For this photography challenge, I not only wanted to photograph something I’ve never photographed before which was the challenge; I wanted it to be something that would make me smile. This made me smile for the obvious reason.

Cause I just can’t help smiling when I think about Disney! These are our first magicbands and I am beyond excited to wear them. Right now they are just the plain simple bands that you can buy from the DisneyStore.com or from the ShopDisney app. Yes, I have the app on my phone.

But soon they will be personalized with stickers and bows! I can’t wait! Oh, did I said that already? Is my excitement showing THAT much? Oh, it is. Well, then I guess it’s a good thing you can’t see my Mickey ears then.

I had a hard time photographing the magicbands though. I think it was a lighting issue and the background isn’t as bright as I would like it to be but at least they are in focus. Rainy days don’t bring in much light to the only area in my home that I can photograph from. Plus, my camera was having trouble focusing on them today.

Product photography is one of my favorite types of photography so I enjoyed it even if I had to fight my camera just a bit. But all in all, I’m pretty happy with the results especially since this photo is straight out of the camera.

No editing. I like it when that happens. I am not a fan of photo editing. Are you?

Rainy days and Mondays. Yes, I know it’s Tuesday but that just doesn’t sound as good. The photography challenge is coming along nicely. Rainy day was the challenge.

Since we’ve had plenty of rain around this was an easy challenge to do at least on the rainy day part. I tried to take some landscapes because that was my immediate thought of how to capture a rainy day. They were not very good. I needed to think out of the box.

I don’t know about you but I don’t like cookie cutter photos. I like to have a unique perspective. So, I took the photo above. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t laid out, it just happened and I had my camera with me so I was able to get it.

What do I love about it? I like the bokeh, the soft almost fog like blur on the window and I like the crispness of the rain as it slowly drips down the window.

I’m actually pretty happy with this photography challenge. I’d call this one a success. I need to remember though to think out of the box and not go for the traditional photo.

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A cat or kitten was the next photography challenge. This challenge was pretty easy for me. Though we have two cats only one will actually sit still long enough for me to take her picture most of the time. Better than my kids, she doesn’t fuss as much at me.

Know what I love about this photograph? Look at the pupil of her eye. Not only does she have beautiful blue eyes but in this photo, her pupil looks like a heart doesn’t it? Sometimes it’s the little details that really make a photo.