Subtleties *now with added photos!!*

...or, in other words monochromatic subject matter (all one color). Yeah, I know.
Who knew I would have to learn such big words for photography.


Any who, we are looking today for palettes of single colours but finding ways to use light and texture to make it "pop" as our guide Tracey tells us.


Thanks to the fabulous photo walk I was able to partake in a couple of weeks back I had just the thing already loaded in my photo library of happiness (I just came up with that title now! Fun.)


I will be bringing my camera on our regular lunch hour walk today to see what else I can find keeping my eyes open for what Tracey calls "intricacies just begging to be discovered".


I can do that!!

Subtleties:

Yellow Fall Leaves

I will post back here what, if anything, I find in my travels today....Keep your eyes focused on the light and textures of ...er...mon-o-chro-ma-tic subject matter today and keep reaching for the stars. :o) (how the HECK did Casey Kasem's tag line pop into my head there?)

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Back from our lunch walk but didn't come back very successful...I think I was trying to hard. I may be a one shot wonder. I don't think these two photos say 'mono-colored' quite like my original post. Most especially the pine cones? I was reaching.

Little Reminders

With this prompt I could go on and on taking pictures all day.

I am just going to show you some of what Tracey Clark is telling us to look for through our lens today.

Her words say it better than I could:

Having visual reminders around is one key to self-talk success. We all have doubts and fears but surrounding ourselves with meaningful messages can be just as important as any other support system. Taking pictures of these words give them that much more power and influence on our daily lives.

All around me in my daily life I have visual reminders of love. Whether at home or at work I know I need these reminders to help keep me centered.

Words of affirmation. This is my love language:

Little Reminders:

fortune cookie message

Little Reminders

my at work love affirmation

Morning Light

Not the best day for this prompt for me....We leave just before 7 am for work and school, since we have not yet reached our 'fall back' of the clock we see a lot of darkness in the mornng. Most especially when we are experiencing sprinkles of rain. Warm Fall sprinkles of rain. I quite enjoyed opening the door up to the fresh smell as we left the house today....unfortunatly this is my morning light shot:

Morning Light:

garage light beacon

The garage lights sensing my aproach light up the way.

On the way to work I set the camera on the dash trying to click the lights of the cars and street lights around us thinking that this could be another cool shot for my morning light.

As you can see below, between the slow shutter in the dark and the bouncy truck I wasn't very succesful but I thought it was kinda neat anyway:

Morning Light:

squiggley car lights

I only shared the garage one in my workshop gallery..you should see some of the beautiful moning rays of sunshine posted by those in the South East...Gorgeous. Makes me feel like we are so far up, up and away.

Mother Nature

You sneaky sneaky b!tch.

Every year you suck me in. Every year I fall for it.
You give us this amazing view filled with colour so wonderful, the air so crisp and fresh. You give us the most amazing mesmerizing beauty.

Then, when we are all in a fog of peaceful happiness ready to go for a walk in the gift we were given, you slap us out of it opening our eyes suddenly to the consequences. We have to clean up after this?! We have to pick up all of Fall's leavings?! Wha...? But..but we were just getting used to it, just really starting to enjoy it.

We can't go for a walk? We have to stay here and spend hour after hour picking up tree poo?!
Nice!
The power of Fall is great, it makes us forget every year that nothing comes with out a price.

I love Fall...just not the work involved.
&^%$ you Mother Nature you sneaky sneaky b!tch.

Next year I am NOT 'falling' for it....

The Beauty Challenge

Today we were instructed to look beyond the obvious and find the hidden beauty . Look for what is often over looked. Instead of the rose shoot the thorns.

I find I do this in my daily life. I don't always secede at this with the hustle and bustle of life dictating that we keep looking forward, upward and beyond. I can see the hidden beauty when I manage to slow myself down, another self project I have been working on for the past year or so.

I can see the hidden beauty on the streets and in nature. I look at people, try to see beyond what society says we should see.

My Beauty Challenge photo is of fungus....hidden in the darkness at the bottom of a tree I see beautiful texture and curves:

The Beauty Challenge

mushroom

Get Comfy

Today we are prompt to find our spot. Our cozy corner in life where we can curl up with a good book or our favorite hobby and just be.


Warm, comfortable, at peace.


Every Saturday and Sunday morning I try to get up before every one so I can curl up in my corner of the couch with the morning paper and a cup of coffee. Sometimes I end up just staring out the window. So Relaxing.


This is something I have only started doing for the last year or so and I find my self getting giddy Friday nights with the thought of at least 30 minutes in this place. One by one the family rises, I remain perched in my spot as they either snuggle next to me for a few moments wiping the sleep out of their eyes or give me a good morning kiss on my cheek. The cartoons come on, the computers fire up and the cereal gets poured. The day begins, the chores and events of the day need attending...in a few more minutes.


I sit in my weekend comfy spot taking it all in:

Get Comfy :

my morning

Happy October!!!

This is the best month of the whole year!

I love October. Love Love Love.

I am signed up in yet another on line photography work shop. This one is called Picture Fall. We get a prompt sent to our email every day and we set out on our merry way click click clicking away our interpretation of said prompt. Then we go on line to post our finds in our very own student gallery where we can gaze at others perception of the same.
It always amazes me how many different ways a word or phrase can be perceived. Things you would never dream of then when you see something you go 'aahhh, I wish I would have thought of that' and gives you the gift of looking at things from more angles than you thought possible from your silly little head.
(speaking personally there of course, I am sure you don't have a silly little head).

So everyday I am going to TRY hard to post my photos..sometimes more than one, sometimes not the same one I post online, and sometimes it won't be any good...I will share with you the prompt and show you my take on it that day (I usually take my photos on my lunch breaks so we'll see how creative I can get) Then, maybe you can try too. Post it, don't post it. what ever. Just have fun and try to see the world through your lens for the next month.


It's not to late to sign up for the online work shop either if you want to play along with everyone.


I left the link for you at the beginning of this post....there are so many free on line workshops you can participate in as well. You don't need a big fancy camera or expensive lens to do this either. Just an imagination and a love for this season of gratitude.

Bear with me for the next month. Because your going to be getting lots of this:

The Quintessential Fall:

the leaf

p.s. you may or may not have noticed I already posted this photo here, but it was perfect for this prompt and I was super excited to get started so I went with it.