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Weekly Photo Challenge: Home

/ Rebecca Barray / 14 Comments

The prompt this week for the WordPress weekly photo challenge is Home.

Here are some images that make my house my home…

Tire Swing
Snow Day
Reading, Window Seat
Wine, Bubbles, and a Book

What makes your house your home? Let me know in the comments below.

Got a minute? Check out some others’ ideas of home:

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | Flickr Comments
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | Ese’s Voice
  3. Home! « wingrish
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | Sammy’s Moleskin
  5. La casa de las bayoyas « La Mandraka
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home – Joy and Woe
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home « « The Great Escape » Life from behind a lens
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home « Gobetween Flames
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home (Take 2) | Sammy’s Moleskin
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | Ohm Sweet Ohm
  11. Home is Where the Heart Is | Wiley’s Wisdom
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | Figments of a DuTchess
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | allnuttadventures
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home « Drops of Ink
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home « The Eclectic Eccentric Shopaholic
  16. WordPress Photo Challenge: Home « A year in the Life
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | What Is It?!?
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home in India | My.Vivid.Visions
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home | Sigoese
  20. Home is where the marmalade’s made | Pseu’s Blog
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge : HOME « Jejak BOcahiLANG
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Home of Fish – Fishtank | My.Vivid.Visions

Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique

/ Rebecca Barray / 11 Comments

BridgetUnique

I like to think I’m quite unique.

I used to do scientific research. I was thinking and coming up with ideas that, possibly, no one else had thought of. I felt like I was making a contribution to the world that no one else could duplicate, because no one thought exactly the same way as I did or looked at problems in exactly the same way. That made me fairly unique.

Now, I’m a stay at home mom. I spend my days with two toddlers that I brought into this world. With their specific combination of DNA, some from me and some from my husband, they are definitely one of a kind. And I’m the only one in the world that could make them exactly what they are. That makes me especially unique.

wet leaf-2And a photographer. I like to think that I can take my camera and capture a perfectly unique image. I can look through my viewfinder and see things in a way that, maybe, no one else would think to choose. Or maybe I can pick up my camera and capture a moment in time that no one else in the world could possibly have seen it if I hadn’t snapped a photo. That makes me somewhat unique.

And a writer. When I sit down and write, which is not as often as I’d like, I put words together in a way that is uniquely my own. A million people in the world could sit down and write about the exact same topic and not use the exact combination of words that I can. That certainly makes me rather unique.

But it’s all these things together (biologist, mother, photographer, and writer) that make me the absolutely unique person sitting at my computer, typing these words right now.

How do you define yourself? What makes you unique? I’d love to know. ;)

Love and Photo Fun,

Becca ♥

This was written for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique. If you’d like, check out others’ contributions to this week’s challenge:

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge – Unique « awritersfountain
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « A Piece of My Life
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | Not the Family Business!
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | West Coast Kayaker
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « Melanie Jane Photographic
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique, there are only two of these on the Southern Hemisphere | Fasting, Food and other musings by determined34
  8. Who’s Looking Back at You? Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | alifeinhishands
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique – The Daily Post – Blog
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | fojap
  11. My Fluffy Sunshine (Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique) | mabel8ble
  12. What a Unique and Ingenious Implement | The Wanderlust Gene
  13. WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « Jag gör världen vackrare
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « A Day In the Life of Jennay
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | Jumbled Contents Of My Head
  16. Unique: Lonesome George, The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador « Taking to the Open Road
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique (Chartres Cathedral) « What’s (in) the picture?
  18. Unique Industrial Heritage | Angel Frouk
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | ada cerita apa hari ini?
  20. Uniqueness is commonplace « Detours by Deepali
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique Gold Car – Vibrant Gujarat 2013 | My.Vivid.Visions
  22. » Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique Cheese | lena de almeida
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | Drama Queen Under the Sun
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | A Real Mummy Diary
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « blueberriejournal
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge; Unique Japanese Culture | Life in Japan with toddlers
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « Last Train to QVille
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge – Unique. | The numpty novice with a camera and a laptop
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « Fitness, Food and Photography
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique (Shere Shoot The Holiday) « What’s (in) the picture?
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | The World Through My Camera Lens
  32. Able Seaman Just Nuisance: A unique character. « Nature on the Edge
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « The World Is a Book…
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « Talker Huge
  35. memories « yi-ching lin photography
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | Janaline’s world journey
  37. Weekly photo challenge: Unique « Menomama3’s Blog
  38. photography ~~ unique (weekly photo challenge) | vintage french chic
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge : Unique « Cheryl Andrews
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique / Sunday Post: HOPE | Travels and Trifles
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Uhinque « patriciaddrury
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge – Unique | breathofgreenair
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique « wholeyjeans
  44. a UNIQUE Weekly Photo Challenge | s1ngal
  45. Unique AND Universal: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge « bluebrightly
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique #2 | West Coast Kayaker
  47. Photo Challenge Unique: F22 Raptor « Gleaning the Nuggets
  48. New post Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique | Family Photos Food & Craft
  49. Weekend Photo Challenge: Unique | the long way home
  50. Weekly Photo Challenge-Unique | The Authentic Me

