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.