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Photo a Day December 2014

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1.  Fruit 2.  Grass 3. Pop! 4. Free 5. Me. 6.  Joy is… 7.  Weekends are for… 8.  Simple Pleasure 9. Decoration 10.  Closed Door. 11.  Something Red. 12. Skyline 13.  Much Loved 14. Drink.  15.  Super! 16.  Beautiful. 17.  Sunshine. 18.  Sign. 19.  Something to be happy about. 20.  Food. 21.  This is Interesting. 22. Tis the Season to.. 23.  Tree. 24.  Colour. 25. Celebration. 26.  Animal. 27.  I like.. 28.  Book. 29.  I need less of this. 30.  Us. 31.  My Best Bit of 2014. Happy New Year’s Eve! Another year of Photo A Day complete, thanks to prompts from Fat Mum Slim for every single day of 2014.  For December I decided at the beginning of the month to make the photos all black and white.  This kind of worked, kind of didn’t!  It is rather difficult to take a ‘Red’ photo in black and white and sometimes, I just forgot. Are you doing a photo a day in 2015?  You won’t regret it, great memories, captured and shared (if you like).

Through The Lens Thursday 2014 Greatest Hits

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For the complete, full and entire 52 weeks of 2014 I took a photo (or photos) and posted them every Thursday as part of a project called ‘Through The Lens Thursday’ which was thought up by Greta at GFunkified and Alison at Writing Wishing.  I started over at my old blog here and finished up here on Girl Fifteen which is where I will continue. The point of the project was to get us using our DSLR cameras set to manual and on a regular basis, so that we would get some practice and share our masterpieces.  While I am by no means a master photographer,  I have certainly improved my knowledge of the numbers and dials on my camera. The best thing about the project is that it is continuing through 2015!  It is a friendly and do-able project, no daily pressure (I do a daily photo challenge, but I know I would never manage if they all had to be taken on the DSLR) and some great, imaginative prompts which you can find …

Through The Lens Thursday 52/52. Lights.

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    The final Through The Lens Thursday of 2014 is ‘Lights’.  I found some cool streetlights while we were walking the dog today, so I snapped them from different angles.  A lovely sunny day with a blue sky.     You will be pleased to know that Through The Lens Thursday will carry on in 2015, our fearless leaders have come up with 52 new prompts.  Check them out here on Alison’s blog. It is has been a great project this year and I know that even through this weekly practice, my DSLR skills have improved. Merry Christmas!

Through The Lens Thursday #50. Pair.

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      Can you believe we are at week 50 of 2014.  I hope it has been a wonderful year for you.  I am so pleased I found ‘Through The Lens Thursday’ at the beginning of the year and stuck with it.  I now have almost a year of weekly photos taken on my DSLR. Thanks of course to our fearless leaders, Alison and Greta of Writing Wishing and GFunkified blogs. This week’s prompt is ‘Pair’ so I couldn’t resist these little baby socks which I had saved in my drawer. I must admit I struggled with the numbers on my camera today to get the best result in a low light, grey sky environment.  So, we come to the question, is it cheating when you have a less than ideal picture to throw it into Snapseed or Photoshop or Lightroom and mess with it? I certainly messed with this one! I accidently turned the brightness right up and I liked it.  This photo was edited in Snapseed. Next week is #51 and the …

Through The Lens Thursday #49. Close-Up.

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  I pulled a polar bear off the kid’s tree (they have a 2ft one in their bedroom!) and took a close-up of him. Isn’t he cute! Next week’s ‘Through The Lens Thursday’ is ‘Pair’.  I can’t believe that the year is nearly over and so is this project, I hope Greta and Alison (TTLT originators) have something else up their sleeves!  No pressure…..

Through The Lens Thursday 48. Clear.

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      We went to a local State Park yesterday and this lovely creek was perfect for this week’s Through the Lens Thursday prompt which is ‘Clear’.  It snowed the whole time we were hiking and it was a super pretty walk through the trees and across the creeks.  I took these photos at the beginning of the walk when the snow was just starting, by the time we were done there was a couple of inches on the ground. Happy Thanksgiving!  

Through the Lens Thursday 46. Shine.

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This week’s Through the Lens Thursday prompt is ‘Shine’, so as soon as the sun started to shine through our stained glass windows I grabbed the camera and snapped away.  As I was looking at the pictures, I got the feeling I had done this before.  So I looked back at previous TTLT weeks and there it was, week 8 ‘Window‘.  Time to re-think this week’s picture then. Sunshine I thought, that will be a good ‘Shine’ subject, look up at cloudy skies….. The shower was dripping, so I went to make sure it was properly turned off and there it was, all shiny!  So I gave it a quick wipe over and made sure it wasn’t still dripping. I got into the shower, assumed a strange lunge position directly under it, said a little prayer to the plumbing gods that it not drip onto my camera and snapped this picture.  I like that I am reflected in the shower head and I like that you can’t see the pained look on my face as …

Photo a Day September 2014

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1.  In my cup.  Soft serve and sprinkles, the best! 2.  Stripes.  My phone case is a toddler mitten!  It works very well. 3.  Button.  Lucky Day pearl button. 4. DIY.  I bought this necklace from Goodwill to DIY into something else, but decided to keep it as it is, I like it so much. 5.  Upside Down.  I am sure I thought this was a very good idea at the time.  #worstselfieideaever 6. I need….  the weather to cool down so that I can wear my boots! 7.  Father. 8.  Broken. 9.  Orange.  First Autumn leaves are falling. 10.  Repetition.  Mushroom gills. 11.  How I Feel Today.  Like a reflection in a dark window.  Nice buttons though! 12.  Spring/Fall.  Autumn treasures. 13.  Out of Place.  The cookie was supposed to be the ‘out of place’ object, but I think my shoes are more out of place! 14.  Healthy.  Farm stand watermelons for sale. 15.  Remember.  The lovely sunflower is now turning to birdseed.  Still cool. 16.  I don’t like.  Trying to figure out how …

Through The Lens Thursday 39. Away.

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    For this week’s Through the Lens Thursday our fearless leaders from GFunkified and Writing Wishing blogs prompted us to take photos around the theme – away. So I grabbed my vintage luggage and took a pretend ‘going away’ photo.  I would love to use these cases to travel, at the minute they have wool (big Samsonite) and buttons on cards (mushrooms) in them! While I was getting my settings sorted on my camera, I noticed the blimp way up in the sky, pretty far away.  Double ‘away’ whammy this week.  I feel like a bit of an over achiever!  Ha. Are you participating in any challenges this year?  Photography or otherwise.  How is it going?  We are into the last third of the year, so if you are still keeping up with your challenge I applaud you.  It can be pretty hard to keep momentum even with a weekly challenge such as this. I also do a photo a day with Fat Mum Slim‘s prompts and I have got into such a habit with it, …

Through The Lens Thursday 38. Tall.

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  Tall.  I found a tall tree. Predictable, I know, but I quite like the focus spot on the bark and the bright tree tops in the distance. Thanks to Greta at Gfunkified and Alison of Writing Wishing for coming up with Through The Lens Thursday and many congratulations to Alison on the birth of her beautiful twins. Next week’s prompt is ‘Away’.  Happy Thursday!