Guest Interview: @alimobo: Autumnal

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#alimobo, #atthelake, #blackandwhite, #featuredartist, #flora, #hearts, #houseplants, #landscape, #lensbabyedge35, #monochrome, #portrait, #selfportrait, #sharesix, #sharesix_autumnal, #snow, #winter

@alimobo was selected as our Featured Artist for the theme {Autumnal} and we wanted to learn more about Alison and her photography journey.

Tell us a bit about yourself?  And, are you a hobbyist or a pro?

Hi! I am a wife and Mom and I love photography (of course), music, and stretchy pants (ha)! I would like to say that I am both. I have been a professional photographer for seven years and I just moved 500 miles away a few months ago and just started my business back up. As a professional photographer in the Charlotte area I specialize in lifestyle photos of families, newborns, branding and more. I also do a lot of personal projects.  I am currently working on my fourth Project 365 (taking a photo every day for a year) as well as trying to do at least one self portrait a week for the year. My daily photo is often of one of my kids, but it can be nature, a self portrait, still life, etc. I keep it very open as a way to give myself lots of freedom. 

This is a self portrait from January after I was just published for the first time! 

What inspired you to pick up your camera initially? 

My Dad had a nice camera when I was little, which I thought was very cool. I had always enjoyed taking photos, but I didn’t learn more about photography until I was in high school. My high school had a dark room where we could develop our own images, which was so neat. I used film then as well and my Dad’s camera of course. They only offered two photography courses, however, my senior year I ended up doing a third as an independent study. I loved it! I used to take photos with lots of juxtaposition. I had a friend wear a fancy prom dress, but stand or sit in front of a falling down barn. I still had a lot to learn, but that was my start. Later, my husband gifted me my first DSLR and I got into the Click Community. I learned a lot that way and really enjoyed the community as well. 

Here is one of the self portraits I did this year – one with my children too! They are getting to be too big to take baths together, but they still love it. I didn’t think I had any images of me giving them baths so I knew I had to set up the tripod to get some before it was too late. I was so glad I was able to get the movement of the water because most parents know when you give a bath you don’t walk away dry. I am very thankful for images with me and my children so that we (them and I both) have those in the future as well. 

How do you improve your technique?

I know I mentioned these things before, but the Click Community really helped me learn a lot as they offer a lot of courses as well as Breakouts and other information. I think my 365 Projects helped me the most though. When you are taking photos every single day you are learning so much. And each day is different. One day you may learn something about light that you never knew or start to notice shadows in a new way. Using your camera often is so important to growing. 

This is my daughter after she got her haircut (I know, it’s still very long). Anyway, the stylist curled it and she felt so beautiful and confident and I just loved that so I had to get her showing it off in front of my camera. I chose my Lensbaby Edge 35 for this shot because I wanted a really special flare. I love how it almost frames her as well as the movement and colors in this one.

Most important thing you have learned about editing?

I do enjoy editing, especially seeing the before become the after. I think the most important thing I have learned is to just keep trying new things. I used to edit in a completely different way when I started my business as well as when I did my first 365. But the more I took photos and the more I edited, the more I found my voice. The editing is just as important in your style as the photos you’re taking. I have also watched videos of others edit to learn a lot of trips and tricks in Lightroom – many from the Click Community and Click Photo School. 

This shot was completely candid. I did not tell them to sit there or next to each other or to cuddle up with a blanket. I found them this way and had to grab my camera. I love it in black and white as I think it keeps the focus on them rather than distracting with any colors. I just love this moment that they were in together and that I was able to capture it.

Secret weapon. Or piece of advice that’s helped you?

Something that I have found to be really important with growing as a photographer or doing a Project 365 is to have your camera out. Keep it somewhere safe, but have it out where you can grab it. I actually have all of my lenses on a shelf so I can quickly change them out if need be and my camera lives on my desk ready to be used. That way when inspiration strikes you are ready to go! The other secret weapon is COMMUNITY!!! I can’t tell you how many friends I have made through photography. Find a community – any community! In 2020 I applied to become a Click Pro Elite and was accepted. The world wide community they offer is HUGE! But even if it’s a few other people in your neighborhood or city. You will learn so much by talking about photography, teaching each other, asking questions, and encouraging each other!! I can’t say enough about the importance of having a photography community!! 

