Ooops!

Sorry everyone I posted earlier today with a photo of my son smelling roses. After I got reflecting on it I realized I took the picture yesterday so that wouldnt have worked with the challenge. my official post is below.

Wisdom...less

I will give you the scenario and you decide if it is wisdom. 1 dog, kid age 4, kid age 2 and a dwarf hamster. Yes, honestly this just happened...today! Three things I learned. One, my daughter has us wrapped around her finger. Two, I should consider changing my last name to McDonald as we have had so many pets. Three, a pink tinted plastic container is hard to shoot through in any light and probably any camera. CC!
ISO 320, no flash, lamp light overhead as my house was kind of dark.

Canine Wisdom

(50mm, f7.1, 1/250, ISO200)

In raw editing I increased the vibrance. In Elements I sharpened and burned the edges.

Things We Can Learn From a Dog
*Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride
* Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
*When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
*Take naps and stretch before rising.
*Eat with gusto and enthusiasm.
*Be loyal.
*Never pretend to be something you're not.
*When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.
*Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.
*When you're happy, dance around and wag your entire body.
*Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.

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I have a confession, this challenge flat out stumped me. So, what did I do (ducking head in embarrassment)?! I....can't say it....googled wisdom to get my brain juices flowing. The shame! Anyway, I found this list on canine wisdom and loved it. And it just so happened, the friends I was taking pictures of today had two beautiful dogs. Too much of a stretch?

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Old Wisdom

I have been passing by this bus, dying to take it's picture for MONTHS now. Well, today, I didn't have my kids, it was just me and my husband in the car, so we pulled over and I trekked up the hill, through the thick weeds and had my way with it.

This symbolizes old wisdom. It was the bus to school many, many moons ago.

f/10, 1/160, ISO 200... In ps, I ran an extreme color action, as well as a sharpener.

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CHALLENGE: Wisdom (and ONE voting results)

Okay---keeping everyone on their toes this week. Sorry for all the "construction" that's been going on. Just trying to tweak things to be just so. :)

I am going to try to post the results this way for now, just so everyone can see and we make a point to really highlight the winners.

For the ONE challenge winners we had:
BEST OVERALL went to DAVE, with his ONE canoe (and one mishap!! :) Great story Dave.

MOST ORIGINAL: Rachel with her floating uno cards

And I think we've come to a solution for the voting dilema that I HOPE will make everyone happy. (thanks everyone for your advice)

The concern was brought up that someone could receive a lot of votes and not even win at all because the votes for their picture were spread out. So, I think we will go ahead and keep the BEST OVERALL, a randomly selected category, and then we will also announce the person with the most votes overall! :)

So, the first person to take this honor is KATY with her picture displaying how nice rice can be.

GREAT WORK EVERYONE!

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Now, onto the CHALLENGE! I am very curious what everyone will come up with for this one...

So, here goes...today's word is: WISDOM.

What does that mean to you? What do you think of when you think of this?
Let's step it up and really think outside the box on this one. :)

Remember, pictures in by midnight tomorrow!

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one more tidbit: Would you please leave a comment if you are willing to sign up to post a word for a challenge? That way we can get that going. I am excited to have everyone contribute!

This blog was in search of some spring!

Hi there fabulous photographers...your mission 24 blog here...

I was totally sick of the black background...for winter, it was a-okay. But I have caught a glimpse of the sunshine outside and I needed a change.

White is a little too white...but I am waiting to make an appointment to get tanned with a nice shade of beige so I am not shocking anyone with my pasty "skin"...

But for tonight, this is where I am.

And I got a new header-do too...I just needed something fresh. My header-styler is not a professional, so please don't mind her amateur job. If you know someone who has more experience, please let me know...

Anyway, just checking in to wish you a happy spring! Glad you visit me often! It's nice to see you, each and every time!

Have a great night...

A lotta business stuff and FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHER info.

Hello everyone! Hoping it's as beautiful where you are as it is out here in Eastern Ohio! GORGEOUS today!

