Weekly Header Challenge -- A Photo I Decided to Keep

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!

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Fishing Guy 

Kathy 

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Theme ~ A Photo I Decided to Keep

Chosen by me, on behalf of Lew.

Here is the image I used for this week’s theme:

I take pretty much the same photos every year.  But I decide to keep them because it's a documentation of my life, what I've accomplished, and the fact that I can celebrate another year of having a garden.

Here are more typical garden photos from this year which I decided to keep...

Before planting...

Fernando getting compost on the beds for me...

New plants!

Little carrots are growing...

Herbs in my front yard garden...

Finally, who can resist a strawberry photo?

Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Hot or Spicy

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Theme ~ Hot or Spicy

Chosen by Kathy.

Here is the image I used for this week's theme:

Jalapenos from my garden--both hot and spicy.

Here are some hot pictures:

Hot summer.

Hot fudge!

Hot tub.

Hot chocolate.

And here are a few spicy photos...

Yum yum!


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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Comfortable

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Theme ~ Comfortable

Chosen by me.

I chose this theme several months ago, without realizing how challenging it would be to find photos that fit.  I did have one perfect one, though, and it's this image below of my cousin's dog Tucker.  He was super comfortable dozing under the table as our summer family-and-friends-sort-of-reunion party got underway at my beloved Lake Bonaparte.

 Here is my selection of images depicting comfortable...

Relaxing at the dock.

Fernando took this of me, comfortable in my chair at Winter Bay.

Never sleep on vacation--family rule is to take a photo.  This is my brother on our boat cruise.

Waiting for the Chicago Air & Water Show to get underway.

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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Fireworks

I had some of this post finished for our Weekly Header Challenge this past week, but I was never able to complete it.  So I'm posting just for fun...

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Theme ~ Fireworks

Chosen by All of Us.

I combined three of my favorite fireworks images into a triptych to display my favorite fireworks images from this past Independence Day.  Here's my header image:

The individual photos:

A few other of my favorites...

The grand finale...

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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Favorite Animal

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Theme ~ Favorite Animal

Chosen by Tom.

When it comes to photography, I have lots of favorite animals.  They're usually ones I can get really good pictures of!  My favorite one this year is the praying mantis.  I accidentally watered this fierce little guy in my green beans late this summer.  Here's the full, uncropped image.

Here he is, with all the water droplets...

Besides the praying mantis, I love birds.  I captured this osprey in flight (and trying to catch a fish!) at Lake Bonaparte this summer!

Here's another osprey--or maybe the same one--with its catch, flying away.

I absolutely love loons, especially their haunting birdsong.

This red tailed hawk was in my backyard!  I love these birds.

I spotted this downy woodpecker tap-tap-tapping away in the dead tree on the other side of my back yard fence...

And, there's always dogs.  I love man's best friend!

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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Water

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Theme ~ Water

Chosen by Mac.

I took all of these photos in the last few months.  Here's the one I chose to use for my header.

Water droplets on sage leaves.

Here are the rest of my water photos...

I threw this one in for fun--because there's no more water in our pool--and no more pool.

At a stoplight on the way home from work--torrential downpours!

I hope to be more timely in the future; it's hard to post when I'm away from my computer for the bulk of the week.  Thanks for visiting!


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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Spanish Design

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Theme ~ Spanish Design

This week's theme was chosen at random--which we do every six weeks or so.  The only--and I mean only--thing I could come up with for the theme was paella.  It's Spanish.  There you go.  On my header image, I even signed my name Cristina, in the Spanish fashion.  I could've written this post in Spanish, too, but I don't think that would help.

We had paella for the first time at our local farmers market; they hold a festival as part of the market and tons of one-time vendors participate.  Fernando and I went with Thomas, our youngest.  The paella was really good, and the three of us split it.

Here's the full, uncropped image I used for my header.

The only reason I used the above image, and not this one below, is because of the horizontal orientation.  And again, there you go!

Spanish paella.

Yep, that's it!  See you all next week!!


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Christine

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Weekly Header Challenge -- Tell A Story

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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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