January 2013 Photo a Day – Stripes

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. look for stripes in your everyday. They could be in the zebra crossing on the road, or in your outfit or somewhere else

I’m a little behind with these challenges and I’m trying to catch up this weekend. As for the theme stripes I seem to have a wardrobe full of them. Apparently teachers wear a lot of stripes. It has something to do with being organized or was it being conservative. Well I don’t really fit into either category but I do like stripes.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Electric

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…… this could be a simple photo of your toaster {but get creative} or something else electric

Our life depends on electricity. We use it to run our appliances, heat and light our homes, cook our food and run our computers and electronic games and devices. Without it we couldn’t write our blogs and post our photos. Funny thing is that in the summer I live without electricity for weeks at a time at my cottage and don’t miss it. Electricity is something we take for granted until we experience a blackout and are forced to adapt.

The challenge is to take interesting photos that highlight the word electric.

In the first picture, you see a bright light coming from a person’s yard where their children were out playing in the freshly fallen snow. The second picture is a light standard next to a local skating rink. I tried to capture the large fluffy snow flakes that were falling in front of the light and this is what I got.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Corner

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…..It could be a sharp corner of a building, a corner of an artwork, a corner of your home or something else. Corners are everywhere. Shoot one.

January 2013 Photo a Day – Something You Saw

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Mama Cormier

….. go about your day with eyes wide open and take a photo of something you saw.

Yesterday the weather had turned from a balmy six degrees celcius on Saturday to a frigid minus 11. The day hadn’t gone exactly as planned. I had a breakfast meeting at 10:30 that didn’t involve breakfast. The meeting went well and when it was over I drove to the mall to spend the rest of my gift certificate. I bought costume jewellery that I didn’t need but I couldn’t resist the bargains and I do love jewellery. Then I stopped at the Lindt chocolate outlet on the way home and had the first food of the day…. dark chocolate samples.

When I got home I finally had a healthy lunch at about 2:30. K started making a great soup for dinner and while it simmered on the stove he decided to do our daily walk before dinner. His thinking being that when he got back he’d be ready for a hearty warm soup. Remember it was -11 degrees outside. Initially I opted not to do the walk. After my husband left to do the walk on his own I remembered that I hadn’t done the photo challenge for the day.

I bundled up and decided to walk east, the opposite direction that we normally do our walk. Eventually I would meet up with my husband and then I could turn around and walk back with him. I also thought that it would be interesting to see the city from a different point of view. It was already starting to get dark and the clouds over the skyline were reflecting the setting sun in the west.

I tried to get some shots of pussy willows that I saw on the walk but it was too windy and all the shots were blurry. The soup by the way was delicious. I probably should have taken pictures of that.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Delicious

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Mama Cormier

….what’s delicious to you? Is it the chubby cheeks of your toddler, the hunk at the gym or a cake you plan on eating for afternoon tea?

Delicious for me usually involves food but lately the colour of food determines how delicious it is. I no longer crave ‘brown’ foods and I am drawn to green, orange and yellow foods. More and more of our meals involve salads and lots of colourful vegetables.

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Ready

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. Is it a photo of your dinner being ready? Or you ready to catch the bus? Or something else. It’s a toughy – but it will get your mind thinking!

It was snowing tonight and very cold as we went out for our walk. The whole time I kept thinking about what to do for this challenge. I was looking forward to a hot cup of tea and the chicken we had for dinner was waiting to be cut up so that I could use the carcass to make a chicken stock for future meals. Consequently my photos represent getting ready for tomorrow’s lunch, getting ready to make the stock, being ready to dig out if the snow continues throughout the night and ready to enjoy my tea and one of two new books that I picked up from the library after work.

January 2013 Photo a Day – Yellow

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. I enjoyed looking for yellow shots

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January 2013 Photo a Day – Water

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Mama Cormier

….. I live by water all year round

Surf on Georgian Bay.

Rocks on the water in Georgian Bay.

Frances in the Georgian Bay surf.

A must see for visitors – Niagara Falls

Geese on Lake Ontario, by Samuel Smith Park

Grade 5 year end activity day at a local community pool.

For more water photos check out Jeanne’s blog…a nola girl at heart.

January Photo a Day 2013: One o’clock…somewhere!

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Mama Cormier

…. and paper, two challenges rolled into one

Yesterday my computer was giving me grief and I couldn’t post anything. When I finally got it fixed it was too late to come up with photos of paper. It just so happened that at 1:00 today I was teaching art to my grade 2/3 class and we were colouring and painting large sheets of paper. The lesson was on texture and they experimented with a variety of materials and techniques to create virtual texture. They loved it and I loved what they came up with. We will use these creations in future works of art.

Check out the other January 2013 Photo a Day photos at Jeanne’s blog…a nola girl at heart