Family Photos

 We've been wanting to get a picture of our little family together for sometime now and we finally snagged a few so I couldn't resist the urge to share him here. I love how our two little ones even posed for the camera. I'm so glad to have these, I'll definitely have to frame one for our home.

 -Reagan

From Where I Stand

I don't really remember where I came across the concept of "From Where I Stand", but chances are it was either Instagram or Pinterest. The idea is really pretty simple. You take a picture of your feet from where you are standing. This pictures can be used to capture a few different things such as one's outfit, one's shoes, and literally where you are standing. 

These are really fun to look back on after you have begun to collect a few in your phone. I find that I take mine whenever I am taking Zane out so these recent FWIS pictures all have the same background but they're even more special when you have some from when you were at the beach or standing on some snazzy tile. 

I have a lot of fun taking these, and it's actually neat to see them all together here.

I may have to make it a point to take them more often.

Have you ever taken a From Where I Stand photo?

What do you think about this sort of selfie?

-Reagan

Self Portrait Challenge Pt. 2

At the beginning of August I shared this post about the Self Portrait challenge I decided to do after being inspired by A Beautiful Mess.

I wanted to share with you the second half of the self portrait challenge, that I'm happy to say I completed! I will have to admit, I didn't end up doing this as a 30 self portraits in 30 days, some of the photos are from the same days. I ended up looking at this as a way of challenging myself to make each photo interesting and different so that I didn't get bored with photographing myself over and over again. Truth be told it was a little difficult to be inspired to take pictures of myself, especially on days where I didn't put make up on ect. I would love to do another photo challenge again however, as this was a really fun experience. I've always liked when people do photo an hour posts, so that might be another fun challenge. We'll see...

Did you take part in this challenge? Link in the comments if you did, I'd like to see other people's self portraits.
-Reagan

Self Portrait Challenge: halfway point

I decided to try to partake in the ABM Self Portrait Challenge that is for 30 self portraits. I wanted to do this as a photography challenge because I have always had an interest in photography. Challenges like this are a great way to test your skills because your subject is always the same :) Finding creative ways to take pictures of yourself is a fun way to experiment with how you take pictures.  I think doing challenges like this seem a little intimidating a first, especially if you don't have a good camera which I don't, I am using only the camera on my iphone. Don't let photography challenges intimidate you, this would be a fun project to also share on instagram like Elsie and Emma are doing (i think the hashtag is #abeautifulmess). Anyway, here is my progress with this challenge so far. 

 

So far I'm enjoying this challenge and want to try more photography challenges in the future. I can definitely say taking self portraits is more challenging than I thought it would be, but it's been a really fun project so far. 

Have you ever taken part of a photography challenge?

-Reagan