BLUE

 So I know this is mixed in amongst my Photo a Week(s) Cards but Noel, Renee and I did a "Color Quest" one day. We hit up the OC Circle about 10am and Renee did a little generator thing and assigned us colors!

 I'm really trying to get creativity back into my life in any way I can find. I really enjoyed just walking around an area I'm familiar with looking at it differently because I was searching for a color. 

I got blue!

Here's my grid!

And the rest of the photos below are all the "Blue" I found!

 

Kind of love the house, dumpster and sky - all various blues

I'm such a fan of cool doors

Another cool door

Old Wood

 Although I did pretty good this week, but I feel like it was an easier one and I was going somewhere where I did get a lot of pics, I may push these to 2 weeks apart if I'm struggling finding subjects. I realized I work M-F...so I'm basically in the same spot, so I may not get chances. So we'll see. Or I'll just extend however long I feel...not sure...still kind of figuring out this project.

 

Anywhoo!

 

OLD WOOD!

I was excited for this one and am happy with some of my shots!

 

As soon as I pulled the card, I thought my busted up planter would be perfect!

Love Pat and Rascal in the distance

I'm always going to love depth of field

 

Wish I could have got closer, but it had cameras and may have disturbed people

Clean vs Dirty

Wasn't thrilled with my 1st draw.

I almost put it back. 

But then the Universe was like "NO". And the quote that happened to be in my daily gratitude journal THAT VERY DAY was:

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

- Henry David Thoreau

 

Noted.

 

DIRTY: I found the design of the leaves looking like something was crawling out of the gutter. 

DIRTY: The winds sure love to pile things up

DIRTY: Guess the park was busy that weekend

    

CLEAN: The chonky Princess cleaning herself

CLEAN: Because what purrrrfect way to represent Clean!

CLEAN: This car was dope - and clean!

First week of my little challenge for myself completed. Didn't get nearly enough pictures as I would have liked, but I think that was a combination of really struggling with "Clean vs Dirty" and also being sick most the week so actually not out and about as much as I normally would have.

Pulled my new card for the new week, so let's see where this goes!

Def happy to be finding away to get some damn creativity back into my life!

 

NEW PROJECT ALERT

I'm antsy.

I am doing NOTHING creative lately.

I'm struggling to get my little adventure group to do anything.

I finally decided - "Jami - just fucking do SOMETHING!"

Pat bought me a deck of photo cards last year when I was whining I lost my previous deck. They've been staring at me forever now. Was hoping to get the group to do something, but finally have decided to do this myself.

I'm hoping this will help me get motivated and inspired or at least just doing something Creative. 

I always work better with a guide of some sort and these will be it.

I have no idea if I'll create something else with these, or what will come of them. But for now - I have this Photo Blog - why not post them here.

So here we go.

I have an alarm set on my phone for Sunday mornings to draw a card. For that week I will photograph whatever that card assigns me. (Obvi pausing for weeks of travel, or something of the like)

 I drew my 1st card this week!

I'll then post the pictures I take in a separate blog each week!

LET'S DO THIS! 

 

Oso Creek Park Play Date...

 I"ve been itching to do another photo play date, and with no plans on Labor Day I threw it out to the group.  My only taker was Noel (He's the most committed one!) I tried to find something interesting that we hadn't been too, and we wanted to stay away from the Coast since it's a holiday so I found what looked to be a cool park in Aliso Viejo.  Sadly it got hot really fast, so we didn't explore the whole thing and apparently missed some really good stuff.  So we def plan to go back when the weather is cooler.  But we had a nice morning walking around and did see some fun stuff!