2013-07-01 | MLCreations Photography

All the way back on June 1st Karma (Karma’s When I Feel Like It Blog: Hearts -n- Flowers) introduced her readers to the iHeartFaces June Photo Challenge in which she encouraged us to play along. I have mentioned a few times in this blog that I started, stopped, restarted and tried but June just didn’t cooperate. I had a few pictures and tagged them accordingly for each day.

Karma wrote me this morning and gave me a gentle kick in the butt so that I would revisit the images I captured in June to see how they ‘fit’ into the categories. My hang-up was that I was thinking of images captured on the particular day for each topic, not all of June in general. So, after much review and a little creative interpretation I present my efforts for Karma’s June Photo Hunt…

Challenge: First Thing
Lily of the Morning
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/200s, 58mm, f/8, ISO 100

Challenge: Natural Light
Pastoral Sunrise
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, (1/10, 0.4, 1.3s bracket), 28mm, f/16, ISO 100

Challenge: Half
Half
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6, 1/200s, 100mm, f/7.1, ISO 400

Challenge: Line

Challenge: Clashing Colors

Challenge: Small Detail

Challenge: Mirror
just like glass…
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/2s, 17mm, f/20, ISO 100

Challenge: Silhouette

Challenge: Empty

Challenge: From Above

Challenge: Reminder

Challenge: Clouds
Interesting Night Ahead
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/400s, 70mm, f/16, ISO 200

Challenge: Flower
Against the Light
Nikon D5100, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4, 1/125s, 50mm, f/10, ISO 100

Challenge: Bokeh

Challenge: Water

Challenge: Summertime

Challenge: Laugh

Challenge: Teeny Tiny
Escape
Nikon D5100, Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6, 1/125s, 150mm, f/5, ISO 200

Challenge: Grass

Challenge: Hug

If you have made it this far then congratulations! I probably should have put the images into a gallery but I like the ability to add captions under each image. To Karma… thank you. This was a great idea and I wish I had put aside a little more time toward it but in the end creative interpretation really saved me. Next time I’ll be less literal… 🙂

On Saturday the kids and I headed to my Dad’s house for my nephew’s graduation party on Sunday. The weather when we left home was not that great and the drive along the thruway as we traveled to Bemus Point did not improve until we passed through Buffalo. Along the coast of Lake Erie we were rewarded with a break in the clouds and some beautiful scenery.

I really wasn’t on a set schedule and just had to make it to my dad’s house by 4pm so when we exited at Dunkirk, NY I took a right turn rather then the left. I knew there was a lighthouse on the lake in and considering the nice weather, I went exploring. It was only a 10 minute drive until we arrived at the parking lot for the historic Dunkirk Lighthouse.

The park closed at 2pm on the weekends which only afforded us 25 minutes to explore. I would have loved to take the tour which includes the keepers manor and the lighthouse itself. As it was I ran around trying to capture as much as I could. I definitely will have to make plans for a longer visit the next time I head back to my dad’s house.