Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Facebook Photo Shootout!

I have so been needing a new challenge! Through some Facebook friends I found this page: Facebook Photo Shootout and it looked like fun!

It's kind of like the Iron Chef... we get a "secret ingredient" (theme) at the last moment and then have 24 hours to shoot an image representing the theme. At 7am this morning the "secret ingredient" was revealed to be "A Reflection". So in between our usual chaos I tried to think of something to shoot and get it posted. We are not allowed to photoshop anything other than cropping and sizing for web, I believe. So here you get some straight-out-of-the-camera shots from my humble home:

"First Glance":
First Glance

"In His Father's Eyes":
In His Father's Eyes

And a reflection of me... the chores piling up as I take more pics!
Reflection of me
This was taken in the handle of my kitchen faucet. =)

It was fun although I wish I could have been more creative. I need to get my creative juices flowing again. That and I know there are a billion pics of Joshua and hardly any of Jeremiah these days... but the boy will not stay still when he sees me with the camera. He runs or jumps in my face or hides behind something... I got a few random ordinary snapshots of him that I'll post soon just so you remember what he looks like! lol

Mommy Moment: We are so mean. Here Joshua starts crawling and climbing and we get him a thing to sit in and bounce around in and play in. It's either that or he has to take a timeout in the playpen just so mommy can go potty or wash some dishes. He takes his naps in the playpen in our room since he and Jeremiah share a room and Jeremiah is usually playing in there so he gets upset if he's in there too long when it's not naptime. Joshua is on the go and hard to keep still anymore. I went in the kitchen to get some meat to thaw for dinner thinking he was going to crawl over to the chair again. I was wrong, he was following me into the kitchen! His face was lit up like "Wow! I can even leave the room?!?!?!" It's fun and thankfully he likes his new "activity center". Uh-oh... I hear someone coming down the hall... Daddy must have let him loose from the evil confines of the living room to find Mommy! Thanks for visiting!!!

27 comments:

  1. Oh that last shot is amazing! Awesome!
    Cari

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  2. Haha, I love that faucet shot. I could never do that facbook thing, waaay too much pressure! I'm a wimp.

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  3. Love that last shot, how clever is that?!?

    Don't feel like you're a mean mommy, you have got to do what you've got to do. Back in the "day" our mom's (ok, my mom's generation) would plop us in the playpen for hours on end and we turned out ok ;)

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  4. That last photo is very creative... I would say your juices are working.. Congrats

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  5. They are all very good, but the last one is terrific! I want to try that now.

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  6. Very creative! And you only had 24 hours! Well done!

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  7. I love that last one! Very creative and awesome SOOC shots!!!

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  8. These are all great, especially the last one. :)

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  9. Ooh! I love the last one! Very cool!

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  10. ok that last photo is awesome! and i think that you did really good for reflection

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  11. Great shots, Joanne!! You had your creativity cranked up big time. LOVE the one of your little guy--what a great POV for that. Your faucet reflection is awesome.

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  12. Awww, I love the first one, he is so cute. And no worries, my little dude has to go in the playpen too and DD and I call it jail. Hehe.

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  13. They are all great photos, but I loooove the first!

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  14. Clever, clever, clever. i was so trying to figure out that last shot, glad you clued us in.

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  15. These are sooo great! have to check out that challenge!

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  16. Great way to use the theme in that last shot.

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  17. That challenge sounds like a great way to spark your creativity. Love the shots.

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  18. I love the firt one with the baby to cute. But the reflection and the way you worded it In his fathers eye wow.

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  19. Brilliant!!! I think you were very creative, especially with pics 1 and 2!

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  20. Oh my gosh these are amazing. i love them all. I like how you captured how each one of you sees. Very Creative.

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  21. Love the last shot!

    Your journaling really cracks me up. I'm dreading the day that Jack starts crawling.... our house is a pretty open floorplan, so there's not a very good way for us to confine him to one area.

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  22. I love the mirror shot of your son!

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  23. Joanne,
    Byron told me you had a blog posted on fb so of course I had to check it out because I love family blogs. Your photos are amazing. If we ever get back toward KY you are already hired to take our family photos!
    Alicia Hall

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