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The new photo challenge cards have been a bit more involved then the previous two packs.  It's been taking all of us a bit longer to come up with photos. My Guy and I spend most of our time in a small town, which can limit our photo opportunities. My Girl lives in the big city, but she now has a full time job, with a commute. So she doesn't have as much time as when she was a college student. Consequently, we seemed to have shifted to a monthly schedule on our photographs. We're just going ...

It's been almost a month since the last post on our photo challenge. This new deck of cards we started late last year has some challenging subjects, such as this one:

My Guy and I were going to go photograph at our local skate park.  He got there first and took this photo. 

All that remains of the skate park is the sign and a slab.  The skate park was opened in 2020 and was really nice.  I've searched our local news sources, but don't find any info on why it was removed.  

We decided to end ...

The photo challenge card for week 152 was perfect for this time of year.  Maybe not easy, but definitely doable.  

All three of us were able to get photos this week without having to fudge on the parameters.  

Kate: Redbud Blooms

The cold temps early in the week pretty much killed the blooms on the Bradford Pear trees, but the Redbuds were still blooming.  Maybe the freeze didn't affect them as much as many of the trees didn't have full blooms. You can see from my photo there are still lots of buds that haven't bloomed yet ...

It's been over 2 months since my last photo challenge post.  The new deck of photo prompts we are using are a lot more challenging then the previous two decks.  On the one hand, it's fun to have the challenge. On the other, some of them require specific conditions and very special set ups to capture.  That just takes more time and effort. Even My Guy struggled to get good shots for the last challenge card. 

I really tried the experimental approach and just didn't get anything photo worthy at all.  So as we often do in ...

It's been almost 2 months since my last photo challenge post.  The new photo card prompts are very specific and some of them have been challenging to pull off as they require very specific conditions.  The photo card for week 150 was one of those. 

We pulled this card back in mid November and then proceeded to have the driest last two months of the year ever in Oklahoma.  My Girl also struggled. Houston is well known for it's very localized pop up showers.  There was rain, but it was never in her part of town when she ...

This post was supposed to go up last week, but with all my computer issues last weekend, it didn't even get written.  We ended up taking a few weeks with this challenge card because fall didn't really set in till early November.   

Both My Guy and I went out for walks and we both captured a few leaves that were changing, but definitely nothing spectacular in the week after we drew this challenge card.  It was very different during my walk after I got back from Houston. 

Kate: Reds and Yellows

Though I didn't have to walk ...

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 ...

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'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. 

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: 

Kate: Mirrored ...

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 ...

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. 

Kate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Kate: A Year Later

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 ...

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

Kate: Graceful Curves

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: 

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.  

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.