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July 6, 2018July 6, 2018

Share Six Blog Circle – July 2018 | Curves

Lensbaby Burnside 35mm Share Six Curves plant

The theme for this month’s Share Six blog circle is {Curves}.

My take on the theme may be a little tenuous but I’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to share some images taken with the latest addition to my lens collection: the Lensbaby Burnside 35mm. The Burnside not only has gorgeous creamy tones, with the right application it creates beautifully curved bokeh. See what I did there? Look for the swirling curves that draw your eye to the subject:

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Thank you for joining us for another month at Share Six. Please continue around the circle by clicking HERE. I can’t wait to see how the exceptionally talented Kathy of KG Ledbetter Photography interpreted this month’s theme!

Join us for this month’s theme by posting your {Curves} images on our Facebook page at SHARE SIX and to our Instagram gallery, by tagging #sharesix and #sharesix_curves. A new theme will be posted on 6th August.

June 10, 2018June 10, 2018

10 on 10 Blog Circle | June 2018

Ceri Herd Photography | Massachusetts Photographer

For this month’s 10 on 10 I’d like to share some images of dandelion seed heads. I didn’t have the equipment to capture these seed puffs when we lived in the UK and I spent three years in the desert wishing they’d grow there, but finally here we are surrounded by them! It’s silly really, in every day life no one wants to see them, but put them in a photograph and they’re really very beautiful!

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There are only two of us in this month’s 10 on 10 Blog Circle so please head on over to show Sharleen of Sharleen Stuart Photography some love! Click here to see her 10 images for this month.

Thank you for joining me for another 10 on 10.

Until next time,

~Ceri

March 21, 2018March 20, 2018

Inspired by Life Blog Circle | February 365

Massachusetts Photographer | © Ceri Herd Photography

The second month of our {Inspired by Life} blog is here and with it come the highlights of my photographic February. It was a quiet month and quick month, and the photographic highs felt few and far between, but here they are nonetheless. Make sure to scroll all the way down for the link to follow the circle onwards.

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Thank you for taking the time to scroll all the way through! If you’ve made it this far please continue around the blog circle. Click Here to see what work my wonderfully talented friend Brandi Geoghagan has shared with us this month.

Until next time,

~Ceri

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018

Share Six Blog Circle – February 2018 | Colour

Massachusetts Photographer | Share Six Colour Color | ©CeriHerdPhotography

It’s Share Six blog circle time again. These months seem to fly by with increasingly more speed!

This month we’re looking at {Colour} or {Color} (depending on your nationality and/or location). It’s such a great theme for this time of year, and I hope it helps you, as it does for me on this unusually grey day, to look beyond the winter skies, the snow and the ice. Whether you focus on a multitude of colour or a single colour pop, the possibilities are endless. I can’t wait to be cheered through the depths of winter by the colourful happiness that will flood the Share Six FB wall and IG feed!

My images this month were all taken in January: a trip to New York City, my favourite flowers, a sunrise and a sunset. That makes up a little bit of everything and they cover a little bit of everything colourful too: some abstract, some less so; some pop, some mishmash, some gentle softness of blush. What type of colour is your favourite?

Statue of Liberty: reaching for the stars

The colour of Kate Spade’s window display immediately caught my attention, but the reflection of the New York skyline in the window against their gift wrap skyline, made me stop and look a while longer.

Rockefeller Center flags

The life cycle of cut flowers

Sunrise from my kitchen window

Sunset

A colour theme wouldn’t be complete without a little natural monotone:

Yet again, yes I know, there were more than six. What can I say? I’m an indecisive rule-breaker!

Thank you for joining us for another month at Share Six. Please continue around the circle by clicking HERE. I can’t wait to see how the exceptionally talented Lynne of Lynne Grant Photography interpreted this month’s theme.

Join us for this month’s theme by posting your {colour} images on our Facebook page at SHARE SIX and to our Instagram gallery, by tagging #sharesix and #sharesix_colour or #sharesix_color. A new theme will be posted on 6th March.

August 5, 2017August 6, 2017

Share Six Blog Circle – Collections | August 2017

Massachusetts Photographer | Share Six Collections | ©CeriHerdPhotography

It’s Share Six Blog Circle time again! Kathy has picked a fascinating theme for this month; we want to see your take on the theme {Collections}.

When I was young I collected stamps and pigs. Yep, pigs. Word.

It was a phase that lasted quite some time, but as I matured and became less of a hoarder that collection went on to pastures (or pig sty) new. As a photographer however, and I think this could be said by many if not all photographers, I am still a collector. I have phases of trying particular techniques or trying to capture the same thing in different ways, always with the unspoken idea of creating a collection for a wall or an album, or dare I hope, one day a gallery.

I’ve talked before (at some length) about how I took the leap into photography when we moved to Arizona almost exactly 3 years ago. One of my particular passions that grew out of having my steep learning curve in this particular place was using in-camera double exposures to capture the look, feel and heat of the desert. To an outsider the desert feels otherworldly so I embarked on a project to portray that essence.

From that initial series came continued love for the technique, a new opportunity to display some work and a new series. I went for a walk around our neighbourhood one evening with the express intention of capturing double exposures of cacti that would be displayed together. I was aiming for something more abstract than the original series but unified and pleasing to the casual observer’s eye. I came home with a collection of about 15 images of Opuntia Santa Rita, commonly known as the violet prickly pear.

This blog post is part of the Share Six Blog Circle. Please click HERE to see how the talented Katherine of Cobert Photography interpreted this month’s theme.

Join us for this month’s theme by posting your {collections} images on our Facebook page at Share Six and to our Instagram gallery, by tagging #sharesix and #sharesix_collections. A new theme will be posted on 6th September.