In looking at last week's, it looks like I only do sunrise and sunset photos.  This week's challenge was celestial.  I was going to try a night photo but with 45-55 mph winds, the tripod wouldn't hold still enough.  So I used the sunset photo I did earlier in the week.  

 The challenge this week was "silence".   This was just before sunrise one day this last week.  Dennis called on his way to work and said to look to the east.  I went out in jammies to take this one. 

 This week's challenge was self portrait.  With most of the week being cloudy and the drab winter colors, I chose this photo because it had a green tree and my red coat.  My Christmas colorway, haha.  

 Color wheel was the challenge.  I had primary triad.  A customer gave me permission to shot her blue car with the red stop light and yellow turn signal on.  Then twirled it in photo shop because it was pretty boring.  

 "In the Kitchen" was the challenge this week.  This is a cut-glass tumbler taken with the glass held and slightly over the lens.  I took it toward a stained glass window hanging but it didn't show up.  So turned the photo to black and white. 

 Step Repeat or Kaleidoscope was the challenge this week.  So it was mostly Photoshop work.  I used a photo I had got a few weeks ago and made my "shooting star aka sunflower".  

 I'm not a fan of this week's challenge technique, drive panning.  A accomplice drives the car while the photographer tried to pan with the passing objects.  It's supposed to keep the subject in semi focus and the background blurred.  It takes 100's of photos to get a good one.   Thanks goodness for digital so I could trash all the bad ones. 

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 Panorama was the lesson this week.   After taking pictures of several skies, Pomona Lake and an abandoned Dunkard church and cemetery, I decided the late fall colors were boring.  So the sky had my vote.  This is three pictures stitched together in photoshop.

 Halloween and technique experiment was this week's challenge.  I took a picture of Kevin in his 1936 Ford truck with a skeleton head.  Then used liquify which I didn't use in week 7.  

 This week was HDR, high dynamic range.  Three or five photos with one as selected by the camera and two over-exposed and two under-exposed.  Then merge them and hopefully get the best of the lights and the best of the darks.  I took lots of photos of barns, trees, etc.  Just happened to see this as I turned onto our road one evening.  Happy coincidence. 

 The challenge was "decay" but along with the decay we were supposed to show a timeline.  So I superimposed a calendar over the dead leaves.  However, it didn't show up well.  Lesson this week,  don't wait until 11 to work on your photo that has to be turned in by 12. 

 Week 40 was Mother Nature.  I liked the progression of the sumac from green to red with the fall coming in. 

 This week's challenge was a dreamscape with black and white.  So I took a color photo and turned it black and white, then layered it over a copy of the same photo in color that was blurred.  

I've printed greeting cards with my sunflower picture. I wanted to use them and Amy thought she could sell them too.  Five blank cards and envelopes for $10.00

 

 This week's challenge was Text Overlay.  So the text uses the background for it's coloring.  What do you say when you walk through a spider web?

 This week's challenge was another do-over, last of the year.  I chose silhouette and loved one.  Dennis was a good sport posing for this on a big bale of hay.  Plus I got to show how hazy the sky is with all the ash.  There are hardly any shadows even at midday.  This is late afternoon.  

 The challenge was "selective color".  I took this picture at a friend's of her quilting thread cabinet.  The other cones are blues and greens.  I placed an orange cone among them.  Then took out the colors other than orange with Lightroom. 

 Week 35 was "white on white".  I wanted the shiny liquid to show up against the matte paper.    

           

This week's challenge was "Power of One".  I really had trouble thinking on something that would be a power of one.  And the photos I took, did really turn out well.  So this is a reflection of a candle in the bathroom mirror.   It was a last ditch effort done on the evening of the project deadline.  

 This week's challenge was "found Alphabet".  We had to find our initials, first and last or first middle and last.  I was going to do all three but my camera has stopped working so I had to go with images I took earlier in the week.  Hope I can get it fixed quickly.

These were all the choices I had to weed through for the final "old paint" challenge photo.

 

 This week's challenge was "Old Paint".   Again, I had lots to choose from.  This one fit the challenge a little better than the pictures I really liked.  I rotated it 180 degrees so that it looked like a landscape. 

 This week's challenge was radial symmetry.   I took photos of toadstools, a fairy ring, avocado, water drops in the stock tank, dandelion, pistol cylinder, bind weed, etc.  Finally used my sewing lamp to shine on the kiwi to make the juice sparkle.   What a trial to get a simple photo. 

Week 30's challenge is "Silhouette".  I was hoping for a great sunset but the rain clouds were moving in.  It set a mood though.  Thanks to Randy Durbin and Dennis Lawrence for dressing for the occasion for this tribute to the 360,000+ union soldiers who gave their lives for the freedom of the slaves. 

The challenge this week was "story".  Roxane's granddaughters and one friend posed for me in civil war dresses.  I then took a picture of an old schoolhouse NE of us and superimposed the girls and opaqued them to try to look like ghosts.

Week 28 was "proportion and emphasis".  I had trouble finding any one with Mary Janes.  The easy part was the boots.  Dennis has lots sitting around. 