I am doing a neat project where you take a photo in the same spot once a month for the whole year. This photo shows my spot from January. It’s right on Lake Norman and it actually snowed (which seems to be rare for this area). My kids were LOVING it. I love the scale of this to show the tree, the water, and the pretty sky, but that you can still tell me kids are running around and playing.

Why photographs? Why not painting? Or poems? Or, for that matter, statutes or taxes?

I think photography has always been it for me (not just because I’m not as strong of a drawer or painter), but because it freezes a real moment. Do you know what my Dad often does when we go visit my family? He pulls out the photo books. I am a very nostalgic person and will always find the importance of photographs. They live on, they tell stories, they move people, and they are real. They make you FEEL. And you can’t get those moments back, but you can have photographs to take you back to them. I have always described photographs as time machines and I am so grateful that I have so many but that I also get to give others that gift as my job. 

I chose this image because I love the light and shadows in it. We moved a few months ago and these plants are still sitting in their boxes from then. I love the storytelling of it and that I will know this is February because we put homemade hearts upon our windows.

Thank you Ali for sharing your story and your beautiful images. Congratulations on being published in the Click Pro magazine.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  The theme this month is {Revive} for so tag us with #sharesix_revive for another 2 weeks. The theme will change on April 6, 2022.

Guest Highlight: December 2021: Autumnal

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#cityscape, #flora, #nature, #naturelovers, #naturephotography, #outdoors, #sharesix, #sharesix_autumnal

Autumnal was the theme for December and it was the perfect time of the year choose this theme.

Congratulations to @alimobo for being selected as the featured artist for the month of December. Here is what Sharleen Stuart Photography had to say about your image:

“I love the colors in this image, the blur and the crisp definition of the contrasting crispness of the white on the leaves, as well as the contrast between light and dark, makes for a stunning image. Well done, this image is gorgeous”

@alimobo

Photos from our Instagram page that we have chosen to highlight are below and are in alphabetical order. Click on the names to link to the photographers page.  Go and like them, show them some love, you will enjoy seeing their images in your feed. Congratulations to you all.

@cdannhausenbrun

@jennifercolephoto

@ricki.ellington

@savvy_photog

@karen_thorne_

@michellewrightphotography

@skahdee

Thank you for sharing your {Autumnal} images with us, they are all so unique and interesting.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  Don’t forget to tag the Instagram posts with #sharesix_pets.  Each month we feature one artist on our Facebook and Webpage banner.  We will also do an interview with the featured artist, so share your images to be a part of this opportunity.

Look out for the new theme on March 6, 2022

Guest Interview: Transform:@kateainger

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#bokeh, #children, #featuredartist, #hands, #kateainger, #portrait, #relections, #sharesix, #sharesix_transform

@kateainger was chosen as our Featured artist for the theme {Transform} and I wanted to learn more about her and her photography journey, so I reached out to Kate. You can learn more about her as well but reading below.

Tell us a bit about yourself?  And, are you a hobbyist or a pro?

I am a British lawyer/actress turned mum/photographer. After working as a solicitor in London and the Cayman Islands, I decided to indulge an old passion to tread the boards and retrained as an actress. Two West End productions and several tours later, I got married and moved to Mauritius, with my husband’s job. We lived there for over 10 years and had our 3 children, before moving back to the UK at the beginning of Lockdown in 2020. I would describe myself as 90 per cent hobbyist and 10 per cent pro.

I am proud of this image for many reasons. Despite my acting career, I am not comfortable in front of a camera lens, but I am learning to push myself occasionally so that our children remember I was there too. This is the first self-portrait I have taken with my Lensbaby Sol45. I discovered I could manually focus the lens whilst sitting in front of it and looking at the Canon App on my iPhone. The overlays are an ICM of a sunset and some colourful restaurant lights.

