Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Weekly Header Challenge -- Tell A Story

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

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Imac 
Lew

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Theme ~ Tell A Story

Chosen by Kathy.


For Kathy's chosen theme this week, Tell A Story, I tried to choose images that tell a story in and of themselves.  I love event photography--my favorite genre--in which I can use a series of photos to tell the story of the day.  I have plenty of those, but I wanted to challenge myself to use images where each tells its own story.

For my header, I chose a recent image I had used within a Header Challenge blog a few weeks back, but it wasn't a header.  Here is the uncropped image:


The bride and groom are the focus of the story, but there's so much more going on--from the birdseed being thrown, to the event photographer, to a few attendees with their phone cameras out, to the smiles and joy on the faces of the other attendees, to the cars--one of which is the "getaway vehicle--beyond.  I love all the details in this photo, and I think it tells a beautiful story.

Here are the rest of the images I chose this week.  I'll simply caption each image with a title, and let the image tell its own story.

Summer Vacation.

Post-Game.

Gasp!

February.

Guy in the Kitchen.


Those are my photo stories.  I'm going to keep this theme in mind as I go out and about with my camera over the next few weeks, and try to capture stories along the way!

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Weekly Header Challenge -- Fall Colors

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Theme ~ Fall Colors

Chosen by Lew.


Well, I thought today was Wednesday...  A day late, and without further ado, here are my images, from various Chicagoland locations, all the way back to my house.

Fullersburg Woods.

McDowell Forest Preserve.

The Morton Arboretum.

My back yard.

These were all from last year, since we don't have any color here yet this year.  I'm excited and ready to go out looking for it soon, though!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Weekly Header Challenge -- 50

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Theme ~ 50

Chosen by me.


Here is my uncropped header image and the reason I chose this week's theme:

This is Cake #2 made by my friend Becki--she sent it home with us after a surprise party.

I turned 50 a few days ago!  Yes, hard to believe since I still feel like I'm 16 on the inside--though my body tells me differently, lol.  Our town turned 50 this year, too, and they put up large "50" signs around town to celebrate.  I thought we'd visit one of the signs and have a photo shoot.  Although I didn't snap the shutter, I fixed all the camera settings and gave Fernando photography lessons with each pose.  This is one he did a good job on.


For my 50th, I decided I'd have more than one day to celebrate this milestone.  Here are a few treats from this past week!

Andy's Ooey-Gooey Concrete.

Here's Becki's first cake.

My friend Tressey brought these over for me.

I have more pictures of my birthday week--which isn't over yet--but I'll save those for another post.  Hope you enjoyed my birthday week sneak peek!

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Weekly Header Challenge -- Away Day

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Theme ~ Away Day

Chosen by Mac.


We just came off of three "away" days this past Labor Day weekend!  We had six events from Friday night through Monday, and we made it through, lol.  One of the things we did while we were away each day was to go to Super Car Saturday, a car show in our town at a local outdoor shopping area called The Promenade.  Here is my header image, uncropped.  This BMW convertible was my personal favorite.  I like blue!


I brought my Canon 60D with its 24-105mm f/4L lens, and took all my pictures with that combination since I didn't want to carry around a backpack of gear--it was hot that day!

Enjoy these highlights of our time at the car show!













Exotic, new, old, vintage, fancy--but all were expensive!  We had a fun time, and topped it off with a free lunch at Gordon Biersch Brewery/Restaurant, thanks to gift cards.  What do you do on your "away" days?  I can't wait to see!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Weekly Header Challenge -- Recent Photos

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Theme ~ Recent Photos

Chosen by all of us.


This week is a "bye" week, meaning that in the absence of fellow Headbanger Craver, we decided on the theme of Recent Photos.  We're guaranteed to get a wide variety of images this week, I think!

My header image was taken about ten days ago; my garden harvest has slowed down significantly even since then.


The rest of my images today have all been taken in the past week.  Here we go!


Yes, this is our car.  Yes, it is a BMW.  We purchased her in April, but since I wanted to blog about how we came to be her owner, I took these recent pictures.  If you want to read about how this classy lady came to be ours given our incredible journey these past few years, visit this post on our personal family blog.


Back to my garden harvest, my friend Becki taught me how to preserve veggies by fermenting them in Fido (pronounced fee-doh) jars; I took that newly acquired knowledge and have been "going to town" experimenting with my garden veggies!


We attended a wedding last week!  I took only a few pictures--I mostly wanted to get some pictures of Fernando and me since we were dressed up--but here are two that I took of the bride and groom.


Sending them off with birdseed!

My final images are the most recent, taken for a client just a few days ago.  I was hired to do photography for a high school football team's home games, and this was the first game of the season.  I'm sharing three images from that day; be thankful it's only three--the client gallery has 300+!!


My Danny is in the middle--the trio sang the National Anthem!

One action shot, in the rain--we're the team in the blue.

I'll be off to visit you shortly; please leave a comment for me!!

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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