Project Life 365-day five

"view"

as I was leaving Longwood Gardens this afternoon!

Project Life 365-day 4

"graceful"

The slight flicker of a candle flame...

Project Life 365-day three

Today's inspiration is "optimistic."

I don't know about you, but I am always optimistic when my day starts with a sunrise that looks like this.

Project Life 365-day two

Today's inspiration is "you today."

I tried for something just a bit different than a self-portrait.  Instead I chose a few words that describe who I am.  When you thing about it though, these words only make up a small part of me.

Project Life 365-day one

It's a new year and time for a new challenge.  A few friends of mine have decided to participate in a 365 day project called
 Project Life 365. 
You can read more about it here if you wish.  There are broad guidelines to give us inspiration and I intend to try to follow them, if time allows.  We are still in the process of ironing out the details.  It'll be different than my blog circle, but I may still try to link to the images of the other photographers if they want to share. Bear with me, please!
Of course, the first suggestion for inspiration was resolutions.
I gave up making resolutions a long time ago.
This project is a resolutions of sorts though and since it's about my photography, I thought I'd include a few things that I am resolved to spend more time learning about as the year progresses!

Fifty-two on Friday-Week Fifty-two!

A blog circle of photographers from all over the world, both amateur and professional alike, sharing their interpretations of a common theme.  At the bottom of each post, click the link for the next photographer until you come full circle, back here to my blog.

"light"

As 2012 comes to a close, so does my Fifty-two on Friday project. After completing a 365-day project two years ago, I didn't think that one image a week would be hard, but at times I struggled.  I struggled to be more creative.  

I struggled to learn new techniques.  

I struggled to learn to ways of processing. 

 I struggled to learn how to use new lenses. 

All of that struggling, though, has made me a better photographer who is learning to think outside the box, to be more creative, to understand that there will always be something to learn, to be patient with myself as I continue to improve.

For this week's image, I'm choosing to share our Christmas tree.  With a solid foundation this tree would continue to grow and branch out in different directions...a little taller, a little fuller...with each day of nature's nutrients.

And now, filled with lights, it's the promise of new a beginning.

It's, kind of, a metaphor of my journey into seeing the light.  

 To continue around the circle and see the light the other two photograhers saw, start with  photographer

Faye Kingston of  Miramichi, NB 

Fifty-two on Friday-Week Fifty-one

A blog circle of photographers from all over the world, both amateur and professional alike, sharing their interpretations of a common theme.  At the bottom of each post, click the link for the next photographer until you come full circle, back here to my blog.

"peaceful"

  As I was decorating the tree earlier this week, I came across this guy.  It's something that my husband has had since he was a kid.  It's kind of funny how things get reinvented.

The elf-on-the-shelf shenanigans have been posted on just about every social website I use.

This elf though has been sitting peacefully in my tree every year for the past thirty years and hasn't done a mischievous thing yet this year, either.  

 

And, just because one of my most favorite times of the day brings me the most peaceful moments, I thought I'd share a picture taken with my cell phone a little bit before 7AM this morning (Thursday).  I haven't processed this at all.  Well, with the exception of my watermark!

Now to see what kind of  peaceful images the other two photographers in my group found, start here with Faye Kingston, Miramichi, NB Photographer