Here’s another post that combines two weeks-worth of Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics: week 24: Reflection and week 25: Contrasting Color.
This post has photos from two different Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics for week 22 and 23: Food and Abstract. “Lisa’s abstract art” was from a project that Lisa was doing in preparation of doing an Eric Carle-inspired art project. Ellie and I started the white board drawing with blue […]
The Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topic for week 18 was “water”. I happened to be looking out the window that overlooks our neighbor’s back yard and noticed their tree through the rain-streaked glass, so I grabbed my camera and captured it, being sure to focus on the raindrops and not […]
I’m combining two different Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics into one post. The topic for week 16 was “Flat Lay”, where we had to take a picture of one or more items lying flat on a surface and take the photo from above. Too bad I forgot to use some […]
Cory has been actively working on developing his disc golf game using his left hand. As part of his learning, he asked me to photograph his right-hand drive and his left-hand drive so that he can compare his technique for each. As a result of his request, I put together […]
Emerson’s 1st Grade Class read the Flat Stanley book, As a result, Emerson sent Flat Stanley to Ellie in Kansas so he could have some adventures.
I took the day off to go with the Building Blocks Childcare to the Kansas City Zoo. It’s fun to watch the kids watch the animals! For all of the photos that I took, visit my site at this address: https://www.stevenralphimages.com/Animals/Wild-Critters/Kansas-City-Zoo/
Lisa and I had the pleasure of celebrating Kyson’s birthday with him today. To celebrate, Kyson and I planted our “Blue Bottle Tree” and then Lisa, Kyson and I went to Red Robin for a Birthday Lunch. We finished the celebration with a trip to the Oak Park Mall where […]
The week 12 theme in the Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge is a technique that I’ve worked on for quite some time: sidelights. The idea is to have the subject lit from the side. These photos are some that I took several years ago using this technique: And these are the […]
In honor and celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, week 11’s theme in the Nicolesy 52 photo challenge is “green”. These are a few of the photos I took this week.
Last week’s challenge in the Nicolesy 52 photo challenge was “patterns” and this week, for week 10 its “symmetry”. They share some similar elements. For example, if I had known that symmetry was going to be the next topic, I would have saved the photo I took of the brick […]
As you can probably tell by the image above, I have quite a few books by Dean Koontz. He’s one of my favorite authors and I’ve recently been collecting his books by going to Savers. Savers is a great place to buy used books! The 52 photo challenge by Nicolesy […]
Here is Nicolesy‘s introduction to week 8’s topic of “Negative Space”: “It’s always great to fill the frame with your subject, but sometimes giving your subject room to breathe can make a HUGE impact in the photo. Negative space (also known as ‘copy space’ in the commercial-photography industry) is an […]
“Leading Lines” was the topic for the Nicolesy 52 photo challenge for week 7. “Leading Lights” was taken inside the Joanne Fabric and Craft store in Murray, Utah “The Canyon” is a large artwork that is hanging in the Salt Lake City International Airport “Toothpicks”. Still trying to get my […]