July Challenge: Fireworks

Being that, aside from Christmas (which, you'll find out, I'm fanatical about), 4th of July is my favorite holiday, this was a fun challenge for me! I take a million pictures all the time anyways, and I love when I get a good fireworks display! That reminds me, I should do a post about the New Year's I spent in Seattle and the fireworks pictures from them shooting off the Space Needle! But that's another post all together. :) For now, I have two of my favorite fireworks pictures from the 4th of July holiday, because, I can never pick just one! :)

June Challenge: Shoes of Summer

This was a pretty easy one for me, even though I initially had a better idea that the rain ruined. :) That idea will probably still happen, but it won't in time for this challenge. Thus the answer for me was: FLIP FLOPS! So I pulled out half my flip flops (literally...there are way more than this! haha) and went to town. Over-saturation and sun-faded goodness were the name of the game. Enjoy!

Jenna's April Photo Challenge

So I love the ideas that Jenna comes up with for her photo challenges. I wish I'd have thought of the idea first, but I'm not exactly a popular blogger like she is. :)

In any case, she had three challenges for April: favorite free thing, favorite food, and favorite photo. I'm not gonna lie, favorite photo is an insane challenge, because I have a LOT of favorites. :) But I entered myself in favorite food and favorite photo and now you can see my choices!

FAVORITE FOOD
I was going to enter a photo of a caprese pasta salad I created, but I can't seem to find the pictures I took last summer of it, and I only make it when I have fresh basil growing in my garden in the summer. So I chose my other favorite thing: banana chocolate chip cookies!!! Seriously, this is a creation straight from heaven above. I have friends that HATE bananas but LOVE this cookie. And I got asked by teachers in high school to bring them in because they were so beloved. :) Check. Them. Out.

Delicious? YES! If you want the recipe, I am willing to share. They are amazing. And use old bananas like banana bread. They turn out fluffy and moist and cake-like. I make them a lot. Way more than any person should. And I'm okay with that. :)

FAVORITE PHOTO
This is hard, so I'm picking my three favorites at the moment. Can't do that? PSH! Sure I can! :) Plus, it means you get to see more pictures! Good, right?
Person-
C, is GORGEOUS. It's seriously hard, nay, impossible!, to get a bad picture of her! Lucky me! This is one of my favorite photos EVER. PERIOD. The framing. The bright colors. Those eyes! And this is SOOC with just a little bit of contrast. Her eyes are truly that blue. It's INSANE! I'm truly jealous.


Artsy-
I know, I know. I posted this on the last post. But I want to take this image and make it a huge poster. Or a wrapped canvas. I love the angles SOOO much! The art degree in me cannot get enough of this image. :)


Landscape-
These three images cannot be picked between. They were all taken last summer in Montana. I fell so in love with Montana. We were in Gardiner where my brother guides rafts on the Yellowstone River for the summers. This was taken as we drove out of Yellowstone and the rainbows are what were behind us. Two of them. Brighter than I have ever seen a rainbow be. We could see the ends of both rainbows and the sky behind them was pitch black and raining. The clouds are what was ahead of us. Where the sun was coming through the clouds and the world was just glowing. It was a completely awestruck and inspiring moment. My whole family got out of the car and just stood there staring. No one knew what to say, so we just stood in silence admiring, but I knew I had to capture it on camera. Lucky me, again, eh?







So what do you think? What are your favorite foods? Photos? And if you give me your favorite foods, I want recipes! I love trying new foods!