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Share Six Blog Circle | January 2018 – Winter Light

Massachusetts Photographer | ©CeriHerdPhotography

Happy New Year everyone! This is my first blog post of 2018 so I want to take a second to say thank you for following me into another year. I wish you all a year that brings both great happiness and good health.

As I sit here on New Year’s Day under a cosy blanket, looking out the window at a blue sky and a blanket of snow, I cannot help but reflect on how far we have come this year. From the blistering heat of the Sonoran Desert to the Winter wonderland of New England, 2017 was a year of great change and climate extremes (a swing of 131F in fact).

This month at Share Six we’re looking at {Winter Light}. Let me tell you, this winter looks decidedly different to our winters in Arizona! I am completely and utterly in love with the soft golden tones of a cold northern winter in the forest:

My look at {winter light} wouldn’t be complete without my favourite image of our Christmas tree:

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 lovely Kim of Kim Sidwell Photography interpreted this month’s theme.

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

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.

August 2, 2017

Share Six Blog Circle – Artificial Light | July 2017

Massachusetts Photographer | Share Six Artificial Light | ©CeriHerdPhotography

This month’s Share Six theme, {Artificial Light}, was my choice! OOohhhh….! Does that surprise you? I’m certainly not known for using artificial light in my images and it’s probably the area of photography where I feel least confident. I use studio lighting for my newborn work but that is always the same, a predictable, reliable and simple set up. That said, I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t pushing myself to learn something new or to broaden my horizons. So here I am stepping outside my comfort zone, sharing images I wouldn’t normally pull from my files and dragging the rest of you along for the ride!

There are a few other reasons I chose {artificial light} for our latest theme. It might seem contrary to normal documentary shooting of the summer months, but I was living with the prospect of 120°F heat and being confined to the house during daylight hours for the summer months. That is perhaps fairly superficial reasoning, but in truth {artificial light} gives us so many options: to document in our homes, in places we visit, on the street after dark, in studio, on camera flash, off camera flash…the possibilities are endless!

This is the image that sparked the idea for the theme. I adore him:

And then I found that I had a similar image of his brother! There are hi-tech kids, that’s for sure!

This image was taken at the Reunion Tower in Dallas, TX. He could’ve played with the light show and “About Dallas” touch screens all night!

These next two images were taken at the same place on the same night: ‘the Dallas Skyline with the reflection of sunset’ and ‘light painting’ (which uses a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement).

For my last two images for this month’s theme I chose a couple of recent unshared favourites. There is something haunting about each of these for me. I wonder if you see it too?

I hope you have taken this theme as a chance to learn or experiment, to try something new or step outside your comfort zone. I’m posting this blog almost a month late, right at the end of the theme’s cycle, because personal life things got in the way. There are just a couple of days to post your {artificial light} images to the Share Six facebook wall or use #sharesix_artificiallight on Instagram. I’m really impressed with all the submissions I’ve seen so far. You have until August 5th, 2017. Keep them coming!

~Ceri