52 of 2013 - Week 5

52 of 2013 - Week 5. Picaboo's theme for the week is 'Capturing a Day in the Life: Tips For Black & White Photography'. My Focus 52 - Pixel Project theme is 'Picture Style / What You Are Reading'. I do love Greek Mythology. I think the darker gods get a bad rap; most of the Greek and Roman gods were pretty horrible to each other, and to humans. Fun stuff!

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12 (the fancy point and shoot), edited with Photoshop and PicMonkey.

52 of 2013 - Week 4

52 of 2013 - Week 4. Picaboo's theme for the week is 'Capturing Extraordinary Moments: Tips For Lifestyle Photography'. My Focus 52 - Pixel Project theme is 'My Favorite Things'. I'm still held captive to the January blahs, so didn't do much photography (or anything), this week. We did have a bit of snow though, which lead to these photos. I really wanted to caption them with something clever and witty, or perhaps even tiny knit zombie inspirationalish. But I just didn't have it in me, this week. So what does this have to do with my favorite things or lifestyle photography? I don't know. I like taking pictures of little stuff. And flowers. And weird stuff. And my kid. And my family. And... whatever. So I guess these shots work perfectly.

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12 (the fancy point and shoot), edited with Photoshop and PicMonkey.

52 of 2013 - Week 3

52 of 2013 - Week 3. Picaboo's theme for the week is 'Panoramas'. My Focus 52 - Pixel Project theme is 'Quality and Direction of Light'.  Like the photo of the boats, last week, I took photos at the marina down the street from where I work.  14 images stitched together in Photoshop created the panorama.  Not bad for hand held photos!  I was getting similar shots with my iPhone - it has a fantastic panorama feature.  I may have to go out there, to the same spot, another day and try and get the same shot to compare.  I didn't even think of that today - I knew what I was going for and it was too cold to fiddle around for very long.

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12 (the fancy point and shoot), edited with Photoshop and PicMonkey.

52 of 2013 - Week 2

52 of 2013 - Week 2. Picaboo's theme for the week is 'Winter Activities'. My Focus 52 - Pixel Project theme is 'Landscape', focusing on where we live. I don't get out much at this time of year; I tend to hibernate. So these are the best I was going to get. The first shot is a similar shot to one I posted a few weeks ago, when we had a lot of snow (relatively). No snow now, but it's COLD (again, relatively). The second shot is mountains that you can see from behind our house. I was going to crop out the random trees and side of a townhouse, but I liked how they sort of framed the mountain shot, so I dumped the cropped shot.  The third shot is of a tiny marina, down the street from where I work.  There are gorgeous marinas around Metro Vancouver, but this was closest and this is where I went.  Turns out I hugely underestimated how cold it was on the water that morning!  Brrr! 

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12 (the fancy point and shoot), edited with Photoshop and PicMonkey.

52 of 2013 - Week 1

52 of 2013 - Week 1. Last year, I did a daily photo challenge with Picaboo, on Facebook. They have a new challenge this year, but it's weekly, which suits me, because the daily thing was too much and I found my hobby becoming a chore. Picaboo's theme for the week is 'Glitter'. My photo buddies from 2012 started a group called 'Focus 52 - Pixel Project' and the theme there is 'Newness + Watch Your Background'. I suspect I'll try and merge the two themes through this year. This is a little snowman snow globe that is at my mother's house. I love this thing! The 'snow' is all glittery and it's so pretty! I had bought a couple of them a few years ago and hers didn't work properly, so we gave her ours. It's one of my favorite Christmas decorations and I can't think of a better place for it to be, than in my parents' wonderful home. They made Christmas magical for me and continue to do it for my daughter. The reason I love Christmas is because of my amazing parents.

Taken with my Canon PowerShot G12 (the fancy point and shoot), edited with Photoshop.

The snowman snow globe.

Glitter inside the snowman snow globe.

Ringing in the New Year with fancy beaded necklaces (bought at the dollar store).