Category: 10-on-10

10 on 10 | december

December 10, 2011

third installment (that should be the fifth, but oh well!) of my personal project… documenting out beautiful, messy daily life. since we’re back to school full-time, my ‘day’ has been documented in the sweet few hours i have to spend with my family before bedtime each night.  i’m splitting the difference here with 7 moments captured with 12 images… i just couldn’t get 10 images to work out quite right this time :)

  • resting after school
  • the crafty mess
  • christmas everywhere
  • busy while dinner cooks
  • so many missing teeth (& crazy!)
  • bathtime
  • nighty night

as always, i’m doing this project with a group of wonderful photographers. please click through to see jayme franklin’s 10-on-10 project this month.

10 on 10 | october

October 10, 2011

i’ve joined a group of 10 photographers with a monthly project to document real life… as photographers, we often get caught up in the perfect portrait and forget the beauty of every day stuff. while the original format of 10-on-10 is to post 10 images taken over the course of 10 days on the 10th of each month, i haven’t quite managed that goal just yet. first, i’m a master procrastinator, so i continue to put off the day i’m planning to work on this project, until it’s simply too late. as i mentioned in august (yep, i’m such a procrastinator that i missed the september edition) i’m using a film camera for personal/family images, so this set is from a recent day at the beach with my girlies. october is almost always our best beach weather of the year, so this is fitting :)

the little one – in a dress and hat because there’s about 0.000001% chance she’ll go in the water…

the big one – fearless and loves the ocean, in her swimsuit the minute we mention the beach (and check out those ridiculously loose top teeth… they’re just dying to fall out!)

love notes in the sand – big one writes ‘i love you mom’

mr. johnson :)

pretty sure this girl created her own dance circle at the beach:

love this spinning hair:

little one intent on drawing squiggles in the sand:

and continuing the squiggles with her toes (and the fact that the negative is a bit off on the left makes me kind of happy)

big one and i went to explore the tide pools

head on over to jayme franklin’s blog to see her 10 on 10 images for the month!

10 on 10 | august

August 10, 2011

i’ve been making a few big steps toward better documenting my own family (aka my girls… we all know that parents get very little love from the camera). i recently purchased a film camera in hopes of finding the art in my personal photos. it’s (surprisingly) incredibly helpful for me to be limited to the exposures on a roll of film. i photograph more thoughtfully without the unlimited shutter clicks of my digital slr.

i’ve also teamed up with an awesome group of women from the bloom forum for a 10 on 10 project. our goal is to post 10 personal images on the 10th of each month. the original challenge was to portray 10 hours of a regular day, but i’ve strayed a bit from that aspect of the challenge this time… these images were all taken within a two-day span and i was just aiming to document more of who and how my girls are at this time. there are 10 of us (surprise!) participating. follow the link at the end of this post for the next 10 on 10 project :)

logan just turned 6. she loves the camera!

avery just turned 4. she likes to do her own thing and i’m lucky to catch a great picture of her smiling.

this one totally reminds me of 40 year old virgin… anyone else???

these bathtime images are a perfect illustration of their different personalities… avery is quiet, reserved, sweet and loving.

and logan can fake-laugh with the best of them, is incredibly social and always looking to show you her latest performance.

head on over to jayme franklin’s blog to see her 10 on 10 images for the month!

an | ordinary | friday

May 31, 2009