Seeing RED!!!!

You guys are quickly going to get tired of my flower pictures. I just love to take them though.

Three Favorites...

The Three challenge words I chose were New, Red and Comfort.
I just had some work done on my violin , I got New Strings and New pegs so it's just like New

I went to Grangeville Idaho this weekend to do some Senior pictures for a friend and as we were coming down the mountain we saw this lovely red sunset. So breathtaking!

And last I chose this Wheat as comfort because when our children were smaller we lived in a very small farming community in Eastern Washington and my husband worked at a grain eleveator, storing and shipping wheat on barges... during harvest he worked long hours and as a result got big checks , it was a comfort to us that we knew we could go school shopping for all six of our kids! . Sorry...I posted all my words at one time. I missread the instructions!

Home Sweet Home

Well since "Red" is my favorite color this challenge was pretty easy for me...this little birdhouse sits on my neighbors fence, I love it. I probably could have chosen the topic Rough for this picture too since the wood is pretty rough looking but I love the red and yellow together.

Red: WINNERS!

Good morning everyone! Great turnout on this challenge for entries and for votes.

It was really close on the best take, but in the end, this prize goes to Erin with her fire department/fire hydrant picture.

For best overall, it was a complete runaway. It goes to Brittney with her little girl in Daddy's red coat.

I also want to give a shoutout to Mindy here, for getting tons of shoutouts. She definitely would have been a contender if not for winning last time around. :)

There really were so many great photos for this challenge. I think we had more shout-outs that we've ever had. Great job everyone! I also wanted to thank everyone for actively commenting on pictures again this time around. It's nice to get the feedback.

Stay tuned for a new challenge later this morning.

Red: VOTING!

We had lots of great participation again for this challenge. Lots of good takes on the word, too. I have a feeling that the voting is going to be a little widespread again. Should be fun!

Candace and Mindy won our last challenge, so please be sure to give everyone else a chance this time around.

Please remember to word your voting this way:

Best take on challenge:
Best photo overall:
Shoutouts:

You have until midnight tonight to vote for your favorites!

Gateway Mall Red

My husband and I went to the Gateway with our son today to walk around. It was fun to be together but I really wish it would just warm up here in Utah!

Taken with outdoor lighting no flash

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ISO 400, 1/100 sec, f5.6, indoor with flash, sooc.

My mom grew these peppers in her garden last summer and strung them on fishing line to dry. If we'd had a Christmas tree, we would have used these for our decorations!

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Take it Easy

For this challenge I first thought of this old truck that sits on our "Standing on the Corner" park.(The Eagles song Take it Easy was about Winslow and we have a park on a corner where where you can "stand on the corner in Winslow AZ".) I finally was able to get out and get a photo this afternoon. It wasn't really what I wanted but it worked.

Camera setting in manual, f5.6, iso 200, 1/800. 

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Candy Apple RED Candle

Again, my husband was the one to give me the idea for this. =) I liked how the glass looked, and how the red wax seemed to seep up from the darkness.

Taken with a Nikon D-40, on automatic, no flash, then cropped (to fill the frame with as much red as possible).

CC welcome as always.

Easy Rider

Everything from Red nail polish, Red ballet flats, Red fruit.... and NOTHING came easy for me today! I feel like this picture COULD have been great, but I was missing something... you know, that Ju-Ju, that umph, that je ne cest quoi... all gone. Found this cute little trike at the park and bumped it up a bit with fresh and colorful action. (boy I'm creating quite the handicap of Actions, eh?) Well, here's to renewing my Ju-Ju. Ride On.

Lucky

I have a sister in law from China and she told me red means good luck or fortune in their culture. Since then whenever I see something in red I think of it as a good luck charm. And I love the colors black and red together. So when I saw this hat sitting on a shelf I knew this would be my picture. It's a hat for my son that was given to him as a souvenir from China.

By the way I'm very open to CC. I want to improve and don't worry about offending me I was a college athlete and therefore I'm very used to being told what I'm doing wrong.

Red : Snow Slide

This was taken at my favorite park.I love the snow pile at the bottom of the slide. I was mad at the snow when I woke up this morning but the snow really made the red pop.
1/500 F5.4 ISO 100

Red: That Envelope

Okay, so I know that "red" was my own challenge word, but I really couldn't come up with anything I was satisfied with. Finally, while I was making dinner, taking pictures of tomatoes and peppers, I thought of my Netflix envelopes upstairs. I get really excited whenever I see these red envelopes in the mail, knowing that I've got something new to watch. Currently at home: the last two discs of season 4 of Gilmore Girls. I was disappointed with season 3, but I watched all of season 4 in a week flat. Loved it! My daughter loves playing with pretty much anything.

About the photo: I have a Canon Power Shot SD850 IS Elph that I am learning a lot about because of this blog. During the black and white challenge, I discovered my "color accent" setting, which I used for this photo. This is SOOC.

Red, Red, Red!

Big Lake Fire Dept. Lots of red!

Sony Alpha (ISO 100, f5.6, 1/125sec)

PS- Border, Sig, edge burned.

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What red means to me

I was frustrated with this one but gave it a shot any way. I really wanted to do a picture with out any red in it but that turned out to be more difficult than I thought.
But I was determined and by the end of the day I had nothing great, so this is what I have....
I wanted to capture what the color red really means and I found out it means a lot. Red means warning, stop, danger, yield, sickness, death, embarrassment, anger, hot, sin......but my favorite meaning of this color is LOVE.

And so I settle for this simple picture. My sweet daughter, whom I love more than myself, with her chubby hands shaped as a heart near her heart.

RED LABEL

ISO 1600, F5.0, 1/6 second (taken in a basement with one lightbulb overhead)
burned edges and color boost in Lightroom.

I took SO many pictures for this--of SO many different things. But nothing quite felt right. I was pretty discouraged that I hadn't gotten anything really wonderful with the good light of the day, until I went down to do some laundry tonight and in the dim basement light I saw the good ol' campbells soup cans...

And that's how this idea was born...

Little Red

This is my baby, hahaha, the car I drove in highschool. She's ugly but don't judge. :)

Sprays of RED

I kinda struggled with this one. On my way home from the beach today, though, I kept passing these fields full of these red things. I don't know if they're flowers or weeds, but the fields all along my drive were just sprayed with them. So, eventually, I gave in and stopped.

f/11, 1/160, ISO 200... 50 mm 1.4 lens

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DANGER: small children at play

WOW you guys, some of these pictures so far have been amazing! I am totally intimidated. I was stumped today so we decided to visit the zoo in search of things that were red. I took some shots of the barn and a red fire hydrant but this one just made me laugh.

For some reason the zoo people deemed it prudent to construct a water area where a fountain would fill very large-very deep cravasses in the pavement directly across from the baby playground- not the big kid playground which might be understandable. It's just about the worst place they could have chosen. So here ya go. Irony in red.

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Home Grown Red

My little red headed princess. She isn't wanting to be very photogenic right now (camera shy.....) so I had to take a picture of her on the swing without her knowing!
(Cropped and used sharpen effect)

I wanted to use this picture below. I just thought this yellow tulip with a touch of red was just awesome, but I did a flower last challenge. I just wanted to share :)