Project 52 {Week 23} Home

I’ve been missing from our 52 week project for a bit (out for vacation) but back this week for the theme of Home. Nothing like a family vacation makes you appreciate your own walls :-) So here I share a few scenes from everyday life in our humble abode, with a (almost) willing four year old subject… okay not so willing lol
Make sure you do the “Home” rounds, starting with the fabulous Misty of Misty Setzler Photography, a Lubbock, TX Photographer
Love seeing everyone’s interpretation of the theme!

{Santa Barbara Photographer} The Fair

This was our second trip to the Santa Barbara Fair and Expo with Z… The first I blogged about HERE when my blog was just brand new :-)
So as we walked through the fairgrounds, I gazed up at the huge Ferris wheel thinking “wow, it will be great to get some fun aerial shots from up there!” Spent a good hour convincing Z to go on it with us, then as soon as that thing started up, I felt my heart drop into my stomach, and spent the next 10 minutes gripping Z’s hand with my eyes closed as tight as I could get them. So it’s safe to say I never got those aerial shots… and that I’m not a fan of the Ferris wheel. :-)

Project 52 {Week 11} Color!

As you probably know, I am participating in a weekly photo project with about 20 other fabulous photographers from all around the world, from The Bloom Forum. Some of the past themes include DOF, nature, texture, and food.
This week is one of my favorites- Color! We had to have a little indoor fun this time around- since we got about 84 inches of rain this week (exaggerating a little, but isn’t that what we Californians do the best, exaggerate about the weather?) anyways, I decided since it was just the Z man and me, I would combine my favorite color (aqua) with his favorite thing (sugar). Oh who am I kidding I totally had to bribe him with the cupcakes ;-)
Please next go visit Colorado Springs Photographer Shannon Derbique for some colorful eye candy!

Project 52 {Week 9} DOF

This week for the 52 project the theme is “DOF”, or depth of field. So I am demonstrating a very small DOF, which creates great bokeh. For all you non-photogs out there, bokeh is the subjective aesthetic quality of the out of focus area of an image. Bokeh can be described as circular, dreamy, painterly, creamy, and I have even referred to it as juicy.
I am a bokeh lover for sure, so this week it was hard to decide on just one bokelicious image to share- so here you have the Z’s the Day Bokehlection~ (I just made up that word, bokeh+collection, get it???.. oh never mind)

If you haven’t heard already, I am participating in a themed 52 week challenge with 20 or so other amazing photographers from around the world. We all do this over at the Bloom Forum. Next in the DOF circle this week, is the fabulous Jobrina Hofleit, a Goodyear, AZ photographer. She does such gorgeous work, click it! then the next, then the next.. pretty please? and if you love what you see- we adore comments ;-)

52 Project {Week 8} Light

Oh, dear light. As a photographer you can be our best friend, and our worst enemy. You can go from ahhh to ewwww in a matter of minutes. And (clients), when we drag you around the location of your photo session, half crazed look in our eyes, saying we need to “find the light” by golly we mean it. Good light makes your skin glow, eyes sparkle and colors become rich and vibrant. I think one of the hardest parts of becoming a great photographer is knowing how to find that “good light”. That being said- the 52 was a little difficult for me this week- not because I couldn’t find the light, but because I’ve been home with a sick little one for most of the week, which leaves me with little options of finding something to take a dang picture of. So I packed up my quarantined kid for a little jaunt over to his favorite place, a local park with lots of nice light and stones to throw. :-) Although these were not taken at the golden hour (about one hour before sunset), the light streaming through the trees is filtered and soft- allowing me to capture all the ahhhh’s and not too many ewwwws ;-)

Next up on the light trail, is Megan Wold, a North Dakota Portrait Photographer~ make sure you go visit her, then the next link, and so on. I know you will feel much lighter if you do.

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