Category Archives: Joy of Luck

03/18/11
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Joy of Luck: Day 2

This month I decided that I was going to take the challenge offered by Willette and use it as an opportunity to improve my photography and see if I cannot become more adept at using my camera and amazing lens. I am going to try to do this class/project without using my children once as the subject for the homework even if they fit the type of homework assignment :)

Today’s prompt is:

St. Patrick’s Day is all about the wearin’ o’ the green these days!  Green is all over the place today as we celebrate Saint Patrick and being Irish.  You can also see green when you look out your window at the new buds forcing their way up.

There were photography tips as well as ways to try to photograph what may be the answer to the prompt! So I will add the pictures here and then the information for the photo and why I choose this as my answer to the prompt. Oh yeah and for the first time ever I am going to intentionally edit the photos before I put them here…I know no more straight out of the camera, I am running a risk!

My green photos:

day2 1

Photo settings: indoor, on camera flash, f/5.6, 1/125th ss, ISO 200

day 2 2

Photo settings: indoor, on camera flash, f/5.6, 1/125th ss, ISO 200 (vivid color edit)

I have been dying to take this picture, except I wanted to do it as a rainbow. I am a sewer (more on that another day) and I love the way my thread looks when it is all together like a rainbow. I probably have 40 different shades of green and I thought you know what while I am taking green pictures this would work and be a lot of fun to set up. Set up was great! I got to use the creative aspects of me but the pictures are still not the pictures I hoped to take. I think I took almost 100 pictures trying to get the picture in my head, instead I gave up with one that I loved but was not what was in my head.

Today’s photography lesson, have an idea in your head but ALWAYS be willing to change it! That is kind of like parenting! I have to change that up all the time as well to keep the twins on their toes :) hehe I never thought I would learn the same lesson in photography as I did in parenting :)

03/17/11
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Joy of Luck: Day 1

This month I decided that I was going to take the challenge offered by Willette and use it as an opportunity to improve my photography and see if I cannot become more adept at using my camera and amazing lens. I am going to try to do this class/project without using my children once as the subject for the homework even if they fit the type of homework assignment :)

Today’s prompt is:

What inanimate object/thing/concept is something that you take for granted on a daily basis? What would someone who is not as fortunate as you are say about your “luck” to have such a thing in your life? Think about your blessings today – (don’t focus on people for this one…that will come later)…focus on opportunity/experience/something you have/do everyday that is an unforeseen blessing in your life.

There were photography tips as well as ways to try to photograph what may be the answer to the prompt! So I will add the pictures here and then the information for the photo and why I choose this as my answer to the prompt. Oh yeah and for the first time ever I am going to intentionally edit the photos before I put them here…I know no more straight out of the camera, I am running a risk!

The item or concept that I take for granted is:

My amazing husband/marriage

day 1 Photo settings: indoor, natural light, f/2.8, 1/20th ss, ISO 200

This picture is of two of our wedding pictures! I thought I would be able to take this picture easily but I was so wrong as the light in the room was on the glass and the wall was well unusual colors and the picture was not as easy as I thought it would be! Haha

That said, I do take the fact that I have a pretty good marriage and an amazing husband for granted all the time. When I was growing up I would have told you that would never happen for me but now 5 almost 6 years of marriage in I find that I take my husband for granted every day. Maybe I will work on that this year and start letting him know what it means that we work together as a team and really don’t argue all that much! We agree on many things and he is all about helping me and supporting me in everything I do even if that changes well almost daily! He is a great man and I am happy to be married to him and raise my children with him!