Week One -(almost) 7 days, (almost) 7 photo

I’m almost a week in to my new photo challenge and so far it’s going well. Of course it’s only been like 5 days so I’m still in the honeymoon phase of any New Years resolution! It’s week 3-4 that really starts to feel challenging (usually anyhow). But I’ve done this before and was successful so I have no reason to think I won’t be this time around either!

My ‘submissions’ for this week are pretty straightforward; we’ve been a little house bound due to weather and just trying to get back into a routine since the hubby went back to work after the break so I’ve not been doing too much experimentation. We’ll leave that for next week!

As always, critiques are welcome in the comment section below :).

Day 1- January 1st 2017: “Cocktails”

Day 2: “Play Time”

Day 3: “Lunch”

Day 4: “Quiet Time”

Day 5: “Colour”

 

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“Everything Needs a Break” ~Toba Beta

Well its been a long time since my last post – an unintentional absence I swear! As it says in the title, sometimes you just need a break.

Back in June, I told you about plans my husband and I had for a trip to NL – which turned out to be a wonderful photography experience as I came home with some great shots I’m very proud of. However, it was also around this same time that we learned we were expecting our first child, aaand started demo and construction on a large backyard deck! So we had a busier summer than we expected which led to limited time and energy for photography and blogging.

But, thankfully, the Gravol coma had begun to wear off by early September and we finally finished our deck around the same time which has given me a renewed energy for logging back in and catching up! And there’s quite a bit of catch up to do!

Essentially, I’ve ‘missed’ 15 weeks of my photography challenge, though in truth I do have several photos ready to go, and a few that just need a bit of processing. So it might take me a few weeks to catch up on all of them but I don’t typically go in order anyway! The important thing is I’m back on the wagon and back behind the shutter.

So we’ll get the ball rolling with week 27 titled “Colour”.

For this I’m posting a one of my favourite shots from our recent trip to St. John’s. We had been driving around the narrows to visit Fort Amherst when I saw this shot from across the bay. While it’s not the famous jellybean row, it still illustrates the colours characteristic of the harbour city (and the province on a whole) contrasted beautifully by the bright blues of the sky and ocean, as well as the greens within the hills.

(I’ve logo’d these NL shots for copyright identification purposes as they are shots I’m very much proud of and would like to protect!)

I hope you enjoy it and stick with me a while longer!

Challenge of the Week: Blue

Ok so the challenge for week 22 of my 52 Week Photo Inspiration Challenge, was titled “Blue”. A relatively simple source of inspiration as there are sources of blue all around me, hence the title of this blog “koiblue” ;).

But instead of looking for the sky, or the house (its blue), I wandered over to the pond to take a few shots of the pretty blue water and maybe even catch a shot of the elusive Gary, our King of the Koi at one and a half feet long. But as I was shuffling around looking for different angles and perspectives I saw one of our newest additions, a Blue Gill carefully patrolling a patch of shoreline, most likely his/her nest.

Luckily enough, this fits well with this week’s challenge!  So here are a couple shots of one of our blue gills patrolling, and for a treat, the only shot I was able to grab of Gary :(. Better luck next time.