HaikuCat Creations

 I'm not sure where my mind's at right now, but I'm trying to show up for this little blogging challenge I've created for myself anyway. Two days later than normal again, but I never make my own rules hard and fast, so I'm letting that part go. Again. I have a bunch of potential topics for these blog posts in my notes app on my phone, but right now nothing feels appropriate and nothing is calling out to me. I feel like this post is going to be another that's got a phoning-it-in vibe. Oh well. I think part of the problem at this moment is a frustration with schoolwork taking up so much of my brain space, energy, and time. I don't always feel that way, but right now I do. I've got stuff due tonight and even if the actual work of it is only going to take an hour or two, it still crowds everything else out of my brain.  To top it off, I have nothing to show for my weekly creation. I do have a photo to share for Ordinary Beauty. Goose + Tree I just really lo...

 My blog post is coming in late this week because I got behind in my schoolwork and needed to play catch-up on Friday (when I usually blog) and yesterday. Going to keep it simple today. I'm still working on clarifying exactly what it is I want with regards to the Ordinary Beauty project. This past week, here are the photos I came up with: I like this because it's objects reduced to shapes and colors. I edited it as I usually do for my photos, cropping to frame it how I want, increasing warmth, and increasing saturation. I don't fully love it though. Partly because I didn't get the focus on the lamp post very sharp an partly because I'd like it to fill slightly more of the frame. I do really like the way the blue, the green, and the orange look together. Here is my runner-up: This is a "nicer" picture, I think, and it still does fit my criteria of what I'm going for, as it's a more up-close look at a plant than one might normally go for and I like t...

 I have been finding that in the doing of my Ordinary Beauty project, I am further clarifying for myself exactly what I mean to be doing. It's an interesting thing to me because when I set out this challenge for myself I thought I had a pretty good handle on what I meant. But, in the doing of it, I am discovering that sometimes my results are less than satisfying. I look at what I've got and I say to myself, "This isn't what I want." Take, for example, my results from week 5, which was the week of 1/29-2/4. I typically share what I feel is my best photo for this project, along with a runner-up if there is one, or at least that's how it's evolved over this first month of the project. But, this week's best photo left me feeling disappointed. Unicorn & Horse These are some statues in the corner of someone's yard. I think they represent ordinary beauty because I see them all the time, because they are kind of a little joke (they live on the corner ...