Shanda was bogged down with school and stuff this week and asked to reschedule her feature Friday. No prob Shanda!! It gave me a good chance to put an update on the changes that are happening here. So, here is how things will go from now on:

VOTING:
After taking into consideration the things that were voted on for voting (yes, that sounds totally weird), here's what we will do:

I would like to have 8 categories (besides the BEST OVERALL) that we can rotate through. That way everyone knows the 8 things that might be used for voting. We won't actually announce the vote category until the voting day. That will help people keep on their toes! :)

We did have some people ask for a most improved, or something to include people who may not feel like their photography skills are up there yet. I absolutely agree and think this is a great encouragement as you learn. So, I want to include that as one of our random categories.

I would love some feedback in collecting the list we use. So far we have:

1. Most Improved
2. Most original idea
3. Best use of lighting
.....the rest needs to be filled in still. What are your thoughts?


As for the professional vs. amateur...it's a tough call. I mean, there are people with point and shoots who have no real previous experience that are winning challenges and whose photos look professional...people that have really chosen to step up and make their camera work for them, instead of limiting themselves to what they think their camera can do. And there are people who have "fancy cameras" that have only had their cameras for a few months, with no previous experience and yet they are always winning challenges. Just because their pictures LOOK professional, doesn't mean they feel like they could be called that. So, I don't know where to draw the line. And because of that, I just won't. We will keep it as is...everyone together. I think that's how we will really learn and grow and feel encouraged.

Now, one more piece of feedback I need!! :)

For our featured photographer piece we will post each week, I would love to know what you want to know about each other:

I figure we will go with 10 questions--so it's not overwhelming for people. You can ask more specific questions in the comments section of their post.

I will then email a copy of the final to everyone and if you could fill it out and email it back to me WITH A PICTURE OF THEMSELVES, that would be great. Then I will randomly select one person each week to highlight and get to know.

so what do you want to know??? Here are some ideas?
--what camera do you use?
--where are you from? Where do you live?(even a state if people don't want to be specific)
--How long have you been interested in photography?
--what is the funniest photography story you have?
--Share a piece of photography advice you have learned...

These are not set in stone..just things to get you guys thinking.

SO---I KNOW this is long and you might have forgotten by now...
PLEASE, PLEASE leave me some feedback for the challenge categories--

and please leave me some questions you want to know about each other. I will get an email sent out as soon as I can get 10 good q's together! :)

Also, Mindy has offered to help me out with the feature Fridays--she will be emailing you guys with a reminder as your time comes up, and will be updating the sidebar with the calendar, etc. So feel free to let her know when you are ready to do one.

And Janelle has been helping with one challenge a week and doing the voting tallies, etc. So thank you Janelle for taking that off my plate. I sure appreciate it!

THANKS everyone for all your input and allowing me to change things here and there as we make it a good place for everyone. :) Any other ideas? Send them my way!

One: VOTING

Whew! This was definitely a challenge for me, and from reading the posts, it sounds like it was a rough one for each of you, too. But that's what we're about here, right? Getting out of our comfort zones.

Okay, we're changing up the voting today. No more "best take" category. The category will probably change with each challenge (we haven't quite ironed out all the kinks yet), but for today, your two categories will be MOST ORIGINAL and BEST OVERALL.

Please be sure to submit your votes like this:

Most original:
Best overall:
Shoutouts:

Also please don't vote this time around for Jackie or Mindy, as they both won the honors in the last challenge.

Until midnight, then.

One: My Little One

Wow, I had a really hard time with this one. You would think that I would have had something in mind already, since it was my challenge word, but I didn't. I ended up going with the obvious (for me) in the end, despite the numerous great ideas Rachel sent my way. This is my little ONE. She just turned ONE year old yesterday. She is my only ONE (so far). This was taken today during the ONE nap she took (in my bed, of course). She's holding (sort-of) Snuggle Bear, which -- of all the stuffed animals we have and have given her -- is the ONE that she has chosen to love the most.

