Old Paint {2/52 MCP}

This week's MCP theme has been challenging for me. I have been wracking my brain on how to creatively "illustrate a song" for the theme. I see other people's submissions for this one and am amazed at all the neat ideas they have and end up feeling very uncreative.

Last night, however, I had a bit of an accidental breakthrough. Adster wanted to use one of the project kits that she got for Christmas. This kit was a horse painting set. They included 3 little horse statues, paints and a brush. The brush was kinda crappy, so I graciously allowed her to use my good paintbrushes that got me through college. Boy, that was brave on my part!! She painted that horse in such a painstaking and methodical manner. It was super cool to watch her. I was asked to help for a bit, which I did in between moments cooking dinner. When she was done painting (aka, when Mommy told her to stop b/c dinner was ready) she had quite the creation. I loved the way she seemed to have a definitive idea of how she wanted the horse to turn out. What started off as her wanting to copy the horse on the packaging ended up as a brilliant patchwork of equine colors. So her lovely little horse, which I'm sure will get more color this evening and will have a name by bedtime ended up inspiring me for one of this week's pictures.

There's a song called Old Paint by Chris LeDoux about a cowboy riding his faithful and intelligent horse home. Well, the fact that it is a horse and painted caused me to feel a play on words there. I thought about a background for the horse and decided a picture of a pasture or something would be neat. Unfortunately, the art books that I have didn't quite have what I wanted. However, I went with it. I think I really like the way the photo turned out. Old Paint, the horse, in front of an old painting... Well, hope you enjoy!

{2/52} Old Paint, originally uploaded by Yellowwick.

Project 52 #2 M3B

As I mentioned previously, I am doing two different Project 52 groups. This is the second, un-themed P52. This is the one through http://www.my3boybarians.com/. I really think this one will be easier and not as much of a challenge, only in that it is wide open for subject matter. It is much easier to take photos of whatever you want as opposed to having to fall into a certain parameter. Here is my photo for the week. I posted it on the group Flickr page last week and am late getting it on here. I'm already scoping out shots for this week's submission. Still haven't decided what the weekly pic will be. I like the surprise of finding out what you like best about the stuff you have been taking pics of.

The following photo is also one I took with my iPhone, as I hadn't (once again) started seriously thinking about the project and didn't have the SLR in hand. I took this on the road the other day when it was drizzly and gray. I edited the pic with the Instagram app which is pretty cool. It's like a twitter for only photos. I'm really starting to enjoy it.

Around The House - wk1/p52 MCP

Week one of my 52 weeks with MCP had a theme of Around the House. I took pics with my iPhone this week since I wasn't thinking or keeping up with taking pics in my SLR. So here we are with my first ever P52 photo. This is the antique lamp I got from my grandmother with a more modern lampshade on it. I've loved this lamp since I was little and am so pleased it lives in my house.

Back on the Horse

Okay- so I have neglected (sorely!) this blog. I created it with good intentions and never followed up on it (funny how that always seems to happen to me). For over a year it has sat here pining away for me. Well guess what, girlie! I'm back. I'm going to be visiting more often. I'm going to post stuff here regularly (God willing)!

My newfound inspiration also comes from the fact that I have joined up with a Project 52 for the year. Two of them, actually. The point of a project 52 is to take photos every week and post one for public sharing once a week. The pictures are all to be posted on Flickr and then shared with the groups there for public viewing. My personal Flickr page is here: http://flickr.com/photos/odam/

The first group I've joined up with is the P52 group headed up by Darcy of http://www.my3boybarians.com/. Her posting group is here: www.flickr.com/groups/m3bp52
go check out all the pics. There are already some awesome things.

The other group is through MCP Actions. http://www.mcpactions.com/ This group has a themed weekly challenge. I have a feeling this one will be a bit harder for me to keep up with.
The creative juices don't always follow the theme. The posting group for this one is here: www.flickr.com/groups/mcp-project52.

I'm going to try to post my pics weekly on here as well. Please let me know what you think of them! I appreciate the feedback. It does good things for my self-esteem.

Cactus

I'm not really much of a fan of cacti, but this particular one spoke to me. He lives at the top of Mount Bonnell, which is the highest point in the city of Austin. I really need to learn how to use my Photoshop program (which is daunting) to make these jump out a bit more.

St. Francis

This little guy lives in a yard along my walking path. I played with it a bit on Photoshop. I have the original here and then two different adjustments I made to it.

Buzzing Esperanza

I was taking some pics of a lovely landscaped garden when I heard the esperanza buzzing...

Nothing there!!

Wait a minute! There you are!