Mini Layouts

I did it again. This time, as I was thinking about the kinds of photos I wanted to get, I remembered that my trusty doggy of 15 years, Norman, always greets me when I am arriving home.

At 15, he does it a bit more slowly, but he always seems pleased to see me.

I took a little different kind of approach on the photo. I wanted to decorate it a bit, but not put in tons of time. I like this idea of decorating just a bit. I can use my supplies, but not spend a huge chunk of time.

I think soon, I'll try just decorating the photo only. Keeping it even smaller. The beauty there is that if I want to, I can decorate photos and then add them to pages later if I want to.

So here is my little greeter. I used the following products to create my mini layout: Grunge Guru Collection Mini (http://store.scrapgirls.com/product.php?id=11568), and College Days Embs (http://store.scrapgirls.com/product.php?id=7913)

Take a photo of something from your Day

I've been looking around online and finding some amazing photography is happening in 2008. And I want to be part of it. I've seen a variety of 30 day challenges for photography, and while I'm not sure if I'll keep up with it each and every day, I like the concept.

So for the last couple of days, I've been taking random shots of the things that I see in my daily life. The first one, the fire hydrant, was seen on my way to church last night. The sun, peeping through the rain clouds was breathtaking and so I had to save it for future viewing.

I have to admit this is a real challenge for me since I typically photograph people. But there are some amazing non-people photo ops out there and I'm trying to stretch myself.

I've been especially excited about the unique persectives I've been seeing people using in their photography and so I tried here to duplicate that. I liked the randomness of this hydrant out in the middle of the desert juxtaposed with an amazing sky. I hope you're inspired to try something new and different with your camera.