Capture Your 365

Today is Wednesday! Time for my weekly post on the Capture Your 365 photo prompts.

brown

ISO 100, 50mm, f/2.0, 1/30 sec

Day 264 – Brown: Fall decorations have come down from the attic for the change of seasons.

notes

ISO 400, 50mm, f/1.8, 1/50 sec

Day 268 – Notes: One song that I love to play on the piano

goodbye summer

ISO 100, 50mm,f/1.8, 1/125 sec

Day 269 – Goodbye Summer: Goodbye flip flops, at least for a season or two.

bubbles

ISO 800, 50mm, f/1.8, 1/100 sec

Day 270 – Bubbles: On our family getaway last weekend, we ended up in a perfect spot for this photo prompt!

Be sure to visit the Capture Your 365 web site to print out your own photo challenge list for October!

Photo Treasure Hunt: Red Treasures

This past weekend, our family made a quick trip to a certain destination where I was able to find some fun red treasures! Can you guess where we went?

Minnie Mouse

Splash Mountain

Space Mountain

Fireworks

Now that you have had a chance to look at my red photo treasures, be sure to join me and Jill on our Photo Treasure Hunt!

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Be sure to take note of next theme and start collecting more photos. Jill always has a fun transition photo, so be sure to visit

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to see what the theme is for next week!

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The Photo Treasure Hunt theme for next week is…..purple!! But this time, we are going to give you two weeks to collect your purple photos to share with us! The next link up will be on Tuesday, October 15th.

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Compassion Joy Dare

My Compassion blogging friend, Jill, has started a monthly blog link up called Compassion Joy Dare. This is a way for each one of us to share about the blessings God provides through our involvement with Compassion. While I didn’t receive letters from any of my Compassion kids this month, it was a month filled with some wonderful blessings:

met up with a fellow Compassion advocate for breakfast on our trip down to Southern California

participated in Compassion’s blog month to help find sponsors for over 3,160 children

started a new blog link up for Compassion sponsors to share what they are mailing to their sponsored children each month

received our Compassion trip brochure with some tips to help us prepare for our trip in January!!

Jill has made it really easy for each one of us to participate in her Compassion Joy Dare blog link up. Once you have written your own blog post, sharing your Compassion blessings from the past month, be sure to link up with Jill at her blog, Compassion Family.

I would love to hear what Compassion blessings have happened in your life this past month!

Dinner Table Talk

As a family, we are blessed with the opportunity to have a sit down dinner together most nights of the week. One of the things I like to find to keep conversations going at our dinner table is a daily calendar which make us all think. In years past, one of the calendars we enjoyed was based on one of our old favorite TV game shows, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Since we haven’t been able to find one of those calendars the past couple of years, we have had to venture out to find some new challenging calendars.

This year, we have been going through this top tens list calendar. Some of the lists are rather easy to complete. Others? Well, let’s just say, we sure do learn a lot when we encounter some of these lists. Like the one above. We thought we were doing pretty well when we wrote down the following nine fruits:

• mango
• kiwi
• pomegranate
• apricot
• kumquat
• papaya
• plantain
• pluot
• acai berries

Can you believe we only got one answer right?!?

Now, are you up for a challenge? In the comments below, let me know what fruits you think are the top ten most delicious and least-known fruits. In the meantime, we have some research to do….

Capture Your 365

I really meant to try to take more photos last week to match up with the daily Capture Your 365 prompts, but after taking over 200 pictures at our annual church beach trip, then working through all those photos in Lightroom, I didn’t get but a few photos for this week. Oh well, life moves on…

dolphins

ISO 100, 200mm, f/5.6, 1/800 sec

So this first photo doesn’t really fit any of the photo prompts for last week, but I just had to share it! We were watching these dolphins all afternoon at the beach, and at first, I wasn’t sure if my 200mm lens would be able to capture these guys out in the ocean. It wasn’t until I loaded the photos into Lightroom that I saw this image. I was so excited to have captured this! I did have 8x10 prints made of this photo to send to our Compassion kids along with some dolphin facts and printables I found on Pinterest.

on a board

ISO 800, 82mm, f/4.2, 1/4 sec

Day 260 – On A Board: Yes, I know we are officially in autumn, but summer is my favorite season! The nights and mornings are cooler here, but we are still seeing 80 degree temperatures during the day. Just warm enough to sit outside in the afternoon with bare feet. I am soaking it in while it lasts.

moon

ISO 800, 135mm, f/16, 1/4 sec

Day 261 – Sugar and Spice: I really should have done some baking on this day, but I didn’t. The moon was so incredibly full and bright on this night. I love to be reminded to take moments like this to just be still and be amazed by His creation.

morning sun

ISO 100, 50mm, f/16, 0.6 sec

Day 262 – Morning Sun: Unless I get up really early, throw on some clothes, and drive down the road, there is no way I am going to photograph the morning sun. So I thought I would experiment with a little bit of sun flare on this one with a small aperture. Probably not one I will print and hang on my wall, but fun to play with.

Have you been working on the Capture Your 365 challenge?