One of the bloggers I admire most, Alison from Writing Wishing has started a weekly photography prompt with her friend Greta from GFunkified. They are on a quest to build their photography skills, and blog their way through it with Through The Lens Thursday. One of my goals for 2014 is to learn my fancy DSLR better, so I am going to join them from time to time. I don’t know if it will be every week, but I might.
The prompt for this week is reflection.
I could write a million words about reflection. About what it means to me to reflect or how it makes me feel to do so. I could totally write a blog post about reflection. LIKE A BOSS. But to grab my camera and try to capture something through the lens that similar to what I would write was challenging. And to turn off my “auto” setting for the first time and use my 50 mm lens instead of the kit lens I’m so comfortable with was a bit scary. Terrifying, actually.
Taken with a Canon EOS Rebel XS. 50 mm lens F/2.8, ISO 1600 (thanks, Tamara for telling me to crank it up indoors). If I forgot a number to put here, kindly let me know. This is really all Greek to me.
I have so much to learn about photography. But I am 100% in love with this photo because it captures the heart of everything I’d want to tell you about my life right now. I love parenting siblings. Their resemblance is striking and I know they both see their reflection in each other’s face.
Here is a side by side of Malone and Lola at 5 months.
A picture really can tell 1000 words, can’t it?
I love this and look forward to seeing your posts on Thursdays!!
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Thanks Anneliese. I think you should join in too!
I think you did an amazing job capturing that beautiful moment, NJ!!
Thank you so much for joining us. I look forward to your DSLR adventures!
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Thank you Alison. It is so hard to know if I’m doing this photography thing the “right” way, but it will be fun to learn on the job!
What a sweet picture! I wish I could get my girls to sit still long enough to capture a moment like that! Love your twist on the reflection theme, NJ!
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I’m not so sure these two ever sit still for very long, I just have a fast clicking finger. I love my DSLR because I can take a ton of photos really fast and then cherry pick the good ones!
So sweet! That reminds me a lot of my life right now, with an almost 4 yr old and a 6 mo old. How old is Malone? I am right there with you on cluelessness about the camera… we can learn together!
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Hi Sarah! Malone is 4.5 and Lola is 5 months! I didn’t know that our kids were so close in age. I’m sure you’ve got the same vibe happening in your world right now too. I had no idea that siblings would be this fun, I’m an only child.
Hi NJ! BettyAnn told me to check out your blog because I just had a baby 4 months ago 🙂 It’s nice to meet you 🙂
I’m so glad to meet you too, Ashley! I hope that sweet baby of yours is doing well. BettyAnn is great, isn’t she?
I love how you captured this moment! Great job, NJ! What a beautiful representation of “reflection”.
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Thanks dear! It was a spur of the moment snap. Before then, I was trying to figure out how to make something pretty come off of my bathroom mirror, it is the only mirror we’ve got in the house and my bathroom is U.G.L.Y.