Weekly Photo Challenge: Oh, the Place You’ll Go

This week, the challenge is to....Photograph the Places You'll Go I know this challenge is a bit "out there". How can you possibly photograph places you've not been to!?...

Weekly Photo Challenge: Interesting Light

This week's photo challenge is a lighting etude. Photograph Interesting Light. Sometimes photographers look for a subject first – what we’re going to photograph - and forget to look for the light. Light is the medium of photographers – it is what we use to create photographs. Being able to see and use light is fundamental to photography....

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sequences

This week's challenge is to: Photograph Sequences. Sequences set up a story with a beginning, middle and end. This challenge is perfect for showing how to do something - everything from cooking a recipe to creating a piece of art to changing a diaper (I dare you! 🙂

Preparing for an Epic Trip

I’m heading out this week for a very exciting trip. Truth be told I’m a little nervous. I’ve done a lot of traveling but this is an adventure a little outside of my comfort zone. But the trip is about photography so these are the things I'm doing right now to prepare to make great photographs on my trip.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Something Borrowed

This week, the theme is to:

Photograph Something Borrowed

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue....

You don't just have to think weddings this week, but a summer wedding would be appropriate.

So grab your camera this week - or better still, borrow someone else's - and go see what you can negotiate.

9 Characteristics of Zen Photographers

Zen Photography is the mindset we bring to the act of photographing. The following are 9 characteristics of Zen Photographers:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Transportation

This week, the theme is to:

Photograph transportation

Planes, trains & automobiles - not to mention boats, bikes, buses, skateboards, trollies, and even hot air balloons. We're surrounded by modes of transportation! Get your cameras ready.

A funny thing happened…: Preparing for the Unexpected

A funny thing happened…: Preparing for the Unexpected
When I’m looking for the unique experiences, I find them. Maybe I’m just lucky when I travel, but I think it’s more of a mindset.

All-Time Favs — So Far

The weekly challenge over at The Daily Post is All-Time Favorites. How fun! We should all do this one and choose our favorite photos of all time!

But this is a daunting task - I currently have 128,453 photos in my Lightroom catalog. Admittedly, they're not all my favorites, but I have already taken out all the random shots of my feet and the blurry images of my husband running from the camera. 

And as a quote attributed to Imogen Cunningham says:

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.
— Imogen Cunningham

But the challenge is to post my all-time favorites --- so far.

A Most Unlikely Customer

This week, the photo challenge is Unlikely.

My own take on this theme is a photo of a most unlikely customer from a recent trip to Havana, Cuba. 

Counting as I Travel: A Numbers Game

For years I have been pursuing a little photography game when I travel – counting as I travel. I started, years ago, with a photograph of the number “1” and I’m currently looking for #56.

I count when I travel, but there are so many variations of this idea. It doesn’t matter what personal project you choose – it’s your theme after all.