For a few years now, I have been a part of a great group of friends who all share my love of photography. In fact, that is our common interest, the thing that brought us all together in the first place.
We love to get together and talk all things photography, toss idea’s around, share tips and tricks, talk about frustrations, inspiration, share images we are happy with or excited about, and the list goes on. Often, we get off on other subjects that have nothing to do with photography. And I love that too. We call it “Nerd Night” when we get together, since most people would consider our topic of conversation ‘nerdy’. We eat good food and ‘nerd it out’…

We have been working on a project for a few months now. A project we hope will push us to shoot differently, and better. We hope to grow as photographers in doing this and in general force us to shoot things we might not typically shoot.

The plan is for us to have a ’focus’ every two weeks. We will shoot for that focus word or phrase and then we will all post one image on our blog, Click of the Wild.

We are each very different in our photography styles, so to see how we all approach the same word or phrase will be interesting. Or really, how we each see that word or phrase will be interesting.

So, without further ado, our first focus word is “Morning”. I chose this image to share over on our blog… I love it because I feel like it is how I see our mornings; pretty sunshine shining through the window’s…messy bed…and, the winning factor for me in this image, Kennedy’s shadow stretching. I love it.

I had several I liked, so I decided to share them here…. I had taken a similar picture (below) with my iPhone a few weeks ago, and I decided to try to re-create it with my ‘big’ camera.

I really love this image… something about it speaks to me. Kennedy loves to be outside. Especially first thing in the morning. And now that she is a little Kindergartner she does not get to get out of bed and run right outside. But, when she is needing a little break we take two minutes and she runs outside and wanders around. When she comes back she is normally smiling.

It’s the light and the sippy cup and just the general routine that makes me love these pictures of Bristol. Every morning she gets up and asks for chocolate milk in a sippy cup and TV. She is typically the first one up and this is just what she does.

I really liked some of these images in B&W too…

Kennedy got up shortly after Bristol on this Saturday morning. And adore the messy hair, blankies and Bristol playing with her toys while Kennedy watches TV…

Another version of the wake up and stretch shot… I love how she does this.

Well, Tenley makes an appearance! I love this little sleepy head.

Three sisters eating breakfast…
(must have in our one day new home; a bar. We use ours all the time!)

There it is. How I see (and capture) morning.
Feel free to head over to Click of the Wild and check out how Alicia, Molly, Linden and Mallory see morning