Capture Your 365

Another week of photos to share!

shades of blue

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Day 201 – Shades of Blue: Just a few books from our book collection that just happen to have blue covers. Have you read any of these?

urban art

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Day 202 – Urban Art: Living out where we do, we don’t really see a lot of what would be considered ‘urban art’. But my son has quite a collection of stickers on the back window of his truck.

action

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Day 205 – Action: The youth group at our church does a park tour through the summer. Rather than meeting at the church, they meet at different parks each week, play games, spend time in worship, and DT, our youth pastor, preaches a lesson to the kids. This past week, they were playing frisbee which gave me a great chance to capture an action shot! I put the camera on shutter priority because I wanted to make sure I was able to freeze the action in this shot. Can you see where the frisbee is?

progress

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Day 206 – Progress: A friend of mine brought me a whole bunch of fresh peaches! So I made attempted to make peach jam (it looks real syrupy, so we will probably use it on ice cream!), made 2 peach crisps, and still had extra peaches.

Question for you: What mode do you usually use to take pictures?

Compassion Hunt

Have you been able to participate in Compassion’s Photo Scavenger Hunt?

Here are the photos I was able to capture and share on my Instagram account:

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This has been a fun scavenger hunt to participate in and I hope you enjoyed my photos! But if you are not currently sponsoring a child through Compassion, would you consider looking through photos of children who are waiting to be sponsored?

Capture Your 365

A week worth of photos for you this week!

cropped

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Day 194 – Cropped: Each month, on the Capture Your 365 photo challenge, we are encouraged to take a self portrait. For this photo prompt, I put the self timer on and decided to take a picture of just my hands knitting a dish cloth.

old and new

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Day 195 – Old and New: School supplies are showing up in the stores. I picked up a few boxes of crayons. Believe me, they are not for us! We have a big plastic drawer full of old crayons. I will be saving these new boxes to take with us to Mexico.

I spy

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Day 196 – I Spy: My daughter has discovered Sherlock Holmes.

dry

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Day 197 – Dry: Things are usually pretty dry here in the California Central Valley during the summer. It is very rare for us to see any rain for months until the fall.

starts with s

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Day 198 – Starts with S: I couldn’t resist the strawberries at the farmer’s market. You know what that means…

a source of happiness

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Day 199 – A Source of Happiness: One more batch of strawberry jam! I hope to sell a few more jars, but we will be keeping some for all those PB&J sandwiches we like to eat.

two scoops

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Day 200 – Two Scoops: I just love ice cream, no matter what the season.

Question for you: What is your favorite thing to photograph in the summer?

Capture Your 365

Time to share a few of my Capture Your 365 photos from last week with you…

one flower

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Day 189 – One Flower: You know what this one flower means, fresh zucchini!

an ordinary moment

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Day 191 – An Ordinary Moment: This is my kitchen, meals are prepared here usually three times a day. It doesn’t always look this neat and organized, people do live here and we do make messes.

on the street

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Day 192 – On The Street: This is the street where we live. That is my son’s truck in the driveway of our home. It is a pretty quiet street and we are so thankful to live here!

stacks

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Day 193 – Stacks: Here is a stack of flannel baby blanket and wash cloth sets I have made recently. As you know, I have been making items and selling them to earn money for our Compassion trip to Mexico in January. See a set here you would like? Be sure to visit my Facebook page and see what else I have for sale!

Questions for you: What did you photograph this past week? What would you consider an ordinary moment in your home?

Compassion’s Photo Scavenger Hunt

Compassion is hosting a fun photo scavenger hunt this month and there are some fun prizes they are giving away if you want to participate! Be sure to pop over to the Compassion blog to read this post which has all the details. The contest runs through the end of July, so you have plenty of time to start looking for those photos and posting them with the hashtag #CompassionHunt.

Here are a couple I have already posted on my Instagram account:

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Church sign: our church hosted a free VBS last week and this was the sign that was outside our church.

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Cow: living in the Central Valley of California, we drive past a lot of dairy farms on our way to one of the ‘big towns’.

Question for you: Do you have an Instagram account? I would love to follow you, so be sure to find me on Instagram or leave your profile name/link in a comment below.