Daring Photography: Animal and Tree

This challenge was a fun one for me! When I did the animal one we were at the zoo.  It was a fun family outing and I also got a great shot of this beautiful giraffe!

This tree one was fun as well! It took a while until I found a tree that I liked!  

I can't decide which edit I like best, 1 or 2?

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Daring Photography: Bokeh and Silhouette

Through about the beginning of this year I was invited onto a group on FaceBook to a photography challenge.  It has started to teach me a lot about photography!  If you know me you know that I always have my camera on hand, usually taking pictures of my three gorgeous kids (and soon another little guy on the way)!  So I have been enjoying looking up words like Bokeh and Silhouette to do some of those pictures.
  Bokeh was one that was hard to master with my camera.  My camera is a little bit of a step up from just a normal pocket size camera...this one does NOT fit in my pocket! In these kind of pictures you want all your focus on your object while the background is a blur with out of focus parts.  Here is my first one that I liked.  Would you call this Bokeh?

  My favorite challenge would have to be the Silhouette pictures that I did! I knew what silhouette meant but I had no idea how to do it in pictures!  I learned that it is best to do right when the sun is going down and taking the picture comes when your objects in the picture are between you and the sun.  Luckily I had some cute kids with me to do these ones!  How do you like?