Getting Lost - February

Last weekend I did an impromptu trip to Taupō after my weekend plans changed... thanks Zara!  I'm super pleased I did because I hadn't quite caught up with the fact that tomorrow will be March... how on earth have we almost finished two months of 2025?

I completed eleven photo prompts this month and they were all taken with my camera rather than the iPad or my phone.  I've been using my camera quite a bit lately and really enjoying it.

#1 Find a busy spot. Set a 10 second timer and see what wandered in to your shot.  On the way to Taupō I passed a couple of vintage cars so when I saw this prompt I knew exactly what I wanted to try and capture.  It took six photos and lots of practice counting to work out when to push the timer but I'm super pleased with the result.

 #2 Stop at the next signposted attraction and take 10 photos. This was an awesome prompt to do. First signposted attraction leading into Taupō was Lava Glass... and taking 10 photos was no problem at all... in fact I took 115 photos!  The hardest part was culling them down to what I wanted.  I ended up making a collage page - and yes I know I've got more than 10 but I'm okay with that :)

 #3 Stop for a treat (and take a photo of it!) Awesome prompt... and I knew exactly where I wanted to go... one of my favourite places in Taupō... Baked with Love.  Their baked treats are just as delicious as they are beautiful.  This time I got a Lemon Syrup and Blueberry Loaf and headed off to a local park to enjoy it.

 #4 Find a line in nature to draw you in to the heart of the picture. I honestly couldn't believe it when I read this prompt.  I'd just stopped at the park to enjoy my treat (prompt #3) and right beside me was the exact thing to photograph for this prompt... perfect!

 

#5 Close your eyes, spin, stop and shoot. I'll admit that I took a few of these shots during the day... just for fun... and this one is my absolute favourite.  

 #6 Find a building. Zoom your lens to the widest angle. Move in close to make dramatic angles. Not far from the 'heart' photo, I spotted the Great Lake Centre which provided lots of angles to use... and this one was my favourite... both for the angles and the colours.

 #7 Take as many steps as you have battery percentage left and frame your shot. I wasn't too sure what I was going to find at the end of 37 steps... but it turned out pretty good!  At first I thought this might have been the main letters from the Taupō lake front but it turns out they must have been from a different venue. I've got evidence of that later on :)

 #8 Put a frame around a landscape using what ever you find around you. I honestly felt like someone was really looking after me on Saturday because not far from the letters in prompt #7 I came across a landscape that was completely framed by nature... all I had to do was take the photo!

 #9 Leading lines or rule of thirds? For the life of me I couldn't remember what the rule of thirds was... it was getting pretty warm... and my feet were starting to get a bit sore... but I wasn't ready to go home... so I chose leading lines.  After looking around at a few options I suddenly spotted this and knew it would be perfect.

 #10 Take a photo of a moving object while panning to blur the background. My brain wouldn't kick in on this one... I couldn't work out panning, blurring and moving all at the same time so I went with ... Take a photo of a moving object.  I actually managed to get THREE moving objects in my photo... a parachute... a sailing boat... and a motor boat.  I'm going to call that a win!

 #11 Head in the same direction as a car the same colour as your last photo.  Thankfully that car was heading in the direction of Rotorua... and then they turned off the main road so I followed... and I followed... and just when I thought maybe it wasn't going to work out for me they turned again... into the Huka Falls... brilliant!

 I took quite a lot of photos on Saturday... including a few of the #LoveTaupō letters at the lake front and that's when I realised that I didn't need stock photos for my monthly title pages... I should be using my own photos!  So this is my February title with the evidence that there was indeed another set of letters apart from those in prompt #7

 Loving this monthly project and really enjoying reacquainting myself with my camera again.

Thanks for stopping by
Shelley