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Everyday Life, Photography, Project 365

Capturing October: Eyes

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Flickr is down right now, so we’re going to see how WordPress can handle today’s photo.

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In an effort to challenge myself, I have been trying to limit myself to one photo, edited minimally in Lightroom.  A photo that could be described by the word of prompt without further explanation. But, I do love playing around in photoshop.

I don’t know know a ton of people who share my eye color. When we committed to adopt Reed, we didn’t know his eye color, not that it would have mattered anyways. But, I think it’s kind of a cool surprise that our eye colors are so similar. I was playing around with the photos as he was going to bed tonight. I asked him what he thought “Weird or cool?” “Cool!” “Really?!?” “Yeah, really cool. That’s me! And that’s you!”

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I made that using his lips and nose, only using my face for the left side of the image. I roughly tried to merge our features together entirely.

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Using half of each of our faces gets really weird. Weirder than Doctor Who’s patchwork people.

…and I need to step away from Photoshop for the night now.

Everyday Life, Photography, Project 365

Capturing October: Lazy Day

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Normally Sunday is my lazy day. Normally! But, Aaron asked if I’d like to go to the Tallgrass National Preserve. We’d been there once before, but it seemed like a fun place to go with kids and the weather was perfect. So it turned into a not-so lazy day.

Of course, it didn’t occur to either one of us that it was run by the National Park Service and would be closed because of the government shutdown.

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Ooops. But, I’m going to count this as my lazy day photo. We didn’t have a lazy day, but this park did.

We had already spent a couple of hours at a playground nearby, so it was not a big deal.

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Instead, we took the long way home and enjoyed some beautiful Kansas scenery.IMG_1773

Everyday Life, Photography, Project 365

Capturing October: Hands

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I thought that this was kind of a stupid prompt, when I remembered it this morning. A casualty of writing the list in just a few free minutes on the last day of September. I had one idea for this day. I did shoot my idea, Lena holding her pumpkin from today’s trip to the pumpkin patch. I got some cute photos, but it wasn’t as interesting as it was in my head. Then, as I finished up with her, sticky fingers touched my camera’s LCD. Literal sticky fingers.

Fingers that were alternating between dipping in a milkshake and trying to poke my LCD.

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I ended up coming up with a ton of other ideas for focusing on hands in the future and it’s definitely something that I will use again. I even realized how I do this more often than I realize– the photo that I shared on the Facebook page recently is an example.