Perspective Photo Challenge - March

http://communityphotochallenge.blogspot.com/2012/03/community-photo-challenge-perspective.html
Perspective-Today, digital photography makes easier to try different settings & different angles.Explore an area & take different shots from different angles. Bringing an object in the foreground can really add to an image........

Coming soon... for March's Photo Challenge Pic...Subject: Perspective

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Animals & Pets - Photo Challenge

Yay, a photo Challenge from Marie....I love her challenges because she has a real talent for inspiring! Today's challenge is about posting a photo of an animal..any kind. If you are interested in entering the challenge check out the link.. http://communityphotochallenge.blogspot.com/2012/02/community-photo-challenge-animals-pets.html You have until March 3rd.

I've chosen these two Swans which I took a photo of in Geneva, Switzerland. If I were to give it a caption it would probably read:

"Hey, I got take off clearing first...backoff!"

LOL, As if there wasn't enough lake for both to take off... probably just showing off for the ladies.

Smiles, Maria

2012 Online Photography Class!

So indeed, it is with great pleasure that I have decided to take an online Photography Course from The Photography Institute: http://www.thephotographyinstitute.com/index.cfm/apg/home .

I think that from the preliminary information and the first module and assignments it is going to help me to be a much better photographer. It will also help me to decided how to use my skills to the best of my ability and interests.

I will be chronicaling (sp?) my efforts here from time to time. The welcome letter and tips are wonderful. The syllabus included in lesson one is very organized and easy to follow.

I'm just trying to think of what photo might go with this entry...something about new beginnings and starting out....learning, life, living the dream....lol...waxing ......

My tutor is a working photographer named David Goldman! He has a website: http://davidgoldmanphoto.com/?page_id=13 that I really like!

ok..back to the photo to go with this entry...hmmm.....oh... I got it...the Blue Bird of Happiness!!!!






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Community Photo Challenge and more

December's challenge is to photograph a festive scene. Here is a link on Christmas Light Photography Tips . The Challenge starts today and ends Dec. 31st. To learn more or to enter the challenge see: http://communityphotochallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/community-photo-challenge-festivities.html

This year's tree was smaller than in other years. Trying to fit the tree to the room. I decided red bulbs with red bows and a red velvet angel top was to be this year's theme. I so enjoyed the little tree which stands about as tall as me. I am lucky to be able to have a tree...that's the great Pacific Northwest...no problem getting Christmas trees. This is my entry for the Christmas festivities. Thanks to the little contest on the photo community challenge blog, I've begun photoblogging again! Below are some more pics in addition to my entry above!

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More Christmas photos of the ornaments on the tree...

Reflections - Community Photo Blog Post

Here is my entry for the September Community Photo Blog post.




Here you will see the reflections of three people in a not so little creek. It's rather amazing it even came out since we were driving across a little bridge at about 25 miles an hour when I took it. Also if you look hard enough you will see a ghost of a reflection of me in the window on the right side of the photo....lol...caught me!

The contest ends at the end of September on the 30th...keep this quote in mind:

" The real journey of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
~Marcel Proust

Then go to this site for more instructions:
http://communityphotochallenge.blogspot.com/2011/09/community-photo-challenge-reflections.html

you may have to cut and paste the address....my blogger isn't putting the links in correctly.

Enjoy!
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Natural History Museum - Geneva, Switzerland Birds

These three interesting birds were found at the Natural History Museum during a recent trip to Geneva, Switzerland. How interesting to see the taxidermies there. The three birds had such interesting heads...feathers galore on one, Three little thin haired lines which looked like thin propellers on another one and the last one had a unicorn....since the caption was in French....alas I couldn't tell but I think these were real live birds at one time.

I can imagine it made for some unique adaptive measures for these animals.

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Colorful Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva or Geneve, Swizterland is a very colorful place. Especially during the time of their national festival on the Lake. Lots of fun rides, food booths, beautiful blue skies and water to enjoy in the lake. Just returned from a trip there and have lots of photos to post between this and my other blog on positive art. The truly spectacular scenes in this gorgeous city are a photographer's dream and nightmare at the same time. So many scenes, so few minutes in the day plus trying to keep up with the others along with me who did not share my enthusiasm for picture taking....lol. That's ok, I now get to relive the moments..beginning with these introductory shots. Although I did not ride the ferris wheel I did manage a couple of other rides without the usual ill effects. Ferris wheels tend to get my stomache roiling. Of course a little colorful booth which served some interesting drinks seemed to settle my stomache and so that was one place I did visit!

I thought ahead and picked out not only some of the photos I wanted to take but also the rides to ride. This trip has energized the photo bug in me...as trips tend to do. I'll be sharing more photos of Swizterland: Geneva, Interlaken, Zermatt, Beatenburg and another little town I'm forgetting the name as well as some of Hungary: Budapest and a little town 30 minutes outside of the City of Budapest...will get the name of that later.

Now on to getting some of the photos printed out for my scrap and photobooks. I plan to do something fun with them...including calendars, datebooks, cards and more.





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