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Its Friday and that means its time for another Fifty-two on Fridays or my project 52. This week our theme is monochromatic.

Monochromatic: containing or using only one color.

Well this definition works for me, if and only if, my two sweet darling, and oh so well behaved children, would not try and infiltrate the others photo shoot! I love them dearly, but when it comes to me and my great ideas they will quickly come up with their own and in this case they won out. I suppose if you consider that my son is wearing the same color as the background, that when the two of them are in the picture together it is still monochromatic for pink??? I know I am stretching, but oh well, the kiddos had some fun and so did I!

{Monochromatic}

{Monochromatic in processing}

Now don’t forget to head on over to see the inspiring work from Emily at Camellia Street

Welcome back for another week of my project 52, or fifty-two on Fridays. If this is your first time checking out my project, you are in for a treat! This project is 15 wonderful photographer from around the United States that link up their blogs to share their interpretation of a weekly theme or prompt. As always remember to follow the link to the next photographer in the circle at the bottom of my post.

This week our theme is {Shallow Depth of Field}. There is really only one way to achieve shallow depth of field, and that is to shoot wide open! And that is exactly what I did! For this project, I was short on time as well as short on cooperative human subjects. So in desperation I turned to food! I’ve toyed on and off with getting into food photography. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe, but this is a story for another day..

Back to Shallow Depth of Field, with cooperative subjects (insert smiley face here!)

Shot with my 50 mm prime at 1.8 aperture, all natural light.

Shot with my 50 mm prime at 2.0 aperture, all natural light

Quick note or observation for the inquiring minds…In the first photo only a few slivers of the mushroom gills are in focus and much of everything else is blurry, and in the second photo the front of the pine cone in focus and the background out of focus. The answer, is that it matters how close you are standing to your subject when shooting wide open. The closer you are the more shallow your depth of field, and if you take one or two steps back, more of the subject will be in focus but with the background out of focus. Just thought I’d share!

Now, don’t forget to head on over and check out the wonderfully talented Krista Keller | Danville, CA Child Photographer. She’s got some really great examples and explanations of shooting for shallow depth of field. Thanks for stopping by!

Welcome to my weekly Fifty-two on Fridays post. This week our theme or prompt is Summertime! It seems like Fall will be here before we’ve really had a chance to enjoy the summer. How many of you feel like that? Well, last week my family and I enjoyed a much need summertime vacation in Carmel Valley. I think it truly felt like a vacation because we did some activities that we wouldn’t normally get to do with the kids, like making ‘smores over a backyard fire pit! We stayed at this wonderful resort, called Carmel Valley Ranch and every night they provided the fixings for ‘Smores! ‘Smores for me is a summertime thing, something you do when camping out in the summertime with friends and families. Since, Nate and I aren’t brave enough to take the kids real camping yet (does it count in the day time in your backyard?…probably not) roasting ‘Smores over a fire pit at a gorgeous resort…I’ll take it!

As always please check out the inspirational work of the other ladies from The Bloom Forum that are part of this project 52 blog circle, starting with the wonderful Kristin Soderquist | Lake Mendocino County Photographer.

{Summertime}

Friday is here and it is another week for Fifty-two on Fridays. If you are new to my blog or haven’t been here in a while and need to catch up on all of the Project 52 madness, follow this link here. This week I am joined by 15 other fabulous photographers from The Bloom Forum, and we are tackling the theme of Nature. As always don’t forget to follow the link to the next photographer in our blog circle at the bottom of my post!

My family and I are on vacation this week, and I took some “liberty “with the theme Nature and went with something that exists or is caused by Nature and defined as Natural, like fruit. While off this week with the kids my husband and I took them to an Organic Strawberry Patch, where they could pick and eat the berries right off the plant. My kids, literally ran up and down the garden eating and picking to their hearts delights (check out the very full cheeks on my daughter). I think we should have weighed them before and after! For my kids this is a great reminder that natural foods, vegetables, fruits, nuts don’t come from the grocery store, but instead are grown on farms…in the dirt, on the ground, and not in clear plastic containers.

{Nature}

Now be sure to head on over to check out the wonderful Krista Keller | Danville CA Family Photographer for her interpretation of Nature.