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Week 34 - Peace

This week's challenge photo is a bit more open-ended than normal. What do we mean by Peace? Literally, like a peace symbol (as in the cover image above), or something more open to interpretation, like a feeling of peace? I wanted to capture something that brought me a

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Week 33 - Water

Water. Wasser. Vaser. Something so simple, yet without it, we would all die. It's also majestic and amazing. I still have fond memories of looking at the ocean as a child, where the water went on forever. For thousands of miles nothing but water. Now though, I live

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Week 32 - Night Photography

Prior to the pandemic, going out after dark to do personal photography projects was something I looked forward to doing. I would seek out interesting subjects, be it city lights, long exposure photography, or astral photography. It was actually pretty thrilling to get out into a completely new world -

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Week 31 - Choose A Color

For this week's photo challenge, the theme was to choose a color (any color) and make that color contribute to the story of the image. There's a number of ways to approach this - I ultimately decided though that I could either feature that color prominently

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Week 30 - Focal Point

It's now week 30 of this 52 week photo challenge! When I started, I figured I would have the determination to finish, and yes, not there yet, but more than half-way there! Can you believe that tomorrow is August 1st? It feels like January just happened, not July.

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Week 29 - A Common Object

For the challenge this week, the goal was to take something common and make it feel a bit extraordinary. Hey you little overlooked thing, let me throw you in the spotlight! Go from basic to extra with the click of the shutter. I did manage to take a bunch of

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Week 28 - Silhouette

After first learning of the challenge for this week, I immediately thought of doing some intricate studio lighting setup in my studio to get the perfect studio silhouette... of something. Still life? One of the cats? A human subject, perhaps? Then when it came time to execute, two things happened:

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Week 27 - Negative Space in Street Photography

For this week, I was really hoping to get out and find some people to get some good black and white street photography. Despite being an introvert by nature, I do love this type of photography. Luckily, one of the local farmer's markets was open, so we headed

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TBT - Even MOAR Clouds & Weather Edition!

Everyone loves a Throwback Thursday, right? So what's the etiquette on them? Does it have to be a throwback to a year ago, or three years ago? Or can I throwback to a few weeks ago or even last month? Is it even considered a throwback then, or

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Cloudy With A Chance Of Awesome Clouds

Just before sunset last night the sky was on fire with some amazing clouds and late evening colors. I noticed it getting brighter and brighter, when it was supposed to start getting darker, so I had to pause watching the newest season of The Umbrella Academy and grabbed my shoes

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Week 26 - A Pattern

Patterns are everywhere you look - from all the man-made patterns in all the things we own, to the numerous patterns found all throughout nature. Intentional design is abundant, so this week's photo wasn't difficult at all to capture. I had actually noticed these shadows being

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Week 25 - What Is It?

As a macro photographer, I love capturing small details of small things, and it always makes for interesting images. Many times, the photos themselves offer an air of mystery as to what they are, and it's always fun to present them to other people to guess what they

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Week 24 - Shoot From Above

As someone who is not too keen on heights, I had to think of an alternative to shooting down from a great height... The girls make great photo subjects in a pinch. She needed a bit of convincing to pose where I wanted her, but she finally put in the

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Week 23 - Look Up

Not every week is cheery and full of wonderment. There is always emotional balance. This week was a bit of challenge (for the challenge), and I was not super inspired by much around me. What caught my eye the most was the weather. June is behaving more like what you&

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Week 22 - Everything In Focus

Normally for a photo of this type, I would immediately grab my macro lens, or a wide angle lens to do a landscape. I wanted to go out looking for something different though, so I grabbed my Fuji mirrorless camera, and went on the hunt for something interesting. Despite the

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Week 21 - Inspired By A Photographer

As a creative artist, I have drawn inspiration from many places through the years - photography, paintings, music, and even inspirational people not in any art or entertainment creative field. Early on in my career, when I was learning about photography, I looked to those photographers that came before me

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Week 20 - Abstract

This is one of the weekly challenges I was most looking forward to completing. Abstract photography is one of my absolute favorite genres. I might not be able to paint well, or create pottery or sculptures, but I can create beautiful abstract images through my camera... or any camera, really.

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Week 19 - Architecture

There's certainly no shortage of subject matter to photograph when it comes to architecture. There's man-made structures all over the place. The trick is to try and capture something that's not only interesting, but also tells a story - or leaves the viewer questioning

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Week 18 - Flat Lay

Tell a photographer to take a Flat Lay photo, and 99 out of 100 will race to grab all their gear, and then spend the next hour or two diligently placing cameras, lenses, flashes, and whatever else they use to aid them in taking their photos, to produce their humble

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Week 17 - Leading Lines

The weather this week was downright dreadful. It also didn't help that I was highly unmotivated to complete something for the challenge this week. Fear not though, because I did rally... on the final day of the assignment... and went out in search of some leading lines. This

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Week 16 - One Click

Back in the days before cell phone cameras, before digital SLRs, before digital cameras of any sort even existed... you needed film to take any sort of photos. You know, film cameras! You had to load a roll of 35mm film into the camera, with 24-36 shots on it, no

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Week 15 - Extreme Close Up

So, this was a week that I took a lot of photos to satisfy this challenge, and I mean a lot. I only chose one to post right now, because I just didn't have the mental energy to cull through all the rest to find a few more

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Week 14 - Nature

Photographing nature is one of my favorite things to do. Heck, being in nature is one of my favorite things to do. It's often quiet and peaceful, and there's always something new to see, even when going to the same places over and over. Nature offers

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Week 13 - Emotion

At its core, photography is all about emotion. A good photograph either conveys an emotion, or elicits an emotional response from the viewer. A great photograph does both. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows to the soul. They also convey so much emotion. This was a quick

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Week 12 - Long Shutter

For this week's photo challenge, I had to utilize the Long Shutter technique. Photography is all about freezing a moment in time... instead, this method captures something in seconds. Moving water or clouds, an animal on the move, or traffic headlights (or tail lights) at night. I have