Typist: Bethany
The 52 Snapshots of Life Photo Challenge last year did a lot to keep me blogging consistently, motivate new pet adventures and encourage imaginative photography during a very tough year for me personally. Although we made it through 2015 with no deaths in the family and I am settling into a good groove of making time for my new job and blogging, I decided to seek out a new photo challenge for 2016 to keep my pet adventures and the photographic documentation of those outings creative and fresh. After a lot of searching, the most inspirational photo challenge I found is the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. It's week one and I have already been extremely challenged!
The 52 Snapshots of Life Photo Challenge last year did a lot to keep me blogging consistently, motivate new pet adventures and encourage imaginative photography during a very tough year for me personally. Although we made it through 2015 with no deaths in the family and I am settling into a good groove of making time for my new job and blogging, I decided to seek out a new photo challenge for 2016 to keep my pet adventures and the photographic documentation of those outings creative and fresh. After a lot of searching, the most inspirational photo challenge I found is the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. It's week one and I have already been extremely challenged!
Dogwood Photography Photo Challenge Week 1, Portrait: Self Portrait
"Start things off right with a 'selfie'! Explore the self timer setting on your camera."
"Start things off right with a 'selfie'! Explore the self timer setting on your camera."
The first thing that appealed to me about the week one challenge is that I have never explored the self timer on my camera. Secondly, I have been wanting to try a fun selfie with myself and all five pets. Until discovering this photo challenge, it had never occurred to me that the timer would be the best way to capture some me and three, four and five pets fun. The photos could have been better composed, angled and lit, but for a bunch of pets and a human that have been relatively sedentary for the last week because the human has a few separated and fractured ribs, I think we did pretty good. And at the least, we got out and had fun together. That is always the point!
This post is a part of the Dogwood Photography 52 Week Photography Challenge. Please see more of our photo challenge posts here.
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