Photo Challenge #4- Colors!

Hello my loveys! It's time for photo challenge #4- the next to last one in this series! We'll have one more after this one and then we'll have our vote off! :D

(Also, for the winners/ runners up of Challenges 2 and 3- I haven't forgotten about your features! Hopefully I will get them posted today! For more info on the prizes, go here!)

If you are new to my photo challenges, please go here to check out the rules and prizes! :)








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So if you want to enter, grab the button above and link up! This contest and the Linky below will be open till next Thursday, October 7th at midnight PST. And all photographers of all skill levels are welcome. And you don't need a fancy camera either. :D And you can edit your photos if you want, but you definitely don't have to! I'm just looking for passion in the shot. :D

This week, I want to keep it simple but still fun.  I know you will all have fun with this challenge! I know I did. It does seem almost too simple, but really it pushes you to think outside the box of photographing a subject perfectly and instead concentrating on the gorgeous colors that make up said subject.  Kinda weird at first, but once you get in to it, you won't be able to stop taking pictures! (But remember to stop long enough to come back here and enter your gorgeous pix! :D)

This week's theme is:


Colors!...

This is a very broad category, and you can enter up to 3 pictures if you like. What I mean by colors is that I want color to be the dominating factor in the picture. It doesn't really matter so much what your subject is, but what color/ color combo make up the composition of your photo. As you will see below from my shots, you don't have to just take a picture of a blank wall or have the whole picture be one color. You can still have your subject be in the picture. But I want the colors to really speak. Blurry? That's fine! Fuzzy or noisy? Totally ok! Remember- not looking for perfection, I'm looking for passion and heart! Feel free to crop or edit as you'd like. 


Here are some examples I took recently with this theme in mind...

Reds

Oranges and Yellows

Greens, Teals and Blues

Pinks

Whites, Grays, and Blacks

So grab your camera and get clicking! Come back here and enter, and don't forget to link your entries to your blog post about this challenge! Invite your friends! Have fun and good luck!

Special announcement!!!

I am soooo psyched to announce that this week I will have a guest judge!

The guest judge will be... drumroll please...

Shannie from Wiz Man'll Never Fit You Like the Wiz Kid Did!!!

Please stop over to her blog and check out her AMAZING photography! She rocks!

love you!

<3

tprm

Photo Challenge Winners #3! :)

Here are the winners of my 3rd photo challenge!

The challenge was Story Time! See all the contest info and all of the entries here.

1st place goes to...

Sarah from Loving My Life!

Here is your button Sarah! Congrats!

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2nd place goes to:
Shannie from Wiz Man'll Never Fit You Like The Wiz Kid Did!

Here's your button Shannie! Congrats!

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3rd place goes to:

Dina from 4 Lettre Words!

Congrats Dina! Here's your button!

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4th place goes to:

Kimberly from Bugaboo, Mini, Mr and Me!

Congrats Kimberly! Here's your button!

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Honorable mentions are...

Katie from Kaite's Clicks!

Caroline from Caroline Atelier! 

Angela from Just Me Photography!

Congrats ladies! Here's your button!

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And here are you TPRM favorites!

Natalie from The Franklins! 

Molly from Molly's Country Memories!

Anika from Pasando!

Darlene from Darlene Weber Photography!

Deanna Leigh from Deanna Leigh Photography!

Anna from Absolute Anna!

Congrats ladies! Here is your button!

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Congrats to all of my beautiful winners! And thx to all of you that participated! You guys rock. 

Winners go here for your prize info. 

Coming up next- photo challenge #4- only one more to go before the vote off!

Love you guys.

<3tprm

hello again

Hi there. 

I haven't posted a blog in over 10 days. I've been meaning to. Plenty of blog worthy things have happened to me. Well funny things I think would entertain you. Or at least make you smile. Laugh maybe.

I just, well, theres no good excuse. I've just been, well, overwhelmed lately. 

I have my hands in too many pots I guess you could say.

Trying to make money from home. Trying to be creative. Trying to make money being creative. Trying to go to school. Trying to simplify my life. Trying to learn photography. Trying to learn photoshop. Trying to make this blog awesome. 

Trying to be a good wife. Trying to be a good mom. Trying to follow Jesus with all my heart. 

Some of these things are way more important than others. I find myself putting more time in to some less important things and less into the more important things. 

This is because I have no decent schedule. My time floats by all willy nilly. I need a daily schedule badly. I need to figure out how much time I should spend on each thing I want to do daily, and stick to it. 

I have more troubling problems that compound this.

I am lazy. 

I am a procrastinator.

I start many things and finish few.

I am easily overwhelmed. 

When I'm overwhelmed I tend to hide. From everything. Taking a break at first seems refreshing. Then as the says go by, I get more worried. I need to start again. But I'm starting to get overwhelmed cause I missed too many days. Then the days just add up and starting again at all seems harder than starting over. 

I'm not trying to whine. I've been blessed beyond recognition. Pretty much everything I've said is my fault. 

 I guess I'm just telling you why.

And I'm sorry. It's hard getting back in the habit. 

And I promise to try better. 

