Fort Worth, Texas - A Collection of Photos

Below is a book on Shutterfly that we just put together of a few of the photos around Fort Worth taken in Year 2012.

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Photo Walk and Scavenger Hunt

We participated in a Photo Walk and Scavenger Hunt with Legacy Studios. This started first with lunch at Legacy Studios in Keller. Afterward, we were given a map with boundary lines (which was basically all of downtown Fort Worth) and a list of photos to shoot for the scavenger hunt. We had approximately 3 hours to shoot photos. The scavenger list certainly made the trip more interesting as a few of the items were: take a photo of yourself with a stranger, a photo of graffiti (there is none in downtown Fort Worth), a photo of yourself on a motorcycle, a photo of someone doing a good deed, etc.

The scavenger hunt photos were for fun and not judged for quality or composition. The other "real" photos are to be judged for competition. We submit 3 photos, all of which must be "straight out of the camera". These will then be placed on a website for voting.

Below are some of our shots from the outing. Of course, we have done some post-processing to these so they are not considered SOOC (straight out of the camera).

Take a Photo Every Day for a Year

We have heard and read about how much your photos will improve when you start taking a photo every day for a year. It's a big undertaking but we are expecting big payoffs at the end of the year. We are expecting to become better photographers.

We joined a website called 365Project. By taking a photo every day, we expect to learn our camera's limits, get better at composition and lighting, and become more creative with our photos. At least, that's our hopes.

There are several key things we need to do:

1) Keep our cameras handy. Take them with us, ready to shoot, whenever we can. Of course, that's not always possible but we both now have IPhones so we can always use the phone camera if needed.

2) Think about a theme. This one is a little harder starting out. A theme could be something to document what we have done that day, new people we have met, smiles, colors...just about anything.

3) Tell a story with our photo. Think about why we are taking the photo and will others appreciate why we took the photo.

4) Keep shooting....don't stop. There will be times we are busy or just don't think there is anything interesting to take a photo of. We'll have to make ourselves get out, take a walk, go to the park, something. But just take a picture. Don't skip a single day without taking a picture.

5) Post our photos. We'll be posting on the website www.365project.org. This one is easy for us as we both like to come home and upload our photos to our computers as soon as we can.

If you have some free time, check out the 365Project and see what you think. Who knows, maybe you'll join us in this endeavor.

Below are some of our first pictures.