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

/ Rebecca Barray / 4 Comments

This week’s challenge: Beyond

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One of my amazingly talented friends joined the fun this week:

VeronicaRoth.com: Look Beyond

And you can check out some others’ beyond:

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sun Beyond Solar Light Pole | My.Vivid.Visions
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond 3 (aka What’s in the light?) « What’s (in) the picture?
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Traveller soul
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Ramblings
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sun is beyond Everything! | My.Vivid.Visions
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge – Beyond | littlemisswordy
  7. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: ‘BEYOND’ « A JOURNALIST’S JOURNEY
  8. Beyond… | Portugal in Pictures
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | The Blog Farm – A Growing Blog Community
  10. buckyball « yi-ching lin photography
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond « A Day In the Life of Jennay
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond « A Day In the Life of Jennay
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Angel Frouk
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Pilot Fish
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond « Last Train to QVille
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond « My Tropical Home
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond (Take 2) – The Neophyte Photographer
  18. Beyond « This Is My Corn
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond « Project Remnant Redo
  20. Beyond the Main Streets « Sasieology
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond « That’s What She Said
  22. Beyond: Cheng Hoon Temple, Melaka, Malaysia « Taking to the Open Road
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Milners Blog
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Bams’ Blog
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge – Beyond | Tvor Travels

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

/ Rebecca Barray / 9 Comments

Tire Swing

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

Check out some others’ green:

  1. Weekly Photo Challenge – Green | Tacts Blog
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green (No 2) « Cambodia and Vietnam Photography
  3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Geekin’ it Green | rarasaur
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Max510’s Blog
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Just a few photos
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Angel Frouk
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Here & Abroad
  8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Jinan Daily Photo
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Aphro Junkee
  10. WordPress challenge: Green | Anotherdayinparadise2’s Blog
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | blueberriejournal
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « From My Horizon
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | The Good Villager
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Something Unspoken
  15. Greenish hues | Artifacts and fictions
  16. What Could Be Green In November… « Eclipse Of The Moon
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « My thought exactly…!
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | My Sardinian Life
  19. LJ [whatever] Photo Challenge: Green « LJ.returns
  20. A Vision of Paradise | The Wanderlust Gene
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Fitness, Food and Photography
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: GREEN (Lasers) « A drifter off to see the world
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Photography Journal Blog
  24. Greenhouse, Pinoy-style « Fly for Icarus
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge : Green | Berbagi Kisahku
  26. Green, Green & More Green! « Zeebra Designs & Destinations
  27. Four continents, One green « Purnimodo
  28. grove « yi-ching lin photography
  29. Literally Green. « Luddy’s Lens
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « warmhotchocolate
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Life&Ink
  32. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | Milners Blog
  33. Weekly Photo Challenge : Green « Kisahku
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Beijing Daily Photo 2
  35. Seven Reasons to Love Green « Stray Thoughts
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond…
  37. Industrial Zone: Green, Technically | Empire of Lights
  38. Illustrated ‘Bolivian-style’ adapted cooking: Green Bean Casserole! « 3rdculturechildren
  39. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Sandra’s scribbles
  40. weekly photo challenge: green « a nomad in the land of nizwa
  41. Weekly Photo Challenge: GREEN | Serendipity 13
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green Gallery | Humbled Pie
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Grandmother Musings
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | belgradestreets
  45. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: GREEN « MY WALL
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge:Green | perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker
  47. Determination « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green | newsofthetimes
  49. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green (Ireland) « What’s (in) the picture?
  50. WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Lagottocattleya
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sparkle of Green | ♢ Mike Watson
  52. Wearin’ ON the Green « humanTriumphant
  53. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « Try 2B cool ‘n smart…
  54. Weekly Photo Challenge – Grün / Samstag, Filme « OceanPhoenix
  55. Weekly photo challenge: Green 2 « The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
  56. Weekly Photo Challenge: Green « The Kindness Kronicles
  57. Green « Little Yaris Photo

