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A Photo a Week Challenge: Dead Center

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Most of the time, photographers are told to frame their subject or subjects using the rule of thirds, and there’s a very good reason for that. Our eyes love asymmetry. We prefer looking at things that are things grouped into odd numbers. However, like most rules, there are times when you need to break it, so it’s important to know and understand the rule so that you can explain why you broke it. For this image, the colors and intricacies of the petals give the image so much life and vibrancy that, for me, the eye doesn’t mind that the flower is in the middle of the image. I didn’t even need to touch it post-processing (that’s what shooting during the golden hour will do for you many times).

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE PHOTOS WITH CENTERED SUBJECTS.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ and “Photo a Week” tags.
  3. Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
  4. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Open Topic

Open topics are both hard and easy. Easy, because you can do anything, and hard because you can do ANYTHING! Here are a few images from my life the last few months.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone, But Not Forgotten

Flowers from Dad's casket

For Dad’s funeral, Mom didn’t want a large flower arrangement for the casket, so she asked each of us to pick a rose color to personally place on the casket at the graveside. We had two of each color (lavender, yellow with red tips, deep peach, dark red, and pink), for each child and their spouse. The grandsons added their white pallbearer carnations, and the granddaughters placed pick carnations. Mom’s was the sole white rose.

For more from this challenge, visit Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone, But Not Forgotten.

A Baker’s Dozen Roses

I had the opportunity to photograph these amazing, award-winning roses in June. I was lucky enough to capture them just days before many were heading off to a national rose competition. Can you pick a favorite from among these perfect beauties? I couldn’t, though I would gladly pick them all and fill my home with their intoxicating scent and loveliness.

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Red

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In images, color (or the lack of it) is as important as what is in the image. Sometimes, the color is the reason for the image. Red roses are iconic in our society for many things: love, wealth, success. The red of blood can mean life or death. In the movie The Sixth Sense, the director purposefully had something red in every scene (now I dare to you watch the movie without looking for it).

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO THAT HAS RED AS EITHER THE MAIN OR AN ACCENT COLOR.

Look for the red in your life, or use your photo editing software to enhance or create images that represent red to you.  Then blog them and post a link to your masterpieces here.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.

2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.

3. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

A Photo a Week: Butter Yellow

When I hear the words “butter yellow”, I think of roses. My grandmother grew the most amazing roses of all colors, but her yellow roses were stunning. My husband also wooed me with yellow roses from what is now our rose garden.

Butter yellow roses

What do you think of when someone says “butter yellow”? Post your entries in the comments and tag your post with “postaday”.

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