Thirty Day Photo Challenge (Project Pinterest)

Okay, I posted a few weeks ago about week 1 of the Thirty Day Photo Challenge, but then I got busy and never ended up giving updates. And now it's over, so I'm going to sum up the last 3 weeks of it here.

Well, the challenge started out really fun, even though every time I had an outdoor challenge, the weather did not cooperate (not a cloud in the sky when I needed a cloud pic, completely cloudy when I needed a sunset...) However, I forged onwards, sometimes skipping days and making them up later, sometimes switching days. I think the point of this challenge is to take pictures of the assigned topic each day.

 

But all the cheating seemed to make the challenge not as meaningful. I know some people just go and find a picture of said topic each day, but I really wanted to take the assigned pics each day. But we all have busy lives, and sometimes I just forgot, or couldn't take the right picture when I thought of it. So I wasn't as successful as I would have liked. Here were some of the pics I took. 

 I realized several things about my limited photography skills during this challenge. For one, I'm not very creative or imaginative. Most of my pictures are of myself, Gabe, or flowers/food/animals. I don't think outside the box very well, and of course, having only a cell phone for a camera doesn't help. So, I'm not sure I'd call his experiment a success. But it was one more project I did via Pinterest.

Thirty Day Photo Challenge (Week 1): Pinterest Project #6

As some of you know, if you follow me through other media sources like FB, Twitter, and Instagram, I am doing a thirty day photo challenge. These were popular a couple years ago, although I haven't seen many around lately. Still, I had never done one, and when I stumbled across one on Pinterest, I figured I'd give it a shot. A couple of days I cheated and used a photo I already had, like when I was supposed to take a picture of clouds, and of course on that day, not a cloud in the sky. Otherwise, I tried to use a photo I took that day for the purpose of the challenge.

Here's the challenge list.

 Here's the first week's results.

And here is my favorite picture from Week 1, which deserves a picture all by itself b/c it's so beautiful and glowy, and I didn't do anything to it except write on it. No photo editing, no filters. Just a gorgeous ripe peach from the fruit stand near our house, sitting on the table in a shaft of sunlight.