October Photo Challenge Day 22: In My Town

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This is pretty good timing. I just participated in the Scott Kelby Annual Worldwide Photowalk on October 13. Here are 10 photos I took while walking around downtown Huntington, WV, last Saturday.

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Do you have any photos of your town? Show me!!

October Photo Challenge Day 18: Made Me Smile Today

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Today, I was writing at my laptop while the kids, Baby Girl, 2, and Baby Boy, 3, played in the game room. When I looked around the corner to make sure they were okay, this is what I saw:

Toddler Hide n Seek: “Found You!”

He was crouching behind the open cabinet door and she was pointing at him, saying, “Found you!” It was so cute. They play hide and seek sometimes with their big brother, who is 13. Baby Boy really likes it and, apparently, wanted to share the fun with Baby Girl. ;)

You can find the whole list for this month’s photo challenge here or over on the right —>;. There’s still lots of month left, so I hope you’ll join in. If you do, be sure to let me know in the comments so I can see what you come up with. These monthly challenges are so much fun!!

Those adorable babies make me smile everyday. :D What makes you smile? Got a funny photo? Show me!!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

/ Rebecca Barray / 3 Comments

This is a huge tree out in my yard. We used a rope and an old tire to make a swing. The kids love it! ;)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Big

Here are what some others posted for the challenge this week:

