M4H P52 “Me, Myself and I” and “My Happy Place” Eye Candy

Getting started on our Winner and Eye candy for themes “Me, Myself and I” and “My Happy Place.” Initially I was going to do two separate posts for both themes but they intertwine and I don’t want to bombard you with blog posts. We recently traveled out of state to teach a workshop with a group of FABULOUS photographers, but playing catch up has been a bit crazy so this was my solution. The upside is we are going to pick FOUR winners in this post because as always you guys are super awesome AND I had the hardest time choosing.

Also a quick reminder that I am looking towards 2015 and our Project 52 group. I have had the pleasure of hosting this wonderful project for going on four years now. I would love to host this again, but want to be sure of the interest. If there is a project or something else you might want to see in lieu I am completely open to feedback on that as well. I have been bouncing ideas off friends and some themes we came up with is doing away with weekly themes all together and doing a lifestyle take. This isn’t traditional lifestyle though. This is photography as a lifestyle. If you are super passionate about landscapes shoot that. If it is your family, shoot that. If it is street photography, do that. The goal is to get you shooting more of what you love. Eye Candy and our weekly posts will be the same however. We also have thought of maybe doing letters of the alphabet, or a one lens challenge (whether that be your DSLR or your camera phone.) I am open to ALL ideas. I want this to be about you.

If you are the Winner for this week contact me via the Fan Page, Contact forms or the email in the info area of the Facebook fan page and I will send you an action set or preset collection of your choosing! (If you would like something no pressure ha!) I am also releasing a new action collection so you can wait and nab those instead since they come this Friday.

Let’s get started!

First up:
Me, Myself and I.

Winners:

By: Erica Naki

Caption:
43/52 – “me, myself & I” at the “beauty salon”

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By: Kyra Cumpton Leseberg

Caption:
43/52 | Me, Myself & I

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.” -Michelle Williams

Lots of Eye Candy:

By: Aniya Emtage

Caption:
{43|52} me, myself & i

sometimes i feel like the proverbial night owl – full time mom, criminologist, and photographer.. this, right now, is the time i work the last job of the day… photographer… when all is quiet, my day continues.. i know a lot of us do this, so hats off to you amazing queen-bee chicks.

By: Kensie McFadden

Caption:
P 52 Week 43~ Me, Myself, and I

Exploring with two of my favorite people 🙂

By: Danielle Potts

Caption:
I’ve been a little obsessed with the stockphoto app, Snapwire lately. One of the requests was for portraits of contrasting people. Cop/Robber, Firefighter/Arsonist. I remembered I still had some of my old firefighting gear around, dragged hubby out back as my assistant and put these two photos together.

By: Alec Mills

Caption:
Me, myself, and I
sometimes we forget about taking time to ourselves. for my birthday, I took a weekend away for myself and my best friend. It. was. glorious. quiet. calm. peace.

By: Jessica Mielke

Caption:
Me!

By: Jennifer Blake

Caption:
43/52 | Me, myself and I

This was a hard one for me. I don’t get in front of the camera often, especially not up close and personal. I had no idea what I was going to do for this shot, so while I was outside with the girls I just lay on the ground and started taking selfies. Then my husband came home on his break and started making me laugh.

This is me. I don’t love this image, but it is me and it is real. I tell my clients how beautiful they are in their photos, because often they don’t see it. It’s so hard to see the beauty in ourselves, to accept who we are and love who we are.

I am not perfect, and neither is this photo. But it is me and I know my kids will want to see me in photos too.
Tags: Jennifer Blake Photography

By: Carol Lucey Davis

Caption:
Me…at home by myself today, feeling under the weather, hence the ‘ out of focus’ shot. I took some time to work on my hand-quilting project.

By: Shay Robinson

Caption:
Me – The Artist

It’s taken 3 years to settle into who I am as an creator of visual art for all to see. Me…none of these things but have been called all of this things. Yes they hurt, but the power in proving them wrong has greatly surpassed my fears that they will ever become true. A big heart and a positive being, just me.

By: Chloè Gobea Rosser

Caption:
Me, Myself and I.
My first shot at a self portrait, taken quickly while my son was napping! I swear i’m not always this serious Ha! Quite the opposite. I never get in front of the camera so this was definitely something different for me.

