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Week 143 Photo Challenge: Old Book(s) from Life In Pieces

We've managed to keep up with the photo challenge for 3 weeks. It does make a huge difference that Grad Girl is mostly done with all her stuff for the master's degree and she has more time to contemplate photography. Last week's challenge was one right up our alley.

All three of us are bibliophiles, big time. Grad Girl is at a disadvantage as most of her older books are here and not in Texas. So she'll get a bit of grace with this week's post.

I raided my professional library for my photo.

Kate ...

added by Kate 2 days, 19 hours ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 142 Photo Challenge: Melting from Life In Pieces

With Grad Girl finishing her master's we all seem to be more engaged with the photo challenge. I actually got photos early from Grad Girl, but still waited till Friday afternoon to come up with mine. This week's challenge wasn't hard.

The challenge this week is getting an interesting photo. I definitely tried to get something interesting, not sure I pulled it off.

Kate: Melting Wax

Can you see the pool of wax reflecting the flame and the lighter color edges where the wax is softening? It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be ...

added by Kate 1 week, 2 days ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 141 Photo Challenge: Garden from Life In Pieces

It's been 3 weeks since our last challenge post. It's been a busy few weeks for Grad Girl. She finished her thesis and defended it this last week. She passed her defense and has earned her master's degree. She still has a few edits to make on the thesis before it gets turned in and has some paperwork to file. Another week and she'll have all of that completed. She's been job hunting a bit here and there, that will become her full time job now.

All that to say, it took her a bit ...

added by Kate 2 weeks, 2 days ago. under fabric panels photography , photo challenge

Week 140: Tree(s) from Life In Pieces

This week's photo challenge was pretty easy compared to several we've had over the last couple of months.

The weather hasn't been too wet this week, well at least not here. Grad Girl has definitely gotten soaked a couple of times this week on her walk back to the car. So it hasn't been too hard to get out with the cameras. My Guy and I photographed the same event, but ended up with very different photos.

Kate: A Year Later

On May 6, 2024 we spend one of the scariest hours of my life in ...

added by Kate 1 month, 1 week ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 139 Photo Challenge: Single Source of Light from Life In Pieces

There were a lot of ways to interpret this week's photo challenge.

Is the challenge to take a photo of a single light source, image created by a single source of light, or and image illuminated by single source? Our photos cover all those approaches.

I wasn't really sure of my approach for last week. Then I just happened to notice this right after My Guy left for work one morning this week.

Kate: Single Source Star

We have a beautiful stained glass lamp in the entry way we use as a night light. The pretty teal star ...

added by Kate 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 138 Photo Challenge: Graceful from Life In Pieces

This week's photo challenge has a lot of interpretations, so we all managed to take photos.

Dictionary.com defines graceful as "elegance or beauty of form, movement or speech". That's pretty wide open on the photography front. My effort focuses on beauty of form.

Kate: Graceful Curves

One of our orchids is blooming again. They are such beautifully delicate flowers, very gracefully curved. Definitely graceful in form. I've found places in the house where I can get good direct lighting and clear backgrounds. I took lots of photos, this is one of my favorites.

My Guy's ...

added by Kate 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 139 Photo Challenge: Bottle(s) from Life In Pieces

With Grad Girl's schedule, giving 2 weeks for each photo card seems to be working much better. Her teaching responsibilities ended last week, but she still has lots of grading to do. Her thesis should be done next week and her statistics class ends a week from this Wednesday. Once she's past that, her life will get a bit easier, just studying for her defense is what she has left. With that said, we had photos for the last photography challenge:

This one was a bit easier because it's an object, you don't have to be ...

added by Kate 1 month, 4 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 136 Photo Challenge: Fairy Tale from Life In Pieces

It took all of us a month to come up with photos for the Week 135 photo challenge. At that end of that post back on March 1st, I wrote that it might take us another month to pull together photos for the week 136 challenge.

Looks like I wasn't wrong, it's been just over a month since that last photo challenge post. Grad Girl is still pretty swamped with trying to finish up grad school and I just couldn't come up with any ideas for how to approach this challenge. Only My Guy had any photos ...

added by Kate 2 months, 1 week ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 135 Photo Challenge: Pattern from Life In Pieces

It's been a month since my last photo challenge post. My Guy as usual has been ready for me to post since the week after the last post. Grad Girl and I were the ones that drug this last challenge out. It's not a particularly hard one.

I just wasn't motivated to get any photos and Grad Girl is in the middle of writing her thesis and trying to keep up with her Industrial Statistics class. We finally got our act together this week and I have 3 photos to share.

Pattern has a lot of definitions ...

added by Kate 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 134 Photo Challenge: Graveyard from Life In Pieces

No post last week because Grad Girl needed a bit of time to get her photo. The first week of school was busy on several fronts and getting a photo wasn't her first priority. The challenge seemed a lot more restrictive than most of the others.

If you Google "graveyard definition" only the Oxford Learner's Dictionary includes a definition other than a place where dead people are buried. The Learner's dictionary states "a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left". I went with the more common definition for my photo.

