The Purpose, the Journey, and the Fun along the way

Here we are, two moms who love our cameras and miss our college art classes and colleagues. With a family it can be difficult to find time for the creative process. Emily and I are using this blog as a way to have fun, work on our photography, keep each other accountable, and be creative!

Each Monday one of us will post a challenge for us both to complete and post a response to by Friday that week. Over the weekend, if time permits each of us will also critique the other's work.

We hope to use this blog as a way to grow together as photographers as we continue to grow as mothers.

If you happen to stumble upon our blog, and want to join in, feel free! Just post your response, with a link to your photos in the MckLinky link for that week. Challenges stay open for three weeks after they are posted.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

A Little Fun

Okay so I was having a little fun messing around with the blog. If you all hate it, I'll change it back! :)

diana

Monday, July 27, 2009

Challenge #26

Happy Monday everyone! Great job last week. I thought since last week's challenge was a more involved, we'd do something a little easier this week. Oh yes, and I'd also like to welcome ANOTHER new submitter, welcome Scott!

So without further ado:

This week's challenge is brought to you by the colour BLUE!
We're going to go on a little treasure hunt this week.

Rules:

1.) Go out into your community/city/town/street and search for things that are blue.
2.) Submit three photos (Colour of course) by Sat. Aug 1st.
3.) Tweaking is allowed.
4.) Try to create a set of photos as apposed to just three random pictures. Think about how they all work together to create either an idea or a feeling.
5.) HAVE FUN!


Monday, July 20, 2009

Challenge #25

Hello again, everyone!
It was great to see a couple more people join in the fun last week- and we had great, creative entries- it's so much fun to look through them all (I know- I gotta comment yet ;)

Anyway, this week's challenge is to do a setup to specifically "sell a product"- this can be anything, really, for example : hat, shoes, cat food, soap- anything. The challenge is to do this with a friend, relative, or pet as your model.
Submit 3 photos- and let us know which is your favorite.
These may be b/w, color, or anything in between.
Editing is allowed.
And, as always.... have fun!

~em

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Photo Challenge #24 submissions via MckLinky

Okay folks, what do you say we give the MckLinky another try? I wasn't going to but since Josh asked about it, and Emily asked about it I thought we'd see if it would maybe work right for us this week. The developer was doing some work on the program last week and sent out an e-mail to apologize for some of the problems people were having with it.

Like last week:

All you have to do is click on the link that says "you are next, click here to enter your link" and then enter your name and your link (put in your link just like we've been doing.) The linky will stay open till Tuesday in case we have any late posters. What it will do is post a list of links as soon as you submit yours.

*note to Josh: I submitted your link for you!


Monday, July 13, 2009

Challenge #24

Hi Gang,

Sorry to the few of you that posted late, for some reason the link closed early, I was worried about that happening. I'll work on trying to get your entries on the link as soon as it starts working again. In the mean time feel free to head over to FB and share with us your thoughts on this new system of posting.

Challenge #24

Pick a day this week and tell us about it using your camera.

Rules:
1.) Submit as many or as few photos as you'd like.
2.) B/W or Colour
3.) please no tweaking
4.) Photos due Sat. July 18, 2009

This challenge is about telling a story, finding a way to narrate through pictures. You don't have to narrate your whole day, you can pick just a portion of it if you'd like. Have fun!

-diana

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Mcklinky

Hi All,

I promised Em I'd give this a try. I'm not sure if any of you have seen any of these linky things on other sites but we thought maybe we'd try it this week to see if posting submissions could be easier. So for this week's challenge how about we try something a little new?

All you have to do is click on the link that says "you are next, click here to enter your link" and then enter your name and your link (put in your link just like we've been doing.) The linky will stay open till Monday in case we have any late posters. What it will do is post a list of links as soon as you submit yours. I'll start a discussion group on FB where we can discuss this new tool.

Happy shooting!

Diana

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Photo Challenge #23

This week I'm actually able to get to everything a little early! So you all have an extra day to work on the challenge if you'd like.

As a little side note, there is a new discussion up on the FB group about posting comments to photos. If you'd like to join in on the discussion (or start your own about anything else) please feel free to head on over there. If you are one of our newer posters and are not yet part of our FB group please leave your name in a comment to this post and I will add you as a friend and invite you to the group.

The challenge:

STRIPES!

The rules:
1.) Three or Five photos (try not to make it obvious what you were photographing. Leave us guessing if you can!)
2.) B/W or Colour
3.) Tweaking alowed
4.) Photos Due by Sat. July 11, 2009

Have fun everyone!

diana

Round Up #22

Hey all! I hop everyone had a GREAT 4th of July weekend! We have another new poster this week. Welcome Josh!

Here's the roundup for this week!








If you still haven't posted your photos for this week don't worry, go ahead and post your link I'll add you to the list when I have a chance.