This one really made me think as I never really thought about whether or not I have a favorite fruit or vegetable. Do you have a favorite fruit or vegetable?

Then I was thinking, do they mean a favorite fruit or vegetable I like to eat or to photograph. There is a difference, at least in my case there is. I like strawberries but they just don’t cooperate with me when I try to photograph them. Kind of like my kids.

I do love citrus fruits, limes, lemons, grapefruits, and oranges. So, I sliced up some oranges and lemons and took a few shots by my open window. The same one I always use for my photos. I get great natural light there. I liked the lemons but the colors just didn’t make you want to reach out and grab it and eat it. That’s what I wanted to feel when I saw it. So I switched things around, opted for an orange and moved things around, took some shots, moved things around a few more times. Jeepers, I don’t think I’ve ever taken so many photos of an orange before but in the end, I was pretty happy with the results.

As you know, I’m not big on editing so many of my photos are straight out of the camera. I probably could have increased the lighting a bit. I do like the details on the whole orange and how tasty the sliced orange in the front looks.

Great, now I want an orange so I think I’ll go have one.

Get your camera out and keep snapping photos. Are you doing a photography challenge this year? I’d love to see what you are working on. If you are, drop me a message below so I can check it out.

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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