8 and 0!

I have been busy with a little team competition on DPchallenge.com. There are 16 teams with 7 members on each team, and so far we are undefeated! We only have two more weeks until playoffs and I am feeling pretty confident we will win both weeks. At the end we have play-offs there are 4 divisions right now and only one other team is undefeated, we haven't gone up against them and won't until the playoffs. They are a really good team of photographers and I really want to beat them but so far their average is a bit better than ours so it's going to be tough. I will let you know how things go.

I have also been keeping busy doing photo sessions. This first one is for my friend Irenes website. She sells undershirts for pregnant women, she gave me a couple after this last shoot (and no I am not pregnant) but they are great for all women they are made of super nice fabric that really sucks your tummy in as well as gives great support for pregnant mom's tummies. Her website is Cozybelly.com So go check out her product and my photos on her website.

At the same time I had my family photos done I also took my friend Tineka's family photos. She is the one that helped me with mine. Her photos turned out really nice as well. She really liked this one:

I thought this one was cute:

Here is the one she is going to get enlarged and hang on her wall:

And here one I really liked mostly because of the sun flare:

As I said I also have been keeping busy with challenges. This is for a challenge called right angles, I decided to do a still life of fruit all made of squares and rectangles. My girls and I had fun making the fruit and I liked them so much I decided to use them as a real decoration.

The other challenge this last week was a pumpkin carving challenge, not only was it a photography challenge but you were also scored on how well you carved your pumpkins. Luckily I have a husband who is practically a professional pumpkin carver, or he could be if there was such a thing.

Here is one I didn't enter but thought was fun, he carved it out of a butternut squash:

And here is my entry, told ya he was good. With his help I won 4th place in the challenge.

A year has gone by already!

My 365 days of taking a photo a day has ended and now I am trying to figure out what to do with this blog. I think I have built up my portfolio enough now to start a real photography website so when I get a little time I think I am going to organize my best portrait work and start posting it on there.

I still need a place to post my landscapes and challenge entries so I think I will keep this blog going for now and post the stuff that won't fit in with my professional website.

I finally got the opportunity to go out and get my own family photos taken. I was really happy with the way they turned out. I took pictures of my girls and a friend of mine's family. Then she helped me take pictures of mine. It was a big help, trying to do it with a tripod and timer would have been a nightmare. Here they are, I don't have time for comments on each one so I will just let you look at them in silence. :)

Now on to my challenge photos. This first one did really well I won third place and my second highest score of all time. I really love it, the challenge was babies and toddlers and well she is almost not a toddler so I almost didn't enter it. I even took some photos of my other neighbors baby. But in the end I just had to go with this one:

This is the one I almost went with, it is very cute and I think it would have scored well but I just loved the other one too much.


This one is for another long exposure challenge. I took a 1 second photo of a stream in pleasant grove canyon.

This one I am extremely proud of I broke new ground with this one. It was for a nonsense challenge this is one I took with only 1 shot, she is actually lying on some black material behind the fish tank to make it look like she is actually in the fish tank. I won 2nd place with this image:

This next one was to honor breast cancer awareness month. So we had to photograph something pink. I had fun experimenting with this one. I did quite well with this one and got an honorable mention with 5th place:

This one was for a challenge called symmetry. It was a much harder shot than I anticipated. To get the reflection in the mirror to exactly mirror the real thing is really hard, you have to get the camera in just the right spot. Even with many tries I still didn't get it quite right, also I don't have the right type of mirror for this shot, this mirror gives a triple reflection and makes the image appear blurry.

This one I did really well with, it was for a challenge called natural body of water. Lucky for me I live next to some really scenic bodies of water.

And finally to commemorate Steve Jobs passing we did an apple challenge. Most people did photos of apple products, but I don't own any apple products so I just did a photo of an apple. I did well anyway and scored in the top 10.