Jump Lego man Jump!

For J I had a some ideas for the word jump and thought I would try to do something with Lego's for this. I had the little Lego man suspended with some fishing line. Then in post processing I used the healing tool in Photoshop Express to remove what was visible of the line. I have seen some stuff online with Lego's and think some people get some really interesting photos using them as props so I will probably try more stuff some other time with them.

I

I set up this photo.
I took this photo.
I am in this photo.

That covers I.

Hannah

So I guess Hannah's name starts with H so I thought I would use a picture of her, plus she kept saying for H I should do a picture of her. For this I just had her sitting on the stool in front of the sliding glass door and used the natural light. I even combed her hair! At least combing her hair is easier than combing Rachel's as Rachel cries most the time, she has such a sensitive head!

Sweet Basil

For G I am going for the simple Green or Growing. I have had a couple sweet basil plants and a tomato plant growing in our front window for months now. I had started them way to late in the growing season last summer to plant them outside so I decided to see if I could keep them alive for the winter indoors. So far they have done okay. The basil, being a smaller plant, has done better and if I had a window that received sun for a larger portion of the day the tomato plant would maybe have produced some tomatoes. So there you have it for G.

Fruit Smoothie

F is for Fruit Smoothie and it was tasty! We make these frequently around our house and the kids love to have them so I thought I would practice on a glass of smoothie. We use a juicer for stuff like carrots, apples, oranges, celery (well I usually skip the celery), etc. then blend it with a few frozen strawberries and bananas. If you want an extra special treat you can throw in some sherbet to sweeten it up a bit.

East

E is for go East! Took some thinking to come up with some ideas for E that I could do something with and Beth suggested I think more abstract than the usual literal object starting with the correct letter. Once I had this idea it was a very simple thing to compose, simply have 1 kid stand on a sheet of white paper with a direction arrow pointing east and yes both arrow and kid were facing in the direction of east. When I was doing this one I thought that the overall image would look best in black & white so I did the conversion in post processing.

Dominoes take 2

So as I was posting my dominoes photos earlier it hit me how I could get more of that "ghost" image to show by increasing the amount of ambient light (natural light in the room) hitting the dominoes. So I opened up the blinds to let more light into the room and took another go at it. I really like the one where the dominoes are more facing the camera but also included another side shot as it shows the effect real well.