I’m taking another class. This one is called “Love Your Pictures, Love Your Pages.” It’s from Shimelle and you can find the class here. The class is a hybrid of photography and scrapbooking. It focuses on taking better pictures that you’ll love … which means you’ll love your scrapbooking pages more as a result.
Before the class started, we were given a challenge to take a spontaneous photo. We were told to take a photo in the next five minutes. And at that moment, Shelby walked into my room and had a meltdown. So, I took a picture of her meltdown! I’m sure she hated me at the moment, but I am so glad I have this photo. I take all sorts of happy photos, but we aren’t always happy, right?
The class prompt for the second day had us taking pictures of flowers. Here’s my favorite from that prompt. Finding flowers in Arizona can be tough. If I would have had more time and was feeling better (I have an ear infection right now), I would have found a flowering cactus to shoot, which is my absolute favorite desert image.
These photos, like most of them, were taken on my point and shoot or my iPhone (I take a lot of iPhone pictures). I’m getting a fancy camera this month!!! Woo hoo! I can’t wait. I hope when I get the new camera my pictures will be even better.
Seriously, time is just flying by. My little boy is going to be 6-months-old on Sunday. And it feels like he just arrived. It’s going to be Christmas before I know it and I’m not ready. Were in the heck has all the time gone?
With the arrival for October, we have some awesome kits available. Our main kit features a 7 Gypsies Black Board Book, which I love. It will be perfect for all the Halloween pictures I’ll be taking. In fact, it might even end up being a gift for my brother. He and his soon-to-be-wife are getting married on Halloween. My daughter will be a flower in their wedding, so I was thinking about making them a Halloween themed album as a gift. It would be really great if I get it all done before the wedding and then can just add the pictures later! Oh, I’m so excited about this kit. So many possibilities. The other notable items are the really cool specialty paper from Making Memories (think flocked and fancy!).
And, the add-on kit is equally as adorable, just smaller. If you’re not sure about joinin our club … then start with an add-on kit. In fact, if you order an add-on kit before the 10th of October, we’ll throw in a free gift with your order. And if you already subscribe to our main kit …then just send me an email telling us you want to the add-on kit too. We’d love to send you a free gift as well!
Lar's pizza lunch some where in Utah (photos by Lars Kj'r Larsen)
I take a lot of pictures. I travel a lot too. Sometimes it’s hard to come up with creative ways to photograph my trips and kiddos with all the picture taking I do.
A little snack in Wyoming
One of my colleagues, Lars, is on a cross country road trip right now. He always takes the best photos, so I’m almost giddy with excitement each time an email full of photos from him arrives in my in-box. Lars is quite the traveler, so it’s interesting and amazing to me that his photos never seem boring or trite. The latest batch he sent were titled “Eating our way across America.”
He decided to take photos of all the places he and his brother ate as the headed from Georgia, up to Canada and then out West. It might sound a little odd, but it was a fresh perspective and perfectly told the story of their road trip. There are pictures of breakfast at the hotel. Dinner at roadside dives. Quick breakfasts of coffee and donuts.
Pie in Michigan
When in doubt, change your perspective. You don’t have to take the same pictures, the same way, every time. Switch things up a bit. Be creative. Think long and hard about how you can best tell your story in fresh and fun new way.
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