Suspended and Food ~ Lynn

"Winter Solace Suspended"

I saw this tree branch suspended on the Kennebec River, just past the Eddy, near the Somerset Woods Landing.  I loved the layers of muted color on the cloudy winter day.

"Christmas Frosting"

Our 2nd challenge was food.  Micah and I shot at the same subject, at the same time, at Caitlyn's birthday party.  Micah chose to shoot the complete gingerbread man cake.  I chose to isolate a section of the frosting to try to create an interesting image from the explosion of color on the white background.
I looked for balance in the colors in contrast to the white on white of the frosting and snowflakes.

Suspended and Food ~ Micah

"Suspended Seagulls"

Lynn And I went to Calais, Maine border across from New Brunswick, Canada. We fed the seagulls with bread to do suspended. Lynn and I took turns feeding them. They would swoop down to grab the bread. Lynn has a picture of with a seagull flapping its wings against my head.

"Gingerbread Man"

I took this at my friend Caitlyn surprise party. It was her birthday cake. I tried to catch the glitter from the gingerbread man. I got the outside border of the cake. 

Suspended and Food

Well, we chose suspended and food for two challenge topics...I did a couple of suspended shots and then decided to combine my suspended with my food shot....I hope you enjoy my suspended apple.

"AIR GUITARIST"

SUSPENDED APPLE

SLIP AND FALL #1

SLIP AND FALL #2

Neon ~ Micah

Micah's "Neon"

"Egyptian Hieroglyphics Before"

"Egyptian Hieroglyphics After"

My neon picture is a Egyptian Hieroglyphics picture. I use neon motion app on my iPod touch. I traced it with different neon colors. I brightened the background to trace the Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Then I saved the picture but it doesn't save the background with it.

 More NEON!!!

Unknown Singer in a bar... 

My favorite neon sign (and ice cream place)

Kyleigh in "neon" colors

Lynn's "Neon Light"

"Liberty Enlightening the World"

Micah chose this week's challenge and after going through list after list on our old challenge site he picked "neon".  I thought it was going to be a tough challenge as neon lights are just not all that plentiful here in Maine.  Well, as luck would have it, Lady Liberty just happened to be having dinner at the same restaurant I was at the other night.  She took a break from Enlightening the World and grabbed a burger at Red Robin in Augusta before heading back to NYC. And yes, she did have "french" fries with that because she was born in Paris in 1881, after all!

The challenge was "miniatures", so I wanted to shoot a special "BELL" for my friend Lynn, one she would cherish...

So here are my "miniatures" with the special "BELL"

 

So here is the Bull Moose sporting his "BELL"



Went out to "shoot the moon" last night and have some fish at Kingfish on the river and here are few sights I saw...:0D

 

 

The Louisville Water Tower
The oldest ornamental water tower in the world

Louisville Water Tower in black n white

Louisville, KY skyline with the Clark Memorial Bridge in the foreground

Moon shot through tree branches

Red bellied woodpecker on our suet feeder



Lynn's Miniature

                                "West Quoddy Nesters"

Our challenge was to create a scene using small miniature objects.  My foreground, the Atlantic Ocean, is a blue bath towel with a few waves photoshopped in from an actual picture of waves at West Quoddy Head.  Then I added some "smudge tool" creativity to blend out the cloth detail.  The rock is just a rock in my back yard and took the birds from my shelf and placed them in the front of the scene for perspective.  The day was cold and rainy when I shot the miniature so it needed a nice fall sky.  I had shot this sky at the high school about a week ago.  I just pulled those clouds into the background behind the little miniature West Quoddy Head Lighthouse using photoshop.  This challenge was way too much fun!  

Micah's Miniature

"Old Salty at Pepper Light"

I chose the salt & pepper shakers for my miniature scenery. I set the shakers on a rock in Lynn's  backyard. The ocean is a towel on the ground. I use the smudge tool to make the waves. Old Salty is watching the sunset from the east coast. The sunlight goes through Pepper Light's windows to make a reflection on the ocean surface.  I learned that I can use anything, even common household items to make any kind of scene if I use my imagination. I learned about the direction of light and how to change the bright daylight on the rocks and figures to reflect the glow of the sunset on the highlights in the rock.  

Miniatures Take #1

Classics

Monster Truck

KY State Capital

Cherry Blossoms at KY State Capital in Frankfort, KY

KY State Capital, Frankfort, KY

2013 Easter Photos

Haddie Ella's First Easter

Kyleigh

Marlee Brynn