52Frames Line From a Song Photo Trending

I am hoping g to keep in this “winning streak!” About seven weeks ago a fellow 52Frames framer commented on my photo that it was trending on the main page website. Since I don’t regularly check the main page I discovered something I didn’t know about. Since then I have been making it a habit to check the 52Frames site daily. This week the new album with the subject “line from a song” came out in Tuesday like it does every week. On Wednesday my photo was trending again. It’s really cool because there are usually 2500-3000 photos entered every week. So this week makes seven weeks in a row that my photo was trending at some time during the week. And it stayed trending for the better part of the day. Since it’s a dynamic feature it changes up every so often but I don’t know what the criteria is. Nevertheless I am always thrilled to see when this happens. Unfortunately my photo has not ever been selected in the top three, but it has been selected five times in the top 52, and a couple of times on the instagram site. What I find most intriguing is that fellow framers are now asking me about a couple of my techniques including how I use bubbles and also some framing options. I am not a photographer but I love taking photos and I love making composite photos even more. So I am tickled every week if I see my photo trending. It’s a fun hobby to have and keeps me busy and connected to people all over the world. 

52Frames Line From a Song Photo Challenge

The subject for the 52Frames photo challenge this week was “line from a song.” I’ve done Rocket Man, Magic Carpet Ride, and I’m Looking Through You. So I checked my song tracks and listened to a few and thought Justin Timberlake’s “Mirrors” had some meaning. “It’s like you’re my mirror - my mirror’s staring back at me… I couldn’t get any bigger with anyone else beside me…and now it’s clear as the promise that we’re making two reflections into one.” A mirror would be a necessity so I took a photo of the round mirror in the bedroom and found another photo of the large rectangular mirror in the dining room. I had a nice photo of my husband from an event we had attended and then I took a selfie. A composite was made using all of the elements with the idea of showing three images - my husband, myself and us together with the exaggerated brown eye right in the center. That was accomplished by making the photos more transparent but also high key. The brown eye matched the frame as well. So one of the images was the round mirror and two others were using the rectangular image, black and white/sepia, one was high key - which I liked more; and the other was grungy and extremely detailed - which is the one my husband liked most. I ended up submitting the round mirror because it looked cleaner overall. I’m not sure how it will go over but it ended up being a nice portrait of us after being together 47 years. And I spent a lot of time getting it just right. 

A Crash in the Night

We just moved to Virginia from DC two weeks ago and the one thing that makes a house a home is having all the artwork, mirrors, and shelves hung on the walls. So I positioned everything in the place I thought would makes the most sense. We have a huge and very heavy mirror from pottery barn that my husband hates. It used to be above the black leather couch in the living room. But we gave the couch away and now it was relegated to the den - or I should say the “new” monks room. So our favorite go to all around handy people came over yesterday to put everything in place. It took almost the whole day to get everything right. So when we went to bed last night after the horrible storm and tornado threat we were startled to wake up to a huge BOOM at three AM. Both of us jumped out of bed and thought maybe the wind blew the patio furniture on the patio in to the window. So we ran to the living area and saw that everything was in place. Then we walked back to the bedroom and what did we see? The huge round mirror above the dresser had crashed to the floor. How it didn’t break we have no clue. (It’s a thirteen year old Ethan Allen piece.) The mirror was tucked behind the dresser. It broke through the lamp cord that was plugged in to the wall, which may have softened the blow. Needless to say neither one of us could fall back to sleep for quite some time. Luckily no one was hurt! So we called our handy people back this morning to tell them what happened and they immediately came over to fix the problem. We put a pillow on the floor behind the dresser “just in case” it ever happens again. You could say we are a little paranoid! In spite of it all, the artwork, mirrors and shelves all look nice. Now we need to find a chandelier that fits in with this very eclectic style.