picture yesterday but am posting it today because I am still getting over being under the weather. I'd like to be running around with energy like a child has... but alas a seasonal cold has me. 

I took this picture as the sun was setting through the trees. The gentlemen who gives descriptions for the 30 day challenge recommended to have silhouettes in the picture. Do I ever! I couldn't have planned this if I tried. 

Day 7 - Silhouette

Seventh Day, Silhouette

Today's challenge was a challenge. I've never shot a Silhouette picture before or used that camera setting. My husband let me use a part of his collection and helped setting up the back lights to make the silhouette. Anybody recognize the shape of the figure I used?

I definitely learned something new that will present interesting opportunities for upcoming pictures! Yay!

Day 5 - High-Angle & Day 6 - Low-Angle

Fifth Day, High-Angle.

I didn't skip a day of the challenge. I took the picture yesterday but was under the weather and didn't want to use my computer at all. I am not feeling much better today but I know that I committed and need to do this, sick or not. 

High-Angle is when you shoot the picture down from somewhere high... they recommend leaving little to no sky in the horizon of the picture. As I am afraid of heights, I went with a simple High-Angle using my back deck as the height. 

Sixth Day, Low-Angle

Day 5's challenge has you eliminating the sky from your pictures (basically taking the picture looking down) and Day 6's challenge has you eliminating the ground (looking up, basically as up as you can go while you are close to the ground. Sneaky, Sneaky. And as a side note, after learning about the Rule of Thirds, I always use the grid to line up my pictures now. 

Day 4 - Texture

Fourth Day, Texture. 

This one was a whole new ball game for me and I am sure that there will be others. Today was texture. From what I understood from the article, Texture makes your eyes think that it carries on and on, past the picture.

Day 3 - Black and White

Third day, Black and White. 

This picture has a story behind it. Originally I was going to bribe my black cat into some awesome position and snap a pic. He's great in black and white. BUT... my plans changed this morning...

Last night we had an incident with the cat leaving a living mouse in our kitchen and put it outside. I steered the dogs away when I discovered it in the same place as we'd put it, after it was evicted. This morning on a wild hunch I went to the spot to make sure it had left and found the mouse was still there. Had stayed there all night. It was just a scared baby... My husband says that when it comes to animals, I can't leave any baby animals around to get hurt... I took a picture of the mouse, then relocated it to a spot where it would be safe and not in the house anymore!

Day 2 - Rule of Thirds

Second day of the challenge. Today was the rule of thirds. 

It wasn't really something that I'd ever heard about. I knew about the grid on my cellphone camera, but never used it. I used it today and I think the picture turned out decent. 

The left building would be on the line and that was my anchor point. I picked the side of the building that was between the two and had a shadow. 

Day 1 - Self Portrait

I have decided to take a 30 day Photography Challenge. Today was my first day and a self portrait. 

I chose to use my front yard with the sun setting behind me to the right while wearing the tunic that belongs to my favorite video game character! As far as pictures of myself goes, this one turned out pretty good. I've never used the timer on my camera before and took a while to find it but when I did... I was set. I think that I centered myself okay too :)

July 1st, 2017

Canada's 150th

In the RM where we live, we like many others held a Canada Day celebration. This year was specail because Canada turned 150. I took my camera to our RM celebrations and these are my favorites from the fireworks. I took 450 pictures but these twelve turned out stunning.