Sunday, January 2, 2011

New year, new love...


This is my cousin with his new wife. Well, they've been married for a while now but this is the first time most of us have met her so she's new to us. She's lots of fun and so is he so they make a great couple! I love this shot because it was a candid moment in between the posed shots we did for the family.

Help me choose!

I live in a rural midwest town and they have a photography contest yearly that I would like to enter. I have chosen 10 shots that I think would work well for this, I have others that are favorites of mine, but I think these are my shots that would most suit this contest. I'll number them, tell me your two favorites. Any comments are welcome!

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Happy New Year!

So, with the new year comes new paths for my photography and life. I doubt I'll be posting every day or much at all anymore as I feel like I accomplished what I wanted with the 365 challenge. I wanted to focus on my photography and take pictures every day, and I did! I still do, almost every day. I learned a great deal, which was something important to me, and I don't think I would have learned so much without the challenge. But, I have found the process of having to do it and find something new and interesting every day becoming tedious. I don't really feel bad about this, when I talked to my photography forum friends most of them agree that a whole year is nearly impossible and many of them felt they got a lot out of of similar challenges, even if they didn't make it the whole year.

BUT, it's not over, I just don't want to feel the need to find a shot when I may not have the time or I'm working on something else, like editing a shoot for a client. Then I feel like I'm just taking a shot of something random instead of something meaningful, just to get something posted.

What I would like to do, however, is start the new year with a poll for some shots that I'm considering entering in a contest this spring in our little town. I'll make a separate post for that!
~Karen