June 13th

Wow,Julie gave us a real challenging one today !

" A picture with the subject in focus with a blurry background or a blurry subject and a focused background."

I was aiming on giving this a go this summer,the whole panning thing,at the lake,because I had read an article about it recently.I'm glad I got the chance to try it out here first because it takes patience and practice :)
I tried it an the baseball game this afternoon but had no luck.So tried again with the boys on their bikes,although it was getting a little dark.I had read it was best to have a fairly undistracting background so I thought out on the street would be the best idea.

There's certainly room for vast improvement but I'm fairly happy with my first attempt ........

I think I need to be a little further away and maybe the fact I'd already had a glass of wine didn't help with holding the camera still !!

Patti's moving water is here .

June 12th

It was back to me for the challenge today and it was:

"small"

Open to any interpretation :)
My boys have been interested in this project and have often given me suggestions,none of which I've taken up........until today.
Adam came in saying look what Oliver's doing on the front,it sort of fits small.......


Watch out Mr Lego guy,there's a giant rock monster behind you !!
The Lego dude is my 'small' for today.
I love Patti's comparisons and wondering what Julie will do ?

June 11th

The challenge today from Patti was:

"A sign with no words.....but you know what it means"

I had to think about it,we have the fire hydrants signs and I thought of those as the hydrants themselves in our town are painted and I thought that might make an interesting shot but it didn't ! It did for Julie though :)

I did remember we have this sign right before the little lake......


It's actually 2 for one as there's another sign there too.
Not the angle I wanted but there's a great big ugly orange diversion sign plonked next to it.So not the most exciting shot but I remember them having to put up those signs a couple of years ago as the ducks were constantly crossing the road !

Patti went green for hers.

June 10th

OK,so for today Julie's challenge was:

"girlie,frilly,feminine"

Mmmmmmmmm,I don't live in a girlie house and I don't consider myself particularly girlie either except when it comes to throwing or spiders !
I don't know any little girls I could go visit so I decided my best bet was to head out into the garden.I was going to take a shot of my pink columbines but sadly the rain has put an end to those so no frilly pink flowers there.
So I ended up with this......


What could be more girlie than a pink heart :)

Lots of things but that's all I've got.

June 9th

So my challenge for today's photo was:

"Routine"

I had a few ideas,my scruffy trainers kicked off by the door,since they have become something I put on almost daily.Then there was the boys coming back from the mailbox since this is their daily routine after they get off the bus.Then while I was sitting here on the computer I spied the regular visitor to my deck........


Yep,here's chippie gathering his daily seeds.That's his routine,collecting the seeds or eating my petals,every single day ! His paws/hands are blurry because you should see the speed he whips off the tails of those things.

I had to sneak him into one of the challenges :)

June 8th

I'm back on track (posted the previous days below this one) and thinking with a busy day ahead I'll go with this shot I took this morning after perusing my garden after my run,took a bunch of shots and then my warning battery low sign came on!

Patti's challenge today is:

"Looking down in the insect world.....any bug will do !"

Do bees count as bugs ? If not I have a ant shot too !
I'm not fond of them so they count in my book and I must say I got as close as I dared with this one but it was busy having a clean so I thought it would stay still for a while......


It looks better clicked bigger,you can see all his fluffy detail,I love his sticking out hairy leg !

You can see Julie's creepy crawly here and a hard working bee from Patti.

June 7th

Sunday and we were back to Julie's choice which was:

"Reflection"

I'm thinking I'm going to be at the lake all that water,should be perfect.....the weather had other ideas.
We woke up to cloudy with rain and a choppy non reflective lake !Of course not enough rain to give puddles.
It briefly stopped and we took a walk up to the sand pit as we call it where there is always a pool of water and the boys try and catch frogs.......


I actually got a better reflection shot but I liked this one the best as it showed the boys more.

Seems it wasn't a great reflection day back in Quebec either although Julie caught a wonderful blossoming bush and Patti made use of her glass table.