Focus on Life: Bye Bye for Now!

A little friend scurries away. 

Well, we have come to the end of the first year of Focus on Life. This project, sponsored by Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime, has encouraged creative photography and story telling all year long. 

These past few weeks have been challenging because I usually like to capture the natural world around me, and the cold weather and short days limit the pictures I can take. 

Looking around me when the weather allowed, I just didn't think anything presented the opportunity to portray this week's theme, "Saying Goodbye". And them I remembered this little fellow.....

As I scrambled to get my camera turned on and grab a picture of this cute squirrel, he noticed me and my pal, Bebop, and scooted away. 

"Goodbye, friend Squirrel, catch you next time."

Happy New Year everyone.

Focus on: Motion!

Motion and the suggestion of motion.

This week's Focus on Life assignment sent by Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime is "In Motion." Now - we are dealing with still photography here. Do you see the challenge? Yeah, thought you would!

In trying to meet this challenge, I was torn between taking it literally - using my camera to stop motion, or to try and suggest motion....somehow. Unhelpfully, my camera battery died in the middle of a walk where I thought I might capture something cool. 

So, back to the archives, where I remembered that I had some cool series shots of a Great Blue Heron that are from last year. And some more recent shots of Canada Geese at the local small airport. And a Squirrel, just cuz they're cute. And PicMonkey's collage feature was just made for this..... 

Now let's see how the others handled this challenge.....