July Photo Challenge

My July photo challenge has been continuing on my other blog as it had been preprepared. Here are the links to the photos. For the future both blogs will have images and links while I work out which works best.

Day 21 - 'leaves'

Day 20 - 'The Car in the Sky'

Day 19 - 'Parent Parking'

Black and White Photography: Exploring Everyday

Here are some recent photos I took around home and a few extra of my everyday experience. Yet another exciting location, ha ha.

 I love watching W sit and think about where he will go next. I think he really enjoys the freedom that crawling has given him.

 It looks as though the relationship between E & W is developing already. E likes to "play" with W, which is ultimately E running away from W yelling that W is chasing him...um...yeah...not quite. W on the other hand just thinks E is Christmas!

 I love watching E play games that involve him using his imagination. I wonder where that plane is in his mind?

 A cropped version of the former photo. I love the shadows of the fabric.

 I recently returned to acrobatic pole dancing as a way to get some muscle tone back after having my kids. I love exercise that doesn't feel like exercise. Only way I will do it!

 There goes W again.

Here is where I found him not long after. Usually he is found in the shower..wet.  So that was a win!!

I am... learning all the time

In May I decided to start a blog to put photos of my creative endeavours, usually things I had made for my kids. I had started to sew when I found out I was pregnant with my eldest son (now 2 - nearly 3). I think it was my way of having the 'nesting instinct' you hear of. I'm not really into keeping a house super tidy. I don't have a problem with people who do, but for me when I come to the end of my life I would rather reflect on the things I enjoyed doing in my house, not the time I spent cleaning it, so apart from what needs to be done for hygiene its not high on my list of to do.

While I was doing that I came across a photo on Pinterest showing a May Photo Challenge that had a prompt a day for a photo. At that time I thought it might be an interesting challenge to see what I could come up with to photograph.

What I didn't expect was that during that month I would occasionally take a photo that I thought was pretty good. I started to want to take photos like that without it being an accident. So I started to think more about composition. I had taken Art in high school and I was reasonably good at it. How did composition translate to photography?

So I have been taking photos when I get the chance. Usually I have 2 seconds to snap something while my kids tug on my leg or yell at me to do something so I don't have much time to ponder before I take a shot. I use my iPhone because I don't have a camera so I am limited to what I can take without it being blurry. That is quite a challenge when your main subjects won't hold still while you take a photo. And recently E, my 2yr old, has taken to quite enjoying holding a pose until the last minute and then turning away. He thinks it is HILARIOUS! Cheeky.

I am about a month away from being able to afford a camera (I have been saving!), but I think that using something basic has been good for thinking about composition. I have no choice. Making it harder is a good place to start in my opinion.

Anyway, I am... learning and enjoying the challenge.

July Photo Challenge so far

I have been doing a version of a July Photo Challenge in a colour series. I have been putting a photo a day of "red" on my blog for July. You can find my blog at wordpress here if you are interested in having a look.

Here are a few of the recent photos.

I hope to continue the colour series next month.

I am... searching for versitility

I have decided to switch my blog "I am" over to blogger. I originally used blogger then changed over to wordpress on advice that it was better, but it didn't allow me the versitility of individualising the site the way blogger does, so I have made the switch back. Hopefully for the LAST TIME!!

I hope I haven't inconvenienced anyone who reads or follows my blog too much. I hope that people find me OK and following me on here is as easy as on wordpress.

I will keep my other blog active for a while so that people can find me ok.

Now let's get to it!