What inspired you to pick up your camera initially? 

Like many others, I first picked up a camera to document my children’s lives. A friend in Mauritius was a Click Pro and once I saw her family albums I was hooked. I started with courses run by Photography for Parents (a UK based online photography school), which I would highly recommend. They now run courses for all levels of photographers.

This is the another old favourite – my elder daughter singing in the shower in Mauritius. Once again it is a Lensbaby Sol45 image. I converted it to black and white to enhance the contrast of her skin against the dark tiles and to allow the highlights of the water droplets to pop.

How do you improve your technique?

Completing my first 365 Project in 2020, definitely helped me work on my techniques as I needed to keep trying new things in order to give my images some variety.

Becoming involved with the Light Communion loop on Instagram this year also helped me push my creative boundaries and honed my double exposure techniques. The image you kindly selected for the Share Six Transform theme was a fusion of my image with a light overlay gifted by my talented friend, Annick Paradis.

I try to take occasional classes but I’m guilty of having several breakouts sitting untouched on my Hard Drive. I am supposed to be finding time to look at those before I start any new ones!

This is one of my all-time favourites of my youngest daughter. We had to leave Mauritius unexpectedly in March 2020, due to the pandemic and the children had very few toys when we arrived in the UK. It was a time of simplicity for us – no furniture, home school and making our own entertainment. My daughter decided to use the saucepans to make music and she sang at the top of her voice whilst doing so. I moved her pans slightly so that she was lit by the light from our French doors and then took this image from outside, through the open doors. It was worth her breaking all my wooden spoons just for this captured memory!

Most important thing you have learned about editing?

Two things really – collaborate and know when to stop. Particularly with more artistic work, I often ask my wonderful 365 group or a close photographer friend for their critique on an edit before finalising an image. I am guilty of often being at my desktop in the early hours of the morning tweaking edits when I should be in bed catching up on some sleep, so one of my resolutions for 2022 is to stop that!

This base image was just my elder daughter and her reflection in the window, taken from above. The overlay is a Jessica Drossin City Lights image.

Secret weapon. Or piece of advice that’s helped you?

Overlays. I love the energy and textures in Natalie Robinson’s work and since taking her Fused breakout, I’ve learnt how to add elements to my images which were missing in the original.

This was an image I planned in advance. My mum is extremely happy to have us back in the UK and I wanted to record this special connection between the three generations of women in our family. I remember my grandmothers’ hands very clearly but I have no photographs, so I wanted this image as a gift to my children.

Why photographs? Why not painting? Or poems? Or, for that matter, statutes or taxes?

I feel as if my photography meets the needs of my dual personality – my lawyer’s need to follow rules and my actresses’ love of creation. I love how it has pulled together the different strands of my life.

This image was taken on holiday in Somerset last summer. Our son was in the pool and trying to persuade his little sister to jump in. I was shooting with my Lensbaby, as I love the effect it has on water and I suddenly noticed the shadow on the wet pool edge and the triangle which it formed with the children when they were holding hands. I used a light overlay gifted by Natalie Robinson to our Light Communion Circle as I loved the sparkle it added.

Thank you Kate for sharing your story and your beautiful images. I also love the different overlays that you have used. It’s so exciting to live in another country and get exposure to their way of life. Travel rounds us all.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  The theme this month is {Abstract_22} for so tag us with #sharesix_abstract_22 for another 2 weeks. The theme will change on February 5, 2022.

Guest Highlight: Quote: @cdannhausenbrun

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#outdoors, #portrait, #sailing, #sharesix, #swimming, #windy, s#haresix_quote

@cdannhausenbrun was chosen as our featured artist for the them {Quote} and I connected with Christine to learn a little bit more about her photography journey.

My favorite photos are constantly changing depending on what is technique I am working on in the moment or how I am trying to look at light. This photo of my nephew is one of my favorites at the moment because of the light. I have been looking at light more this year and how I capture it. I just love the light on him and how I caught it on his face so perfectly.

