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| Week one: The rule of threes (storytelling)
AnneZ: Too cute! This Bear will have quite a year ahead! Good luck!Me: Thank you, AnneZ. The bear will not be featured in every week’s photo session. The bear will pop up at random times! Keep looking around for the bear! Martha: I love how the bear is taking an adventure.Me: The bears’ adventures will continue, at some point in the future. Alana: It’s been a while since we’ve seen your bear in action. He or she will have a busy year ahead illustrating your new photography skills.Me: The bear is definitely back! I have some fun plans in store, some of which may involve paintings! Stay tuned! |
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| Week two: “straight out of the camera” (technical) Take a compelling image and post it without edits.
This challenge literally required only a single photograph for the whole week. I titled this photograph the “vibrant life photograph.” AMummy’sLife NZ: It’s a lovely photo.Me: Thank you so much. Martha DeMeo: What a beautiful photo and so much love in it.Me: Thank you so much. It was truly a beautiful moment and I’m glad that I was up in the choir loft with my camera to get that sweet image. Nita Beshear: Beautiful picture and perfect title. You have inspired me to take a picture a day. I didn’t know about the challenge, or weekly prompts so I’m just taking pictures. Didn’t start on Jan. 1, but I figure a year is a year whenever it starts. Me: Absolutely. You can start any day that you want and it doesn’t have to be January 1st. I started my previous photography project on the first of August in 2015, and concluded it a year later (I added a day because I got sick and missed a day, due to having vertigo). I started and concluded in the same place on the same day (August 1st), a year apart. For that one, I didn’t do challenges or prompts. I just took pictures. It is a great way to document the world, as you experience it. Alana: Beautiful photograph and beautiful concept – autism support dog. Looking forward to your future challenge photographs. Me: Thank you. The puppy continues to be brought to church as part of his socialization process. The Sunday that I took that photograph was the puppy’s first time at church. He is very soft to the touch and he’s an energetic and delightful puppy. peppylady (Dora): I’ve enjoyed taking my camera when I take a walk. Coffee is on. Me: You never know what you will see when you take a walk! I’d recommend bringing a camera… just in case. One day, I was out for a walk and I saw the below image. You just never know what or who you’re going to see!  |
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| Week three: land (artistic) “Your inspiration this week is land. This could be a landscape, or an image inspired by the land in some way.”
There weren’t any comments on this post, in which I tried to depict the relationship between humans and the land. |
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| Week four: mirrors (storytelling): “tell a story, using a mirror.” I used a bunch of mirrors to tell stories. This was a fun challenge.
Alana: When we moved into the house we bought almost 30 years ago, it had a large mirror in the living room. The mirror came down years ago, when we had a second floor put on our house, and we had it made into two smaller framed mirrors – one is in our bedroom and one is in what was our son’s room. The two mirrors are still there, but I won’t be taking selfies using them. In my ethnic tradition, incidentally, if a close relative (parent, spouse, child) dies, all mirrors in your house are covered during the first week after the death. I am told the reason for that is that evil demons are attracted to such a house and if you look in the mirror, you might see one of them. So reflections aren’t always good, at least in some cultures. 
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