About the photo: mid-afternoon, flash, macro setting. I cropped it to focus around her a little more. I used the "I'm feeling lucky" function in Picasa, which adjusts the color and the exposure in one easy function. I darkened the shadows around her a little bit, and then created a soft focus around the outside.

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One More Chance

When we first moved to Columbus and were driving around we ran across this church and died laughing. C.R.A.C.K. HOUSE MINISTRIES (Christ Resurrects After Crack Kills).

I am thankful for the resurrection and that people will have 'one more chance', so to speak.

(I know... it was a stretch, but I've been wanting to take a picture of this church for some while.)

One Duck

This was not the picture I was hoping for. My other idea will have to wait until I can drag my husband out with me because I couldn't get it to work alone. So while tempting to get a different shot this duck came to watch. In a pond that usually has tons of ducks this guy was the only one we saw today so he became my new inspiration. I cropped it a little.

Canon Rebel XSi 300 mm, 1/400s, f/7.1 ISO 500
CC always welcomed!

One Banana a Day . . .

Keeps my leg cramps away!

So I apologize - I have been a TOTAL slacker the last 2 1/2 months or so, as I was working a temp FT job and just could NOT do everything! But I am glad to be back and take part in this challenge!
I'm now almost 8 months prego (#4) and for some time was having horrid leg and foot cramps. A calcium/magnesium supplement and ONE Banana a Day for potassium and I am good to go!

One Banana a Day, Keeps the Doctor Away!(This pic is supposed to be horizontal - no idea why it keeps coming up vertical!)

ONE pretty cool coincidence

My husband and I were playing around, taking pictures of these pennies on the floor for this challenge--ONE cent, see?-- and all of a sudden ONE little ladybug started crawling across our pile of pennies. Well, ONE little bug is good too, right? So we have ONE ladybug on ONE pile of ONE cent pieces. Cool, huh? =)

(Taken with a Nikon D-40, on automatic setting, then slightly cropped.) CC welcome.

The One that Stands Out

We're visiting my parents in an impromptu weekend visit. This is one of Mom's beautiful semi-precious stones, among all the plain pebbles of the driveway. I loved the contrast of the one beautiful rock in the midst of the plain ones.

I wish I had software to really make the color of the stone pop against all the grays, but I had to work with what was available - the program on Dad's computer that I'm not really familiar with. I cropped it to make the stone fill more of the frame, and sharpened the blue stone.

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One red cent

ISO 400, 3.2 sec, f11, florescent lighting, sooc

This was one hard challenge.

Ironically enough, this photo required two of us to take (my husband and myself). My husband had another idea, "No one," which I've posted on my personal blog (since I had nothing to do with it except agree it was an interesting picture).

One Day's Work

Oh what a challenge. Someday I'm going to think up a really hard challenge just for Janelle. Anyway, here is my picture.


Taken at twilight of my wonderful husband sporting his brand new vest. We are going out to a masque ball tomorrow and I made him this fancy new vest today. It's made out of the same material as my dress, so we will match :) As for the picture I was in standard portrait mode. I attached my large flash to give me the extra light. In PS I cropped it down to show off my subject better. I personally wish there was a little more light in the background at the bottom of the picture but at 8:30 at night there is only so much you can do.

One special day

I did bridals yesterday and my mom who is an amazing photographer let me use her super cool camera! I can't remember the settings for this picture because I had to change them a lot for every picture because it was so sunny.

When two become ONE

(195mm macro setting, f/7.1, 1/100, ISO400)

Used natural light and spot metering. In Elements I sharpened, cropped and burned the black to make it darker.

CC welcome

Oh and my lens is now stuck in macro mode....HELP! Any ideas on how to get it out?! The little switch seems jammed.

UNO = ONE

UNO=ONE...just a little Spanish lesson. :)

I took this by setting the top layer of cards up on a glass tabletop I have and the other cards on the floor below. (thus the floating look)

Took inside with only natural light (blocking the sun so I didn't have a glare)...had to use a little higer ISO...

ISO 800, 66mm, f5.3, 1/60 second

Did a color boost in Adobe Lightroom.

