Behind

So, I finally have finished taking pictures for all the assignments I've missed while moving away from my photography group. But I'm still going to follow all the assignments! SO, I didn't love any of my red, yellow, or orange pics. I like them, but I didn't adore them. I kept kind of trying again after I posted my assignments, because I really wanted to be inspired. But I never did find anything great. I feel the same way about my blue, purple, and green. I have several to choose from, but none of them really just JUMP out at me. The good thing is, I usually get some really good shots that I love while I'm trying for the assignments, so nothing is lost!

Anywho, here are my tries for green. I can't decide which to choose:

Abstract:

Or literal:
I mean, she's not wearing green, but she's surrounded by it. It was her first pleasant encounter with grass.

Purple was a challenge, and I got some great shots of my niece in a purple shirt, but none were really focused on the purple. And then I took some of a purple sunset, but again, not QUITE purple enough for me. So I just got this shot:

A little boring and all, but hey, it's purple.

Then blue. I had some shots of sea and sky that were all blue, but I decided to have a blue focus instead with this one:
I cropped it to make the blue a little more prominent, and I also have a landscape shot of this pose, but it's much less blue.

SO, now this month's assignment is to make a 2-shot collage of the same situation from different angles. I tried and TRIED to take my beach pictures with this in mind, but I never could quite get what I envisioned. So I took a million pictures and decided to just see what I had and work it out later. So, I spent all morning putting together some pics, and here are my choices:

Janey smiling in the grass. She is cute and all, but I don't know if I love the two together.

It was such a sunny day, I didn't really get any shots of Janey's face on the beach, but I LOVE her expression in the crawling picture, so I just chose a rock examination close up to be its companion.
Here is the landscape pic of the earlier blue picture, then I just found a playing in sand picture. Again, no faces on my Jane.
Here's my brave Jeffy. I guess I should switch the pictures to be chronological, but my eye always lingers on the right picture, and that one has much more visual interest for me. I'm not sure these really have the right balance to go together.
I didn't get too many shots of Ethan, but I do like these two. Again, I'm not sure they really go together, but it was worth a try.

Here's the one I probably like best for a collage. You can barely see Jeffy in the first one, and his back is to us in both pictures, but the two work together better than some of the others.
So now I've got some deciding and some posting to do to be all caught up just in time for the next assignment.

It's been fun to be motivated into picking up my camera again. I should start a photography group here too and be double challenged.