Photo Competition Entries

Well this week I just found out about a local photo competition/exhibit. The pictures have to be from our local parks, so I was scrambling to get prints and find pictures I had taken in local parks. The max one person can enter is 5 and I ended up only getting 4 in. These are the pictures I entered. Two of them have been posted before. I also had to frame and mount them. The top 2 are scanned from slides. I shot them with Velvia 100 film last fall.

Challenge #1

For challenge #1 we were supposed to have pictures of tea, feet, and music. But I'm really sorry I only got some feet pictures. But definitely plan to do better on the next challenge and plan to start much earlier hopefully. LOL

I spent the past week rushing to get some pictures entered in a local photo competition. Will post my entries in another post. The winners are announced on July 7th so wish me luck!






TIP: And a tip for the challenge. Ideal lighting for natural light is at sunrise and sunset. Unfortunately as I was in a rush to get these today I didn't have ideal light. But the cloud cover is definitely much better than direct afternoon sunlight. Cloud cover or shade is really good for portraits especially if you can get the sunlight behind them for some rim lighting.

Another lightning picture

Here is one more lightning picture I got on June 26. We went over to the park by our house and this was shot 5 out of about 25. It was the only good one I got before it started pouring.

Lightning

Went out and took some pictures of our lightning show tonight. Got a few shots before it started to pour on us. Though unfortunately on my best shot you can see the lovely water spots on my lens.

These are straight from camera other than rotation to straighten the horizon and a little cropping.

Hope you enjoy!

Comments always appreciated :)

All American Trey

I took a few pictures of Trey the other night. He was hanging out watching his Uncle Justin work on the motorcycles from his stroller.

Photo Blog

Ok, well I really need to start taking more pictures and I joined a photography challenge on scrapbook.com to help me get in the habit of taking pictures more often.

This is not in relation to the challenge, but yesterday evening Justin and I took the girls to the park to get some new pictures of them.

Please leave me comments :)

My beagle, Zoe, and our newest addition, Lily.