iPhoneography Mission #25

iPhoneography Mission #25: 
Call out to your pet and record the moment of connection.


I do not have the most cooperative cats when it comes to photography. Somehow they always know when a camera is in my hand. Even with the iPhone camera, and bird calls coming from my lips, I am still thwarted by closed eyes or a turn of the head. So I only have a few images to share with you for this mission as pictures were just blurs of fur as the little buggers ran off to hide from my lens. :)

Mom, you are disturbing my bird watching!

The ears back mean Back Off!

 Rawrrrr!

 Calm (but one more snap and her mood could change!)

The life of a pampered cat is soooo very tiring!

And, since these pets weren't cooperating, I called out to my other "pet":

Now, I can give my cats (and hubby!) a break from having a camera in their face and move on to the next mission...

iPhoneography Mission #26: Make water stains.

Ohhh...sounds like an opportunity to get very creative!

iPhoneography Mission #24

iPhoneography Mission #24: Seek Color


I got lucky this week for Mission #24 as I had to run to the antique store for a last minute purchase for my upcoming Mad Hatter Tea Party. After I had made my purchase, I took a quick run through the store, snapping away at colorful things that caught my eye.

 Blue Dog

 Blue Swirls

 Fiery Feathers

 Fanned Out

 Colors of the Kimono

 Pretty Plumes

 Of course it buys happiness!

 Sequins

 Xylophone

 Colors in Abstract

Beady

And here is the next mission!:

iPhoneography Mission #25: Call out to your pet and record the moment of connection.

iPhoneography Mission #23

iPhoneography Mission #23: Find something round.


And so I did...

Red Round

Bullseye

What Time Is It?

 Connected

Through the Looking Glass

Polka Dot

Reflect x 6

Reflection in the Round

Square+Round+Octagon

That was a fun mission! I'm sure more round things will be in my future images. For now though, let's move on to the next one:

Mission #24: Seek color.

Mmmm...color. ♥

Sketchbook Project 2012

I had grand plans for this years Sketchbook project...it was less pages and I signed up earlier which meant more time to make it a work of art. Ha! The little book got shuffled aside, buried under mountains of other, more important papers, ignored for other projects until I just had two weeks to finish it before the deadline. When I had originally signed up with my theme "Travel with Me", I planned on only using ink and colored pencil. In the end, I resorted to watercolor because it was a faster way of slapping color onto the page even though the pages aren't really made for wet media. I did still manage to use ink but instead of thoughtful, detailed drawings, I went for the free-flowing scribbleness of quicky lines.
Still, I liked it. Because it's mine. And, I put little "travel secrets" throughout the book. I mailed it off to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with just a week to spare. Whew! (wipes brow and sinks into the couch for a nap).

Cover Page

 This is the intro page.

 I love this picture because it shows just how much I love to travel

 despite whatever weather I may be facing.

Paris

Places in Paris I love. ♥

London

 Feeding the pigeons in Hyde Park.

 Rome

 Bavaria

 Hallstatt, Austria

The C2C

Hadrian's Wall Trail

The Herriot Way (I had lots of help on this page by the kitten walking into paint and then onto my page! Not to mention constantly trying to chew the corners up and eat the pens)

 Cumbria Way

Rio de Janeiro

Somerset

Stonehenge

Venice

Closing page

I will sign up again this year because I proved this time around that with even just two weeks, I can get something onto the page. :)  As always though, my hope is I will have lots of time to work on it. :)

iPhoneography Mission #22

iPhoneography Mission #22
Create abstract compositions of electrical wires on a backdrop of sky.                                                         


I have to admit, I pretty much forgot about this mission. I shot some things at the very beginning of the week and played with the images in Pixlr-o-matic, trying some of the new features I had downloaded for the app. But then, Nichole's father-in-law passed away suddenly and I was occupied with thoughts of her and her family. I also was very distracted by my Sketchbook project, which I finished with just a week to spare (photos to come soon!) and also with how little time I actually have to work on my Bunco decorations (I switched to panic mode and got a bunch of stuff accomplished so I feel much more relaxed now). If it weren't for those few photos I took at the beginning of the week, I would have failed this mission!  Not all of them are abstract because I liked some of them just the way they were. :)

And then the rain came...

 4x3

 Camera Shy

 Pop Goes the Wire

 Nature vs. Man-made

 Fenced In

The Watchers

Here's hoping for brighter days ahead with a new mission for the week:

iPhoneography Mission #23: Find something round.

Sounds simple enough...but is it? :)