This was SUCH a fun challenge! It was really hard to narrow it down. And it was fun to be surprised...thanks Janelle for thinking up this one!

"One Beautiful Day"

Such a gorgeous day for a drive. Stumbled across this "literally" out in the woods off of a side road. The old chair begged for me to take pics....:)

~cc~ appreciated


ISO 200
1/1250
F4.5

ONE Grain of Rice

Long ago in India, there lived a raja who believed that he was wise and fair. But every year he kept nearly all of the people’s rice for himself. Then when famine came, the raja refused to share the rice, and the people went hungry. Then a village girl named Rani devises a clever plan. She does a good deed for the raja, and in return, the raja lets her choose her reward. Rani asks for just one grain of rice, doubled every day for thirty days. Through the surprising power of doubling, one grain of rice grows into more than one billion grains of rice — and Rani teaches the raja a lesson about what it truly means to be wise and fair.

Yes, I had more than ONE of these for lunch today! Feeling slightly guilty, but mmm they were good.(Digital filter "toy camera" setting, F5.6, ISO400 1/30)

OK.... I could have done a million and one things with this challenge but did not have the time. I have been busy with company staying with us and now more is coming in to town, it's my hubby's 30th b-day today and I am trying to get our garden ready to plant this Saturday. I am busy, to say the least. So having said that, this is why you get this picture, no time to mess around trying to find the perfect one.

P.S. I was just experimenting with a newly found feature on my camera under digital filters called "Toy Camera". My hubby showed me this and I snapped a few during our lunch and then thought I'd take one of my plate.

One Last Coveted Box

Help! I am really not proud of this picture. I thought and thought about what to photograph. I have flowers and one lonely bell pepper growing in my garden, but nothing I really liked. I thought about not even posting, but I really want to learn more. Please leave CC. Is there something I could do with lighting or angle to make this shot more interesting? Oh, and my self portrait is still coming. I promise! 

*Edit: I have a Canon Rebel XS. I have 2 lenses. I was using the 75-300 because I get better blur, but I have a 50mm (whatever the standard zoom lens is...) I was at 4.5 at 1/40a sec. 1600ISO (My house must be really dark! haha.) I tried to edit it and take out some of the yellow from my lights in my kitchen, but never really got it back to neutral. Thanks for your help!

One Nation Under God...

Nikon D80, Ap - F 5.0, ISO 250, 52mm, No flash

SOOC SHOT

Picture pretty much sums up why I thought ONE fit. I got up right next to the pole and took a shot looking up at the flag. I liked the angle...gave it a neat perspective. The flag wasn't as full as I would have liked, but there wasn't much wind yesterday. CC welcomed!!

ONE Happy Boy!

( Nikon D60, 50mm, 1/2000 sec, f/2.8, iso 100)

ONE day off, ONE canoe, ONE fishing pole, ONE happy boy...

until the one and a half year old fell overboard.

One Busy Bee

Nikon D90, f3.2 1/2500, iso 640 (whoops! forgot to put it back down!), 50mm, cropped and edited in photoshop

I chased this bee around for a loooong time this afternoon! It's a little tricky to focus on one very busy bee, but a LOT of fun!

CLICK the picture to see it bigger... I love the detail in the flowers and bee's wings!

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All alone

This is one flower out of many on the tree right outside my front door.

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It Only Takes One

It only takes one cloud to shade the whole yard. I was so interested in watching the clouds today. This was one of many pictures taken while cloud-watching. I think it's also interesting that one sun does everything neccessary for our planet. And that one sky is universal...everyone sees basically the same thing. Lots of ones for this!

Taken with my cloudy setting still on (by accident, but it worked). Natural light, obviously.

CC welcome!

One Day My Prince Will Come

I cant believe I will be first this week. Here is my daughter who loves to dress up as a princess. She thinks that to get married means you dance with your prince. PS she dressed herself like this in 90 degree weather.