Tell us a bit about yourself?  And, are you a hobbyist or a pro?

What an honor to be interviewed! I am Christine and I am a wife, mother, photographer and public health researcher. I am a mother of six amazing children, ages 11 to 23 years old. I am a hobbyist photographer but have had a few paying clients over the years. My day job includes public health program evaluation, health surveys and working on health issues at the intersection of climate change.

I have been taking photos for as long as I can remember. I grew up watching my dad take photos and put on slide shows for us. I started my own photographic journey messing around with my dad’s 35mm camera and eventually had my own cartridge-based 110 camera. When I started dating my now husband, I could often be found absconding his Minolta 35 mm film camera. I currently shoot with a Canon 5D Mark IV. For Christmas and my upcoming birthday, I received a GoPro 9 and a drone. I cannot wait to begin experimenting with both.

I love this photo of my oldest son for the perspective and how much it captures his personality. He is going after everything he wants in this world.

What inspired you to pick up your camera initially? 

Documenting life is what inspired me to first pick up a camera. I never met my mom’s parents as they died while she was young. There were not many photos of her parents. As young child, I don’t know that I realized why I was picking up the camera then. As a mom I realize what I was doing. I was documenting moments with special people, milestone trips and those moments together at home to help hold onto memories and show us what our life was like in that moment in time. It what still drives my photography.

This is a photo of one of my daughters. We were on a ferry and I was inside the ferry, but she was out in the wind. I just loved the contrast of her eyes closed and almost meditative with the swirl of hair around her. The mask places this photo in a moment in time. These last 21 months and have had so many moments of calm at home together with all my kids, but also moments of complete chaos. It’s all there for me in this photo.

How do you improve your technique?

Practice! Classes through groups like Click Community. YouTube videos. Studying my own photos. I will look back at photos and think, ‘I should have adjusted for that horizon line,’ or ‘if I had moved over a foot, I could have cropped out that stop sign.’ It does not mean I always remember to do these things the next time, but it does help me become more aware over time.

This photo of two of my daughters was captured when I was working on perspective. It captured my daughter’s mood at the time as well.

Most important thing you have learned about editing?

I have a love/hate relationship with editing. I love playing with editing. At the same time, I don’t always trust myself. I second guess what I have done and then I start thinking about photographers who I admire and think that they would do it differently. Editing takes a lot of time and I definitely enjoy the process of taking a photo more than the editing. This means I am working on trying to get better with what I take in camera!

I love the negative space in this photo and just the pop of red.

Secret weapon. Or piece of advice that’s helped you?

I have a few pieces of advice that have helped me. First, critique your own photographs. It really is a skill that helps you begin to stop and look before you take a photograph. Second, stop, look and change your position. Changing position can completely transform a photo. Third, don’t compare yourself to others. Be you as it is what makes your photos unique. Fourth, compare yourself. At the same time, comparing yourself to others does give you ideas to spark your own creativity.

Another of my daughters and her eye contact in this photo is what draws me in. It was difficult to pick just a few favorite photos. If I chose them tomorrow, I’m sure they would be completely different.

Why photographs? Why not painting? Or poems? Or, for that matter, statutes or taxes?

I love documenting moments in time. For me, photography is the easiest way to do this. Painting a moment in time takes way too long! I admire those who paint and have many family members who have done it. I do also write poems or history letters.  I write a Christmas letter each year that encapsulates our year, but it is always interspersed with photographs. It is only as I have gotten older that I have realized how much of my history is intertwined with creating and documenting life.

We love learning about our featured artists. Thank you so much Christine for sharing your photography journey and your beautiful photographs with all of us at Share Six. We can always learn from each other. Take some time to visit Christine’s IG page at @cdannhausenbrun

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  The theme this month is {Abstract_22} for so tag us with #sharesix_abstract_22 for another 2 weeks. The theme will change on February 5, 2022.

