M'Lady's Photo Dedication

I have mentioned Sue's dedication to her Facebook photo group. She is given one theme for the week plus a more specific prompt for each day. I asked her for three sample photos along with their descriptions for my blog — the descriptions that she originally posted to her group.

The group is given a weekly theme, followed by an additional suggestion for each day. One weekly theme was Motivation, and one of the daily prompts was Different Angle. Sue was to express the idea of motivation from a different angle. This ↓ is the photo that she posted with her description to the group below (in italics).

On this grey, snowy February morning I was motivated to dig out this bright top so I could wear a butterfly on my shoulder, to remind myself that colour will return to my world again. It will! Mother Nature is working her wonders in the cold dark soil under the piles of snow in my front yard, and when the snow melts, tulips and daffodils will rise again to colour my world, and delight the butterflies. It always amazes me that such beauty can come from that cold dark place. A life lesson for sure. If you are in a cold dark place in your life right now, hang on.

Personally, I have neither the creativity nor the patience to do this sort of thing. I just have to follow my own muse and photograph what I want to photograph when I want to do it. Sue, however, is creative and also willing to put the necessary thought and time into complying with the prompts. She will take many photos until she finds one that she likes.

She recently had a whole week with a Food theme. One day, the additional, daily prompt was Incredible.

Oh my, another learning curve for me. Hmmmm, where do I begin with this challenge? I think it is incredible that in the middle of my snowy, colder than cold world, I have fresh blueberries available to me. MMMMM, delicious too.

A subsequent prompt was Food/Ideal.

I didn't have to think too long or too hard for this one. Apples are my ideal food. After all "one a day keeps the doctor away", and they are delicious fresh and crunchy or cooked in a delicious pie or apple crisp. Yum, yum, yum!

For that third photo with the apples, m'lady commandeered me to hold a flashlight for her at just the right angle. I held and held while she clicked and clicked until she got what she wanted.

Immediately and forthwith, once she was finally done, I went upstairs, got onto Amazon, and ordered a set of very inexpensive lights. It wasn't that I was peeved to hold the light; it just popped into my pea brain that there might be a better solution.

The lights are for me too although I expect that she will get much more use. I already have a ring flash to do macro photos with my camera, but Sue needed something like this for phone photography. I will use them too as they over some advantages over the ring flash.