Shutterbugs and Photographer Friends,
Welcome to the World Through My Lens, 07.2019. Running a little late with this round-up of the photos I took during the month for the 2 photography challenges in which I am participating. There’s the Sunday Stills series hosted by Terri at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives and The Everyday Eye Candy Project 52 with LaShawn at Everyday Eye Candy on Facebook and her blog, Everyday Eye Candy. Before we get started today, you can visit last month’s World Through My Lens post, here.
WORLD THROUGH MY LENS, 07.2019
Didn’t use my DSL camera at all this month. Need to quit relying on my phone for these photography challenges because the whole purpose of them was to inspire me to use my good camera. To become more familiar with it. Going to try to do better this month. And I said this very same thing in June. But I hate lugging a big ole camera on the plane on trips, or on a hike, or to a ball game. Then there’s always the worry that I will drop it, or get it wet. At least I would be using it, though.
Here are my responses to the past month’s prompts.
WORLD THROUGH MY LENS WEEK 28
EVERYDAY EYECANDY PROJECT 52, WEEK 28: Day in the Life
On this particular day, I was treating myself to a trip to Hobby Lobby and some little boutiques, then a stop at the International Art Museum. I absolutely love this kimono from Alison & Aubrey. I have worn it all spring and summer. So it is appropriate that I would have it on for a ‘day in the life’ photo. And El Paso is called the Sun City so it seems fitting that I would include our bright summer sun in this photo, too.
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SUNDAY STILLS, 07.07.2019: Blue
Came across this pristine vintage Plymouth at the baseball park one Saturday morning and knew I had found my ‘blue’. I edited it slightly using Prisma to add a sleeker, racier feel to the photo. There were cars parked on either side of it so I had to kind of scrunch down and get very close to get the shot I wanted.
Played with the Prisma filters again to create the next 2 versions of the same photo.
Which do you like best?
EVERYDAY EYECANDY PROJECT 52, WEEK 29: Summertime
When I was a little girl, my family lived half-way across the country from my cousins, who were all older than I was. Some as much as 11 years older. And I was the oldest of my siblings. We only saw the Missouri and Oklahoma family in the summer, and then only a couple of times. I am friends with most of them on Facebook but we aren’t terribly close. I am hopeful that Cady and Lucia will grow up to be closer and maybe even more like sisters than cousins. Definitely not strangers. My photo for summertime is my 2 grands walking home from the pool together with Mimi/Gabba trailing behind, carrying towels and a bag of pool toys.
How I love those biscuity brown little bodies. And booties.
SUNDAY STILLS, 07.14.2019: Creatures and Critters
While in Ft. Worth, we headed down to the stockyards one day where they have a demonstration cattle drive. I don’t remember ever seeing a long horn up close. Their horns are truly impressive. And so much more so on the bulls than off. I really hate seeing animals used as trophies.
Do you prefer the natural photo or the black and white version?
EVERYDAY EYECANDY PROJECT 52, WEEK 30: Reflection
While we were in Ft. Worth, we visited The Magnolia Market and Silos. It was the hottest day of the year in Waco and so humid. We walked about 3 blocks from where we parked the car toward Magnolia. Then turned around and went back to a restaurant we had passed to fortify ourselves before returning to wander around the silos. I took this reflection selfie in the mirror of an old truck they had parked at Magnolia.
SUNDAY STILLS, 07.21.2019: Taste
While visiting Brennyn, Cady and Mustafa in Ft. Worth, we met up with Tafa’s mom, Parveen, sister, Mashgan, and niece, Aalia, at Kabob Express for some authentic Afghani food. It was delicious. I don’t remember the name of anything I ate but I do remember the taste. So many colors, flavors. Spicy-sweetness. Lots of textures, crispy, smooth. Delicious.
I know that the creamy white stuff is humus. And we had a dumpling like dish called qabuli that was scrumptious. This chicken was tender and tasty. Love the rice with carrots and raisins. Good eating.
EVERYDAY EYECANDY PROJECT 52, WEEK 31: Sunset
Snapped this photo from our front balcony and just this second realized it is a sunrise. The view facing east. Ha!! Whatevs, still beautiful.
Felt guilty leaving you with a sunrise when the prompt is clearly the opposite. I give you a Ft. Worth sunset. From the park in the kids’ neighborhood.
SUNDAY STILLS, 07.28.2019: Triangles
This photo is kind of a stretch. I know. But there are triangles. Do you see them?
Or maybe the triangles are a little more obvious in this picture of Cady riding the mechanical bull at the Ft. Worth stockyards.
