Dyar Family Photography

I fell far behind in the assigments, missing many…. but here are a few shots for you.

Theme was the lovely leaf – a different perspective than perhaps typically just ‘fall’.

These two above were a different take on pumpkins then you had tried before – that was today’s.

Theme was scatter.

Theme was bounty I think…

A little behind on class, but here are some of my pictures.  I find some days, some prompts – I hit it out of the park.  Others I struggle. 

 This day was about monochromatic…. finding something interesting.  I thought the stairs made it interesting…

This day was about finding something that had fallen – I loved the pics fellow classmates did of kids hands holding fallen items… I thought the colors just happened to match the globe and made an interesting contrast.

This day was finding something round and playing with the light – so I took pictures from all sides of this little guy – and really liked how the sun light up his ridges and cast the shadow (it was fairly bright sunlight.)

There was a day about your kitchen – about preparation during the holidays.  The grilled cheese & tomato soup cooking fit the bill – but then I also had to take a picture of my little helper!

These might be my favorite shots to date – find something with texture – take the picture and then edit the color out… doesn’t have to be black & white – but take out the color and focus on the texture…. Love these, particularly the first one.

And today – today was about ‘my time’ – and while I don’t find these particularly compelling photographs – it at least fits the theme.  The first I edited to be more interested with lots of black – the other is just about comfort.

So there you go.  I think I have more misses than hits – but am loving the ones that work.

Day 4 was morning light – I saw a lot of wonderful photos in the group of steaming coffee mugs – and I was tempted to try the same – but to me the morning light is best symbolized in our house by the sun peaking through our back window.  It just made me realize how dirty our windows are too…

Today, day 5, was about little rememberances – words … and since its recent, what struck me was my gift I received as I crossed the finish line in my first sprint tri a couple weeks ago.  I need it to inspire me to continue to workout and keep accomplishing goals.

I signed up for an online photography class/inspiration – and I’ll be posting my favorites here.  Today’s assignment – the fallen leaf.

Amelia loves the roses outside our house.  This morning she asked to pick one for her teachers and I said sure – and as we did so I noticed how beautiful it was – the sun was just rising and there was dew on the flowers.  So once I got home from dropoff I grabbed the camera and tried to capture their beauty – I think I did pretty well!  I am going to print a couple of these for Amelia to put in her room so she can always have her roses with her.

I’ve been into trying to take scenic shots lately…. here are a few of my favorites.

The first one on her real birthday didn’t go so well since she used her hand to put out the candle.  But hey I captured it!