Week 6 - Inspiring / Inspiration

I fell in love with these words the moment I heard them.  The traveler is my inspiration.  The traveler does not go places to boast that they have been there, or about how many different land marks they have seen.  They go to see, to open their eyes to things they have never seen before, to experience and capture the unknown.  This feeling to "see" lives inside me.  It scratches at my surface every waking day.  This is who I aspire to be.  I believe someday I'll be the inspirer and people will then be able to refer to me as the traveler.  :)

Lynette

There isn't 'just one' thing that inspires me.  Light, laughter, music, my children, emotion, art, color, words, love, experiences ~ those are all things that inspire me daily.    This week, my inspiration to convey this topic was candy.  When my girls open a bag of conversation hearts the first thing they do is start to compare the little messages written on each individual heart.  Each heart carries a different conversation, a different topic, a different flavor.  I felt that the hearts would be the perfect tool to describe the mixed bag of creative inspirations I have written in my own heart.  I think if you're open to being inspired and look for the creative in everyday life you will find it.  What inspirations are written in your heart?

Erica

Next Week:  Color

Week 5 - A Daily Routine

This week's topic really inspired me in so many different ways.  I had visions of doing some self portraiture while brushing my teeth, applying makeup, hot rolling my hair (that's right- I said hot rolling). Then I had the idea of photographing my yoga mat or me in some sort of posture because I have recommited myself to a daily practice or maybe just a photograph of my Keurig  and a nice hot cup of coffee because hey- I love some java beans. Or the view from the driver's seat of my Pilot. Or cooking dinner. Or ....well, you get the picture. ;)  

I finally decided on what I did want to photograph.  I wanted to photograph something that really showed who I am and what I do on an every day basis- 24/7.  The above photograph was taken on a super gorgeous early evening here in Nebraska.  We've been having very mild weather for this time of year and so once again, I found myself outside watching my child play.  Lela loves riding her bike- just loves it!  So, every chance we get, every day that allows it, we are outside and she is on her bicycle and I am sitting on the front porch watching her soak up the sun, giggle and play.

My favorite daily routine is being a mom.  What blessings my children are to me!

I'll see you next week :)

Erica

Gosh, A Daily Routine.... what is there to say?  We all have daily routines, one thing after another, and than after another again, a repetition that seems never ending.  Like Erica, the list could go on and on, and that's precisely what mine did.  So deciding on what to shoot was a little frustrating, because I found most things I do on a daily routine to be boring.  So I choose what I could not go without and I think the image speaks clear enough for what that would be. 

Thanks for following along!

Lynette

Coming up next week:  Week 5 - Inspiration / Inspiring

Week 4: Bokeh

When we were going through topics determining what to shoot, Erica had the topic Bokeh, I liked the idea, so it stuck.  I wanted my image to remain simple yet whimsical.  My goal was to just make it soft to the eyes, with kind of a day dreaming haze over it.  There aren't many words to describe it, so I'm just gonna let the image speak for itself.

Lynette

I snapped this photo playing around outside with my camera while the kiddos enjoyed an afterschool playdate.  I had a few to choose from but at the end of the day I really fell in love with this particular image.  I like it because it evokes the feeling of an abstract painting. 

Thanks for following along. :)

Erica

Coming up next week:  Week 4 - A Daily Routine

Week 2: Technology

Week 2: Technology

 I actually didn't think of this concept for Technology when we were originally coming up with topics for this project.  When Technology made the list, I will admit, I was a smidge nervous.  I really had no idea of how I wanted to portray it within an image (admittedly, I wasn't exactly inspired by it as a subject to photograph).  So, when Lynette texted me the topic for this week, I mentally groaned. (true story!) .... but then after thinking about it a bit I did get excited.  I have a wonderful collection and assortment of cameras.  Some work, some don't.  Some are very old and antiquated and some are nice and new.  It was fun to use the cameras for this project and incorporate my camera phone to show Technology. 

See you next week!

Erica x

I chose Technology, because I knew it would be a challenging topic for me to photograph.  For most of the week I kept questioning myself on what I was going to photograph, every time I would brainstorm I kept returning to the idea of wires.  So I just went with it.  We as humans, are all programmed by our nervous system, and without it we would not be able to function.  We are all uniquely individually "wired", and that is precisely what I wanted to present to you.  Just as much as we rely on our nervous system to function we also seem to have to rely on technology just as much.  Where would we be today without it?  This I can not answer, nor even begin to imagine. 

Til next time :) 

Lynette

Coming up next week:  Week 3 - Creature

Week 1: Upside Down

Week 1: Upside Down.

I actually found this topic a little more challenging than I had expected.  I had a few different ideas that I discarded along the way.  I spent yesterday at the park with my youngest watching her hang upside down from the monkey bars doing various tricks ~ including 'the koala'.  Although we had a ball together and I got some fabulous photos of her I just wasn't feeling any of them for this project.  Then, this morning, I was enjoying a cup of coffee looking out my front door and that is when I knew I had to photograph our gnome that hangs upside down from our birch tree.  He was a silly gift to my husband from my mom.  (Steve insists on collecting gnomes and my mom insists on helping him along with his collection; they are in cahoots together just to tease me.) 

Have a super week.  Thanks for following along and I can't wait to share next week's image with you.

Erica xx

First, above all things, I would like to apologize to our viewers for being a day late on my post.  Yesterday was a whirlwind of events which were topped off by the unexpected failure of not being able to long onto the internet.  Today is a new day, and after waiting (not so patiently), the technician finally came to save the day.  Hallelujah!  I would have to agree with Erica, that this topic proved to be a little more challenging than what we had imagined.  After much brainstorming and several attempts, "upside down" got the best of me.  One could spend hours flipping the image in their mind, to what they may believe to be right side up.  But what is right side up?  If the topic is upside down, wouldn't the resulting image be right side up to begin with?

Thanks for checking in and can't wait until next weeks post!

Lynette

Coming up next week:  Week 2 - Technology