Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt

Over the summer the theme for the Snapshot Girls has been to use the Summer Photo Scavenger Hunt from Patio Postcards.  We didn't officially join in but used the scavenger hunt list.

1 A plant with thorns

2 A Wordless Directional Sign

3 Something Netted or Webbed

4 Something Berry Berry Delicious

5 A Bridge

6 A School

7 Something That Dangles

8 Some Shadows

A Pothole

10 White Flowers

11 Extraordinary Water

12 Summer Tools

13 A Sold Sign

14 Something That Rolls

 You could take the list and do an Autumn Scavenger Hunt.

Thank you for joining me today
Bernice

Photo Scavenger Hunt

As we are not meeting in August, the ladies in my photography group decided that we would use Mary-Lou's Summer Scavenger Hunt list for our theme from mid-July to mid-September.

The full scavenger list is available here.

When we went out last week for my birthday I took the list with me and with three taken at home this is how far I have got.

 
3 Something to Represent Home but not the building
This set of keys has my home front door key and the key for my 'home from home' friends' house in Florida.  It's on a key ring chosen by my daughter-in-law as one of the gifts from their wedding.

5 The Art of the Fold
This is part of a wall hanging I made many years ago

7 What's in Bloom
Plants in the border at the Botanical Gardens

8 Window Views
Looking through the window to a wedding dress fair

9 Something Older Than You
A boundary marker from 1852

11 The Shape of Round/Circular
A bench at the Botanical Gardens

12 Something That Is Cause For Celebration
My birthday!

 

 

17 An Exit
Leaving th Botanical Gardens

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Scavenger Hunt update

I am taking part in Rinda's summer Photo Scavenger Hunt and my first post was here.

Here is my next collection.

1 A 'wild' heart

2 A footprint or pawprint
This one is way 'out of the box'.  The tutor on a workshop I was at calls her hands 'paws' and she made this pawprint!

6  A camper (caravan)

7 A family gathering
I don't have many family members so here is my church family having lunch together.

9 Someone playing with, in, or around water

11 Fresh produce

13 The moon

 

15 A team logo

 18. A supermarket cart, basket or trolley full of groceries

19 A seasonal drink
A mojito - although to be honest I would drink this anytime I found one on the menu.

And Alternative 1: A lighthouse
I managed to see two different ones on my recent trip

I've really enjoyed the scavenger hunt so far and I have very few left to find.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Rinda's Photo Scavenger Hunt started on June 1st.  However you can join in anytime.  Find out more on Rinda's blog.

I usually start quite late on but this year I decided I would get going.  You can find out how I did in 2015 and 2014.   Each year there's a different list.

This year's list:

1. A "wild heart" - a naturally occurring heart (like the rock above, but it doesn't have to be a rock)
2. A footprint or pawprint
3. A skeleton, bone or x-ray
4. A book or magazine read during 2016
5. A porch or deck
6. A camper (caravan)
7. A family gathering
8. A drawing, art project, artistic photograph, scrapbook page, greeting card, or art journal page created by you.
9. Someone playing with, in, or around water.
10. A bicycle
11. Fresh produce
12. A window
13. The moon
14. A buffet of food
15. A team logo
16. A map showing a trip taken during the time period
17. Twins
18. A supermarket cart, basket or trolley full of groceries 
19. A seasonal cocktail or beverage
20. Someone laughing
21. A photograph of you with a newspaper or calendar page from the time period covered in the Hunt. Note: you may not use a substitute for this item.
Alternatives - if you're having trouble finding any of the above, you may substitute from this list (but you may not substitute for item #21):
alternative 1: a lighthouse
alternative 2: a baby (human or animal)

Here are my first photos 

3. A skeleton, bone or x-ray

 

5. A porch or deck

A boat deck

A deck outside a cafe

Of course in the UK, porch means something different from in the US, so here is the porch at the front of my house.

10. A bicycle

12. A window
I saw this one 

but then found this one

14. A buffet of food
It was rather dark in the hotel where I was having a buffet breakfast so I took a photo of the sign instead.

16. A map showing a trip taken during the time period
A map of the bus route when I visited York.

Number 13 on the list is The Moon and I had hoped to take a photo of the strawberry moon on Monday evening but sadly it was too cloudy.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

I've started!

Remember this post about Rinda's Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt?

It's been 6 weeks since it started and it's only this week that I've managed to get out and look for things.  Of course I hadn't read the list before we went out - or taken a hard copy with me for that matter.  However I could read the blog post on my phone which helped.   We were visiting Melbourne Hall gardens so I thought I might find the columns.

Mmm.  Not so much.    I found a column of trees that formed an arch.

I found a column of Lime trees and their shadows.

I found three pools with fountains that you could at a pinch describe as a a column of fountains!

Then we moved on to visit the Staunton Harald estate.  And there were a plethora of columns - plus it turned out the instructions said 'architectural columns'.  Although landscape gardeners do talk about 'architectural planting'.  Here's a door with columns.

And round the corner was the front of the building with lots of columns.

And then as we walked down to the lake there were gate columns and their reflection.

Sadly all the lakes we saw were man-made rather than a natural body of water and whilst we paid to get in at a ticket booth I hadn't realised that was on the list.

Still, it's a start.  I can cross off #6 on the list.  Only another 20 to go!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice