Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Through My Lens: iPhone 5 Photo Challenge


Those who know me personally know that I rarely, if ever go anywhere without at least one of my DSLR’s. Being an aspiring photographer, one of them is always within arm’s reach. However, my family and I went out of town for the weekend and when leaving the house I just knew I’d forgotten something, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. I don’t know how it came to my mind, but it did, I’d forgotten my camera bag that housed not one, but BOTH of my cameras and all of my lenses. I was heartbroken, I suddenly felt naked and vulnerable ( kinda how I feel if I leave the house without earrings or lip gloss…weird, I know…eh) We were too far down the road for me to turn around, so I kept on going, saddened of course. I’d planned on taking photos of my mom and three out of four of her grandkids, plus much more and now those plans were shot!
This was taken before my impromptu challenge, but still one I liked, taken with my iPhone. 
Then it dawned on me. I’d been saying that I was gonna go out into the world and see just how good my iPhone 5 camera was (well, the camera app that I downloaded anyway). I had yet to actually do it, but here I was now, forced to have to do it. Our trip was cut short due to my husband’s unpredictable work schedule (he works in the Gulf) so I didn’t get to take many photos, but I did snap a few while we were there, and I was very pleased with the outcome, even though I did use some photo editing apps to spruce them up a little (ok, maybe a lot on a couple of them, but Oh well). That motivated me to search Google high and low, mostly on the first page of the results (lol) for an iPhone photo challenge. I found some inspiration, but not exactly what I was looking for. But that won’t stop me from creating my own challenge…I’ve been inspired! I hope you have too.



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