A Photo a Week Challenge: Still life (sort of)
A still life is a painting or photograph that features inanimate objects, typically bowls of fruit and bottles wine. For my still life, I’ve chosen a bottle of fruit. Once again, it is fruit season in...
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To me, yellow is the color of warmth. As children, we learn to make the sun in our drawings yellow. Fire is usually depicted with yellow flames. These small, delicate flowers were growing along the...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: What’s For Dinner
For Father’s Day last year, we bought my husband a Traeger Smoker. Since then, it’s been a rare week that it hasn’t been running. So far, my favorite meal has been smoked salmon, not the smoked salmon...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Texture
We usually think of texture as a tangible, touchable thing, but it is so important when creating images. When shooting babies, I like to include textured blankets and wraps to enhanced the look of the...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Traditions
Our son graduated from college this spring, and his program has a tradition that graduates stand in the fountain in front of the their main classroom building after the ceremony is over. Our daughter...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Something new
One of my greatest joys as a photographer is taking pictures of brand-new babies. This little cutie was only three days old when I took her newborn photos. She was restless, cried a little, slept a...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Stacked
While I was thinking hard about what to do for today’s challenge, I was putting away some apples I bought recently and realized that they made a rather cool looking pyramid. Voilà! Today’s theme. Get...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Changing Seasons
Monday was officially the first day of fall here in the northern hemisphere. We’ve had an interesting spring and summer in Utah. We started with a lot of rain in June, followed by almost no rain in...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Hands
I love photographing hands, especially family hands. The last time I did a hands challenge, this little family had just had their second child. Now they have three. Our hands tell stories about our...
View ArticleA Photo a Week Challenge: Sun & Water
I don’t know what it is about mixing the sun and water that always creates such beauty, but I’m really glad it does. This beautiful sunrise was taken at our beach resort in Cancun, Mexico last...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Signs
Signs are everywhere. They tell us where to go, where not to go, where we are, and where we want to go. Signs can be big, like this one on Cozumel, or very small. IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Open Topic
Sorry for the very late posting for this challenge, but it’s been one of those weeks. In fact, I’m cheating just a little. This week’s challenge is for you to pick any photo you choose, just please...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Atmospheric
Salt Lake City Cemetery, October 2019 Today is Halloween, so I thought this topic would be very fitting no matter if your holiday is in the fall or spring. This last week, we went on a walking ghost...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: In the Neighborhood
I realized that I haven’t taken many non-travel photos lately, so I stepped out my front door and took this picture this morning. I really like my neighborhood. We have great neighbors, the area is...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Stylish
We are a Converse shoe family. My husband and I wore Converse high tops for our wedding (his were black, mine were white). If there is an unusual color, we buy it. If you have a difficult color to...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Brown
Next week is Thanksgiving, so this week the challenge is the color I associate the most with that American holiday: brown. Deep, dark, rich browns are so wonderful for photography. For this little...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Communication
This week’s challenge is a day later than usual due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. We live in an older neighborhood. We have a lot of telephone poles and lines along our...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Babies
Everywhere you turn these days, it’s Baby Yoda. Memes, merchandise, people commenting on social media how much they want a Baby Yoda for Christmas. It’s kinda funny, but Yoda isn’t a species, so it...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, Ice Baby
Even though winter is still two weeks away–officially–we are experiencing cold temperatures and the occasional bout of snow and ice. Here’s a nice dramatic icicle for your viewing pleasure. Of course,...
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Christmas Memories
Growing up, Christmas was always filled with amazing smells. My mother and both of my grandmothers would bake and make candies and various treats to share with neighbors and at family parties. My...
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