April POTD

I’ve managed to take a photo a day for four months now. Some days it was pretty late by the time I got to it, but lots of times the prompt from Capture Your 365 has sent me out with my camera to explore new views and new techniques. I’m dedicated to sticking with it this year. I managed to carve out a few minutes to scrap the April layout before we leave.

Patterned paper:  Teresa Collins; cardstock:  Bazzil; dotted paper, ribbon and tag from stash; sticker:  Echo Park

The journaling on the tag reads:

The weather in April was dreary and chilly, but the days flew by. 

 It was a photo intensive month. A RPEG photo shoot at Artisan Works, and a four day trip to Washington, D.C. and Frederick, MD. I also worked on my Sense of Place class and took a group of photos of Rochester icons. Matt was here for a weekend and so there are lots of family photos, too, although Skylar won the place for the POTD! A photo of mine that won a prize at Camera Rochester is hanging in the current Image City exhibit this month.

In addition to starting Sense of Place, I finally finished Finding Your Photo Flow, and now have a beginning work flow that incorporates Lightroom. Lots left to do to get the older photos into LR. Other classes this month were Kerry Bradford’s “Getting to Know You” (Silhouette), “Black & White Photography” here with Cole Thompson, and a card making class, “A Cut Above.” All were excellent! I still have work to do with both Kerry’s class and the card class.

 I finished four books this month: The Marriage Plot, Mrs. Kimble, Photographing Washington, D.C., and Wild. Tracy and I saw one movie: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

 Shawn Wallace was the April speaker at Arts & Lectures, and I enjoyed a panel discussion with the Magnum Photographers at the Eastman House followed by a viewing of their House of Cards exhibit at the Visual Studies workshop.

We spent Easter with the family at Randy and Susan’s and lunched with Dan and Jeannie. We enjoyed dinner with our book group and I had dinner with Mona and Jessie, and lunch with Barb & Ev, and Jane.

My OLW for this year is Balance, and I did a pretty good job this month, although scrapbooking took a back seat again to photography and card making, and I’ve yet to institute the daily practice with Copics. 

I didn’t add the information to the tag but for the numbers record, I made 18 cards and 2 layouts. Most of the cards are already sent or in envelopes to be mailed in May.