Colour Chase Challenge (White)

January - White

For the last few months on Instagram I had seen images posted with a colour theme for each month. I found the Color Chase Challenge group on Facebook, which has information on the different colours for each month. You can post your images in the Facebook group, and also share and tag on Instagram as well.

I thought this would be a great project for 2018, and am aiming to do 9 images for the month so I can put them in a grid. At the end of the year I plan on printing a book with the grid and images, and also print one big canvas with the grids.

January’s colour is white, which is an easy colour to start off with. My first thought when I saw the colour was our dog Luna, who is a Japanese Spitz and a big ball of white fluff!! As she is still a pup and very energetic I wasn’t quite sure how well she would do at sitting still for the camera. To my surprise she did really well, and it went better than expected.

I love flatlays and decided to play around with some fresh blueberries and meringues that were left over from Christmas. It was fun coming up with different ideas and compositions.

These white roses are from outside my bedroom window, it’s so nice to open the curtains and see them each morning. Both images were taken with my Vivitar 55mm F25.8 macro lens.

My finished grid of 9 images for white.

Yellow Dahlia's

Whenever we visit my in-laws I always take my macro lens. My MIL has a large rustic garden filled with roses, hydrangeas, dahlia's and many other flowers. Unfortunately when we do visit it's during the day, and being summer at the moment it was very bright outside. I did find a lovely Dahlia bush which was shaded, and spent quite some time taking photos. There were other dahlia's in varying shades of pink, but for some reason the yellow caught my eye.

Exploring My Mother In Law's Garden

We traveled to my husbands parents farm for my father in law's birthday a couple of weeks ago.   After lunch while everyone else went tadpole hunting in the water troughs, I  spent the time exploring my MIL’s garden.  As it is now Autumn the roses are all gone, but there were plenty of other flowers to catch my eye.  I find it very therapeutic shooting florals, it’s just me and my camera enjoying the peace and quiet.   

These Japanese Roses are one of my favourites, and I will be planting some on the cooler side of the house to add a touch of colour.

Pink Daisy

I loved the deep red rich colour of these Delilah's.

These green leaves hanging on a vine caught my eye, I love the symmetry.

Green Tomatoes and Basil

It was a grey overcast morning a few days ago so I decided to grab my camera and macro lens and go wondering to see if anything caught my eye.

My MIL gave us a couple of tomato plants as she had quite a few of them, and they have been sitting on our deck waiting to be planted in our veggie garden.

I walked past the plants on the deck and noticed we had some tomatoes growing on them, so decided to make them my subject.  It was an extra bonus that the deck chairs were right beside them so I sat down for a good 1/2 hour and snapped away.  The kids thought I was crazy sitting beside a tomato plant and taking photos.

Half way through I remembered a great tip about using a water bottle to spray water on flowers, so I went inside grabbed my daughters spray bottle that she uses on her dolls hair.  My daughter didn’t seem very impressed that I was using her water bottle on the plants.  Wait until she sees me using it on cobwebs, mmm maybe I will have to be sneaky for that one so she doesn’t see me.

These were all taken with my Vivitar 55mm f2.8, which is a vintage/legacy SLR lens.  It's fully manual, so focusing can be a bit hard at times but I love it.