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The ’50 Projects’ Project

This past weekend, my husband and I finally watched “Julie & Julia“, a film based on the true story of Julie Powell, who cooked and blogged her way through the entire Julia Childs’ cookbook “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” – 524 recipes in 365 days. Julie was consumed by this massive undertaking and discovered…

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Christmas Traditions – Week 22, 50 Projects « Through My Lens - [...] a long hiatus, the Projects are back. And what better time to renew them than Christmas with so much to photograph. Over the [...]

Deanna - Sheri, the book is good, but the author likes to use a lot of different toy cameras for his project suggestions. It may be worth checking out the library. Or stalk my blog. :)

Sheri - That is such a neat idea! Is the book worth the buy or should I just stalk your blog. LOL (OKay fine, I’ll stalk).

Blur – 50 Projects, Week 2 « Through My Lens - [...] are times however when blur can be artistic or convey a sense of motion. I took some ideas from the book and added a few of my own. Here is what I created this week. The sharp image Intentionally out of [...]

Photography Bucket List

I am a compulsive list maker. I don’t start a day without my “To-Do” list planned out the night before. My husband will ask me when I get that far off stare what I am thinking about and often my answer is, “My to do list. I need to get this and that done” A…

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Deanna - Thanks, Robb! I would have loved that. Hope I can still hold a camera when your little guy gets married.

I am jealous, Danelle. Perhaps I’ll have to ride an elephant after studying yoga at an ashram while traveling in India.

Robb - I wish we could have helped with #2. Our official wedding photographer was not very good, and I thought, “We could have hired Deanna for this paid her plane ticket and it still would have been cheaper and MUCH better. Oh well. Maybe when our little guys gets married…

Danelle - This is a cool idea. An Indian wedding would be fantastic! Oh, I hope you’re not too jealous, but I rode an elephant in high school, at the San Diego Zoo (does that count?). Just to warn you, you pretty much have to do the splits to sit on one (so probably good I did it in high school, ha-ha) and they are covered in really pokey hair!