Shot on my porch, cropped and sharpened colors in Picasa. I just found out how to get the details on the picture so here they are. 40mm f/2.8 ISO 80 no flash the porch provided all the light I needed. CC as always, give it to me I can take it!

CHALLENGE: One

Good morning everyone! I hope you're all ready for a new challenge today.

Today is my daughter's first birthday. Since I can't do "celebration" for a challenge word (we did that for Rachel's birthday), and I think "birthday" is too unambiguous, I decided to choose the word ONE for today's challenge.

One.

I think we'll get a lot of entries again this time, and I have a feeling that we're going to have a lot of interpretations. I'm looking forward to it.

Please post your entries by midnight tomorrow.

(Please remember to tag your posts with "your name, challenge word")

A little more organization...

Hey everyone. I have been thinking about some new things I want to add to the blog--

Wondering what you think about the following:

I want to start a featured photographer each week--so that one person gets highlighted and we can really get to know each other. I thought we could do a q&a on each person--

And I thought I would have one day as a mission 24 business day--to do all this kind of blogkeeping stuff...ask opinions, reminder of rules, etc.

HOWEVER, I don't want to have TONS of posts every day because I know it's probably hard for everyone to keep up on.

My thought was to just edit the VOTING posts (instead of having a new post to announce) and put the winners in a separate blurb at the bottom...like this:

Time to vote. Great challenge this time! Please remember to vote by saying:

Best overall:

Best_____:

Any shoutouts...

Thanks!

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WOW! LOTS OF VOTES THIS TIME! Thanks for all the participation. Our winners are:
Best overall: Jane Doe with her sports shot
and
Best angle: John Doe with his train shot

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This would allow us to keep the posts to a minimum on non-challenge days.

So the schedule would be:
Monday--Voting (and Mission 24 business)
Tuesday--Featured photographer
Wednesday-Challenge
Thursday (remainder of challenge)
Friday-Voting (and Friday Feature)
Saturday - Challenge
Sunday (remainder of challenge)

What do you think?

Vintage: WINNERS!

Good morning everyone. The voting for this challenge was pretty spread out. There were so many great photos to choose from, and everyone did such a good job.

Congrats to Mindy for her photo of Grandpa's truck. She earned the best take of the challenge. Also congrats to Jackie, who won best overall with her "like, totally vintage" VW bus.

There were tons of shout-outs this challenge, too. Just about everyone who entered this time around was recognized.

Stay tuned for a new challenge tomorrow morning!

(I also would like to thank everyone who voted for me. I'm flattered!)

I Know I'm Late

I just got to a point where I could get these uploaded. I know I'm late for the challenge but I wanted to share it anyway. So thanks for looking at my late photo.


These are the two cameras I trained on and yes they are both 35mm. After taking the picture I ran it through HP Image Zone and did the black and white filter and the antique one after that. I also cropped it just a little.
PS- Don't vote for me, vote for someone who got their submission in on time!

Vintage: VOTING!

Great challenge everyone! So many great entries were submitted.

We're going to keep going with the old way of voting for this challenge, and then figure things out for the next one.

So remember:

Best take
Best overall
Shoutout

Erin and Brittney won the last challenge, so they are ineligible this time around. Sorry girls, but it keeps the love spread around!

You have until midnight tonight to submit your votes.

Grandpa's Truck

It IS before midnight here, so I'm calling this good. ;) I just got back from being out of town all weekend, so I'm getting in right under the wire. This is a picture of my dad-in-law's old truck... I had a lot of ideas for vintage (one of my favorite things ever!!) but I didn't have the weekend to pull them off.

Frankenstein the Firetruck

(50mm, f/3.5, 1/25, ISO400)

Sharpened and desaturated in Elements

I had a hard time with this challenge. There were too many things I wanted to take pictures of. I took pictures of my old boat, a canoe my dad built when he was a kid, old farmyards, fields, and old trains. Just as it was getting dark we were leaving my dad's home and as we drove past the fire station. I had to get out and take pictures of this very old firetruck.

