Happy 4th of July!!! I’m so excited to be hosting Scavenger Hunt Sunday this month. Because I’m hosting, I’m going to try using Mr. Linky. If you participated this week, just click on the linky at the bottom of this post, and point me (and anyone else that’s playing along) back to your blog. So here is my interpretation on this past week’s items:
1. Shutter Speed
ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/1ooo sec.
I took this shot at the zoo last weekend. Although I didn’t use this photo for POTW (picture of the week), I thought I’d share what happens when you speed up your shutter speed. Of course, I’d almost rather have captured the water falling in motion more.
2. Patriotism
I was in Philadelphia earlier this week. While I was there, I made a point to pick up a post card – you wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to find a post card these days. You see, a few weeks ago, I decided to start participating in something called Post-Crossing.
“The goal of this project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world, for free. Well, almost free! The main idea is that: if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world. Why? Because there are lots of people who like to receive real mail. The element of surprise of receiving postcards from different places in the world (many of which you probably have never heard of) can turn your mailbox into a box of surprises – and who wouldn’t like that?”
So, this may be a stretch, but I took this picture of the postcard that I sent Keith in Malaysia, symbolic of my support for the US Postal Service…and to me, that’s pretty patriotic! I encourage you to check out Post-Crossing yourself. In the meantime, I think I’ll have some custom post-cards printed up with some of work. Yay!
3. Creative Crop
This is one of the shots I did not use for the June 2010 Photo Hunt. If you somehow missed my entries, click here. The next photo hunt will begin in August so if you missed the June challenge, I hope you’ll pick up with me then.
4. Time
Genesis 1:1 – what better way to illustrate the beginning of time.
5. Flower
I took this shot at the zoo last weekend. As much as I love photographing flowers, I have no idea what I’m photographing (I should really work on that). Nonetheless, I think it’s a cool shot, so there.
Your assignment for next week is the following:
- National Pride (also the POTW challenge for this week)
- Sunset
- Fire
- Favorite
- Sepia or B/W with Selective Color (I was inspired when I was asked to do this for the June 2010 Photo Hunt, so I wanna see what else we can come up with)
