Photography Fun

Yes! My wife started this years ago as part of a "thing" that was going around at her work place at the time. Three little yellow ducks in descending order of size suddenly found their way into every single photograph she took! We didn't go all over the world, but visited a great many popular as well as out-of-the-way tourist destinations within Australia from the Gold & Sunshine Coasts to Byron Bay & down here too. I think it sort of gave her a good excuse to share our photos with her friends at the office, but if it didn't have the ducks there, it wasn't worth their while looking at those photos. I remember trying to arrange the light plastic ducks in the photos & secure them - sometimes filling them with sand so they wouldn't blow away - oh the things we do!

I haven't personally done anything like that but I do have a story to tell. A friend of mine, Marlene, is 70 years old this christmas and her granddaughter came up with a school project that is very interesting. She sent her grandma, Marlene, a letter with a cut out doll of a boy called Flat Charlie. Marlene was to take Flat Charlie with her on all her travels for the month of November. So what that means is every where Marlene goes, whether it be the store or out for dinner, where ever, she is to take Flat Charlie with her and take a picture of something that shows where she is, with Flat Charlie the main character of the picture. Turns out that Marlene was going out a lot this month and she has taken a lot of pictures. She even went to BC to visit a friend, wasn't expected before she got Flat Charlie so she got lots of pictures with him in the mountains as she drove and it took her two days so she had a lot of stop overs. Then she is to send these pictures to her granddaughter and her granddaughter and the rest of her classmates are putting them up all over their room at school, for part of their christmas celebration. The whole class was doing it but it was Marlene's granddaughters idea. She is only 10 years old so I think this was very creative of her. Cheers and Happy mylotting my friend , Chris

That is such a neat idea! I am going to pick something I can carry around to do that with. I got interested in picture taking when I started this job that required pictures to document the reports I was making. Of course I will not be able to add my little friend to those but I also take a lot of pictures for myself now. The scenery around here is just gorgeous. I take a lot of pictures in the fall of the changing colors and the winter of the ice that forms on the cliffs and waterfalls. A lot of the pictures I take are from a moving vehicle though. I don't know how I will get my little friend in those.

I love taking pictures as well, I use to take pictures of people at a portrait studio and loved it. I can't say that I ever put something in the pictures I have taken for myself. But, I did put all kinds of things in pictures with people. Sound like Penelope is having quite the travels.

Oooo thats a good idea! and a cute doll too hehe Penelope I love it. I really suck at taking photo's though :( I've tried numerous times they never turn out well. so if i need a picture of something I just use my cell phone.