Through the Lens Thursday: Flower

It’s unfortunate that this prompt came the first week of February. I haven’t seen a flower for months!

So, I made Ivy put a flower in her hair (she chose neon orange) and stand in the cold for a minute and a half while I took her picture.

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Through The Lens Thursday: Reflection

Some days seem like weeks, some weeks like months. A Friday after a week of long days is both a respite and form of torture.

A Friday like this calls for the raising of the white flag. The wave, the surrender. The gesture that means you will do anything in your […]

Through The Lens Thursday: White

Through The Lens Thursday is a self-improvement photography project that Alison of Writing, Wishing and I are doing this year. See the bottom of the post for ways to join in!

The prompt this week is White, but I’d like to give an alternate title to this post: Leftovers.

This is a […]

Through The Lens Thursday: Movement

Through The Lens Thursday is a self-improvement photography project that Alison of Writing, Wishing and I are doing this year. See the bottom of the post for ways to join in!

I was so excited that the prompt for this week was “movement” while I was in Disney World. Could that […]

Through The Lens Thursday: Corner

Through The Lens Thursday is a self-improvement photography project that Alison of Writing, Wishing and I are doing this year.

The windchill on the first (scheduled) day back to school Monday was somewhere around –20 degrees. So, the kids had a day off from school….on the “first day back.”

Thankfully, we […]

Through The Lens Thursday

I read a lot of blogs and see A LOT of pictures every day. Some are amazing, and leave me with a little twinge of…jealousy? Or perhaps wanting? Wistfulness? I want to learn how to take pictures that people think are amazing, that make someone stop scrolling through Facebook and […]

Through The Lens Thursday: Soft

Through The Lens Thursday is a weekly exercise in our quest to improve our photography skills, based on a prompt we choose.

We’ve had Skeeter for about a year and a half, I think, and he and Essie have a special relationship. She loves him, and he loves her elephant […]