Photo Challenge #18

This week's challenge is to photograph numbers 1-7.

Rules:
1.) 7 photos total (If you feel ambitious go ahead and do all 12), one photo for each number.
2.) your photos can either represent the number or have the actual number in letters or numbers.
3.) B/W or Colour
4.) Tweaking is allowed.
5.) Photos should be submitted by either Friday, May 29 or Sat. May 30
5.) Have Fun!

Due to allergies I confined myself to the house... so all the photos were taken from everyday home life. I really tweaked these photos, hubby pointed out last week that we have GIMP on the computer so I have been playing with it every since, might have gone over board on it but I was having fun (rule #5)! I really got in the groove and did 0 - 12, I did straight up find objects/things that look like the number. I struggled with the #5 and ended up taking a photo of a calendar 5... it would have been out of place of my series to have done a picture of 5 items. Have fun looking at them... I had fun taking them!

When my daughter found out I was taking number pictures she actually made the number 9 and 10 for me out of her toys, I thought it was so sweet of her that I just had to use them (with a little tweaking).

Photo Challeges #17

This week's theme:A Bug's Life

Guidelines:
Submit 3 photos of bugs*- they may be of the same bug from different angles, or 3 different bugs.
These may be tweaked they must have some color in them- so no B/W (can have select color**) or sepia

Fly on pavement

Ant on plant container

Wasp on greenery (right after this photo he was attacked by ants but those came out very blurry and not readable, oh well)

---I had a horrible time getting my focus to focus on the bugs, so most are blurry. The second issue was finding the bugs and getting a picture of them before they moved. I am still trying to figure out how to work my focus... very frustrating and I am sure you can tell that through the photos. This was not my week, oh well I will try again next week.

My first Photo challenge... Challenge #16

This weeks Challenge: Man vs. Nature http://weeklyphotographychallenge.blogspot.com/

Rules:
1.Submit 3-5 photos by Friday or Saturday this week
2.They may be "tweeked"
3.Can be color, b/w, sepia- anything you feel makes your photographs more dynamic
4.and, finally, have fun!

This little tree keeps coming back year after year after year in our window well... this is my struggle with the little tree.

this photo is the bottom of the small tree trunk and the roots, that bugger had a lot of fit in it. The rocks came out a lot clearer then the trunk and roots... still trying to figure out how to get my camera to focus on what I want not what it thinks I should focus on.

EDIT: Just a quick introduction since I am new to the photo challenges. I never took any photography classes during my art major days at college and never really had a camera besides disposables. The camera I am using is just a very basic compact Sony Cyber Shot Digital camera, 12.1 mega pixel, 4x optical zoom, about 4 years old (the new ones are even smaller then we have, but similar). Someday I would like a better camera but house projects come first... anyway I am just trying to shake up my boring straight on pictures I take and learn how to use my camera more creatively. I also want an art fix and since I usually have my camera with me the photo challenge is "easier" then pulling out or finding my paints and canvas ever time.

Any input you have would be great, I have found out that with a basic camera it is hard to make something in focus while other things are out of focus (like photo #4) so any advise on how to get different things in focus with a limited zoom would be much appreciated. I also can not tweek beyond cropping, not sure if I can do that with any basic program I have, so my photos are the originals (no tweeking).

Thanks ladies for all input and advice!

Figure It Out 2

TESTING: putting pics up...

mid-April in AZ, flower by poolside

Easter Lily close-up

AZ sunset, mid-April

TESTING done...

Figure It Out

So I started this "blog" almost a year ago (or around then) but have never done anything with it. My wonderful friends have been doing a weekly photo challenge and to keep my foot in the creative juices I have decided to join them. First I have to figure out how to "work" this blog then I have to try and remember to keep up on the photo challenge. Most of the ladies in the photo challenge seem to have very nice digital cameras, I on the other hand have a very simple digital camera (no fancy additions) so I hope that I can keep up with them. Well better get back to figuring out this website so I can enter in next weeks photo challenge.

Smile!
Katie