24/365 & 25/365

**yes, i skipped day 23.  it was umbrellas.  i didn't even take a photo that day** 

day 24:

Fresh Air.

i wanted to take a photo of my breath...

then i realized that's not fresh air but recycled air.

how do i take a photo of fresh air?

i can't take a photo of the air exactly, 

but where do i go to feel, breathe, the fresh air?

into the bush, away from buildings, cars...

the trees give us oxygen 

(unless science has discovered something else since i was in school - - 

i mean, pluto isn't a planet anymore...but i'm pretty sure about this.)

that's as fresh as we can get.

so here's some of the trees...

couldn't get oxygen filled leaf trees since they're sleeping right now.

day 25.

Caring

*this prompt is to be done as a Portraiture.  for me to practice.*

i told the fam. at the beginning of the day that i would be needing to do this one.

so they weren't too surprised when i would say 

'I want a photo of you doing that.'

so.

out we went.

to our back hill to snowboard.

our boy is learning, and daddy is teaching him.

he straps on his board, gets some advice and heads down the hill.

daddy comes to the bottom and gives him a piggyback up the hill (with snowboard still strapped on)

and away he goes again.

usually they repeat that a few times before his dad wants to do some snowboarding of his own.

they call it 'Daddy chairlift'

*all  photos taken by me, 

with Gertie.

and edited in Photoshop Elements.

See where my challenge began : Here 

22-365

day 22:

Eight

one of the repeated monthly themes - a number.

i had this amazing idea in my head for how i'd capture it.

buy sparklers.

go into a dark room.

set shutter speed to hold the formation of whole number.

don't burn anything in room.

maybe do it outside when i got home tonight.

i bought sparklers today at our local Dollarama...

where they were dollarquarterama.

got home tonight.

tired.

going to go to bed...besides it's not dark enough outside 

thank you factory down the road.

got pjs on.

ran back downstairs.

grabbed tripod.

sparklers.

lighter.

camera.

headed to the basement.

i was lighting one and only one sparkler.

one attempt.

if it doesn't work i'll do 'late eight' tomorrow.

i got 2 eights out of that one sparkler.

attempt one.

i dropped the sparkler before the shutter closed.  

this is eight on a stick.

there's my eight.

i like them both.

next time i'll wear all black.

*all photos taken by me, 

with Gertie.

edited/cropped with Photoshop Elements

See where my challenge began : Here 

20/365 & 21/365

day 20:

Upset.

i didn't take a photo of this.

instead i chose to take a picture of my daughter.

i had promised her that we'd do rags in our hair on the weekend.

we didn't.

so she asked if i could do them after dinner.

while she watched tv i put hers in.

(i put mine in after she went to bed)

so my theme yesterday became:

Promise Kept

this morning after we took out all the rags.  

don't the curls suit my little one.

she is so bouncy.

i don't know if today she was more bouncy because of the curls or if the curls revealed how bouncy she really is...

but she bounces everywhere - i should have named her Tigger. 

day 21:

In a Bowl

I thought about this one...

i thought about taking a pic of the kids cereal this morn.

or my cream of wheat.

i thought about putting things in a bowl to make it how i wanted.

i decided to take our reflection in a bowl instead.

my mixing bowls.

the best one to take a reflection in.

just hanging out on the counter.

and finally, my girl.  look at her smile... 

can you see it? 

she needs her bangs cut - thats the hair hanging.

*all photos taken with Gertie.

edited in Photoshop Elements

See where my challenge began : Here 

19/365

day 19.

Abandoned

i was trying to think of a place in the area i could go capture some photographs.

there had to be a place somewhere.

on our way home from church this morning we were driving in a snowstorm.

i made the decision that i'd stay home, not go driving around looking for somewhere abandoned.

at lunch i said to my husband 

"i wish i could get to the old robin's nest, by the shed,"

he said, 

"if you really want to photograph to you'll get to it."

i looked at the mess by the shed and saw no way to do it.

then the more i looked at it and thought about what he said, 

i realized he was right.

i began seeing a way to climb up to get a good view of the next instead of a hinderance.

I did want to photograph it.

i would find a way.

i put on my boots.

and headed out, with Gertie, to see the nest.

shovelling the path on our way.

this nest has been abandoned by our beloved robin for a year and a half now.  

she didn't go back to it this past summer.

i don't actually know if robins go back to the same nest or not.

i still think it's because i scared her babes one year and they flew out dropped out of the nest.

they couldn't actually fly yet.  

the momma bird rounded them up...

i don't know what happened to them.

but this nest was theirs.

we watched them hatch, grow.

and then i sent them to their deaths!

aren't birds' nests amazing.

*all photos taken by me, 

with Gertie.

edited with Photoshop Elements

See where my challenge began : Here

17/365 & 18/365

day 17.

Knobby

about 5 years ago we moved into a nice old house.

it has lots of character, 

as most 100 year old homes have.

one of the things i love are the doorknobs on our kids bedrooms.

one day i know we'll change them, 

but for now i will continue to love these old things.

day 18:

Pose

easy peasy.

the kids told their dad they had their boots on.

we went down and there they were in our boots.

too cute.

i asked if i could get a picture of them.

our boy loved the idea, 

our girl took off my boots and got hers on and joined her brother.

they posed for me without any problem.

love these crazy kids. 

*all photos taken by me, 

with Gertie.

edited with Photoshop Elements.

See where my challenge began : Here

16/365

day 16.

Reserved.

that's right.

i said reserved.

yeah, my thought exactly.

how do i photograph that?

i got out my thesaurus this morn 

(i woke up thinking about it-don't worry, i didn't dream about it...that's obsessed. )

and checked out some other words for reserved.

Reserved 1. booked, engaged, held, kept, retained, taken.

i've got it!

i'll call Kirsten.

i'll get a photo of her and her engagement ring!

she's 'reserved'... 'engaged', 'taken'.

or maybe i won't.

so i didn't.

instead i got my daughter to hold the thesaurus open.

i took off my lens, turned it around and got a nice close shot of reserved.

***

then i checked out another photography site i get emails from.

and saw their week's challenge: Bicycles.

*HERE is the challenge.*

we have bikes!

i'll go photograph them. 

waiting for spring...or for most of the snow to leave.

i love my husband's BMX.  

we won't get rid of it..

it's reserved for our son one day!

*all photos taken by me, 

with Gertie.

edited with Photoshop Elements

See where my challenge began : Here

15/365

day 15

In The Air

it's a bird.

it's a plane.

its...

more snow!

*photo taken by me,

with Gertie

edited with Photoshop Elements

See where my challenge began : Here