Our awesome photos will make you want to play

Welcome to my wrap-up post for Week 21 of our 52 Week Photo Project.  

The theme for Week 21 was Play which sounds fun but actually wasn’t, as I couldn’t think of a thing to photograph!

I ended up going through my New Zealand holiday photos and chose one of my favourites. The day we went to Hobbiton was so bright and sunny, the sky really was that blue and the grass really was that green, I haven’t played around with the photo at all!! But I will say I am enjoying using my ‘new’ camera and I love the results I’m getting.  It’s been a steep learning curve but I’m slowly getting the hang of it.

Playing around at Hobbiton was my choice this week:

Visiting Hobbiton was a surreal experience with lots of attention to detail, such as these Hobbit clothes hanging on the clothes line. I like to think they’re the play clothes of the Hobbit children who were all hiding on the day we visited. It’s playful details like this that make it a great attraction and immersed you into the location, making you forget it’s actually a movie set.  (The fact that I managed to get a shot with no one in the background was also an amazing feat given the crowds there!).

The photos from everyone else show a great variety of talent, as per usual, and I encourage you to follow the link above to check them out for yourself. Maybe leave a comment if one of the photos particularly takes your fancy.  Commenting/sharing is caring 🙂

Alison’s photo was of a pile of board games ready for a night of fun.

Daniel captured a great action shot of a basketball in the air just before a storm hit.

Grant has caught a silhouette of a kookaburra in a tree waiting for a snake to come out to play. It’s a great photo!

Melanie captured a fun photo at her work’s annual festive photo shoot.

Sharon does what she does best – plays with words and then photographs them!

Tim’s photo shows some old technology that no-one wants to play with anymore 😦

I know some of us were struggling with how to interpret this week’s theme but we’ve all covered it really well and so creatively.  It’s always fun to see what everyone comes up with and the accompanying words are always well worth a read too, as you get a sense of where the photographer was coming from.  Some of us plan our photos out and others just snap the first thing they see that will fit the theme, especially if it’s getting late in the week and inspiration hasn’t hit yet!

You can read more about the story behind the project here: 52 week photography project  – but basically I have joined with 6 photographers, of varying experience, to take a photo every week for a year, one theme at a time. That’s 52 weeks of photos!

With each photo we also submit some accompanying words, which works well for me because as anyone who has seen my pathetic attempt at Wordless Wednesdays knows,  I just can’t do the wordless bit very well.  I am trying hard to improve at being Wordless but it’s hard!

Come play along with us!

How would you have interpreted Play? Let me know in a comment below, it’s not as easy as you think sometimes!

Next week’s theme is Deb’s Choice – Celebrate – due to an upcoming birthday and something biggish that’s happening on the 25th December!!

Enjoy the week ahead!

Deb 🙂

You can also find Deb’s World here:

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