52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 35

Hello, my fellow creative photographers! Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

This week's challenge is: FIVE

Make FIVE the focal point of your photo or have FIVE be the overall theme in your photo. Or do something creative & interpret the challenge another way!

This week's challenge gave me a bit of trouble. I had expected that by this time we would have flowers in our yard, as we usually do, and that I could capture a group of 5 flowers or a flower with 5 petals, but our yard has just barely thawed and we've only got a few shoots and one tulip bud. -_-

So this morning, when our bunny friend came to visit, I created a mosaic using 5 of the quadrillion photos I took, and even played around with my camera settings a bit:


Click to embiggen!This evening I did another photo walk around the yard, and did discover some early strawberries in bloom! I've posted my favorite of those in the comments on Flickr; feel free to let me know which you like better: the bunny or the flower! I'd love your critiques!

P.S. If you're wondering if our flickr group is still open, it *is* and you are more than welcome to post your photos for the challenges there whenever you'd like! However, I have discontinued the reminder emails.

52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 34

Hello, my fellow creative photographers!

Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

We've just celebrated a beautiful Easter weekend with lots of sunshine and fun with friends & family. I hope you've had just as great a weekend yourselves!

This week's challenge is: SKY

Make the focal point of your photo of be the SKY, or do something creative & interpret the challenge another way!

Here's my favorite of the few I took:


Click to embiggen!I've posted a few others I took in the comments on Flickr; feel free to let me know which you like best! I'd love your critiques!

52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 33

Hello, my fellow creative photographers!

Welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge!

I hope you're having some beautiful spring weather where you are; we are here and it is SO nice! Long awaited and much appreciated, indeed!

So this week's challenge is: GRAY

Make something GRAY the focal point of your photo, have gray be the overall theme in your photo, or do some editing and change your image to greyscale. Or do something creative & interpret the challenge another way!

When I originally planned this week's topic, I had imagined all kinds of *April showers* that could be photographed, but the few days we had like that this past week, weren't very photogenic. However, using my cell phone's camera, I tried to capture a stunning sunrise happening beneath a darkening sky. The camera isn't that great, but I did a little editing and I like the decades-old feel of this:


Click to embiggen!
I've posted the original in the comments on Flickr; feel free to let me know which you like better! I'd love your critiques!

52-Week Photo Challenge: Week 32

Hello there and welcome to another week in my 52-Week Photo Challenge! Thank you again for following me on my journey to more creative photos!

This week, my challenge was: TRIANGLE

Use triangles to frame your subject, or make triangles the focal point of your photo -- or interpret the prompt another way; I'd love to see it! Here's my favorite of the few I took:


Click to embiggen!Check it out on flickr to view the others -- and brace yourself for the changes they made there this week; they certainly shocked & frustrated me!