Even the tree in this photo is kind of triangular shaped.
Before we wind this up for another month, here are a couple of just for fun photos.
Random Shots
I like the contrast between the river rocks and the fern-like fronds on this plant. And the colors. Purple for PC and green for me.
Snuck this photo of Lucia on her first day of ‘school’ or daycare. Her backpack is almost as big as she is.
Brennyn was excited for us to see the cows and calves in the meadow behind her house. The first evening, I was in Ft. Worth, I snapped this photo from the car window as we passed the cows. The next morning we awoke to a kind of siren noise. When we looked out the windows, we could see the cows being rounded up in a makeshift pen. We looked out a little later to see the calves being branded. By noon all of the animals had been moved somewhere. So my chance for getting a really good photo of these sweet, gentle mommies and babies was lost. Turns out they were moved to another meadow where the grass was more plentiful. Thank goodness.
My dear friend Dani from Family.Love.Inspiration sends me the best photos of the cows on her parents’ farm. They always make me smile. Dani and her family have such good times on the farm. For once, I have a photo to share with her!
Join the Fun in August
Decided to include the prompts for this month in case someone – YOU? – might like to join up.
Sunday Stills Calendar
August 4 Yellow
August 11 Macro or Close-up Photography
August 18 Zen
August 25 Our National Parks
Eyecandy Project 52
Week 32 The Letter “C”
Week 33 Bloom
Week 34 Night
Week 35 Mobile Photography
My friend Deb at Deb’s World has been participating all summer in a photo scavenger hunt hosted by Mary-Lou at Patio Postcards. I started collecting photos for it about 3 weeks ago and will share all of those pictures when the scavenger hunt is over on 09.30.2019. Here are the prompts for it, if you want to take a look, with over six weeks left to find everything.
2019 Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt
1. An Outdoor Clock
2. Single & Pretty
3. Repetition
4. Blurred Vision
5. The Word Summer
6. An Umbrella, open or closed
7. A Curving Path
8. Shells
9. A Bridge
10. Something Made of Stone
11. Fish
12. Something Crooked
13. Two Colours of The Rainbow in Any Combination
(colours of the rainbow are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
14. A Handwritten Sign
15. A Broken Chair/Bench/Stool
16. An Out of Season Treat Being Enjoyed
17. A Sail
18. Something That Should Be Found In Pairs
19. A Funny or Meaningful Bumper Sticker
20. A Favourite Seasonal Scent
Alternates:
A: Bird or Bee House
B: Fresh Local Produce
Your Turn
Here’s where you share with me! Would love for you to share a recent fav photo from your phone over on my Facebook page. If not a favorite photo, how about the 4th photo in your gallery? I will go share mine, now. Meet you over there?
Hoping to get a Wellness Wednesday post up, a Title Talk post put together, and want to do a Fashion Haus. Ambitious for a lazy gal like me. If you have entered the giveaway some other gma bloggers and I are hosting, please enter here before 08.17 for a chance to win a premium paint by number kit for adults.
Thanks for running by, sweet friends. On my way to visit your blog tonight!
Hugs and kisses,
Terri Webster Schrandt
You have been busy with your phone, Leslie, that’s for sure! I’m always glad to see your monthly round-up of your great images! I’ve had to use my phone for photo-ops for two months while wearing the cast on my foot, but I got out this weekend back to the delta and we used the camera for hundreds of pics with us paddling with the dogs on water. You really got into the swing of each theme and believe it or not, I LOVE the selfie-within the-selfie shot of you! Very creative, girl! Lucia is absolutely adorabke with the huge backpack! School already! I’m back two weeks from today!!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, Terri, for inspiring me and cheering me on with my photography efforts. I need to force myself to use my good camera this fall. Maybe I will make that a bucket list activity…using it for the rest of the Sunday Stills prompts! I am sure your photos from the delta are delightful. Do your dogs get in the water or just enjoy being paddled about? I had 2 huskies that adored being in the ocean and would run out the door and out to the water every chance they got.
Nancy
Oh I love that Plymouth! And the photo of the rocks is very beautiful! The colors are perfect together! I love the colored cow photo more!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, sweet Nancy. I loved seeing the cows and only wished I could have taken better pictures of the cows with their babies before they disappeared. Maybe next visit.
Juhli
Your photo catalog is really getting amazing! The stretched Plymouth photos are fun and I really like the triangle ones.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, Juhli. Photography has really become a hobby. I am enjoying it so much but need to force myself to grab my good camera more often instead of using the phone!
