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2019 Photography Challenge: Week 6

2019 Photography Challenge: Week 6

* Week 6 * Composition: Inspiration: #NoFilter This week is a picture of Wendy where I did not use any presets or filters. I manually adgusted the picture to take it.

2019 Photography Challenge: Week 5

2019 Photography Challenge: Week 5

* Week 5 * Composition: Symmetry Landscape This past weekend Kristin and I took a trip to Chicago. We mostly hung out and visited museums. It was amazing. We ended our trip watching The Second City, a sketch comedy troupe with alumni such as Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Dan Aykroyd, and Steve

2019 Photography Challenge: Week 4

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2019 Photography Challenge: Week 4

* Week 4 * Story Telling: Warmth This week, well last week, was about Warmth. As I write this it is currently -8 degrees Fahrenheit, but it feels like -30. It’s damn cold. I took this picture last week when we first starting to get some sub-zero temperatures. Nothing warms my

2019 Photography Challenge: Week 3

2019 Photography Challenge: Week 3

Inspiration: Black and White This week: you get a black and white picture of Miss Wendy Helmers! Born: December 30, 2015 Wendy is a Treeing-Walker Coonhound living with Mike Helmers and Kristin Helmers in Madison, WI. She loves snuggles, burrowing, and chewing things. She is most known for being the

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2019 Photography Challenge: Week 2

* Week 2 * Composition: Rule of Thirds Motion This week I’m using the “Rule of Thirds Motion” I struggled a bit with this one. The “Rule of Thirds [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds]” is a concept in photography that “is applied by aligning a subject with the

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2019 Photography Challenge: Week 1

* Week 1 * Story Telling: Self Portrait This week I’m supposed to “Take a picture that tells us who you are, without actually showing your face” This photo shows a little of who I am. We’ve got technology, books, and scotch. If you don’t know, Mike Helmers is

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Mike Learns Photography

> “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” – Marc Riboud http://shootdotedit.com/2017/10/best-photography-quotes-photographers/ Now that we’re in 2019, I’m going to attempt a year long project of becoming a better photographer. Inspired by a post by Dogwood Photography, article here [https://dogwood.