3rd Flood-iversary

3 years ago today, I joined this fabulous group called Photo Flood. Little did I know that this group would be an important part of my life and I can call many members friends as well.

Of the 24 Photo Floods and Mini-Floods available this year - I only managed to miss 4 due to prior commitments and/or work. Just this past Saturday, I froze my tail off for #61 overall (over 3 years).

There's even a few winners in there - 3 in fact! Two mini floods and one photo flood that helped me win best image overall for Year 3 of the group itself.

Here's my favorite image from each Photo Flood and Mini-Flood; in chronological order by PF & MF:

PF: FPSE



PF: Holly Hills




PF: Calvary Cemetery  - winner of the Flood and winner of the overall year!



PF: Midtown



PF: Clifton Heights



PF: Downtown West



PF: North Hampton



PF: Near North Riverfront



PF: Kosciuzko



PF: Dutchtown



PF: Mark Twain Industrial



MF: Grand Center Arts Academy:



MF: O'Fallon Park



MF: Swap Meet



MF: Tower Grove Farmer's Market



MF: St Louis Art Museum



MF: Zombie Road



MF: Goldenrod, redux



MF: Science Center - winner of the Mini-Flood



MF: Carondelet Historical - winner (a tie) of the Mini-Flood - tied with founder, Jason Gray



Here's to another fun-filled year of photo adventures with this fabulous group!

Happy EIGHTH Blogiversary to me!

My poor, neglected blog. It's lost out to Facebook a little bit. And starting a photography business. Oh and my full-time job.

I wished I had come up with something super creative to celebrate this eighth Blog-iversary, but I haven't had the time.

For the first time in several years, I am attempting a photo project... two of them actually. I had come across the "Dogwood Photography 52 Challenge" in one of my FB photography groups and it sounded interesting. It rotated from landscape to portraits to artistic and I thought it would challenge me. And coincidentally, a friend of mine started a 365 project. Simultaneously, I realized that I had had a good streak of taking photos every day so far in the very early new year. So I 'publicly' gave myself this goal of BOTH projects simultaneously. An incredibly ambitious and perhaps stupid task.

I'm not going to punish myself if I fail at the 365 but I'd really like to not miss the 52 Week Challenge. So far, I've made it 40 days or 6 weeks!

Here's a quick recap -

          

Week 1: Selfie

             

Week 2: Traditional Landscape: 

          

Week 3: Artistic - Red:  

                               

Week 4: Headshot - 

 

Week 5: B&W Landscape - 

           

Week 6: - Artistic - Candy: 

My only constraints on the 365 project is that I'm trying to take it with my "big" camera and I'm wanting to try new things, photographically.

Here's to the rest of the year!