As a photographer, sometimes you need to work on things outside of your normal day-to-day life and this project is going to help us (and you) challenge, grow and creatively develop your photography as a whole. Weekly for the next year, we will be creating images and we call it 52 Weeks of Awesomeness (52WoA)!

Here are our Week 17 – “LOVE” images!

2014-02-18 12.01.41CHRIS: This was a gift that Brisa gave to me when we started dating and the image is one of the first ones that we have together. Amazing that we’ve been together since we were babies. Yes, it was taken on a film point and shoot camera. Whoa. Also, please enjoy my frosted tips. You are welcome.

140218_love_001 (1)SARAH: My husband and I received this journal as a wedding gift. Neither of us are very romantic, but we decided to keep this journal on our bedside and leave each other notes throughout the years. Looking back through this journal, I noticed that he has left me far more notes like this one than I have left for him. My goal for 2014 is to tell my loved ones, especially Josh, how much they mean to me.

“We are only given today and never promised tomorrow. So make sure you tell the people who are special in your life that you love them.” ~ unknown

20140218_121708(0)AUTUMN: In my family, you love each other, and you love Chinese Tuesday. ALL THE LOVE! !

For those of you interested in participating, PLEASE join us! The more the merrier! You definitely do not need to be a professional photographer, this is something you can easily do with your point and shoot, cell phone, ipad, etc. You can comment with a link to your image here on our blog or on our La Brisa fan page or you can tag La Brisa Photography in your image on your own FB page or use the hashtag #52WoA on twitter and/or instagram that way we can share your efforts with everyone else! If you are interested in joining our La Brisa Aspiring Photographer Workshop group on FB, please request to join as we will also be sharing our images there too.

Week 18, “LUST” is due Tuesday, February 25th!

Post Date Week Theme
2013.10.29 1 Introduce Yourself
2013.11.05 2 Costumes
2013.11.12 3 Honor
2013.11.19 4 Artificial Light vs Natural Light (Two Images)
2013.11.26 5 Gluttony
2013.12.03 6 Thankfulness
2013.12.10 7 My Favorite Color
2013.12.17 8 Slow Shutter Speed vs Fast Shutter Speed (Two Images)
2013.12.24 9 Joy
2013.12.31 10 Gifts
2014.01.07 11 Celebration
2014.01.14 12 Smoke vs Fire (Two Images)
2014.01.21 13 Dreams
2014.01.28 14 Winter
2014.02.04 15 Gametime
2014.02.11 16 Intentionally OOF (Out Of Focus)
2014.02.18 17 Love
2014.02.25 18 Lust
2014.03.04 19 Inspired by a movie
2014.03.11 20 One for the Road (Signs, Streets, Traffic, etc)
2014.03.18 21 Green
2014.03.25 22 Macro vs Micro (Close up vs Minature ~ Two Images)
2014.04.01 23 Pride
2014.04.08 24 Foolish
2014.04.15 25 Greed
2014.04.22 26 Spring
2014.04.29 27 Portrait of a Friend vs Portrait of a Stranger (Two Images)
2014.05.06 28 Tequila
2014.05.13 29 Mom
2014.05.20 30 SOOC (Straight Out Of the Camera vs Edited ~ Two Images)
2014.05.27 31 Loss
2014.06.03 32 Music
2014.06.10 33 Your Favorite Shoes
2014.06.17 34 Dad
2014.06.24 35 Color vs Black & White (Two Images)
2014.07.01 36 Summer
2014.07.08 37 Fireworks
2014.07.15 38 Pets
2014.07.22 39 Envy
2014.07.29 40 Water in Multiple Forms (At Least Two Images)
2014.08.05 41 Travel
2014.08.12 42 Sunrise vs Sunset (Two Images)
2014.08.19 43 Motion
2014.08.26 44 Overcome your Fear
2014.09.02 45 Sloth
2014.09.09 46 Shadows vs Reflections (Two Images)
2014.09.16 47 Hero
2014.09.23 48 Silhouette
2014.09.30 49 Wrath
2014.10.07 50 What do you do for fun?
2014.10.14 51 Autumn
2014.10.21 52 Self Portrait