Nature Challenge: Monday

Good ol' New Jersey has such unpredictable weather. We've been getting all sorts of it around here lately --  blazing 90 degree heat one day and the next day we have thunder and lightning. Haha all the more reason to spend some time outside, right?  Hopefully I'll be able to catch some of that lighting in the next few days, as I'll be attempting a nature challenge this week. Here are a few garden photos that I was able to shoot a few days ago.

Hope you had a great start to the week!

Bokeh Challenge: Sunday

 I had so much fun with last week's challenge that I thought that I'd take on another challenge for the new week! This time around, I'll be focusing on bokeh (heh heh) and thinking up of creative ways of including bokeh into my photos.

I was pretty happy about being behind the camera instead of in front! I asked my sister to be my model today (YAY!) and we had some fun in the front yard. I spotted that watering can shown as I was walking around the house and  knew that I wanted to shoot some water bokeh for today's photo. Also, I love the bokeh in Stephie's dress in the photo above!

Below are two outtakes. Before shooting, the photo I imagined was something like the one on the right. Unfortunately, I cut off the watering can and the bokeh circles are too large and not defined enough :( 

I asked Stephie to stand far behind the flowers so that she would be the same size as the flowers in this last photo. I had a "God uses little people to do big things" kind of inspiration behind this picture. If I can think of a more appropriate caption, maybe I'll add some text into the photo later. Any suggestions are welcome!

Catch you tomorrow! Hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day! :)

Floral Fixation.

An unglamorous day of running errands. Stopped into the supermarket for a quick grocery run with my family and I moseyed over to have a look at the flowers. Ah, the suburbs.

I'm jealous of people in NYC who have constant access to a huge variety of gorgeous flowers (and sold by the stem to boot!) Anyways, these flowers are pretty common in the typical grocery store in the suburbs.

I tried to reduce the noise as much as I could in Photoshop but I'm not sure if it made that much of a difference. Anyone know what gives? Suggestions?

If anyone reads this thing, I hope you have a great weekend ;)

Happy Friday!

I know everyone says Happy Friday, but seriously. HAPPY. FRIDAY.

Yes! The weekend!
SOOC.