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Week 148 Photo Challenge: The Light Coming Only from the Fridge from Life In Pieces

This week's photo challenge required night photography, but we could do it from the comfort of our home.

Since all we had to do was walk to the kitchen when it was dark, that made it easy for all of us to get photos this week. I was concerned that My Guy and I would have the same photograph more or less, so I changed my perspective a bit.

Kate: Fridge Lighting

This is the counter across from the refrigerator. Yes we still have a land line, at least for now. This is the area behind the Keurig and ...

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

Week 147 Photo Challenge: Neon-Lit Photographs at Night from Life In Pieces

These photos only took us two weeks to come up with compared to the two months we took for the Beauty of Winter challenge card. This week's card wasn't quite as difficult.

It is a bit of a challenge when you live in a small town, neon lights are far and few between. It also requires that you be out at night. Even Grad Girl tends to get home and stay home after work, so it took a couple of weeks for all of us to get photos.

It was easier to get photos for My Guy and ...

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

Week 146 Photo Challenge: The Beauty of Winter from Life In Pieces

It's been two months and a day since my last photo challenge post. There's a lot of reasons for that. Most of them are related to moving Grad Girl out of Texas in July and then back to Texas in September. The biggest reason is that the challenge wasn't an easy one to photograph in the middle of summer.

Our point of view for the photos we each ended up should be viewed through the lens of looking for winter in summer. If you can judge our efforts in that light, you might not think the photos ...

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

Week 145 Photo Challenge: Any Reflection You Like from Life In Pieces

It's been over a month since our last photo challenge post. I was the problem this time. With family stuff going on for the 4th of July weekend, then Grad Girl's move, I really wasn't concentrating on my photography. I only got my photo taken yesterday, both My Guy and Grad Girl have had photos for weeks and were pushing for us to move on. The prompt for week 145 was:

After weeks of procrastinating, I finally pulled out the camera and looked for a reflection I liked. In the end, my photo was staged.

Kate: Mirrored ...

added by Kate 3 months, 1 week ago. under photo challenge , photography

Week 144 Photo Challenge: Vegetable(s) from Life In Pieces

We started this photo challenge almost exactly 4 years ago. The first post was on July 2, 2021. We gave My Guy the first deck of photo challenge cards for Father's Day that year. Some cards have taken longer than a week to finish for a variety of reasons. I took a several month hiatus from the blog in 2022. The last year has been tougher as Grad Girl has been working hard to finish up her master's. She just didn't have the energy or time some weeks. So there hasn't been a photo challenge post ...

added by Kate 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

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 4 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months, 4 weeks 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 5 months 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 5 months, 3 weeks 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 6 months 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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 2 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 7 months 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 8 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 3 weeks 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 10 months, 1 week 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 10 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 2 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 11 months, 3 weeks ago. under photo challenge , photography

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