A summer photo challenge was posted on a photography board I belong to. So I put together a collage of some of my favorite photos from Summer ’07, and thought I’d share it here too. Some of the photos are favorites because I love the image, many are chosen because they record important memories from the summer. Not all the photos benefited from being cropped into squares, but it was the easiest way to fit them all in.
It’s SOS. One of the pleasures of our patio this summer was this hibiscus. It bloomed most of the winter in my classroom, but was especially happy on the patio.
It’s that time again: Self-portrait Saturday and I ‘ve been shamed into participating by looking at everyone else’s blog. So here it is–at the last minute before we leave to play bridge.
HS: MS challenge: feast-A large meal or a plentiful supply. We went to the Dansville Hot Air Balloon Show Saturday and it was truly a "feast for the eyes." (More photos are on the Photo-a-Day blog on the sidebar.)
I’ve enrolled in Shimelle’s latest class Learn Something New Every Day. My thought was that if I could create a page for the book every day the month school started, it would be an incentive to follow the Paper Source motto: Do something creative every day. I’ve started a photo album with the layouts on the sidebar, but here is the title page.
Today’s challenge at HS: MS is fall: To move downwards rapidly. Show us ‘fall’ in your space today. I have a slightly different take on it. Here’s the pile that came out of my bookbag this morning. For the last 54 years, fall has meant "back to school," more than half of them as a teacher. So "fall" is synonymous with "school." I guess you could say that my leisure time is "moving downwards rapidly."
It’s show it off Sunday at HS: MS
I took this photo for Barbara Carroll’s Photography 101 class last spring at BPS. Recently I started going through some photos and converting them to black and white. This is one that is far better in B&W than in color. It was taken at Highland Park, just a block or so from our house. Highland Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (of Central Park fame), and is renowned for its Lilac Festival in May. (Martha Stewart came to visit this year.)
Perhaps I will get better at this, or less critical, or more inventive . . . but for now this is a pretty painful assignment. Here’s the best of the bunch (and there were quite a few!)
At first, I thought I had no hope of taking a photo for this one. Then I remembered our lovely two weeks with Sadie and found this shot of her chewing away on her tennis ball. I’m a bit worried about her, though. I guess she’s had a rough adjustment since she left here.
Today’s challenge from Her Space: My Space:
Cloud: A mass of water vapour.
I’ve been wanting to post some of the layouts I’ve done recently but most of them have been 12 X 12 which is unusual for me. It’s also problematic since I don’t have a wide format scanner and I haven’t learned how to "stitch" scans together. Our house is very dark and it’s very hard to find the right light for taking photos of layouts. This represents the third try in as many days and is probably as good as it’s going to get.
The first three I completed after taking a Making Memories class at CKC-Buffalo in June.
As you might guess, we were working with the Making Memories tag maker which I had read pretty awful reviews of, but found to be quite easy to use.
This layout is a lift of a layout done by Georgana Hall for the Colorful Summer class at BPS.
Here’s a two page layout (one by one) of our day in New Hope, Pennsylvania this summer.
When Sarah was here in June, we went to the George Eastman House to see the Ansel Adams exhibit. As we walked through the gardens afterwards, she let me take a lot of photographs. I’ve had fun scrapping them, as she is not someone who is willing to pose for photos very often.
And finally, one of Sadie who we are really missing now that’s she’s gone home with Sarah and Adam. I rarely buy "cutsie" embellishments, but when I saw these I knew I wanted to do a layout to remember our lovely days of dogsitting.