Guest Highlight: November 2021: Transform

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#abstract, #aviation, #bokeh, #countryside, #flora, #layers, #light, #nature, #outdoors, #pavementcrossing, #sharesix, #sharesix_transform, #sunset

Liz of It’s Still Life Photography by Elizabeth Willson chose the theme for November and she has selected this image by @kateainger as the featured artist image. She chose the image for the following reasons:

“This image immediately stuck me with its stunning composition and textured layers of light. The artist shared the images she combined to create it which further enhances the story. It gives a sense of light-filled connection and the opportunity for hopeful change moving forward.”

Congratulations @kateainger for being selected as the featured artist.

@kateainger

Photos from our Instagram page that we have chosen to highlight are below and are in alphabetical order. Click on the names to link to the photographers page.  Go and like them, show them some love, you will enjoy seeing their images in your feed. Congratulations to you all.

@bethshepherdphotography

@jenniferconnellyphotography

@loupdeloopy

@shellbellephotos

@tlovesr

@wandering_little_soul

michellewrightphotography

Thank you for sharing your {Transform} images with us, they are all so unique and interesting.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  Don’t forget to tag the Instagram posts with #sharesix_autumnal.  Each month we feature one artist on our Facebook and Webpage banner.  We will also do an interview with the featured artist, so share your images to be a part of this opportunity.

Look out for the new theme on January 6, 2022

Guest Highlight: October 2021: Documentary

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#babytoes, #birthday, #carving, #celebration, #cityscape, #doubleexposure, #feet, #funinthesun, #hand, #helper, #iguana, #outdoors, #painting, #pet, #puddles, #pumpkin, #pumpkinseeds, #sharesix, #sharesix_documentary, #toddler, #travel, #waders, #water, #watersplashes, #wellies

The theme {Documentary} was chosen by Sharleen Stuart Photography and it gave us a wide open field to submit on. So much of our lives is part of a series of time that is documented. Sharleen chose @jomartindale as the featured artist for this theme for the following reason:

“This image brings back memories of my childhood. It drove my mother to distraction that I would walk through all the puddles on my way home from school, and arrive with soggy leather shoes, which then had to dry overnight. This image is beautiful and the action captured in here is stunning. The water splash is perfect and this just tells me that there was a whole lot of fun happening while taking this image. Congratulations – this is heart warming”

@jomartindale

Photos from our Instagram page that we have chosen to highlight are below and are in alphabetical order. Click on the names to link to the photographers page.  Go and like them, show them some love, you will enjoy seeing their images in your feed. Congratulations to you all.

@aimee_lynn_photography

@jessiellis1

@judith_krasinski

@kimlorrainephotography

@michellewrightphotography

@oakandvines

@three_little_bearz

Thank you for sharing your {Documentary} images with us. It is always great to see what you as a photographer come up with.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  Don’t forget to tag the Instagram posts with #sharesix_autumnal.  Each month we feature one artist on our Facebook and Webpage banner.  We will also do an interview with the featured artist, so share your images to be a part of this opportunity.

Look out for the new theme on January 6, 2022

Holiday Wishes: December 2021

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#ceriherdphotography, #cobertphotography, #kgledbetterphotography, #lynnegrantphotography, #micheletremblayphotos, #sharesix, #sharesix_holiday wishes, #sharleenstuartphotography, #wiredtothemoon_

As I sit and reflect on this year, the struggles of the past 2 years, and what 2022 may still bring, I am thankful for all of the incredible ladies that I get to blog with. To Ceri, Katherine, Lynne, Kathy, Michele, Janet, and Liz, I thank you for your timeless giving of yourself to this project. I know that this past 2 years has been challenging for all of us, and sometimes we could not blog on a particular month. But you have all hung in there and done the best you could do. I so appreciate that.

To everyone that connects with us either on Facebook or Instagram, and tags us in their image each month, I thank you. The engagement makes this group what it is.

Share Six started out in 2015, and it has been an incredible journey, and I am hopeful that 2022 will be just as good.