Frankenstein, has been a member of the Mantua volunteer fire department since it was organized twenty years ago. It was one of the first fire trucks I have driven. I tried to find out what year it was built, but have no idea. I would guess in the sixties and I'm sure it is one of the oldest, still in service, fire trucks in the State. It is a tanker used to bring water to the site of a wildland fires. I've seen that big steel front bumper plow down six inch diameter trees. This is an amazing truck and though some of the other pictures I took today may have been better I love this truck so I'm posting it for you all to see.

Forgot to mention the one thing I don't like about my picture is the distracting road grater in the background. I tried many different angles and thought this one displayed the truck the best, despite the road grater in the background.

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Vintage Sci-fi

ISO 100, f5.6, 2sec; used curves in gimp to intensify colors.

My husband regularly tries to convince me to get rid of this stack of old science fiction paperbacks. There's just something about the smell and the feel of these old books that I find comforting, bringing back memories of long summer afternoons spent curled up on my grandparent's couch.

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Singer

This is my grandma's sewing machine that is over 50 years old. And yes it does still work. She used it to make dresses, costumes, and everything else for her four girls. When she heard that I didn't know how to sew she sent it home with me telling me it was time to learn.

Taken with Cannon Rebel XSi in auto setting, (still having some problems with manual) 1/60s, f/4.0, ISO:400. I cropped it and added the sephia in Picasa. CC always welcome!

Vintage Ring

My 5Th Great-Grandfather bought this ring for his daughter. It has been passed down the generations to me. It may seem like not too big of a deal, but to me it is.
My 5Th Great-Grandfather was the Prophet Lorenzo Snow. I come from his 3rd wife Sarah Ann Prichard. (It has been said that Sarah was his favorite wife.) I have been so blessed to not only have this ring, but I also have a china set (only missing a few pieces) that he bought his wife while in England in 1851. My mom currently is holding the china hostage until I have a place to safely put it. I don't blame her. :)

I've never been able to wear this ring, as it is so small that it won't even fit past the first knuckle of my pinkie finger. To be honest, I think I'd be to afraid to loose one of the delicate stones if I did wear it out of the house.

I can't wait to pass this ring on to my daughter.
I love having such wonderful ancestors; and a rich family history.

Vintage Toy

So...this is what happened to me today (we have had lots of rain). I was driving around our nice quaint town looking for some inspiration. We live in a country town with dairy and chicken farms all around, so off I went by myself...No child, cell phone, purse or ID. I had to walk about 1/4 mile to a nice farm house and borrow the phone. Needless to say I didn't get to drive around anymore after my husband had to recruit the neighbor to pull me out of the mud. The road in front of me was covered by water so I was trying to turn around with out getting stuck...hehehe.

So...this is my entry. I went home and found this in my little girl's room. It is a toy apple that has a jingling bell inside; the underside says '72 Fisher Price Made in the USA. I played with it at my grandma's house when I was a child, and then she gave it to me to pass on to Emily.

ISO 100

Natural Light

1/100

F4

PS Elements: 50% Tint B/W; 50% Tint Sephia; 25% Tint Red; Flattened Image; Burned Edges

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Vintage Shoes

I chose to use these shoes because they look like they've been through a war...or two.

Taken with a Nikon D-40, auto setting, cropped, adjusted lighting. CC welcome.

Vintage: house

I have been waiting for a challenge to use this house in. I love the vintage brick, windows, door, wheel barrow and the old school lawn mower.
I cropped it, used warmify from picasa .
Camera Used HP Photosmart R707
ISO 100 F8.4

Vintage Madame

This is my oldest Madame Alexander Doll- she represents Norway, in honor of my hubby's family. I added the flowers for texture but after about a billion and two pictures I still wasn't quite happy with the turn out. I wanted the texture of the flowers and the doll together but I kept losing one or the other. I'm really struggling with aperture settings on my D40x- any tips?

Settings:

f/5.6
shutter 1/125 sec
iso 100

PS- PW colorized action at low opacity with edge burn

PLEASE CC- I really want to learn!