  1. Big « the girl with the twitchy face
  2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Pole Vault (Big 2) « What’s (in) the picture?
  3. weekly photo challenge : big « Time To Be Inspired
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge : Big | My Sardinian Life
  5. A BIG Weekly Photo Challenge is reason to Celebrate! | Welcome to my world…
  6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Angel Frouk
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « City Life Picture
  8. Big, big storm coming this way! « 3rdculturechildren
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Colline’s Blog
  10. The Miracle Mile « Stray Thoughts
  11. BIG Bond…the wordpress photo challenge « right in front of me
  12. larger than life « yi-ching lin photography
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: BIG… | The Blog Farm – A Growing Blog Community
  14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | It’s Still Me…
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge : Big | Berbagi Kisahku
  16. Weekly photo challenge : Big « rifannyphotography
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « miljoanne
  18. Weekly Photo Challenge: What is Big to Me « Life in the Foothills
  19. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big FOOT! « patriciaddrury
  20. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Fitness, Food and Photography
  21. WP weekly photo challenge: big « The journey is the destination. You carry your journey with you.
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Living, Loving, Laughing…..
  23. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Efrata Denny Saputra Yunus
  24. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Photography Journal Blog
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Life&Ink
  26. It’s Big | The World Is a Book…
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Max510’s Blog
  28. Big Eyes & The Giant Mushroom « Eclipse Of The Moon
  29. Weekly Photo Challenge- BIG « Anecdotal Tales
  30. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | breathofgreenair
  31. Weekly Photo Challenge : Big | Les Petits Pas de Juls
  32. Breathless in Nepal « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
  33. Weekend Photo Challenge: Big | the long way home
  34. Weekly Photo Challenge – Big « Cornwall – A Photographic Journey
  35. Weekly Photo Challenge (Big) « Understanding and Embracing Diversity
  36. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | jamesstratton
  37. Fighting the Big Darkness | tms therapy & beyond {home from hospital}
  38. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « All Access Pass
  39. Big | Beyond the Brush
  40. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | A Number of Things
  41. Just How Big is an Asian Elephant? | The Wanderlust Gene
  42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « IMAGES & WORDS
  43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « ihuttupang’s Blog
  44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Secondhand Thoughts
  45. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « The Hoppy Mommy Bunny
  46. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « run eat life
  47. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | travelbugdownunder
  48. Weekly Photo Challenge – Big | a weirder fetish
  49. Weekly Photo Challenge – Big « Tacts Blog
  50. 31 Days of Aging Grace ~ Big « Heart’s Home
  51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | a hectic life
  52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big {Oak} | Far Away
  53. Big – Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower | piran café
  54. The Big Things « Stray Thoughts
  55. Weekly Photo Challenge : Big « Bouncing Beardies
  56. unisphere « yi-ching lin photography
  57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Last Train to QVille
  58. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Inspired Vision
  59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Solitary Spinster
  60. Weekly Photo Challenge – Big « Edith Levy Photography
  61. The Biggest Frog I Have Ever Seen « Monochrome
  62. Big, (boys) Toys.. « Gerry’s Space.
  63. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big – and Pink | Ron Mayhew Photography
  64. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | blueberriejournal
  65. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE : BIG | Lieshadie’s Blog
  66. Weekly Photo Challenge: BIG « patriciaddrury
  67. Challenge photo de la semaine – Grand « Paris en photographies
  68. Weekly Photo Challenge: big « Movin’ on
  69. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Sigoese
  70. Ngong Ping and the Giant Buddah « Flying South for the Winter
  71. Weekly photo challenge: Big 1 « The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
  72. Weekly photo challenge: Big 2 « The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
  73. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | TraveLafazr
  74. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big. Weekly Travel theme: Display. Dragons in Las Vegas | My Notebook
  75. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Geek + Medico
  76. Inspired by Danajoward « Day One
  77. Weekly photo challenge: Big « Travel Inspire Create
  78. City Bird / Country Bird | artistisk
  79. Weekly Photo Challenge: BIG (Beasts) « melanielynngriffin
  80. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Jumbled Contents Of My Head
  81. Up for a big challenge | Read MeWeekly Photo Challenge: Big | A Face from the Crowd
  82. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « playground of marichu lambino
  83. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « chattel’s blog (“i’m her lateral thinking, & ghostwriter”)
  84. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « picture-bandit
  85. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Something Unspoken
  86. Weekly Photo Challange : BIG | Blackaholic
  87. weekly photo challenge: BIG | bob’s wife
  88. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big « Try 2B cool ‘n smart…
  89. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | RyNaRi
  90. Weekly photo challenge: big « and also, dogs
  91. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big | Aurora La Petite
  92. Weekly Photo Challenge: Big
  93. pork chop « yi-ching lin photography

October Photo Challenge Day 14: Makes Me Laugh

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Here’s Baby Girl playing with her Mrs. Potato Head parts. She always makes me laugh.

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You can find the whole list for this month’s photo challenge here or over on the right —>;. There’s still lots of month left, so I hope you’ll join in. If you do, be sure to let me know in the comments so I can see what you come up with. These monthly challenges are so much fun!!

What makes you laugh? Got a funny photo? Show me!!

October Photo Challenge Day 13: Landscape

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This is a shot from the car on the way to Twin Falls State Park in West Virginia last weekend. I have so many pictures of trees and leaves. Everything was so beautiful! You’ll get more, hopefully soon… :Þ

 

You can find the whole list for this month’s photo challenge here or over on the right —>. There’s still lots of month left, so I hope you’ll join in. If you do, be sure to let me know in the comments so I can see what you come up with. These monthly challenges are so much fun!!

What’s your favorite subject in the fall? Have a good photo? Show me!!