You up for a challenge?

A Spring challenge that is. I’m sooo in love with the sunny and warm weather we’re having nowadays!!!

May’s theme and suggestions are now up on the Estrella’s ~Seasonal Photo Challenge~ page. Please drop by to check them out and leave me a comment there (I actually remembered to close the comments on this post right here). So, go tell me what you think of my ideas

You can see my photos from April right here, where the logo for May is already up.

While you’re over on the Seasonal Challenge page, if you’d like to give me suggestions for June and upcoming months, I’d love to read them. And of course, feel free to join in and snap some pictures. Or even post a link to just one photo, or a blog post which fits (any which one of) the suggestions.

It will be a lot of fun!

Because it’s impossible not to feel happy when noticing so much beauty around you!

 

PS: I’ve created a Facebook page for my seasonal photo challenge. If you like photography (and me *blush*) go “like” the page

April is budding and flowering!

It’s Spring!

It’s Spring! It’s Spring! It’s Spriiing!!! <3

(Okay, back to our inside voices now)

The weather was so nice that I could actually enjoy writing outside a couple of days in March. Now it’s April of course, and our kitties turned back to Spring-Summer-rooftop-cats. We can hang dry clothes in the sunshine. Have lunch in the back yard. Go for walks in our ponchos.

And it’s budding and flowering all over the place! I love it! I want to photograph it all!

In the spirit of that, here’s what I came up with for April’s theme and suggestions which are now up on  the Estrella’s ~Seasonal Photo Challenge~ page. Please drop by to check them out and leave me a comment there (I promise, this time around, I actually remembered to close the comments on this post right here). So, go tell me what you think of my ideas

You can see my photos from March right here, where the logo for April is already up.

While you’re there, if you’d like to give me suggestions for May and upcoming months, I’d love to read them. And of course, feel free to join in and snap some pictures. Or even post a link to just one photo, or a blog post which fits (any which one of)the suggestions.

It will be a lot of fun!

 

PS: I’ll have a poem up for National Poetry Month later today

The dawn of Seasons

It’s Spring! We finally had some proper sunshine here over the weekend and the weather is starting to get a little bit warmer *fingers crossed it keeps at it*.

This got me thinking about all the lovely possibilities Spring brings. It also got me thinking of tackling to-do lists, of flowers, fresh produce, prepping/doing taxes, reading in the sunlight and spring cleaning. To capture a prettier side of the dreaded tasks and to fully appreciate the things we’re most probably all looking forward to, let’s see about taking some pictures, shall we?

The Estrella’s ~Seasonal Photo Challenge~ page is now updated with March’s theme and photo suggestions. Please drop by to check them out (and leave me a comment there this time around).

You can see my photos from February right here, where the logo for March is already up.

While you’re there, if you’d like to give me suggestions for April and upcoming months, I’d love to read them. And of course, feel free to join in and snap some pictures. Or even post a link to just one photo which fits the suggestions. It will be a lot of fun!

Love, differently

January is coming to an end tomorrow. That means the Estrella’s ~Seasonal Photo Challenge~ page is now updated with February’s theme and photo suggestions. I’m really excited about this month’s theme and suggestions, so please drop by to check them out (and leave me a comment there this time around).

You can see my photos from January right here, where February’s logo is already up. I have also updated my Capturing Love on Film album if you want to see even more photos under the Love theme.

While you’re there, if you’d like to give me suggestions for March and upcoming months, I’d love to read them. And of course, feel free to join in and snap some pictures. With all of you there, I’m sure it will be a lot of fun!

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j shared some thoughts on everything being just so last week. It prompted the following thought:

Grief is a different kind of love, one that hurts the most, even (or rather especially?) after a long time, when one doesn’t expect it to, when it seems like a big fat cruel cosmic joke…

Let’s hit the “Pause” button

In her awe-inspiring way, j has, without prompting, given me some of the best reminders for as long as I’ve been reading her blog. Like she recently has in her post about pauses.

I’m not that great with pauses either.
However, in the past year I’ve been trying to notice and let the pauses be pauses. This is one of the reasons why I want to try a year-long photo challenge in 2012. Because I can’t not pause while taking a picture, or even while thinking of what I’ll be taking pictures of.

The Estrella’s ~Seasonal Photo Challenge~ page is now updated with January’s theme and photo suggestions. Please drop by and leave me a comment there this time around.

And while you’re there, feel free to join in and snap some pictures. It will be a lot of fun!

Estrella’s ~ Seasonal Photo Challenge ~

This post is pretty much the transcript of my thoughts (only, you know, in a slightly more orderly fashion by now) regarding something that is very new to me, but also something I feel compelled to try.

I liked the Positively Present’s 30 day photo challenge so much in November 2011, that even as I snapped pics of different things on Dani’s list, I kept thinking of starting a photo challenge of my own. So… here it goes:

To make it more manageable because I found that in some cases I needed more time to take the desired photo, and because taking daily photos of one certain thing is, well, a little bit too challenging, I’ve decided on:
a 10 day monthly challenge which will add up to a 30 day seasonal challenge.
Each season will he divided into its pertaining months which will have in turn one theme and ten suggestions.

For now, let’s focus on the month ahead and I’ll update you by the end of December with a more elaborated plan for the rest of Winter, and then the rest of the seasons.
On this page right here, you’ll be able to check for the upcoming themes/suggestions, updates and more information at any given time in the future.

Now let’s leap into:

Winter: “In the Holiday Spirit” December

Holidays, they remind us of the way we should act each day, but don’t. Let’s get into the holiday spirit and appreciate more the beauty all around us throughout December.

• Christmas tree
• Santa’s workshop and/or gifts
• Carols, bells, angels
• Home decorations
• Love
• Christmas tree ornaments
• Favorite holiday food and/or drink; festive dinner table
• City decorations
• Walk photo (go for a walk and take a picture of what ever catches your attention most: the view, the path, a leaf, shop window, etc.)
• Fireworks (even if New Years is technically a new month)

If you’re in need of extra suggestions:

• Santa, Sleigh, Season’s motif dishes, Ribbon, Candles, Children playing/unwrapping gifts/etc.

To start things off, I’ve added this month’s logo to this Estrella’s Seasonal Photo Challenge Facebook album which I will update at the beginning of January before blogging about what my photo challenge in December looked like.

Hope you’ll be interested in this quest of capturing the world on camera, the seasons around you, appreciating the little things we might miss. Hope you’ll be eager to sometimes be or at least act fearless and snap photos when you wouldn’t, to embrace present-ness.
And I hope you’ll enjoy the challenge as much as I enjoyed the one I did this past month.

I suppose I’m getting better at leaping and trusting that the net will appear. Will you jump (and take photos) with me?