Photo Heart Connection

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Kat Sloma hosts a wonderful practice each month called Photo Heart Connection.

Deepen the connection between your photos and your heart and soul by participating in this monthly review of your images, to find the one that best connects to your heart.

This photo makes me smile every time I see it. It was a lovely day, cold but bright, we sat outside in the high street in town so that I could take some pictures for a new project.
I knew he was taking the picture, I knew that my hair was blowing all over the place, I knew that I had cream on my lips from the very large, very delicious cup of hot chocolate.
And I didn’t mind. I just smiled and wondered if I might be able to use the picture some time this month.
This wonderful hobby has changed me.

PHC Jan 14

Thank you Kat

My Month in Numbers

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January 2014

I’m joining in with Julie by recording January in numbers.

Month in Numbers January

31 the number of days of project 365 completed
4 the number of weeks of Frugal Still Life completed
5 the number of weeks of Helena’s new meme Zoom in Zoom Out
5 Lotta days
1 Christmas Dinner complete with trifle because Lotta was here
1 funeral attended but we had
2 baby boys born in our family. One to my niece and the other to Paul’s nephew
21 the number of days my son was away
21 the number of days I missed him
10 the number of fabulous purple nails I have
1 dentist appointment
1 doctors appointment
but 1 trip to the hairdresser for new colours more than made up for that
5 days of Carla Sonheims Gelli Printing class enjoyed.
1 lunch with my group
1 morning out with my friend
1 coffee with friends
70 postcards received from the printers and my only purchase this month, which I didn’t know I needed:
3 very beautiful wooden stamps

This month we decorated my craft room. A major job because I have so much stuff. We took advantage of Ben being away and emptied my room into his unoccupied room. We painted the walls a kind of stone colour. (Dulux Timeless) the woodwork and ceiling are white. I have a new carpet, a kind of honey colour. My desk, bookcases and cupboards are also white. It feels so light and airy. The colour comes from all my stuff! I’ll take some pictures when it’s all done and ‘for one day only’, tidy!

And for Julies Comunal Count…
The C C Jan 2014

Creative Photography Lab

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Assignment four in this book.
Take about 20 pictures with your eyes closed!

My friend and I were having coffee, she laughed the whole time and I didn’t mind because I had my eyes closed…

Creative photography. Lab 4

So, would I have taken any of these pictures if I had had my eyes open?
Probably not although the exercise made me think about various places I could go to take the photos and having decided that it was far too cold to be outside today, I found some courage from somewhere and asked the staff in the coffee shop if it was OK, and then I got my camera out of my bag and did it.
If I could do this again I would stand up and take more time over it.

So another step forward and a little bit braver.

I haven’t done Labs two and three, but I will.

I wonder if my friend Jill braved the freezing Winnipeg temperatures to do this weeks exercise?

ZIZO

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Week Five

Zooming In and Out among the weeds in my garden

Zoom In

A tiny but lovely splash of colour as I walked to the shed

ZIZO week 4 Cyclamen

And on my way back, clinging to the damp stepping stones I notice fungi!
Actually not so much clinging as welded as I tried to ‘tidy up’ and remove the larger stone towards the middle of the fungi!

Zoom In

I love fungi, the shapes and colours I get here are amazing.
These bracket fungi are here because there was a tree in the middle of this walkway which we had taken down some years ago. But now there is always plenty of fungi for me to photograph.

Zoom Out

Zoom out Cyclamen

Zoom Out Fungi

Aren’t there some great ZIZO’s being linked over at Helena’s?

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Thank you Helena