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26 February 2015

Project 52 - Week 7 - Negative Space

The theme for week 7 - February 13-19th - was Negative Space.


 I forced the kids to help me with this one a bit and I'm glad I did.  This is my new favorite photo of them.  They were done posing for me and were making faces at me and each other and just generally being their goofy selves while I snapped away.  


I really love Carus's hair.  


Adam's superhero pose.  


 While half the country is still dealing with mounds of snow and wintery winter, spring appears to have come early to us in the other half.  I don't know if we'll have a relapse back into winter like we usually do after the yearly spring tease - but it feels like we won't.  The air has changed from winter to spring so maybe we'll be . . . lucky?  Do you notice a change in the air with the change of the seasons too? Or am I just a weirdo? 

My daffodils and violas are making an appearance.  My Camilla bush is blooming and there are buds on lots of other bushes and trees. I've started working in the garden to get it ready too.  We removed the last of the dead plants, some carrots I forgot to pull, and brought in some soil to level the ground. Robert built me two more garden boxes and we put some yard fabric down which will cover with bark mulch to help with weed control in the aisles this year. I need to get soil for the new beds and fertilizer for the older beds and then I can start planting. Even if I start now and we do have a winter relapse I think the plastic coverings will help keep things growing.  


The fields surrounding town are all green with new growth.  I believe this is a wheat field - but I could be wrong. 



Here is the full picture that previous one was cropped from.  While the cropped and edited version is more true to the negative space rules, I like this one too.  

A field of spring surround by trees of winter. 



All posts for the project so far:  Project 52 in 2015

The next theme is:  Long Exposure

21 February 2015

Project 52 - week 6 - Tiny

The theme for week 6, which was February 6th to 12th, was Tiny.  

This should have been so easy except for the fact I was being lazy and uninspired and blah blah blah

BUT! I did find a tiny, smushed snail shell in the driveway....

 

...and a tiny flower.


All posts for the project so far:  Project 52 in 2015

Next theme:  Negative Space

20 February 2015

Project 52 - week 5 - Hidden

Things have gotten a bit crazy lately - as they are wont to do from time to time - and I'm behind! Let's see, week 5 was January 30th through February 5th and the theme was hidden.

I had grand plans for all sorts of inspired photography with this theme and then it came to the end of the week and I hadn't been able to find inspiration anywhere so I grabbed a few shots and moved on. I can always revisit it later. 


Carus likes to hide Scout's cookies in his grain bowl under hay so he has to search for it.  


At the end of the evening at the barn, the kitties are usually hidden in cozy places for naps and Carus likes to climb to the top of the hay bales to search them out.  Rascal is usually the one she finds and he'll play for a bit before crawling in her lap for purrs and cuddles.  When it's time to go I have to convince her to come down. Threats to leave her behind are met with an enthusiastic OK. 


Trees hidden in shadow with light pollution illuminating them from behind. 


All posts for the project so far:  Project 52 in 2015

Next theme:  Tiny

11 February 2015

Carus's New Hair!

We let Carus color her hair and she decided on doing a sunset look - orange with red on the ends. We didn't want to bleach her hair since bleaching is so damaging, so it was just coloring over her natural color; not quite as bright result though.  I still freaking love it!  


We mixed Manic Panic colors Electric Banana and Electric Lava for the orange, and just used the Electric Lava for the ends.  We are considering going over the orange with an orange color like Tiger Lily, but haven't fully decided yet.  Manic Panic are semi-permanent and vegan.  I swear her hair feels softer post coloring and it doesn't smell awful either. It took me about an hour to get the color into her hair because I'm slow and wanted to be sure I got her hair covered and then we left it on for an hour before we had to wash out because of bedtime.  You can leave the dye on overnight if you want, but we didn't want to risk a mess. The color will fade/washout fairly quickly, especially if she uses a stripping shampoo or hot water to wash her hair, but should last a month or two.  

She wants to do a blue or purple next - or maybe a pink. She hasn't decided yet.  

03 February 2015

Project 52 - week 4 - Macro again

I branched out away from all eyes this week.  I just have a little macro attachment that I put on my regular lens so these aren't as good as they could be or as good as I necessarily want them to be, but I'm happy with what I have.  For now.  Maybe someday I'll splurge for a really nice macro lens where I can take some of those amazing close up bug shots.  Well, if I also feel the urge to capture and attempt to pose live bugs/just get really close to bugs. (Or do they kill them without squishing before photos?) 

ANYHOO!

First up - Salt and Sugar.  Or Sugar and Salt.  I can't remember which is which now. Pretty sure it's sugar and then salt.


Sugar?


Salt?


Broken colored pencil.


Shading stylus.


Unbroken, but dull colored pencils.




Three yarns from my knitting project.


Jade plant leaf.


Avocado leaf.


Avocado leaf.


Avocado roots.


Spider fern leaf.

This week's theme:  Hidden

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