Life's Whirlwind Adventures

The premise for the challenge that I have entered is not from my own head, but from another photo blog that my friend Alicia found, here is the link .  It is going to be a serious amount of learning for me this next year.  Sometimes Alicia explains things she wants to do and I just stare at her with a blank look because I don't know how to do any of that yet, but I am anxious to learn.   So the rule of thirds states that you divide your picture into 9 equal sections, and that the most eye catching pictures have the focal point in one of the center intersections.  Here is a picture that demonstrates this better than I can explain it. If you took a marker and drew two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines you would see that Chan's eye is right in the intersection point of two of the lines.  Which means this photo follows the rule of thirds.   So in breaking the rule of thirds, you would try to not have your foca...

I am always impressed with people that take photos every day and post them on blogs, and I am sure I see things every day that I would like to capture but finding the time to take the picture everyday and to post it is just not in my realm of possibilities right now.  So a friend, Alicia from Triple Ten Photography , suggested doing a picture a week for the year, where each picture has a different challenge or motif to follow.  I thought this was a great idea and a great way for me to practice my blooming photography skills. So each week I will submit my photos to the group and I will post them on my blog and share the challenge and how I came to the final picture that I have submitted.  I think it will be fun and if you want to join me on this endeavor let me know.  I am going to have to do research to be part of this challenge though as some of the concepts are photography concepts that I only vaguely understand.  I hope Alicia is ready to tutor me!!!