This week's challenge was flowers with a macro lens.  I don't have one as many of the other students didn't either.  So adjustments in Light Room was also part of the lesson.  I tried a blowing dandelion.  In the process I learned that dandelions really don't blow apart unless they are ripe.  Blowing so hard to get it apart meant that it was bouncing around and blurry. 

Then went to a farm that sells sunflowers and fruit too get this picture.  Hard to decide whether to use this one and edit it off center or use one with a bee.  To Bee or not to Bee that was the problem.

The last week of the first session on the photo challenge.  Topic was "celebration".  I knew it was kind of cliche, but fireworks are still a great thing. 

This week was a "do over".  But instead of redoing a week we weren't please with, we were to redo a week we enjoyed.  It didn't rain all week so I could finally get a "Golden Hour".  This is a sunrise rather than a sunset.  Still Golden.

This week's challenge was supposed to be a street scene with people.  It was supposed to be candid not posed.  I went to Lawrence and got two guys carrying instruments agree to let me take their photos.  It was going to be great.  But I forgot to set the focus and none of the pictures were sharp.  I really am just a point and shoot kind of girl.  So I went back to the few people who are on the street in our little town. 

This week's challenge is elements, earth, wind, fire and water.  I had photographed this creek another time and it was very blue and sparkling.  But it seems that this time the trees had overgrown where I photographed.  So settled on this one because Dennis thought it showed the power of water. 

This week's photo challenge was titled "Stuck in Place".  You had to stay in one place for an hour and photograph around you within one step of the starting place.  The photos weren't hard but I spent over 2 hours trying to get them into photoshop.

This week the challenge was panning.  You move the camera to follow the subject which blurs the background.  I tried with cars and trucks and they were too fast and everything was blurry.  So after about a hundred tries,  the 4-wheeler was slow enough for me. 

This week's challenge was "the Road".  This is the road that goes on as far as the eye can see just east of Teterville, Ks.  Teterville is a ghost town in Kansas,  Note the tree with a permanent bend from living in windy Kansas. 

This week's challenge was mirror montage.  On the mirror image week we made a copy of the original and flipped it so that it was facing head on to the original.  This week, we made a copy and put it on top of the original.  I procrastinated most of the week and finally took a few pictures.  This one is looking down the throat of an iris. 

This week's photo challenge was "Red".  I tried all week from the truck, glass jars, geraniums, bolts of fabric, etc.  I thought about Dennis' horse whose name is Red.  But finally settled on red tee shirts.  Pretty sad that this was the best idea I could come up with. 

This week's photo challenge was "dreamscape' .  To me it looks blurry instead of glowing.  But it is something new to learn.

This week's challenge was "the golden hour".  Problem was, it rained almost all week and there just wasn't a golden hour.  After talking to a couple of friends, I decided it would have to be happy hour.  But the sun co-operated and came out just after a hard rain on Saturday evening. 

I sure had trouble finding a wine glass.  My friends who drink wine had only advertising glasses.  So Nancy finally remembered she has a champagne glass.  It works for me. 

This week's challenge was "happy".  With the social isolation, it's hard to get pictures of emotions.  So I decided to be happy that spring is coming with the flowering of the red buds.

This week's challenge was Loved Ones.  Dennis told me I would have to photograph the cats.  But he finally gave in and let me do some of him.  I really like the B&W technique to make things look old... to match the old model.  haha

This week's challenge was do-over, any previous week with new photos.  I chose abandoned and B&W but after taking the photo, I liked the reddish rusty colors and left it in color. 

This week's challenge was to set the shutter to a long exposure and then move the lense out or in at the same time. 

The trick came when trying to coordinate my shutter hand with my lense hand.  Took several tries to get them going at the same time.  Good thing I used a tripod or it would have been moving not just refocusing.

Maybe this represents the feeling when you miss seeing the stop sign until the last moment...Panic.

I struggled with this week's challenge of board games/harmony.  In desperation this morning since the photo is due today, I took a picture of an old piano keyboard.  Sort of combined "board" and "harmony" in my mind.

 

This week's challenge is a mirror image created in photo shop.  The trees are at Chena Hot Springs, Alaska.  The stuff that looks like snow on the trees is really frozen steam from the springs.  We were there 4 days and the temps ran between -33 and -26.  

This week's challenge was to photograph something abandoned.  This is the tongue of an old hay rake.  It's been there long enough, the trees are growing up in it. 

Working on new block of the month.  A patriotic one.  Also, taking an online photography class from Ricky Timms.  Hoping my camera, who is smarter than me, and I get along better together.  Each week is a new challenge and a lesson.  The first week was a bust for me.  I've added the last few weeks.  I can't seem to find where I saved the first few weeks in my computer files. 

This is the long depth focus week.  It's the reflection of the clouds to the east of the sunset to the west. 

This is "forks" challenge.  I took it at 4am.  Cold!!!!

This challenge was shapes.  The top of an old milk bottle  The junk my husband collects has finally come in handy.  

Last week was changing a color photo to B&W.