2022 will see us say goodbye to Michele Tremblay, and we are sad to see her go, but the past two years have changed much in her life and time has to be prioritized elsewhere. We fully understand and wish Michele well in what the future holds for her.

For whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of the year, we wish you joy, and an abundance of it. If your celebration is limited, then enjoy those that you have. If you are able to gather together with extended family, please do so safely. From personal experience I would encourage you to tell those that you love, just how much you love them. Give hugs where you can, or just sit quietly in the presence of the one you love. Make each moment count. Most of all we know how chaotic holidays can get, and so above all strive for peace in each and every moment.

We at Share Six wish you a safe and healthy Holiday Season, and may 2022 be a year that bring you everything you wish for. Thank you for being part of this wonderful experience we call Share Six.

Guest Highlight: September 2021: Quote

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#art, #blackandwhite, #bokeh, #diving, #leadinglines, #monochrome, #negativespace, #outdoors, #portrait, #refelctions, #ruleofthirds, #sharesix, #sharesix_quote, #sunlight, #toddler, #underwater, #water

The theme was {Quote} and there were so many different options. This was one of our quieter months. However this image by @cdannhousenbrun really stood out to me.

“There is so much going on in this image, the rule of thirds, negative space, leading lines, and reflections, that my mind kept going in different directions. Congratulations on this stunning image. ”

@cdannhausenbrun

Photos from our Instagram page that we have chosen to highlight are below and are in alphabetical order. Click on the names to link to the photographers page.  Go and like them, show them some love, you will enjoy seeing their images in your feed. Congratulations to you all.

@aimee_lynn_photography

@michellewrightphotography

@positively_katiebee

@shellbellephotos

@tarawanders

Thank you for sharing your {Quote} images with us.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  Don’t forget to tag the Instagram posts with #sharesix_autumnal.  Each month we feature one artist on our Facebook and Webpage banner.  We will also do an interview with the featured artist, so share your images to be a part of this opportunity.

Look out for the new theme on January 6, 2022.

Guest Interview: Summer Sun: @a_winterrot

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#color, #motherandchild, #negativespace, #outdoors, #rockinghorse, #sharesix_summersun #sharesixfeaturedartist, #snow, #sunlight, #toddler, #winterwonderland

Ali of @a_winterrot was chosen to be highlight for the {Summer Sun} theme and so I connected with her to learn more about Ali and her photography journey.

This photo is quite different from my norm. It’s not often that I have my subject out of focus. What I love
about this though, is the light and how it highlights the tall grass. With the subject being out of focus I feel like it adds movement to the photo. I can see the grass gently blowing in the wind and am anticipating the subject running forward and into focus.

Tell us a bit about yourself?  And, are you a hobbyist or a pro?

Hello! I am Ali and I live in the state of North Dakota. I am married with 5 children ages 11 years to 2
years. I stay home with my kids during the week and work full time as a Registered Nurse on the weekend
night shift. I mostly consider myself a hobbyist photographer, but I have been taking on more and more clients over the last 2 years. I would love to consider myself a pro, but am not sure at what point I can really call myself one.

If I’m being honest the reason I love this picture is because I feel beautiful. I love other things about it too, the lighting, the fact Leo is looking at the camera, the connection between the two of us and just the memory captured of how sweet and little he once was.

What inspired you to pick up your camera initially? 

I have always had an interest in photography for as long as I can remember, and always had
some kind of camera growing up. Both my dad and my maternal grandfather loved photography, and
had so many photobooks filled with the photos they had taken. My Grandfather’s were generally
nature based while my Dad’s were documentary of our family life. Like most moms, my interest
intensified after I started having children, but it wasn’t until after the birth of my 5 th child that I really
started to make efforts to become the photographer that I always envisioned myself being.

I love this photo because of the scale of the wall in comparison to how little Leo is. I am also really drawn to the light reflecting in the windows and the amazing texture of the building.

How do you improve your technique?

