Sunday Scavenger Hunt

Click below for Ashley's interpretations and other entries for the week:

Here are mine:

1. My Town - In my town we have these statues at various intersections and roundabouts.

2. Something Vintage - This is from the bathroom at work.


3. Tilt-Shift Photography - From the farm on our pumpkin patch visit.


4. Dress up - Halloween dress up.


5. Chocolate - Night time snack.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

Click below for Ashley's interpretations and other entries for the week:

Here are mine:

1. The Five Senses - These are my girls, Julie on the left and Hannah on the right. They love to play together. When I was looking through my photos from the past week this set stood out for the theme. 

2. Child / Children - It's Harvey again! This one was from today.


3. Dining - Today's lunch.


4. Night - Friday evening travel to visit my parents.


5. Sky - This is the view over my house. I was standing in the front yard and the trees are in the back yard.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

Click below for Ashley's interpretations and other entries for the week:

Here are mine


1. Side lighting - I chose a photo of Harvey on the swing. This was taken during the week so it's about 6:00pm. The light in the front yard is difficult but the way he was turned he gave me a side-light picture.




2. Jack o Lantern - We went to the pumpkin patch on Saturday. I found a little pumpkin for Harvey. We took some pictures at the patch. Also this weekend we played ball. He is getting really good at throwing. So putting the two together he picked up the pumpkin this morning and threw/dropped it. There was a crack almost all the way around. It went through the bottom knot. I wasn't planning on carving this pumpkin but I figured it would rot with the crack so we took a knife to it today. This pumpkin had the hardest skin ever. It was either the size or because it was the knobby kind. Doing the best I could I used the crack to make a mouth and I had to twist a knife to make the eyes. I've never carved a pumpkin with the bottom as the face. I think it's interesting.



3. Faces formed in nature - Casey loves to fish. He can barely wait for Harvey to catch his first fish. Casey found this piece of drift wood a few weeks ago. He brought it home and has decided to use it as a mount for Harvey's first fish. I found a face in the drift wood. The holes are the eyes. There is a pointy piece in the middle that makes up the nose. And finally an indention for the mouth. (At some point I'm going to photography this again. I think a different composition will make this much better especially with the 'nose'. It really stick out but you can't tell here.)



4. Sunset - This is what I got this evening.



5. Warm - Smores. Yum! Our neighbors came over and we roasted marshmellows and ate way too many smores tonight. I had hoped to photograph a gooey smore but we ate them all. Here is what remains of the fire.

POTW: Side Light

I entered POTW yesterday. The theme is side lighting. I chose a photo of Harvey on the swing. This was taken during the week so it's about 6:00pm. The light in the front yard is difficult but the way he was turned he gave me a side-light picture.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

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Here are mine


1. Pink - This is my first cat, Calley. I got her from a friend the summer before my senior year in high school. When I left for college she stayed with my parents. I was never able to take her back from my mom. We were visiting the weekend. She is the best living subject I have ever photographed. Either that or she just doesn't care after 14 years. Can you feel that pink tongue? It's like sandpaper.



2. Books - These are a few of Harvey's books. We read every night before bed. Usually three books, sometimes four, and sometimes two really short ones. These are some of his most favorite.


3. Fall colors - Friday after work we packed up to visit my parents. They are about an hour away, close to the water. The plan was for my husband and I to fish and my mom would spend time with Harvey. So, the boat was along for the ride. The trees in the background place this photo in the fall colors category.


4. Leaf - Mom went to the apple orchard last weekend. A box of apples was sitting on the table when we arrived. I originally thought "fall colors" then I saw the leaf, well technically leaves.



5. Orange - This is a sticker applique that is on the wall by the changing table. This time of year orange is pumpkins and leaves but this orange "ball" is very important any day. It makes my life much easier during those diaper changes.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

I made sure I took the time to find all the themes this week. Here are my interpretations.







1. Golden - By the time we get home in the evenings the sun is almost behind the trees in the distance. I was taking a few pictures of my son in the swing when I noticed the sun light through the fork in the tree. My front yard is small. There is always something in the way messing up just about every picture I take. I would have liked to include the whole tree but I wanted to crop out the truck and the recycle bin and I think a cat.


2. Smell - My husband gave me flowers week before last. It was a pretty bouquet full of fragrant flowers. These are the last of them.


3. Fruit - This morning I cut up apple for my son.


4. Simple - This one was hard. I originally selected this photo of my son for his clothing. He is dressed in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. But now I think the action is a better interpretation of simple. He is doing nothing more than walking around the front yard.

Once again the lighting of the front yard is against me. Because of the direct light in the background I decided to convert to Sepia then adjust the fade to add just a little color.


5. Sport - I got my son a base ball set this weekend. I was not happy with the pictures I took this time around. So, here is the bat and ball after he moved onto something else, the slide, I think.