<3MaryAnne

ps- Thx to those that sent me messages of concern. I'm ok. Just a little lost right now. 

Photo contest winners coming up...

Oh I forgot to brag...

...So 2 of my pictures were finalists in 2 different challenges last week! I meant to put them up earlier, but I'm sure you've read about how much I procrastinate aka suck.

So anyway, here they are, and also my awards! Which I proudly accept and display! I'm so psyched to get them and you better believe I'm gonna show 'em off worse than some mama whose kid just made the honor roll!

I got into the Top 3

in the photo challenge by

Tiffany from They Call Me Mama

Here was my winning (ok, placing) pic!

(the description/ commentary is by Tiffany :))

"I love vintage from vintage clothes, pictures, decor I LOVE it! So I definitely loved this photo!"

I also received an honorable mention

in the photo challenge by

Natalie over @ The Franklins!

I was truly psyched to be picked in each challenge, and I proudly rock my awards buttons on my side bar! 

So if you are a photophile/ photo junkie like I am, head on over to these two lovely ladies' blogs and see what they have in store for you. Their photos are always amazing and they are always running contests, so get over there! I dare you. :D

Winners! Photo Challenge #2- All the small things :D

Hello loveys! Sorry I am always so late with posting winners of my challenges. I promise to be better about it in the future, but as a life long procrastinator- this ailment is hard to beat. ;)

And this week was especially hard since I messed up the Linky closing, left it open an extra day, and then got a day behind on posting a new challenge and picking winners, and yadda yadda yadda, I suck. But since I was the judge this week, it was even more daunting since not only am I a procrastinator, but I also can't make decisions worth a flip. Can't figure out where to eat dinner? Heck! Don't ask me! I don't know!

And this is especially hard when I love all of the people and pix that were entered. I really want to give you all a prize! But then that wouldn't be fair. And the whole 'challenge' part would pretty much be a lie. Cause if everyone got an award, where would the challenge be? Might as well send in a picture of soggy cereal, cause you know you're going to get an award anyway! Well, I take that back- a pic of soggy cereal sounds like it could be very interesting... LOL! See where I'm going?

I'm indecisive and it was so hard to pick this week's photos, because I truly did love all of them. They were all so diverse and beautiful, and while I loved picking my favorites, I truly hated having to leave people out. I would basically be the worst coach of all time. "Everyone's a winner!" Like Will Ferrell in Kicking and Screaming.

I am basically Dustin Hoffman's character, dad to Ben Stiller, in Meet the Fockers. This is what my kids' rooms are gonna look like. Except for the Gaylord part. But you see where I'm going. Poor my kids.

Jack: "I didn't know they made 9th place ribbons."

Bernie: "Oh, Jack. They've got 'em all the way up to 10th place."

So anyway, I just wanted to say again, thanx for entering, and congrats to all of the winners! And I hope you all will enter my new challenge which is posted up right now! Click the button below to check it out!

Now on to the good stuff... the winning pix! Yay!

(If your pic wins or places, go here to check out your sweet prize! :D)

In first place we have, drumroll please...

Katie from The Journalings of a Julius!

Here is her winning photo:

Congrats Katie! Here's your button!

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In 2nd place we have:

Kimberly from Bugaboo, Mini, Mr & Me!

Congrats Kimberly! Here's your button!

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In 3rd place we have: 

Tiffany from They Call Me Mama!

Congrats Tiffany! Here's your button!

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In 4th place we have: 

Emily from Just the Two of Us... and a Cat!

Congrats Emily! Here's your button!

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Our honorable mentions are:

Kiley from Home and Away!

Caroline from Atelier Caroline!

And a 2 way tie, both from Tezzie from Not Always Picture Perfect!

Congrats ladies! Here's your button!

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And now for TPRM's favorites! Yay!

Shannie from Wiz Man'll Never Fit You Like the Wiz Kid Did!

Ashley from Ramblings and Photos! 

Anna from Absolut Anna!

Elissa from Punk Rock Parents!

Vidya from The Dreaming Press!

Natalie from The Franklins!

And lastly, but certainly not leastly, 

Kakunaa from Spermination Station!

Congrats ladies! Here's your button!

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So there you have it!

Congrats to all the winners! (Your featured post will be up soon!)

And if you didn't win, don't worry! There's a new challenge up right now!!

And I know these past two weeks have been kinda off, but I want you join me here EVERY Tuesday for a new challenge! I promise to keep 'em coming! :D

Thanks to everyone who participated and made my second photo challenge even MORE EXTREMELY awesome than the first time!! (Even though that was awesome too :D)

You guys rock!

<3tprm

PS- Don't forget to check out the new section of my site- http://thepunkrockmom.blogspot.com/p/photo-challenges.html

This is where I'll keep an archive of my challenges and the winners! Tidy! :D

Oh and PPS- Also don't forget that if you place 1st thru 4th, your pictures will be entered into a vote off at the end of this round of contests (3 more to go, 5 in total). There will be 20 pix up to vote on, and I will leave the voting poll open for 2 weeks. So make sure that if you place, to tell your friends! But I will have more info on that when the time comes! :D