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This was our Valentine’s week challenge:  LOVE

Remember the day before Valentine’s Day?  The AMAZING morning when frost was covering all the trees?  I love that.  So I went for a little photowalk to capture just a bit of it.

Our week 5 challenge was - food!

One of my new years resolutions this year was to buy more of our food from local farms.  I found there are quite a few places that you can purchase from that also have convenient drop sites up here in the cities. If you’re interested in finding a farm or drop site near you, check out Eat Wild MN.  If the Seward neighborhood is convenient for you, shoot me an email for drop site information for free range, organic eggs and whole chickens!   (They really do taste better!)

Left - 1/100 @ f2.8  ISO400  70mm       Right - 1/100 @ f2.8   ISO400  85mm

Winter Berries

Our challenge this week was ‘Details’.  Of course, macro came to mind (which for me is my little lensbaby) but against the clear sky, even a wide angle shot had plenty of ‘details’.  I love the red berries against the blue sky.  I’m glad the birds haven’t been too hungry.

This week, a challenge was posted in our little project 52 group.  Shoot from the hip.   Where did this idea come from?  The amazing Tamara Lackey showed us her little trick at the workshop we all went to last April.  And when I say ‘little trick’, I mean it’s a little tricky.  It’s an awesome way to interact more with your subjects and catch a few amazing, unexpected moments.  It’s not an entire shooting style someone would probably use though and it’s certainly like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going to get.

What I got were a lot of blurry photos.  But I also got a few that I wouldn’t have been able to get other wise.  I wasn’t about to lay in the snow that day (it was 9 degrees and windy) but when ’shooting from the hip’ I stuck my camera low to the ground, where I couldn’t be, to catch a different angle.

I think I’ll be trying this one again..next time with a wide angle lens so I don’t keep cutting heads off.

Also, for a quick peek of someone shooting from the hip, check out Tamara Lackey’s latest blog post.  About half way down, she’s playing with the kids and ’shooting from the hip’.

One Million Bubbles

I’m really not behind in my Project 52, I’m just behind in posting!

For week two, we still didn’t have a specific theme so I just took a very random photo…that I have to explain or it just looks random.

I was out on Lake Nokomis, playing ice chunk fetch with Ike (until we got busted by the leash cop) and there was quite a bit of uncovered ice because of the recent rain.   I don’t think I have ever seen clear ice like this on a lake in my life!  The rest of the lake was solid translucent white  (or snow covered) except for these patches here.   Suspended bubbles, darkness below, walking on glass.  Kind of cool.  A little skylight for the fish.

f2.8  1/640  ISO 100