Author: Katherine

Well, here we are, at the end of another year. How in the world does time go so fast?!?

For this month’s theme, at first, you’d think of the holiday season. However, I’m going to go with a bit of a different interpretation. As a photographer and a church organist/pianist, this time of year is my busy season. Many years, I feel like I don’t really get to truly enjoy the holiday season. Instead, I’m busy doing sessions, editing pictures and planning holiday music.

So for my images this month, they will be more representative of what consumes my schedule this time of year.

This first image is from a senior session I recently did. Not only is it representative of the busy photography season, it also represents the basketball season.

So I’m having issues with being able to add images to this blog post. So I’m going to go ahead and link to the next person and then come back and edit the blog post and hopefully it will allow me to add more photos.

Up next is Elizabeth. Go check out her stunning photos by clicking HERE!! Thanks so much for stopping by!!

This month’s theme for Share Six is buildings. I’m going to be honest, I have been absolutely swamped with my business, so I didn’t have time to get out and take new pictures. These are even pictures I used on a previous Share Six post years ago.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get out and be creative here in the near future. For now, here are some older images of some buildings.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Head on over to Janet’s blog by clicking HERE. You won’t want to miss her wonderful images!

July’s theme is In The City. June was absolutely swamped for me, so I’m using images I took a few years ago when we visited New York.

Thanks so much for checking out my images! Next up is Arthurko. Click HERE to see his amazing images.

I am so disorganized when it comes to Share Six lately. Life and my photography business have been crazy. I haven’t had much time to be creative.

That being said, for this challenge I have decided to use some pictures I took with my phone and action camera. I believe the best camera you can have is the one you have with you. I try to live an adventurous and vibrant life and that means being out in nature as much as possible. Often times I don’t feel like lugging my professional camera with me. So my phone is how I document the beauty and fun.

We have vacationed in the Northwoods since I was in grade school and it’s my home away from home. Here are some vibrant images from our vacation there.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Head on over to Arthurko’s blog by clicking HERE. You won’t want to miss his amazing images!

This month’s theme is curves.

As usual, I have a plan but don’t get around to it and then I’m scrambling to take pictures. I really wanted to take pictures of a calla lily, however I couldn’t find any at the local florists shops. So these were the next best flowers I could find.

I just love the delicate curves in the petals of the flowers!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Head over to Janet’s blog by clicking HERE. You won’t want to miss seeing her lovely images!

This month’s theme is Painterly. While I didn’t have time to take new images for this challenge, I had fun going through my archives and finding images that were conducive to editing in a painterly style.

This first image is one of my favorite images I’ve taken while kayaking and in one of my favorite places – northern Wisconsin.

This next image is one I took of my daughter when we vacationed in Colorado several years ago.

Another one of my daughter a few years ago in a gorgeous field of black-eyed susans.

This one is a favorite of mine that I took at a senior session of a dear friend and client.

While in Chatanooga a few years back, I took this image of this bridge. Thought it might look nice with a painterly effect.

And another one of my daughter.

Thanks so much for stopping by to see my images! Head on over to Claire’s blog to see her amazing images by clicking HERE.

I chose this month’s theme. As I’ve come along in my photography journey, I’ve come to realize that it’s not always fun having to schedule sessions around times of the day with good lighting, or finding locations with good lighting. I’d get requests for specific locations that just wouldn’t have good light. So, I quickly realized that if I didn’t want to constantly be a slave to good natural light, I’d need to learn to create my own.

I’m not going to lie, it can be a pain lugging around a good light and softbox, but it really is worth it. I can also create unique lighting scenarios, which scratches that creative itch. It’s really fun to brainstorm ways to creatively light a subject.

Here are a few examples of where I’ve used artificial light to create a scene:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Head on over to Claire’s blog by clicking HERE! She has great images for the theme. Be sure to coninue through the blog circle!!

So it was my turn to choose the theme this month. I haven’t done double exposures in a while, so I thought that would be a good theme. I really wanted to create some fun shots. However, this time around, I wasn’t as satisfied with my results. As usual, I DID wait until the last minute to work on my images, and being that everything is still brown and dingy too, I just didn’t find much inspiration.

This first image was done in camera.

These next two were done in Photoshop.

And this last one was actually an image I took years ago in camera. We did these theme several years ago, and to this day, this is probably my favorite double exposure image I have ever taken.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Head on over to Liz’s blog to check out her lovely images!! Click HERE to see them!!