ABC Challenge: Jumping and Laughing

by Lara My camera is not dead!  It was the battery that died and a new battery has saved the day just in time -- for a week at the cottage!

J is for Jumping

Jumping was the theme at the cottage this year. All three of my guys spent hours jumping off this dock over and over and OVER. Picking just one jumping photo was torture :)

L is for laughing

My girl is a charmer.  A happy go lucky charmer.

 Reader photos

The list

It's never too late to join in.  Send me the links if you blog about your images - I'd love to include some of your photos too!

Art Books Climbing Discovery Eating Friends Green Hugging Inside Jumping Kisses Laughing Mealtime Night Outside Playing Quiet Riding Swinging Trees Umbrella Vehicles Wet Xcited (OH! Cheater!) Yellow Zoom

Every time I sit down to write one of these posts and look at all the photos I've taken this summer I smile. I spent so many months forgetting to take photos over the winter and seeing these regular images of my kids again makes me happy and reminds me why photography was such a hobby of mine for awhile.

Have you been taking photos?  Link to some in the comments!

ABC Challenge: Inside and Zoom

by Lara My camera died! Apparently 6 years of being tossed around like it wasn't an expensive piece of photography equipment finally took it's toll on the poor thing. Fortunately, my iPhone camera quality is quite exceptional!

Inside and Zoom

Z is for zoom - in Grandpa's boat around the lake.

I is for inside - the kids have spent hours in these buckets through this hot summer.  Cheapest/easiest swimming pools ever!

Art Books Climbing Discovery Eating Friends Green Hugging Inside Jumping Kisses Laughing Mealtime Night Outside Playing Quiet Riding Swinging Trees Umbrella Vehicles Wet Xcited (OH! Cheater!) Yellow Zoom

Cell-phone photography tips

Here are a couple of articles with great tips on cellphone photography - check them out!

How to Take Camera Phone Pictures

Cell phone photography tips

Other participants' photos

M is for mealtime - by Amy Boughner

J is for jump by Ang from the dock

Will you join in next week?

ABC Challenge : Discovery and Riding

by Lara Last week we went to the Granby Zoo - we had a fabulous time.  My two photos are both from the Zoo and I'll admit right now (before he calls me on it) that my husband took both these photos.  I say they still count :)

Photo Tip:

I'm no photography expert but I'll be sharing a few tips I've learned in recent years. If you have one you'd like me to share (I'll link to your site too!) please email me at kidsinthecapital(at)gmail(dot)com

Get closer! I find some of the best photos I take are ones where I'm right up in the kids' space.  The more zoomed in the better sometimes. Give it a try!

Participant photos: EATING

We got some great eating photos shared this week.  Here are two :) Have you joined our flickr group yet?

Angela:

Alison

The list:

Art Books Climbing Discovery Eating Friends Green Hugging Inside Jumping Kisses Laughing Mealtime Night Outside Playing Quiet Riding Swinging Trees Umbrella Vehicles Wet Xcited (OH! Cheater!) Yellow Zoom

It's never too late to take part.  Leave a comment with links to your blog posts or join our Flickr Group!

What have you taken a photo of this week?

ABC Challenge: Hugging / Outside

by Lara A week into the challenge and it feels a bit strange to be remembering to have my camera at hand more of the time.  Strange but good - I'm so glad to be getting more regular shots of the kids again!

My two photos for this week:

H is for Hugging

On the first and last day of school I like to get my kids to pose right outside our front door.  On the last day of preschool the twins were not the most cooperative but I did get to catch this lovely shot!

O is for outside

Sometimes when you take enough photos you catch just the right smile and just the right light. I love this picture of Quinn.

It's never too late to take part.  Join us in taking photos and share them to our flickr group or on your blog and link to them in the comments! Next week I'll feature some of your photos in my post.

The list:

Art Books Climbing Discovery Eating Friends Green Hugging Inside Jumping Kisses Laughing Mealtime Night Outside Playing Quiet Riding Swinging Trees Umbrella Vehicles Wet Xcited (OH! Cheater!) Yellow Zoom

Will you join me?

ABC: Reviving the photo challenge

by Lara One of the very first things I did when we launched Kids in the Capital was start a photo challenge. It was such a great success that I managed to put together a lovely book of photos from so many of our readers to highlight at Blog Out Loud Ottawa in 2010!

I was really happy with my photography that year. I pushed myself to get regular photos and to improve the photos I was taken.  I've slipped since then and with summer vacation around the corner (heck, it's standing outside my door and already rang the doorbell) I've decided to start a new photo challenge!

The concept is exactly the same.

In the next 14 weeks I will get at least one photo I am proud of in each of the categories (in no particular order) in my following ABC list (I'm re-using the list, I think the themes will be fun to try again).

Every week I will present you with photos from 2 categories and I will highlight a few of your photos too. I invite you to join me, post your photos on your own blog, and add them to our Flickr group. (aside: did you know that the lovely photos rotating in our sidebar are kids in the capital reader submitted in our Flickr group? You should join!)

The list:

Art Books Climbing Discovery Eating Friends Green Hugging Inside Jumping Kisses Laughing Mealtime Night Outside Playing Quiet Riding Swinging Trees Umbrella Vehicles Wet Xcited (OH! Cheater!) Yellow Zoom

Will you join me?