Capturing Ordinary Moments

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Photography

This week Beth decided to mix things up a bit at I Should Be Folding Laundry and gave the challenge of “ordinary moments” for us to photograph. Here at No Ordinary Homestead, I’m not sure that anything we do can really be considered...

Capturing Happiness

by | Aug 11, 2011 | Photography

As I mentioned on Tuesday, Laternenfest was this past weekend…so when Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry announced that the topic for this week was happiness, I was pretty stoked. (Yes, that is actually a word I use in every day speak.) We had plenty of fun,...
Capturing white

Capturing white

by | Aug 4, 2011 | Featured, Photography

Our challenge for the week was “white” — and at first I thought that might be a little difficult. I mean I didn’t want to capture the usual stuff so I just started looking a little harder. At first I didn’t see much, but now as I sit here...
Capturing fruit

Capturing fruit

by | Jul 28, 2011 | Photography

I’m figuring I might have had this challenge a bit easier than some, because we have a lovely fruit orchard nearby where we always walk the dog. So yesterday, I grabbed my camera as we were leaving and took some shots along the way. I’m almost surprised...
Capturing fruit

Trees, plants and babies?

by | Jul 21, 2011 | Featured, Photography

This was a varied topic this week, because our lovely host Beth decided to ask her son Noah what the topic for YouCapture this week. His response was: “like trees and beautiful plants and little cute babies.” Now we do have a lot of trees and plants around here...
Capturing Summertime

Capturing Summertime

by | Jul 14, 2011 | Photography

The You Capture theme for this week was summertime, and for some reason I had a harder time visualizing what that would be than usual. Strangely enough, our summer has been rather usual. The most bizarre summer we’ve had here in Germany actually. We’ll...