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August 17, 2013
by Dawn Marie 15 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree

Carefree

Footloose and fancy free

This weeks photo challenge topic is Carefree.

I have always felt carefree during summer.

When I was little I would start the day in my swimsuit and wouldn’t take it off till bed time, if then. We would spend all day outside, swimming, playing in the sprinkler or in the tree house. We would go to the park and camping.

We would consume massive amounts of Popsicles.

As I got older the summers turned into me and my future hubby taking off to go camping or a drive to the beach for some surfing. Well, surfing for him, not me, our coastal waters are too cold for me to get into.

Now that I have children I still love summer time and all that comes with it.

Eating Popsicles for lunch

Or teaching Ian to swim ‘all-my-by-self’ in his life jacket

And the fact that Baby Sid is so happy in the water

My mom has always had the perfect yard for a slip n’ slide

And nothing says Carefree like taking a bath outside in a wash tub that has seen every baby bottom in our family

For me Carefree = Summer

Happy Shooting

August 16, 2013
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Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways

This is for last week’s challenge, which ended today as there is a new challenge.

But…you know, better late then never

It is supposed to be one shot taken at two different directions. One horizontal and one vertical.

This challenge is two force photographers to think before they shoot.

Back when I used film, you know a gazillion years ago. My nieces say “film? what is film?” I would have to think a lot about composition. Wasted film is wasted money. And wasted time in the dark room.

Now of course I can take a million pictures then pick and choose between the ones I like at a later time. Of course the down side is less thinking about the shot ahead of time.

I knew I wanted to shoot this building, I just kept not having enough time in the day. So it took me a little long.

Which one is better? That would depend on what you want the image to represent…

Happy Shooting

August 8, 2013
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

The topic of last week’s photography challenge is foreshadow

When your little guy’s normal temperature is 97.6 a reading of 100.3 is not good.

I foresee a long night ahead for this Mama and her ten-month old boy.

Happy Shooting

August 1, 2013
by Dawn Marie 1 Comment

Motherhood Has Made Me CRAZY!

I have always been a bit overly empathetic.

But Motherhood has amplified this characterization. And it has also made me project everything on to my children.

It doesn’t matter what horrible thing I see in the news or on TV, I then fear it will happen to my boys.

At times, the fear, is almost too much to handle. I have to forcibly calm it down, or we would never leave the house! I do manage to keep this craziness in check.

Typically I don’t remember my dreams. And I don’t have nightmares. I do sometimes, although rarely, have deeply emotional dreams, that leave me feeling very sad upon waking.

Since becoming a mother, when I have these types of dreams they involve my kids.

This morning in the minutes between hitting the snooze button I was having one of these dreams.

It was a very sad dream about my child, although it was not about Ian or Sid. It was my child, in the way that dreams are. I can’t tell you what happened, but when the alarm went off for the third time, I really wanted the dream to end. But at the same time I didn’t ever want it to end, because that would mean the loss of this child.

Dreams are weird.

This dream made me want to rush into the boys rooms and give them giant hugs and never let them go.

But since they were still sleeping, I decided to get ready for work.

So today I just want to take a minute to appreciate my children.