A Weekend in the Life (weekend creative follow-up)
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I love this project.
The simple act of remembering to have your camera on hand results in some of the best, most unexpected photos.
I took a ton of shots (more on Saturday compared to Sunday).
For my project this time I decided to do a large digital gathering of 3 inch x 3 inch cropped photos to showcase the weekend. I like seeing all the individual parts of our weekend brought together to create the whole. I will be uploading this today for printing along with most of the photos (scrapbookpictures.com). I have a bunch of specific stories in mind to tell once I get them back from the developer.
Here's a few of my favorite individual shots:
If you played along this weekend feel free to leave a link to your blog or project in the comments. I hope you enjoyed the process.
I would love to see how you chose to document the weekend.
Happy Monday!
Oh Ali this is awesome. I only took two photos via my cell phone, kept on forgetting my Polaroid. Ugh. But, I did document it on the ol Blog. that was a great idea by the way to feature on the blog:) I will be for sure trying this again soon:) Thank you for sharing your families beautiful sweet story:)
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Amazing!
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Loved this idea. I didn't take as great of pics, but I had fun doing it and got to try out my new camera. I downloaded the template from design digitals and plugged in the pics. Still not sure if I'm doing that right. I'm still using photoshop elements 2 and the tutorials all seem to be for the newer ones. You are really an inspiration to me. I love your simplistic style and I've always loved photo collages. I did many of those when I paper scrapped. Thanks!! You can check it out on my blog at http://www.weloveiowa.blogspot.com.
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Thanks for sharing the link to your blog--appreciated your WC post and very much appreciated your book lists and momma blog links!
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Hi Ali, I love the family photo that Simon took, so cute! I wasn't sure if I was going to play along since I still have to finish up my week in the life :) from Oct. but then we were having a really fun weekend so I decided to start documenting it...may have to fake a few things like a baseball picture of my son(I have tons of those)but still I am looking forward to printing out some pictures and recording this memorable weekend....thanks for the great idea!
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I think your shots are just gorgeous, Ali!
Can't believe how fast Anna is growing!
Thanks for sharing!
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Oh I just LOVE your challenge. We just got back from a weekend away and having a LOT of pictures this was perfect... I used your template and in 10 minutes did this page. THANKS!!!
My blog: http://wilnaf.blogspot.com
Smiles and love
Wilna
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Hi Ali, Love your concept of documenting a weekend. I am sitting here reading your post and the readers comments enjoying my morning cup of tea - it's Tuesday morning here in Australia - and I am thinking.........now is a good time to start. So out with the camera. I was seldom in photos until I discovered my 10 sec timer (totally had a senior's moment about that one). Now I am in more photos. Thanks for a great idea.
Cheers, Irene :)
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so fun! so inspiring. so gonna try. thanks ali.
and i so have to get me 3 year old to take our family pic like that. i only have 1 camera, and it's so stinkin cute seeing her take pics!
a
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I love the one with Simon taking the photo!! Awesome!
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Loving the shot of you reading to Anna. Being the photographer of the family like me i wonder how often you find yourself actually in the picture. My new baby boy is 14 weeks and i must literally have one or two pics of me AND him. MUST get someone to take some pics of me!!!!
Carrying on inspiring girlie!
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Hi Ali,
Maybe you answered this already, but are you printing your photo collage out as 12x12 photos?
Thanks for the idea!
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I don't know if this counts, but I've been doing one photo a day> LOVE this project of capturing the normalacy of life!!
you can check it out here!
http://www.heritagemakers.com/?event=projectBrowse&projectId=94eee819-3048-6168-a4eb-c2fd6240d6e4&productId=11&projectSponsor=294366
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I can't believe how fast she's growing & I love that in the bubble shot, Simon appears to be about to lose the trunks!
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I love the pictures. I take a ton of pictures of my kids and husband but there are very few of me. Or taken with my eyes shut or my mouth open ;0)
Any tips on how to have more pictures of me?
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I followed your challenge, as in the fall with your Week In The Life project. It was interesting to document what we do on a weekend! I am busy working with my photos and will post soon on my blog (http:seriousplay.typepad.com) the finished product. Thanks for the inspiration, Ali!
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love the pic of anna and lily in the doorway ;) and the family photo by simon.. perfect ;)
as always, thanks for sharing!
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this was really fun! I think I might have to do this a lot more!
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I love these projects.. it made me pick up the camera once again on my own family.. and loved the outcome, I've done it twice this month and I look forward to next weekend :)
Thanks for the inspiration :)
http://ronalynbarut.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/wee.html
http://ronalynbarut.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/rr.html
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I love your idea for this project, Ali! I'd love to try it out soon.
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Hey Chel - I am working on a post addressing this issue. Look for it later this week.
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Yes - two 12x12 images :).
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Blogs are good for every one where we get lots of information for any topics nice job keep it up !!!
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I had a great time documenting my "week in the life," so I was excited to document the weekend. What a great weekend to pick--so sunny and happy. I posted a bunch of pictures on my blog. Mulling a minibook to house them all.
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Timing is everything and I loaned my camera to my son last week! Guess I'll have to wait for another time.
I love, love, LOVE your photos!
Sue
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