This week for our 52 blog circle the theme is DOF or Depth of Field.  I have some examples of DOF in some of my portrait work but I wanted to do something a little different then portraits because I get to do those all the time.

If you have young boys around then you know that Lego mini figures live in a reality all their own.  Well this week I decided to take a walk in their world and see how the minis live.  Here is what I found!

{PS I may add some more images from this set so check back in the afternoon!}

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Wow!  I think I lost a whole year somewhere! Somehow I now have 2 kids in school and I am closer to 40 then 30 (like fine wine, right Miss Jane!)!  So now 2012 is gone.  Now it’s time to gear up for 2013!

This is not my New Year’s “Goal” post.  I have to do that still.  (Not Procrastinating may have to be added to my 2013 goals!)  I would love to take a look at last year’s post (you can see it here) and see where I succeeded and what I need to add to this year’s list.

But I do know that this year I wanted to do an on-going photo project.  Something like a 365 Project like Boots and Tea (you have to read theirs.  It is such a wonderful conversation between friends).  But I had tried to do the monthly Instagram ones (where you have a photo-a-day for each month) and never really succeeded in getting a shot EVERY day.  So I decided to set a more realistic goal (another good phrase for my 2013) and was invited by a photog friend from Vegas to join a 52 Blog Circle!  So excited!  (Thank you Jennifer!)

So I jumped on it…Once a week…I should be able to handle this!  I am so excited.  How it will work is every Sunday I will be posting my interpretation of that week’s theme and then link to the next photographer in my blog circle for you to be able to see how they interpreted the same theme.  Every one of us will have a link to the next until it gets back to me.  I personally love to see how different people see the same “scene” in a different way.  For this, the “scene” is the weekly topic.

Don’t worry though, I won’t write this much EVERY week! I just wanted to introduce you to my 2013 52-Week blog posts.

Okay then…

This week’s topic was “New”.  When I first saw the topic list a ton of ideas came to mind and perhaps I might continue to explore those this week.  But in the end I kept coming back to one thing…New ME.

The New Year is typically a time when we look ahead at what we want to change, try or become.  I have some ideas about what I want to do with my mind, my home, my body, my business, my family and my heart and soul.  So to represent my “New” I wanted to give you a peek at some of the things I will be looking to work on for the New ME…

The book I am holding should actually read “I Was Really NEVER Organized…So Now What?” LOL.  Believe me there are a ton more books that could be here…I should go to the library and check them all out.  It would be quite and impressive tower!  These are just the ones that have been unpacked from the moving boxes and readily accessible the night I took this…okay it was last night about 11:30pm…I think I mentioned I need work on procrastination already.

Now that you saw my take on what “New” meant to me, please go check out my fellow photographer Katrina Lee of Katrina Lee Photography in Nebraska and see her gorgeous work and how she saw “New” through her lens!

How would you see “New”? I would love to hear about it in them comments! Better yet, if you have a photo please place a link in the comments so we can check it out!

Happy New Year and God Bless you in 2013!

Cheers,

K

I love me some sun flare.  I love to see it in landscape and portrait photography.  Granted you can have too much.  If most of the images in your portfolio are sun flare or you are handing a ton of images to a client with sun flare in them you might be over doing it.  But I love the romantic look of those type of images.

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This year I decided to shoot more, learn more and like my Shutter Sisters word for January: connect.  What better way to do all that then to join a photography community!

I Heart Faces is the photography community I am highlighting in this post.  I Heart Faces is an online community, not just a forum, for all skill levels of photographers to go and learn and share and have fun!  If you have a camera, love to take photographs and love to learn I recommend you go and check them out.

Every week I Heart Faces post a weekly photo challenge on their blog.  The challenge goes up every Monday and closes by 9pm (CST) on Tuesday night.

This is my first time entering.  Wouldn’t you know that the challenge this week is: Oh So Silly!

Is this for me or what! LOL!  So I knew exactly what image I was going to enter!  Can you guess?  I know I have a lot of silly images a lot of times but this particular image is just begging to be included in I Heart Face’s Photo Challenge this week!

So here it is and don’t forget to go check out I Heart Faces!  You can also follow them on Twitter and join them on Facebook.  If you want to check out more images from this little in-house goofiness please check out the Funny Bone post earlier this week.  Thanks and enjoy!

Cheers,

K

 To view more images for this week’s photo challenge just click on the image below:

The image in this post was submitted to the I Heart Faces photo challenge: Oh So Silly! 30 January 2012

I had been hoping to start doing more scheduled blog posts.  Something to look forward to and also allow myself to be prepared a head of time.  So I was thinking of making Fridays easy for me and since I am always out or online looking for neat things {can you say Pinterest, hello?!}, then I could come back here and share.  It would not have to be photography or even products.  Anything in the world that I find interesting and want to tell you about, I will post about it on Friday Finds!  What do you think?  Let’s give it a whirl.

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