Looking At Life

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Color

I just love the color in this photo. My family and I visited a very small town right on the border between Maryland and West Virginia. This church had this really cool castle-looking steeple. (I guess I would call it a steeple) The church itself was a plain, white building, but with this bright red structure above it. And of course, the sky was a brilliant fall blue.

And working on one of my photo goals for this year, I'm including a photo of myself, in my new favorite color.

I found a great idea in someone's Flickr, to create a set of photos with great color. (I'm sorry I can't remember who, it has been a long time). So here is a link to my own Color set.

Stacy at The Land of K.A. is hosting Theme Thursdays, please click over and see more interpretations of color.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

A New Year of Photography

I have a few photography goals for myself this year. Not resolutions, so much, these are just some things I'd like to keep in mind this new year.

Take photos every day. I set this as a goal last year, but didn't stick with it more than a week. I guess I felt like it needed to be a good photo every day and that pressure with temperamental kids and a p&s just didn't pan out. But to be fair, I did take over 4247 photos just in the first 11 months last year, so certainly more than 365.

Take self portraits. I have tried a few times. And gotten some that I actually like. I would really like to have more pictures of myself and if I am also the photographer, I can control the image (and any photoediting that is done afterwards).

Take portraits of my kids. Actually dress them in something nice, put them in front of something, use a tripod and get them to smile. Hopefully suitable for framing.

Get my photos out of the computer. I blog them, I Flickr them, I Photoshop them, I keep them in nice, neatly organized folders on our hard drive. Now I need them on paper. In frames, on walls, in books.