Kate ...

added by Kate 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 133 Photo Challenge: Power from Life In Pieces

We all had photos, but My Guy forgot to send me his in time for me to get a post out last week. To be fair he's had a busy couple of weeks in the New Year. The last challenge card we pulled was a bit different.

I had an idea for this one, but my photos turned out horribly. So I racked my brain for something else. I'm not impressed, but I do have a photo.

Kate: My Daily Power Source

A simple power strip, not something that makes an eye catching photo. This one sits by ...

added by Kate 5 months ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 132 Photo Challenge: Learning from Life In Pieces

With all the hustle and bustle of the Christmas holiday, none of us gave much thought to the photo challenge card we drew on December 13th.

But now that the holiday is over and every one is in wind down mode, it was easier to find the time to focus on the challenge. I took my photo before the holiday and decided to just stick with it for the challenge.

Kate: Pattern Creation 101

I didn't do any staging for this photo, this is how my computer work area usually looks. Much of December has been spent learning how ...

added by Kate 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 131 Photo Challenge: Shoe(s) from Life In Pieces

It's been a while since our last photo challenge post. At first we struggled with the photos for this one.

We drew this card the Friday before Thanksgiving. With all the prep for the trip to Texas and Thanksgiving dinner, none of us really took the time to focus on getting a photo. Since then we've had deaths in the family, business trips, end of the semester. It's just been a busy time.

I had a hard time getting creative with this particular challenge. When I reviewed my photos, I decided this one was the most interesting ...

added by Kate 6 months ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 130 Photo Challenge: Vintage from Life In Pieces

This week's challenge theme wasn't too bad, it wasn't the easiest we've had, but it wasn't the hardest either.

The most fun thing about the challenge is seeing what we each come up with. That often depends on how each of us interpreted the theme. I may have missed the mark a bit, but I'm sticking with my approach.

Kate: Vintage News

My house cleaning project this weekend was to tackle the office. While dusting, I found these vintage copies of National Geographic. They belonged to My Guy's parents. This magazine is so ...

added by Kate 6 months, 3 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 129 Photo Challenge: Sweets from Life In Pieces

This week My Guy was the one that waited till the last minute to get any photos for this week's challenge.

This week's challenge was definitely more on our level. Well, maybe not so much My Guy, as he's really not one for sweets. Even though he bakes plenty to take to the office. Grad Girl and I definitely had it easier this week. I try not to keep sweets in the house because they are way too tempting. But I made an exception for the sake of the challenge.

Kate: Holiday Favorite

My mother has a ...

added by Kate 7 months ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 128 Photo Challenge: Compassion from Life In Pieces

We all thought last week's challenge was hard. This week's was even harder. How do you photograph something like this?

We all have photos. Do they meet the challenge? Maybe, maybe not. So it's a good thing we make up the rules!

My plans for getting a photo were rained out (mainly because I tend to wait till the day before to figure it all out). Here's my effort for the week.

Kate: Words of Compassion

Google came to my rescue at about 5 PM yesterday. Thankfully I remembered where the Scrabble game was (we've ...

added by Kate 7 months, 1 week ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 127 Photo Challenge: Smoke from Life In Pieces

It's been 5 weeks since my last photo challenge post. The main reason the challenge was on hiatus was Grad Girl's big exam that required a lot of effort to get ready for. Now That she's past that and a lot of our travel is done for a bit, we were all ready to get back to getting photos for the last challenge.

This one was harder than we expected. To be honest, I struggled the most. I didn't get my photos till last night and it took some set up and patience.

Kate: Just Smoke ...

added by Kate 7 months, 2 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 126 Photo Challenge: Leading Lines from Life In Pieces

This last week went fast. As usual, I was scrambling yesterday to come up with a photo for this week's challenge:

I thought this one would be easier than the challenge cards we've had the last couple of weeks. The camera came out yesterday and some photos were taken ensuring there was a photo for today's post. Then I uploaded my the photos for the last week and found a couple of options from some earlier shots.

Kate: White Lines

Capturing the textures was my goal when I took the photo. But it works perfectly for this ...

added by Kate 8 months, 3 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 125 Photo Challenge: Parenthood from Life In Pieces

The last couple of challenge cards have been hard. Last week's card was definitely harder than the week before. How do you photograph -

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We all have photos, not beautiful photos, but we each came up with a photo for the challenge.

I struggled and struggled. My brain just could not come up with something. This was the best I could come up with.

Kate: No! That is Not Breakfast!

To be honest, Grad Girl has never been big on breakfast. Or maybe I should say, she prefers to eat her breakfast much closer to what her dad and I ...

added by Kate 8 months, 4 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 124 Photo Challenge: Kiss from Life In Pieces

This week's photo challenge was harder than last week's. Last week both My Guy and I were scratching our heads, this week's definitely had us racking our brains.

To be honest, I completely forgot about getting a challenge photo till My Guy got home from work last night. He asked if I had a photo. I'd been so focused on other things that I had completely forgotten. So I scrounged around trying to find subject matter. I found two "subjects". One was too close to what My Guy had submitted, so I went with my #2 ...

added by Kate 9 months ago. under photo challenge , photography

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