#Project52 – Happiness Is

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar These lovely birds were outside my kitchen window the other morning. They made me very happy.

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#Project52 – Who am I?

It’s that time of year again, making resolutions and looking back at who we have become. At 30, I often still feel like I’m playing at being an adult. Especially on those days when I see my friends and family with their grown up lives, having kids and making big decisions. I do have to…

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#OurProject52 – Back to School

I don’t have any kids, so I don’t take those back to school photos that most people do, but working at a university, I do have the opportunity to take some photos of the students when they get back to campus. These photos were taken after freshman orientation, so many of these are new students.…

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#OurProject52 – Still Life

I love to take photos of the little displays I make around the house and office, so it seems that I’m always taking still life photos.  I have yet to figure out how to get the photos to come out beautifully, but I still really enjoy taking them. What tips do you have for taking…

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#OurProject52 – Celebrate

This has been a good week to get photos of celebration – it’s our local county fair. However, my side of the celebration at the fair always looks a little different, as my husband and I are volunteers out there and help to put it on (more him than me, but I help where I…

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#OurProject52 – Negative Space

Negative space isn’t something that comes naturally to me when I take photos. This is probably because I like closeups so much.  I’d much rather take fill my frame with the subject, than leave empty space, so this was a great exercise for me. I’ve been doing a lot of book photography lately for my…

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#OurProject52 – Silhouette

Silhouettes are some of my favorite photos, though I’ve hardly ever taken them myself. Actually, never, except on accident. So, I was very happy to see Everyday Eyecandy’s tips on how to shoot them. For the purposes of this week’s challenge, I took a photo very similar to the one LaShawn took for this challenge-…

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#OurProject52 – Framed

Once again, this is a catch up post for #OurProject52. It seems that after I slacked off on the Motherhood challenge, it became a lot easier to keep slacking off.  But the #OurProject52 challenge is something I really do want to keep doing, so I’m making myself go back and do all of the ones…

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#OurProject52 – Motherhood

I managed to skip out on a few weeks of posting my #OurProject52 photos, mostly because I’m a slacker, but the main reason was that I didn’t manage to take any photos with fit the motherhood theme for the May 14th challenge. Not being a mother myself, taking photos that relate to motherhood was a…

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