By: Mandy Skudler Davis

Caption:
Week 43 | Me | Mandy Marie Photography

There is this part of me that I really love. This part of me that is Mommy to 4 sweet kids; 2 more than people see. The part that remembers my twin girls, Ruthie and Imogene, born far too soon at only halfway through our pregnancy. They were mono-mono twins, and we knew the risk, but losing them was the hardest thing I have ever been through. They only ever lived in me and that I got that much makes me incredibly grateful. This week I received a package in the mail from a client that I hold so dear to me as we share the pain of infant loss. A friend of hers started making Angel Gowns out of wedding dresses. She sent her a box full to keep and deliver through the Helping Hands Organization. As she went through the box the last package was a set marked for twin girls. Without hesitation she sent them to us to remember our girls, and my heart soared when I opened the box and gently took them out. As I hung them in the tree to capture their beauty against the morning sun the wind blew through them and they danced together. Those angel girls of mine have a tremendous way of always staying close to their Mama’s heart, and I can just picture them dancing in their new, beautiful gowns.

By: Elise Meader‎

Caption:
me, myself & I
unconventional self portrait

By: Katie Bainbridge

Caption:
Week 43 ~ Me, myself and I

By: Kate Shaeffer Cuenoud

Caption:
Me, Myself and I

I’ve never really thought of myself as creative. I’ve taken photographs forever, but have always seen photography as a way of recording events, witnessing my life and the life of others. This past year, I’ve started to see the creativity and expression in my photography, particularly because of this project. As I grow and develop as an artist, I release my art into the world. Maybe these seeds will land on fertile ground and grow into something else. Maybe they will feed someone or something else. Maybe they will whither and die. I don’t know and I can’t control it. All I can do is burst open.

By: Colleen Putman

Caption:
i’m not a “selfie” person but i took this in a reflection at the art roof garden at the met this afternoon and liked how it turned out

Sheena Wagstaff, head of the Met’s department of Modern and Contemporary Art, said of this rooftop art installation, “It’s a comment on perception and the way people see themselves. On one hand, it’s profound; on the other, it’s fun.” — at Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden.

By: Sonja Kireilis Wildt

Caption:
Me, Myself and I – 3 Ring Imaging – Something about myself that is odd at 41 yrs old- I play Roller Derby! I have played for 4 yrs now. I am on the Flathead Valley Roller Derby team called the Big Mountain Misfits. I LOVE IT. Derby is my “me time” – it is my release – my therapy – my anti anxiety drug of choice – and I get to skate and hit and laugh with a bunch of kick ass ladies – Plus it’s a wonderful cardio sweat bath….I don’t know how much longer my body can do it – but I think ladies hockey league is next:) I think it’s important for my kids to see me active and having my own passions – like Photography.

By: Jennifer Ritter

Caption:
Week 43 – Me, Myself, and I

Taking advantage of some “Me, Myself, and I” time, however, as a mom… it is never “alone” time.

By: Allison Droher Neaton

Caption:
43|52 Me, Myself and I
Me and my mini me messing around with the camera during the beautiful fall week. This wasn’t what I intended for this week but in the end, her and I spending time together was better than any selfie I could take.

By: Melody Clark

Caption:
43/52 : me, myself and I

as it was with many other people, this week was hard. hard for me to even visualize. it dawned on me this morning that I should just let my oldest daughter be in charge. how did she see me? so, she is totally responsible for this {and many impressive others actually!}… I wanted a field and she went from there, composing her own shots completely! even asking me to “read a book” {possibly a shout out to the fact that her and I laid in bed together and read our books, that we can’t seem to put down, for over an hour this morning}.
I just love HER vision {of me!} in this shot so much…

By: Erin Thorne

Caption:
No matter how lucky my run shorts are, how perfectly cloudy and 52 the weather is, how many Swedish Fish I ate the day before to carbo-load, when that gun goes off, it’s just Me, Myself, and I against that clock. I PR’ed big this morning, and I’m over the moon

By: Melisa

Caption:
43/52 Me Myself and I

43/52 Me, Myself and I

I struggled this week…I don’t do “Me” very well. So I came up with this! I am a mommy of two wonderful kiddos! I am a wife to a loving husband. I am a daughter to a mom who I know, though there are miles between us, will always be there. I am a sister to five beautiful nonjudgmental ladies who let me be me at all times! I am a friend to the most supportive women whom I share many glorious memories filled with laughter. I am a huge San Francisco Giants fan and have been since the Candlestick days! I consider myself a runner who has a love hate relationship with the sport, I have completed a full marathon, some half marathons and I am currently training for my first Ragnar race. I have a huge passion for music of all different genres…I am a lyric girl and the words are what gets me in a song. I am a teacher to my littles but I also taught elementary school for 10 years. I have a love of wine and met my husband while working at a winery in Northern California. I love to cook but can’t give out many recipes because I make a lot of them up! I love to dance and can’t help myself when the beat drops. I am a photographer, I sold my first image this year and though I still have a lot to learn I am enjoying the ride.

