30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude - Day 17

Today is day 17, hard to believe were more than 1/2 way through the month and a week from today is Thanksgiving! Day 17 is to photograph "memories". I wasn't sure how to interpret this one, I mean the reason I always carrying my camera every where I go is for the sole purpose of capturing memories. Each photograph I take is a memory, so that is when I got the idea to photograph my scrapbooks. Each scrapbook is filled with memories that I will cherish forever!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude - Day 16

Day 16 is Animals. This is Trot, he's been a member of this family going on 9 years now. We also adopted his brother Drew. They are old and crotchety now and pretty much only like Charlie! But Trot let me get up close to him for this head shot! Maybe he likes me a little after all!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude - Day 15

Day 15 is Technology. Where would we all be without technology, more specifically, Angry Birds?

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude - Day 14

Day 14 is movement. I took this one of Shaun this morning riding his bike across the driveway. You get the sense of movement from the blur in the pedal and wheel. You achieve this by using a slower shutter speed. It's all starting to click and I am able to do a lot of this now without even thinking about it!

I Heart Faces / Autumn Splendor

This week's I Heart Faces challenge is Autumn. I took this as part of a photography class assignment asking us to capture motion! What is more fun, and more fall than tossing the leaves from the giant leaf pile into the air and watching them fall all around you!



Don't forget to stop over at I Heart Faces and check out the beauty of Autumn!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude - Day 13

Day 13 of the Gratitude challenge is the written word. This is my written word, a recipe I wrote down for a squash casserole that was given to me by a friend of mine. I tried it out tonight for a possible place on my Thanksgiving Day menu, and while it was rich and savory and delicious, I'm just so used to my squash having a sweet taste from brown sugar and butter. It's going to be a tough call on which squash I end up making on the big day and might even be a game day decision!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Gratitude - Day 12

Day 12 is Hands! I had a picture all planned out for this that I staged this afternoon but then ended up catching this moment at the birthday party we attended tonight. All the older kids were having a blast trying to high five Evan and teach him how to "pound it". This was the Birthday Boy trying to show Evan a "pinky promise".