L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge~Red Edition

I haven't done one of these photo challenges in forever.  Not because I haven't been taking photos but because life has been so busy that I just haven't been blogging as much as I'd like.  At any rate, I saw this challenge and I happen to have taking a lot of red photo's last weekend.  So I'm taking a minute and posting one. 

It's my daughter's third birthday cake.  Getting that icing for the barn red was no joke.  And we all had red teeth afterward. LOL

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L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge~Listen

The theme for this week’s L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge is listen.   I was having a hard time thinking of what I wanted to do for this one.  I thought about maybe using one of my MANY photos of my toddler screaming.  I do listen to that a lot. LOL

However, we did some shopping today and that inspired me to go in a different direction.  So here’s my entry.

My budding piano player was a tad disappointed that you couldn’t see that it was her playing our new digital piano. So I’m posting this picture too, as proof that it is, indeed, Mackenzie playing. LOL  It’s not my entry though.

Hopefully, with a few lessons under her built, this will become something that we enjoy listening to frequently.  For now we might need to get some head phones for that thing. LOL

L.E.N.S. Challenge: Sunlight

This week's L.E.N.S. Challenge was sunlight. I had trouble choosing so I narrowed it down to two. =o)

This is taken in the Phillipine Sea just before sunset. We were stranded in the boat that we had just boat and I was bored. (And I do mean literally just bought. We were taking the boat from the seller to our marina. But that's another story. LOL)

This is also of the Phillipine Sea, right at sunset, from land. I love the silouette of the plants. I never noticed the four spider silouettes until after the fact. Good thing, cuz I'd have probably freaked. It could've been worse, I guess, this was in Guam so it very well could've been a silouette of a brown tree snake. Ack!

I miss all the beautiful scenery on that tiny, little island.

We won!

We were one of the winners of the L.E.N.S. black and white photo challenge. Woot!

Now to think of something with a "Sunlight" theme. Hmm....

And I forgot to post about Mackenzie's accomplishment. She entered an online art contest for homeschoolers and won two honorable mentions. Whoo-hoooo Mackenzie! Check it out! The next contest deadline is in November and the theme is America the Beautiful. All you need is you buddying artist/homeschool student and a flickr account.

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge: Black & White

I was perusing my blog reader and came across a few posts about this photo challenge. Intrigued, as I am about all things photography, I decided to check it out. It's a photo challenge hosted by Home is Where you Start. She gives a weekly assignment and has a twist. I liked the twist.

So I decided to enter.

This photo is of my daughter, Mackenzie. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love it because she's beautiful. I hate it because I took it on her ninth birthday and I'm against my babies growing up. LOL