All posts tagged: Photo a Day

The August break, joining in with film photos.

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I am joining in with Susannah Conway this year again and taking a photo a day for The August Break. There are daily prompts which can be taken on whichever camera you may choose. I am lucky enough to have a Minolta 35mm camera from 1980 something, so I am planning to take each photo with that. So unless I also take a digital picture too, I won’t be posting everyday until I get the film developed. Hopefully I will snap other photos with my camera along the way, and use up the film so that I can get them printed a couple of times during August and see what I came up with. Will I get a serious case of ‘fear of missing out’ if I don’t post an Instagram August Break picture daily? Maybe, but I think I will just stick to the film camera and see how they come out. Hopefully not all out of focus or wrongly exposed. Just think, this is how we took all photos only a few years …

Create like No-one is Watching.

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Do you create and make for no apparent reason?  Is that ok?  Ok to draw or paint or sew for no reason other than to do it, to practice? Maybe this is a good life lesson, get the equipment and a little guidance and get going.  Try and create as if no-one is watching and no-one cares how it turns out.  Don’t you always feel the pressure to do everything well or wonder why you are bothering?  If I get asked to do or make a specific thing, I get all nervous and jittery and worried that it won’t be good enough.  Will it break, be the right colour, will it be in focus?  If I just grab a handful of beads and tell myself that I will keep it if it does not turn out, or if I pick up my phone and snap a few practice shots, guess what, it often turns out and I feel great about my project. If it doesn’t turn out so well, at least I know I need …

10 Tips for taking a photo a day, every day.

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I started to participate in  a ‘photo a day’ project back in September 2012,  I followed prompts from Fat Mum Slim and Hipstamatic and I used so many filters!  Good grief, enough with the filters!  But, I did it, I completed a month and then I carried on and I got into the habit of taking a photo a day.  I suppose I really ‘posted’ a photo a day, some days I take a ton of photos and some days it is only the one for my photo a day project. I settled on the Fat Mum Slim prompts, but every so often I add in a month of other prompts if I find them appealing, so I will end up with two photos posted per day!  Here are a few 365 project originators to choose from. Fat Mum Slim Albums Co Your Daily Snap Click it Up a Notch 365 Grateful Clickin Moms Hipstamatic And these are some weekly projects if that seems more reasonable. Weekend Hashtag Project from Instagram Through the Lens Thursday …

August 2014 Photo a Day

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August was a month of hot days, school holidays, day trips and returning to school.  I used the prompts from Fat Mum Slim’s Photo a Day challenge and here are my photos from last month. 1.  Landscape 2.  Lunch   3.  S is for…. Soccer ball, abandonded in the park. 4.  In the Middle. 5.  Three. 6. Grateful for… My little spot on the interwebs! 7.  Spot. 8.  Pet Peeve.  Crazy crisp/chip flavours.  These were yukky, in case you are interested! 9.  Mix.  Silver fabric and sewing machine mixed to make a bag. 10.  Art.  The art of finding treasure in the creek.  The watch is one of our favourite finds so far. 11. Mirror.  In the grass reflecting the clouds. 12. Gather. 13.  Inside.  Wanting to look inside this lot! 14.  Give.  Thanks Grandma for giving us some Dandelion and Burdock sweets. 15.  Clouds. 16.  Clean.  This old dinosaur needs a clean. 17.  Dinner. 18.  Arrow. 19.  To-Do.  Get a film in this vintage camera and get snapping the ole fashioned way. 20.  Before …

June Photo a Day 2014

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Here are the photos from June, a little late, but here we are huffing and puffing and sitting at the back.  What did you get up to in June?  Is it summer or winter with you?  It is heating up here and I am already looking forward to cooler weather, I know, I am a cool weather girl. 1. Joy.  I find great joy in Flow magazine, it is one of my favourites. 2. Doing.  Playing Top Trumps – Horrible Histories (and they really are!) with my youngest. 3. Family.  Off to mow our neighbour’s lawm. 4. Ordinary.  An ever growing patch of mint. 5. 11 o’clock.  The edamame is growing well. 6. Adventure.  To the top of the Gateway Arch! 7. Pattern.  Gorgeous funghi. 8. T is for.  Trainers, back from a run.  Even though I live in America, I still call them trainers rather than sneakers or tennis shoes (I don’t even play tennis, come to think of it, I don’t do much sneaking either). 9. We Live Here.  St Louis on an …

Photo a Day May 2014

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May saw my eldest turn into a teenager,  a trip to the zoo with school, the weather got hotter and hotter and school finished for the summer. Here are the photos I took as part of the Fat Mum Slim Photo a Day project. June has started, but it is not to late to join in.  You know you are tempted!  Come on, it’s a fun project and I love to see the whole month of photos all together, like this… 1.  Begins with J… A custom necklace for my good friend. 2. Snack. 3. Collection.  Shelves of vintage cameras at a local antique shop. 4. Us. 5. 4pm.  I was at school and spotted Mr Y’s art project on display.  Clay doughnut anyone? 6. From Down Low. 7. Taken from Above. 8. Blue.  Trellis detail. 9. Favourite.  Flowers from the school plant sale are always a favourite. 10. In the Garden.  The garlic is doing well. 11. Mother.  Best Mother’s Day card! 12. Ready.  This guy was ready for his close up! 13. I …