Photo Challenge | Slice of Life

How fun is this week's theme??? I love candid shots, or "slices of life"! Posed pictures are great, but the candid ones seem to capture the real person--their real smile, how they interact with each other, just REAL life!

Having two little girls, I capture a lot of candid shots. I have several of them destroying the bathroom, playing with toys, and generally being cute. But when I was perusing my archives for a shot that jumped out at me, I came across this one of my littlest girl stacking cans. It was great watching how hard she worked to balance each can, watching how she'd hold her tongue or how her lips would twist in concentration.

And what kid hasn't stacked cans? I remember a particular photo of my older brother when he was about two, standing next to a teetering stack of cans. So fun!


She ended up getting that stack to be taller than her!

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Photo Challenge | Sun Flare

I love sun flare! So cool and beautiful...

For the challenge this week, I chose a photo from a bicycle race that I had the opportunity to photograph last summer. This was my first try at any kind of sports photography. I absolutely LOVED it! It was very exciting!


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I Heart Faces: "Anything But A Face" Photo Challenge

I enjoy entering the iheartfaces photo challenges. I get nervous when I enter a photo. I want people to see my work, comment on it and like what they see. I want to be mentioned in the Top Ten or as one of Angie and Amy's Favorites (but it's okay if I'm not). I've actually gotten top ten a couple of times. Plus, it's fun to see all the other photos in the challenge and perhaps find new friends while perusing the week's entries.

The photo I chose for this week's challenge is especially important to me. I was invited to join other people on Facebook affected by Type 1 Diabetes to write the word "HOPE" on a hand, shirt, anywhere and then share the photo on Facebook to raise awareness for this disease, to share in the HOPE to find a cure. This is the photo I shared today. My four-year-old little girl has Type 1 Diabetes and it is our hope that a cure can be found very soon.



My daughter was a bit confused as to why I wanted to write on her hand. "But Mom, we're not supposed to write on ourselves!" It was a little difficult for her to understand the meaning of "HOPE", but after explaining that it means to want something and believe it can happen, that we really hope for a cure for diabetes so she won't have to have icky finger sticks and multiple injections each day, my little girl stated she also hoped she could have a puppy. And ice cream for dessert.

It is my HOPE that even if one person sees this photo, they will have an increasing awareness of Type 1 Diabetes.

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