Yeah you!

Finally the family photography site is up! This has been in the works since September, but Amanda finally provided the moral support I needed to finish this up.

If you have recieved this, we are hoping you (yeah, you!) will participate with us as we explore photography and design together.

Some parameters:

The goal is to have monthly photography 'adventures' we can go on together, in our own parts of the world. In order to keep the number of photos manageable, we thought a limit of four photos per month would be good. You can do a photo a week and try to improve each consecutive one, or post four from one photo shoot, whatever your creative flow and time demands. When you post, please write a few words to tell us your camera settings (ISO, flash/no flash, shutter speed, zoom factor, etc.), inspiration, what the subject is (if not easily discernable) and your reaction to it. While on the blog, feel free to comment on at least three others' posts. Because the purpose of our blog is not only to share our lives but to improve our ability, art critque can be helpful, so don't be shy to give constructive feedback.

We would all like to know what camera you are using and a little about it, so that might be a good place to start on your first blog. We would like to have a quarterly review where everyone votes on their No. 1 favorite photo of the past three months. Our first quarter to vote for will be the July-August-September posts since we are in the middle of the second quarter now. We are always open to suggestions for improvement so just post your thoughts! Good luck, and happy SHUTTERBUGGING!

Carole and Amanda (mostly Amanda)

PS. If you have taken some photos that you would just like to share, feel free to post them apart from the monthly adventure. We would love to see what other photography is going on in your life. (Grandmothers- please try to limit the photos of your cute grankids to 3 at a time. :-] )