Day 50 - October 3rd - What to Do When You Can't Shop

Well, if you can't shop, what will fill the time. Figure scrapbook shopping - that is at least an hour in the store. It takes that long to look at all the new stuff AND to go through the clearence items.  Which I always thought was a GREAT use of time.
That's gone now. That means I should have an extra hour to do something constructive. I thought shopping was constructive - helping the economy and all.

Anyway... I'm taking a photography class. I own the camera. And due to the glorious field of digital, no prints to buy if I don't want to. Oh, and prints don't count as a scrapbook purchase - kind of like adhesive, page protectors and toilet paper- it's a must have.

On line at "Big Picture Classes", June shared her "Picture Fall" class with me. (See - no purchase. That is what friendship is all about.)   Where every day you are given a topic regarding the fall season and you shoot a picture. After coming off a photography class in Sundance, I'm more familiar with my F-stops, my ISO and all the tini-tiny dials on my camera - which more like a mini-me computer, with all the stuff the camera can do.

Class started October 1st. Instead of shopping, I'm out taking photos for 30-45 minutes a day, coming in and downloading, and quickly editing to my favorite shot.

Here's what I got so far:
Day 1:  A Leaf

And of course there is always the second and third runner up:

Day 2 was: Your comfy spot. Where you relax and settle in and on those frosty evening, relax:

Ahhh...my nap time place. 

Day 3: Hidden beauty: It's easy to find beauty when it's full of color and life, but can you find beauty when it's been discarded, or the season is retracting.  Find beauty in something that someone else may pass by.

And, as always, I can never get it down to one. How about two.

And one more, 'cause I can't make up my mind.



Instead of shopping... I finding the beauty of the season. I guess it beats the fall clearance sale.