Photography Challenge 2012

Reposted to my blog so I can see it quicker...
So, the challenge is... 5 photographs per month, each based on one of the following theme list. Once you've completed a theme, you get to cross it off! Themes can be completed in any order, according to the photographer's personal taste.

The post with your monthly completion should be posted in the week following month end but can be post dated to the last day of the challenge month. Each submission should be titled Photography Challenge: (The Month). Each picture should be titled, and and the theme posted with the image. Pictures should be displayed in 600x800 pixel format with a 33 pixel black background border. Poems and songs can be posted with your pictures to convey expression.

Submissions can be edited for colour collections but should be somewhat true to their original form. If editing is a 'must' to achieve artistic vision, making notes that it's been revised in your post is acceptable.

If you fail to achieve 5 themes per month, simply tack an extra photograph onto your next months submissions. 2012 should have 60 complete photographs by the end of the challenge.

Best of luck, and have fun!

1. Portrait
2. Dreams
3. Hope
4. Passion
5. Love
6. Life
7. Laughter
8. Cat
9. Flower
10. Family
11. Stars
12. Peace
13. Joy
14. Texture
15. Patterns
16. Flora & Fauna
17. Black & White
18. Colour
19. Comfort
20. Soft & Hard
21. Path
22. Music
23. Art
24. Elements
25. Liquid
26. Food
27. Words
28. Weather
29. Clouds
30. Play
31. Signs
32. Fairy Tales
33. Magic
34. Peace
35. Focus
36. Toys
37. Reflection
38. Motion
39. Door
40. Dog
41. Book
42. Poetry
43. Grow
44. Spirit
45. Light
46. Rain
47. Craft
48. Dance
49. Change
50. Age
51. Self
52. Wish
53. Delicate
54. New
55. Gratitude
56. Darkness
57. Simplicity
58. Wisdom
59. Grace
60. Abstract

More Testing

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In theory, the above Pin It button, should allow Pinterest users to add the picture to their page... I'm the blog guinea pig among my circle of friends. So I get to test all new theories first. At least there's cookies involved.

That was a hint Layne. I want cookies!!! I'm also trying facebook buttons and twitter nonsense. So there may be more testing posts today...or there may not.

Close My Eyes Forever - Lita Ford feat. Ozzy Osbourne

It's been that long?

Mood: Surprised
Listening To: Lita Ford and Ozzy
Word of the Day: Scaruba - I love making up new words

Wow, it looks like it's been 2 months since I posted a new blog entry. I was doing so well!
It happens this time of year though. Working retail tends to suck the very fibre out of my existence during the cursed Christmas holiday season.

Pleasantly surprising was the lack of morally dysfunctional people that usually crowd the mall in December. We had a very good mix of customers this year. Usually, there's pushing, bickering, down right mean people. And don't get me wrong, those people were still in the mall, but there was more a sense of...dare I say it...humanity out there. More folks smiling, wishing everyone merry this, or happy that. It almost brought my cynical mind out of the morose, and gave me a bit of hope. Almost. The troll is still the troll, and I let him have too much power over me. Now I'm fighting my way back to the surface to pry myself out from under his thumbnail. Human Resources was no help.

I had a bit of a falling out with faith again. Not the full blown..."I hate you, I refuse to believe in you kind of falling out." The kind where I just reevaluated it a little bit, and reflected not on what they're doing for me, but what I'm doing for me. Does that make sense?

I've also sent my resume to a couple of things out of my element. An office job, and cruise lines. And I guess cruise lines aren't really out of my element, just out of my current rut that I've been in. We'll see if it goes anywhere. I screwed up an opportunity a couple of months ago, and in reflection, it was more out of fear of change than anything else.
I thought I was over that, but I guess not.

I really don't think I've moved past...the past. I'm hoping the business trip to Chicago next month will help with that. I just feel, blocked. Not that I consider it home anymore, but it was my and mom's original home. I don't know what life is trying to accomplish by sending me there, but I'm going to embrace it, and be open to the concept of some kind of closure. Maybe I just need to suck in the energy of the area that set me on my spiritual path? Maybe I need to talk to ghosts in my grandparent's old house? Maybe I just need a real Chicago pizza. Whatever the reason, it's going to be a positive experience, because I'm going to MAKE it a positive experience.

I guess that's it for now bloggerverse. Have a wonderful day.