Reflections Photo Challenge- March WATER

I took this picture in January on a Thursday evening when I was going down to the ocean to take pictures with one of my favorite people from New Hampshire (hi Molly Hobbs!). When I saw how good the photo came out, I knew this would be the one I'd choose for my water reflection.

I love so much about this photo:
The tall white building always reminds me of my mom. When she comes to Santa Monica, she often works from this building. So I can't think of it without thinking of her.

I love the pinks and blues in the sky. It looks like a bag of cotton candy, good enough to eat.

I love the near perfect symmetry of the building above the bluffs and what's reflected in the water.

I love that I share this memory with Molly and that it'll always remind me of her super fun visit to Santa Monica.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Taken on Thursday January 12th at the Santa Monica Beach

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Reflections Photo Challenge- February MIRROR

During my first trip to Disneyland, on President's Day, Meghan, Katie & I accompanied Quinn on the merry go round and had a blast. Meghan stayed close to Quinn while Katie and I snapped various pictures of Quinn enjoying the ride and her reflection in the mirror.

I had a small handful to choose from, but this is the one that called out to me the most and I really love how it came out.

Taken on Monday 2/20/2012 at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA

For the rest of my mirror reflections, click here.

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Reflections Photo Challenge- January BUILDING

January's reflection photography challenge required that we take a photo of an object reflected in a building.

I have been counting on getting a photo of the sunset or the ocean reflected in a building along Ocean Avenue. There was a photo I took last year and put up in my Facebook album "Life Near the Ocean" that I wanted to recreate, but I didn't have quite the same opportunity to snap what I had in mind.

But, what I ended up with was equally as good. What I love about this photo is you can see the ocean on the horizon, the sun just after it has set and the palm trees along the park facing the ocean.

Katie and I went downtown to take pictures in a last attempt to photograph something else, but I ultimately went with the one above.

You can check out more January photos here. In this album, I really liked photo #6 and #10.

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2012 Photo Challenge- Reflections

Cyrena, Sarah and I are getting ready to embark upon our photography challenge for 2012. Katie will be joining us this year- which I'm really excited about! Means more photography excursions for the both of us.

Stealing text directly from Cyrena, we're scaling back to a more manageable plan this year of 12 shots, 1/month. This year's subject is reflections. But in order to have a similar theme in all our work, we have a primary structure/object that the reflection should appear in each month.

Here is the plan for the year:
January: Building
February: Mirror
March: Water
April: Beverage
May: Glasses (Eyeglasses, drinking glasses, etc)
June: Object (silverware, etc)
July: Statue
August: Vehicle
September: Window
October: Furniture
November: Monitor/TV
December: Holiday Item

I struggled with this concept at first. Thinking we just had to take a photo of the structure/object listed beside each month. But Cyrena schooled me, as she often does, on how we need to have a central theme so we can pick up on them in our photographs.

So here I am.

All on board.

And ready to go!

I already took one kick ass photo last week that could work for March. But I really need to buckle down for January!

A huge thank you to everyone who followed the Crayola challenge. It was super fun and I find myself, even still, looking at certain things and wondering what Crayola crayon it would most closely resemble.

And if you haven't yet, please take a look at the amazing work that both Cyrena & Sarah did for the challenge.

As of yesterday, we all completed the project!

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