If you want to see more of my images please visit my site capturingmomentswithaclick.com/

“My Happy Place” Winner and Eye Candy:

Winner:

By: Sandahl Chavez

Caption:
Week 44 | My happy place

Always, 100% in bed with my boys. Being lazy, reading books, watching tv, napping. My favorite days

By: Kensie Howlett McFadden

Caption:
P 52 Week 44 ~ “Happy Place”

Lots of Eye Candy:

By: Elizabeth Willson

Caption:
“My Happy Place” 44/52

By: Sharleen Hudson Stuart

Caption:
My Happy Place / Sharleen N. Stuart Photography.
Out back in my garden that borders the Florida Everglades is my happy place. Tonight we had a Great Blue Heron fishing, and three Mallards waiting for their food, a mom squirrel and her 3 babies were also playing around. Shortly after taking this photo a Red Shouldered Hawk flew in, in an attempt to pick up either the Great Blue Heron or a Duck. Not sure I would have been to happy about that.

By: Elizabeth Pfaff

Caption:
Happy Place}
snuggled up in bed. an extra hour of sleep. kisses from all the ones i love waking me up. pretty light streaming in thru the curtains. love

By: Juliana Atkinson Rothbaum

Caption:
P52 | Week 44 My Happy Place

By: Danielle Elon Armstrong

Caption:
My first instinct was that my happy place was anywhere with my family. If I’m being honest, though, my true happy place is with my family and being behind the camera, catching these moments.

By: Chassidi Johnson

Caption:
Week 44/52

My happy place? Anywhere that includes this little girl, her brother, and their daddy.

By: Johanna Oram

Caption:
I haven’t been posting all summer, I am so behind with this challenge but I will catch up! Even if it is only to finish the album that I am making for my children with all the weekly images in there!

This is my happy place! Even though the image is totally not correct, my little girly blurry, my son picking his nose… I am in the picture with them! Jumping on the trampoline together, the leaves bouncing with us, I can’t think of a better way to spent time with my dearest!

By: Lauren Durrence

Caption:
m4h 44:52 | my happy place

This man and these wild and amazing little people…Wherever they are, that’s my happy place.

By: Shawna Lender

Caption:
44/52: My Happy Place

My home, my porch, my family, loving the Fall….my happy place!

By: Melissa Tillison

Caption:
Week 44/52 {My Happy Place}

“Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.” ~ J.K. Rowling

By: Amanda Marie Jaquez Cross

Caption:
Week 44-My happy place
I saw this out my window while cooking dinner and felt such joy and happiness, so I ran to get my camera to capture my happy place:)

By: Jen Smith

Caption:
{My happy place} There are SO many places I love to visit that make me happy, but home is my most favorite. Especially on the first really rainy day we’ve had in forever. Gloomy outside, cozy inside.

By: Mark Hughes

Caption:
Week 44 / P 52 – My Happy Place – Hanging out with my favourite people (my son and my wife) in a geothermal pool in Iceland (the Blue Lagoon). I loved Iceland so this is my happy place — in Iceland.

By: Sarah Gates

Caption:
P52/44 – My Happy Place

In the Blur

Trix 400

By: Janice Osborne

Caption:
{my happy place}
We had our first winter storm today. I wait all year for this. There’s a little snow on those mountains, a fire in the fire place, we’re turning the clocks back tonight. I just dug my Uggs out of the closet, the air conditioner stopped humming and I’ll be wearing a sweater out to dinner tonight. This is just really a snapshot from my front yard..nothing special in a photography sense..but this is it for me..this is what makes my heart sing. My family, my little house, this view. Falling into winter in a rather dizzy delight…my happy place

By: Raeanne Ingram

Caption:
My Happy Place: Surrounded by friends dressed up as gogo girls for Halloween with my gopro and by a Volkswagen. I told my friend’s after this mini photo shoot idea “Thanks for letting me be me.” They responded “Thanks for being you.” MY HAPPY PLACE!

By: Mandy Skudler Davis

Caption:
Week 44 | My Happy Place.

We moved to Georgia from Iowa a year ago this week. It was a rough year. I was so excited for the move and then when we were met with challenges I unintentionally blamed this new place. Something in the last 2 months has changed. Ever since school started this place went very quickly from ‘where we live’ to ‘home’. Our neighborhood fills me up. Coming home makes me happy. Watching my kids here, making friends, playing, exploring, riding bikes, and just being happy.

By: Justine Bath

Caption:
44/52 My Happy Place
Unlike humans, Ollie does not care if it is windy, overcast or stormy at the beach.

By: Anita Cline

Caption:
M4H 44/52 {my happy place}
It’s whatever or wherever I am with this little guy. It doesn’t matter if we are snuggling on the bed with the iPad, watching Ninja Turtles or spending the day outside on some adventure. My happiest days are the ones we get to spend together

By: Libba

Caption:
{my happy place} 44|52

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” ~ John Burroughs

By: Maria

Caption:
M4H “My happy place” 44 /52