Vintage Recipe

Sunderland Pudding

Two eggs, well beaten, 1 scant cup flour, 1 cup sweet
milk, salt, beat well together; bake in a drip pan 1/2 hour.
Serve with cream, sugar and nutmeg.

The Economy Cookbook, 1910

I thought I'd take a different approach to this challenge, since I don't really have a lot of vintage stuff around my apartment, and being in the early stages of pregnancy, I don't have the energy to get out and search for great picture opportunities. But I do have online access to a wonderful vintage cookbook, The Economy Cookbook. I love old-time recipes, with the charming simplicity of ingredients and directions. So I chose a very simple vintage pudding to bake and photograph, and of course, to eat!

"Old Photo" effect on editing program that came with my camera.

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I know we're not supposed to post two pictures, but here's the original, before I "old photo"ed it.


It looks more vintage the first way, but I think it looks more delicious in the second one. What do you think?

Vintage Child

This dress was made by my mother-in-law for my older daughter but I put it on my youngest today. The hat wasn't her favorite, but she looked so adorable all dressed up. In color it doesn't look nearly as vintage, since it's in bright blues, greens, yellows and white. I'm only sad that this pose doesn't show the really cute pantaloons under it all.

Taken in natural light, on cloudy setting (on camera), sepia setting, ISO 400. Cropped only.

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Vintage gametime

> Okay, I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but this looks way different than it did when I finished it in photoshop--I even saved for the web--I thought.

I love driving by this sign--it always takes me back in time. :) I love the feel of it...even if my picture doesn't look right. :)
(DOUBLE CLICK ON IT TO SEE IT BIGGER...although it still isn't as crisp as it was when I edited it)

ISO 200, F8, 1/60 second, ran a boost and seventies preset in Photoshop and changed accordingly to my taste.

CC...please...

handle

This is a photo of the handle of my antique dresser.

"SOOC" with my point and shoot. Natural light, no flash. I put "SOOC" because my photog hubby gave me an interesting lesson about how SOOC on a digital camera is a misnomer... that being said I did not do any post processing in element.

We interrupt this weekly challenge for an important service announcement...

hehe...just kidding...

Hey, I appreciate the feedback from the post I wrote about voting. I have tried to gather people's ideas and put them on the sidebar. So PLEASE go over there and vote! You can vote for more than one thing at a time.

If you are unclear about what they mean, please see this post and read the comments to understand better.

I will then take it and evaluate what everyone wants (how many categories, etc) and we will revise things.

If you have any other comments about it, please let me know!

Thanks everyone for your submissions and ideas!!
-Rachel-

Like...totally Vintage~

I drove and drove yesterday and finally came acoss an old VW scrap yard....I wasn't sure if I would get "the shot", but I just loved this one. ~cc~ as always!

A thrift store treasure

I love my mom. She is always visiting thrift stores and picking me up "treasures" that she thinks I may be able to use in my photo shoots. She picked this old-school globe up for me a few months ago and, I'm embarrassed to say, its been sitting in my DI pile. I just wasn't sure what to do with this beauty. I'm so glad I still had it, it was perfect for this challenge.

50 mm, f/3.2, 1/320 sec, ISO 200

I took this picture in front of a window using natural light and spot metering. In elements I sharpened and cropped.

As always, CC welcome

Summers of Long Ago

Please forgive me for posting two pictures but I just could not decide which one I liked the best and since I am going on vacation on Tuesday and will be gone for 2 weeks, (going to San Diego with hubby and then to BYU womens conference) I figured I could sneak in an extra pic. I love these photos because they remind me of summers on the lake of long ago, boat rides, beach volleyball, weiner roasts, just that good ole summertime fun.

 

 

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Nothing says vintage to me this weekend except baseball. I took my kids to the local little league park before the opening ceremonies to get some pictures. I love how in this one they are looking out into the field, like they are dreaming of the big leagues.

Camera info: manual, iso 200, f4.0, 1/1000

I also added the Attic vintage action from coffee tea.

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