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A little face-painting action at my neighborhood art walk this past weekend.
I’m taking a photography class, so thought I’d share some images I’ve been taking for class.
Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers whom I’ve come to know and love over the past year. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme. In this month’s theme we are exploring the color of light. The color of light can change, making it cooler or warmer, or even tinted toward green or magenta. Sunlight is generally white or neutral in color, but even sunlight may take on a color when it is reflected off another surface or when certain wavelengths are absorbed by the atmosphere or other things. And artificial light varies in color in many ways, of course.
This week we are concentrating on yellow and orange light. I suspect that most of my friends will have captured their photos during the golden hour – the hour around sunset when the low sun envelops the world with beautiful, soft, warm light. That’s what I did! Yesterday evening, my girls and I went to our local beach on Lake Washington to eat our dinner and play. The sun set was behind us, so we weren’t in the magic light ourselves, but it lit up the sky and turned the snowy face of Mt. Rainier the most beautiful colors.
Please continue along our creative blog circle to see what my lovely friend Linda Hooper has posted. Please click HERE to see Linda’s play on yellow and orange light.
I need to get back to some regular posting! Here is one from July 10th. Alexa and I walked around Greenlake while Avery was at zoo camp. She’s freaked out by the spaces between the slats of wood, so she only let me take a couple shots before she insisted that I pick her back up. 
Today’s post is for Project 52, a weekly blog project that I am working on with several other talented photographers whom I’ve come to know and love. In this project, we concentrate on light and spend several weeks exploring an overarching theme. This month we will be exploring directional light. All light comes from somewhere, of course, and therefore has direction, but generally directional light is distinguished from flat, even lighting that tends to eliminate shadows. Subtle shadows in a photo help to give it a sense of three-dimensionality.
Grandma is going to be mad at me for posting this one, but I couldn’t help myself. We are visiting my parents in NJ this week. Earlier today I was hanging out with Alexa and I hunted for some nice light for a photo. When I found some in the dining room, I put her down on the floor so I could get some pictures of her. She was NOT happy with me for putting her down and immediately started crying for Mommy – even though I was two feet away, looking at her and talking to her, and she was out of my arms for less than 2 minutes. Oh the drama!
Please continue along in our creative blog circle to see the beautiful work of my friend Julie Kiernan. Julie is a wonderful family and senior portrait photographer based in Minnesota. Click HERE to see Julie’s creative play on directional light.
I have to admit that I am feeling pretty emotional today. It is Avery’s last day of her first year of preschool. HERE is a link to the post I did on her first day, with pictures. And here are some images from this morning (check out Alexa’s diapered form in the window – ha! I couldn’t bring myself not to included it, knowing how much Alexa hates to be excluded from anything Avery gets to do!).
Although Avery fit into the same outfit, the clothes fit very differently, and that skirt will soon be moved over to Alexa’s half of the closet. But the craziest thing is that the biggest changes are the ones that you can’t see. Her ability to communicate, to express complicated ideas and to understand things has exploded in so many ways. Socially, she has developed so many skills, so many ways to work things out with her peers instead of needing to be directed. She is rarely the kid pulling a toy from another kid anymore (unless, of course, she is playing with her sister), but understands sharing and taking turns, and besides these days she would rather play WITH her friends and will engage in long and involved pretend play. She has learned so many things – she can sing a song that tells you all the continents, for example – but more than any individual facts that she has learned, she is so excited by the idea of learning. She asks all sorts of questions all the time and wants to understand how things work, wants to know how things are spelled and what letters are in words. Although seeing my baby grow up is a bit bittersweet for me , I could not be prouder of her.
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