Kimberly Malkiewicz
What great photos. I really like the vintage Plymouth and your photo in the mirrors. I would like to try some of these challenges at some point. I know what you mean about lugging your camera around. I don’t mind locally so much, but traveling… How often do you get to the Ft. Worth area? Maybe we could meet up sometime.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I would love to meet up with you!!! Thank you so much for saying that. I try to get to Ft. Worth several times a year. Have never met a blogger and you would be such a delight to meet IRL. Please keep that in mind and if I plan another trip, I will hit you up. We could do coffee or dessert or wine or all three.
I usually do a photo scavenger hunt for Christmas. Maybe I will do it this year and you can join me!? Or co-host???
Dara
Great photos! I like the first version of the car, which I think is the original, but then the second better than the third. For the black and white versus color, I think I slightly prefer the color. Both are good! I love the reflection one. Thanks for sharing the prompts, although I don’t think I can add another photo challenge besides the one I already do. I do love the scavenger hunt prompts though so maybe I’ll join that one!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I appreciate your compliments and thoughts on my photos. The scavenger hunt is fun because so many of the prompts are open to interpretation. I am so proud of you to stick with 52 Frames.
cindi
What spectacular photos! I loved the car the best!
Great work.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you. Having such fun playing paparazzi!!
Deb
I love how the different coloured filters in the car make it look so different, that middle one is my favourite.
Welcome aboard the scavenger hunt! Looking forward to seeing what you find.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you for inspiring me to try the scavenger hunt. Need to revisit the prompts. Time is awastin’!!
Dee | Grammy's Grid
Enjoyed seeing the photos! I like using the Prisma filters at times. And although you didn’t use your big camera, the pics came out really nice! In our busy lives we live today it doesn’t seem practical to lug the big cameras around. I ditched mine a while back. I’ve seen professional photographers who now use their iPhone and also a new trend is some documentaries are being made using an iPhone!!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Documentaries with a phone camera!!! Wow, that is impressive. I haven’t had my big camera for long but it is so cumbersome and requires so much thought. Prisma makes some of my fair photos more dazzling. I often can’t decide which filter I like best, so many fun ones to choose from. Thank you for stopping by!!
Ruth Josey
What fun – a photo scavenger hunt! I may play along with this without actually posting – I love this idea! Your photos are all very creative interpretations of the challenge. I love the Plymouth and my favorite is the second one with the yellow filter. I love the one with your little granddaughters and the bright, colorful playground equipment in front of them. And I love the one with the river rocks and ferns – gorgeous colors!
Ruth
http://www.VogueFauxReal.com
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, sweet Ruth!! I want to do a fall or Christmas photo scavenger hunt. Maybe you could join in for it? I love this time of year and there is so much inspiration for photos with the changing colors, the pumpkins, gourds, the first frost, fires in the fireplace.
Carrie @ Curly Crafty Mom
A day of Hobby Lobby and some boutiques sounds lovely and I am so jealous you got to see Magnolia and the silos! I keep wanting to plan a trip there… you’ll have to tell me what you thought of it. I love the reflection photo you took!
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, love. We really did a whirlwind tour of the silos and Magnolia. I would have loved to looked around Waco, would love for Chip and Joanna to identify the houses around town that they have renovated so people driving by could see them from the outside, at least. It was so hot. And the babies were restless so we didn’t tarry. Would like to go back.
Kellyann Rohr
You have great photography skills my friend! I am in awe of the fact that these were taken with your phone and not a fancy camera. I seriously need to learn your ways – or really just any way to get better photos and maybe even some editing skills.
I love that kimono of yours and tried to buy it but darn it all, it is sold out and apparently never getting re-stocked. Bummer!
xo,
Kellyann
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thanks for trying to buy the Alison & Aubrey kimono. I have enjoyed wearing it a lot and hope Alison will have some fall versions. Have about decided that photography is my new favorite hobby. But I keep far too many photos on my phone. Really slowing it down. Need to do better about parting with them!
Laura Bambrick
Leslie these photos are really good! I love the car, cattle and sky, and the sunset! You have quite the eye!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you for the kind words about my photography hobby. It is fast replacing scrapbook as my fav past time. Now to start using my good camera more often.
Daenel T.
I’ve said this before but it still stands: I love seeing the glimpses of your life from your camera. I need to do a better job of documenting my every day.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you so much, friend. I think you have a much more artistic eye. I just grab the phone and snap. Need to quit grabbing the phone and grab the camera instead!