I improve my technique multiple ways. Practice is huge! I don’t pick up my camera every day,
but I do use it multiple times a week. I love learning about photography and am continually taking
different classes on shooting and editing. And I study pieces of work I am drawn to and try to figure
out what about it intrigues me and how can I incorporate some of that into my own work while making
it my own.

I love this image because it is nostalgic. The wooden horse was made by my maternal grandfather while the boots and toy gun belonged to my husband as a young child. I love that my children can still find joy in the same things my husband and I did as children and I love that I can immortalize the moment.

Most important thing you have learned about editing?

A little goes a long way! And don’t be afraid to ask questions and learn something new!

This photo I love for the scale. To me it shows the vastness and stillness of a snowy day on the planes. Where you can hear no other sound than the snow falling. I love all seasons, but for me nothing compares to the calmness and peace of a gentle snowfall.

Secret weapon. Or piece of advice that’s helped you?

Stay true to yourself and try not to play the comparison game. It is all too easy to get
discouraged in the photography world, especially on social media. Feeling like your work is never
good enough; being discouraged that you aren’t growing as fast as others; feeling like an imposter
that doesn’t belong. I have felt them all and sometimes need to remind myself to take a step back and
look at what I have accomplished and think about where I want to go. No one is going to get me there
but myself!

In this photo I am drawn to the color pallet the most. Yellow is my favorite color and yellow with blue is my favorite combination. I also love the storytelling of this image. The little baby crawling under the couch with the puppy diligently watching over him.

Why photographs? Why not painting? Or poems? Or, for that matter, statutes or taxes?

Well, I have dabbled in painting and other forms of artwork, and I do my own taxes (ha). I think
the love for photography stems from the influence from my dad and always having a camera and
photos around and just a desire to document my life and the life of my family in a beautiful way.

Thank you so much Ali for sharing your story and your beautiful photographs with all of us at Share Six. We can always learn from each other. Take some time to visit Ali’s IG page at @a_winterrot

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  The theme this month is {Autumnal} for so tag us with #sharesix_autumnal for another 2 weeks. The theme will change on January 6, 2022.

Sharing Six: December 6, 2021: Autumnal

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#autumn, #ceriherdphotography, #colors, #fun, #itsstilllifewillson, #lakes, #laughter, #leaf, #leaves, #lynnegrantphotography, #pathways, #sharesix_autumnal, #sharleenstuartphotography, #vines, #winefarm, #wiredtothemoon_

December 2021 sees us complete 6 years of sharing on Share Six, and I cannot do it without the amazing ladies in this group. Janet, Ceri, Lynne, Katherine, Michele, Kathy, and Sharleen, thank you for being a part of this journey and for sharing your stories each month. I love learning from you all. You are very talented ladies.

This month Ceri of Ceri Herd Photography chose the theme {Autumnal} and we have all just experienced the Autumnal season. For me, down in South Florida it is a lot harder, but even I was lucky this month to actually see and experience it.

The definition of Autumnal is ” of, characteristic of, or occurring in autumn”.

Autumn is that beautiful time of year when the leaves change and natures life span dwindles before succumbing to winter. When the landscape is a riot of color, and the impression is one of beauty.

From the sneak peaks shared, I cannot wait to see what the blog contributors have to offer.

Sharleen Stuart Photography

Jan of @wiredtothemoon_

It’s Still Life Photography by Elizabeth Willson

Ceri Herd Photography

Cobert Photography

Lynne Grant Photography

Autumn leads to Winter, and with it comes the holiday season. For those of you who are celebrating, please enjoy your time together. Let there be love, peace and harmony. Treasure every moment, whether near or far. Let your loved one’s know you love them. If you are traveling, travel safely. Let’s pray that 2022, brings more opportunities to hug, and smile and show love. Wishing you every good blessing for your celebrations and may 2022 be a year that makes a positive difference.

We look forward to seeing your images on our Facebook page and our Instagram Page.  Don’t forget to tag the Instagram posts with #sharesix_autumnal  Each month we will do an interview with the featured artist, so share your images to be a part of this opportunity.

Look out for the new theme on January 6, 2022.