The White House

I apologize for not blogging lately.  I\’m in the depths of a on-line photography class called Composition & Creativity.   It\’s been pushing me out of my photography comfort zone and occupying my mind most of the time.   I\’m two weeks in to the class, have a break this week, and then two more weeks go to.

We are given an assignment at the beginning of the week and are required to shoot every day and post our images daily.  The 30 students critique each others images throughout the week so that by Friday we know what we are doing (ha ha).  I have to say that the students (all women) are very supportive and inspiring.    We\’re a mixture of professional photographers, portfolio building photographers, and MWAC (moms with a camera).  There is some real talent in the group.   At the end of the week, we post an image for the instructor to critique.

As photographers, we\’re usually taught to \’fill the frame\’.  The great photographer Robert Cappa once said \”If your photos aren\’t good enough, you\’re not close enough\”.  So to push us way out of our comfort zone, our week 1 assignment was shoot an image in which your main subject took up no more than 25% of the frame.   This is my self portrait that I posted.

This image is so special to me because this is how Q and I start every morning.  Cuddled under the green blanket in our big, squishy chair.  I never want to forget this.

Here are a couple of my other favorites from the week:

So, that\’s where I\’ve been and will continue to be for the next couple of weeks.  I\’ll try and post more.

On Sunday we went on a family treasure hunt looking for Geocache.  We decided to go to Hacklebarney State Park which was a bit of a drive but well worth it.   Don scoped it out before we left and it was full of geocache treasures.

It\’s a great park because you feel like you\’re deep in the woods but the trails are mostly paved.

Don and Quinn off to find the first treasure.

Quinn\’s imagination these days just runs wild.  All sorts of made up characters, stories, etc.  This stick is his Robo Protector.  I was asked to pet it a couple of times!

A drink of water for the mighty Robo Protector.

I was disappointed that there weren\’t any flowering plants but these were pretty cool.

Treasure!

The park was full of lots of hidden surprises like this bench.

Can you see that Quinn\’s mouth is wide open?  He has this need to constantly be making noises.  It\’s quite lovely.

Someone\’s feet got tired and Don got a good workout.

Checking out the treasure.

This was a good one.  I thought Don was pretty brave to go crawling in there.

It was another great White family adventure and we added 3 geocaches to our tally.

A typical day at the White household:

First thing, we wrap some sort of twine, yarn, rope, string around chairs, drawers etc.  In this case he was racing in and out of the banners.

Squirt guns on the counter.  Not sure I like where this is going.  Fortunately Marleny arrived minutes later.  Sorry Marly!

Captain Underpants!   Believe me when I tell you that the blue ball and stacked green tables factored in to the equation.

This is Quinn\’s new house.  Make sure you knock on the door before entering.

He loves to collect stuff in buckets.  In this case collecting letters off the fridge and building words (or not).

Finding a mirror and then taking silly pictures.

Let\’s end the evening with a bang!   No explanation necessary.   Oh, except I didn\’t get a picture of his colorful arms, belly, back, and legs.

Just another fine day with Mighty Quinn.