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52 Fridays: Old

Old. What is old? Who is old? How does one interpret old?

I have a box of old photographs from my grandmother's house. It is filled with family snapshots and school portraits over the years, filled with people that I have known as grown-up my entire life as not grown-up. They are mostly of my dad. I cherish these pictures. Looking through them, I realize I need be better about getting my family photographs, especially the day-to-day moments that make up the years rushing by, printed. They may just be thrown into a box someday, but someone will look at them and realize the connections that run through old photographs and family generations.

Head on over to Denver family photographer Lisa Turner. Her photography is fabulous! Remember we have some new faces joining our project - make sure to click through the blog-circle and see how everyone deals with "old."

I will be seeing if Don and I are friends or not. We should finish harvesting cotton sometime Friday, and Don's path is shifting to the south. I pray our cotton pickers finish ahead of his arrival.

Might As Well Jump

Weekend before last, the boys and I escaped the heat and start of cotton harvest. It was time for our annual July Frio River trip. The only kink in our plans was the lack of water in the Frio. There was no floating to be found. Good thing the place we stayed had a nice water hole, plus some shade underneath a bridge.

On a complete aside, I hate my point & shoot. I have always been a Canon girl. Two years ago, Jack left my p&s in Chicago, and I stupidly decided to get a different brand. The image quality just stinks. I get tired of lugging my big baby around, but still want something that ends up with high-quality photographs.

52 Fridays: Silhouette

Summer: lake, water-logged days, jumping off piers with abandon.

Picking back up this week after last week's retreat from harvest and heat.

You won't want to miss Denver family photographer Lisa Turner. Follow through until you see each photographer's fantastic work this week!

Changes

If your shower is leaking, and you are going to have it fixed up, you might as well have the tile guy re-do the bathroom floor....and the back entry way floor....and the laundry room floor. Perfect timing too - just as we started picking cotton this week!

52 Fridays: Independence

If you thought I would have some 4th of July image for this week's assignment, you thought wrong.

We were at a baseball field, on a river, and on the road for the Independence Day holiday weekend. No patriotic flags, no hometown parades, no block party picnic.

So I had to look elsewhere for independence.

And I found it at the baseball field.

Payne says when you bat, it is just you. There is no hiding and there is no help. You are part of a team, and yet, while you are in the batter's box, you are independent of those other 8 players and have to complete your at-bat alone.

 

We have new faces joining the project this week. Make sure you continue throughout the blog circle to see the regulars and welcome our new girls via the links to the next photographer's site. Next up is Shea of Peepeye Designs.

52 Fridays: Backlight

July is here, and we are halfway through the year, which means we are halfway through the Project 52.

This week's theme is "backlight." This image is from an early evening in the cotton fields. You've heard of buttery light? The light this evening was that - smooth and golden. I was more interested in trying to capture the light than the cotton. I wish I could bottle up light like that!

As I critique the photograph, it seems the cotton may be illuminated more from the side than the back, but I love the way that yummy light envelops the cotton in the right foreground.

Backlight can be tricky for a photographer to master, but it is oh-so-sweet when it is. I bet the work posted this week is spectacular. Start out with our newest member, Deb from Delight In Little Things and continue through the entire blog circle.