Heather's Big Picture

Each week for a part time job I label 1,500 specimen bottles, putting my fingerprints on 78,000 bottles in a year. When you look at the BIG PICTURE over the span of few years I will have touched hundreds of thousands of lives in this small way.

The Big Picture

Sometimes, you just have to look at the BIG PICTURE when something like this happens before you do or say anything. There are sacrifices to be made in every decision we make in order to experience the joy that can come from them. So it is with these little critters . . . when I found that Doc had been outside chewing on the grass and then come in and deposited it on my couch I wasn't too happy about it, but then I thought, it was the perfect "Big Picture". If he didn't bring so much joy and love into the house otherwise this kind of thing would be much harder to put up with. I'm sure the same type of sacrifices are being made every day by parents with their children when they do something they shouldn't. But they are accepted and loved anyway, and we learn to go on and deal with bad when it comes and rejoice in the good, and so it is with just about everything in life.

Heather's Design Elements

This is Heather's first attempt to join the photo challenges. She is excited to join the group and will get her own blog one day soon.

Design Elements

This was a hard assignment for me to envision, but during the week I discovered a new TV channel that with programs about the lives of classical composers which I have been watching and it got me thinking that a bunch a simple little notes put together creates a whole visual, emotional and auditory design so I grabbed some sheet music one of my dolls and this is what I came up with. Hope you like it.

Light Challenge

In thinking about what to do for this challenge, I decided what would be better than the actual source of light it's self, so I took this with my macro lens to see what I would get. However, there are other more interesting examples of light below that I took several weeks ago at Jordan's Choir concert. I took these with no flash at all in very low light conditions, so check those three below out as well.

Jordan and Aaron at the Choir Concert

These two I didn't think would turn out at all because of the total lack of light and they were behind a screen here too. But I got much more from them than I expected. I think the shadows are really effective.

Jordan Singing

Jordan's Chamber Choir

I was really surprised at how well these pictures turned out of his concert considering I took them from the audience with no flash and this paticular picture they were all standing behind a screen with all the light behind them. I thought it was pretty cool.

Tayla Giggling

I took this one of Tayla a couple of weeks ago, when we were in Provo for Jordan's choir concert and to see the photo contest at the Bean Museum. Sue's kids had her really giggling it was really fun to watch her, she is so cute!

Talya's Blessing

I took this one of Tayla the day she was blessed and I just loved the way it turned out. It has become one of my favorites.

Capitol Hill

This is another one I took from my office window of capitol hill. It reminded me of a Christmas Card.

I'm all for the unusual picture. I took this one in September at the Homestead in Midway Utah. Can you tell what it is of?

Utah State Capitol Dome

I took this from my office window one snowy morning.

This is another one for the Blur Lesson

I bet you can't guess what this one is either.

This is for the Blur lesson.

Can you guess what this picture is of?