I am going to cheat a little bit and explain my image for this week because I feel like it. =)
I cannot live without my parents. They have given me so much. Though more importantly, I cannot live without my mom. She has taught me so much about how to be kind, generous, positive and a gentleman that a beautiful woman would like to marry someday (thanks Brisa!). That is why she is the focus of the image because her work ethic, unselfishness and love means so much to me.

Shutter speed: 1/60th
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 1600
Processing: Adobe Lightroom3
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 1600
Processing: Adobe Lightroom3

Shutter speed: 1/13th
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 2000
Processing: Adobe Lightroom3
Week 1 Free for All
Week 2 Introduce yourself
Week 3 Show us your home
Week 4 Your Name
Week 5 Sports (anything related, teams, players, equipment, etc,)
Week 6 Guilty Pleasures
Week 7 ONE object shot at 5 different angels/distances
Week 8 One for the road (signs, streets, traffic, etc.)
Week 9 Objects that tell something about you
Week 10 Things that make your life easier
Week 11 Your favorite color
Week 12 Household item
Week 13 Foods
Week 14 Flashed (an image created using artificial light)
Week 15 Sun (sunlight, sunset, sunrise, etc)
Week 16 Emotion
Week 17 Lines
Week 18 What you do outside the world of photography
Week 19 Weather
Week 20 Emotional attachment (heirloom/special gift, etc.)
Week 21 Pets
Week 22 Things you couldn’t live without
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 2000
Processing: Adobe Lightroom3
As a photographer, sometime you need to work on things outside of your normal purview 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 sharing our images with you here!
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, ipad2, 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 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.
Next Thursday, January 5th, Week 23: “Habits” will be due. The image must be created between today and January 5th. Good luck!
Let me know if you have any questions!
Here is the full list of 52 Weeks of Awesomeness!
Week 23 Habits
Week 24 Fire (candle, fireplace, etc.)
Week 25 Scrapbooking (stash, room, lo’s, etc)
Week 26 Textures
Week 27 Hands
Week 28 Shoes
Week 29 Jewelry
Week 30 OOF (Out of Focus)…purposely OOF
Week 31 What I consider dessert
Week 32 Fill the Frame (close ups)
Week 33 A week in our lives
Week 34 Faith (what you believe)
Week 35 Dance (body in motion)
Week 36 Family & Friends
Week 37 SOOC (straight out of the camera)…before & after
Week 38 Patriotic
Week 39 Object: straight up shots and then straight down shots
Week 40 Something at night
Week 41 Something that gives you the feeling of warmth
Week 42 Smell
Week 43 Water
Week 44 Animals
Week 45 Music
Week 46 Reflections/Shadows
Week 47 Flowers
Week 48 Sleep
Week 49 Action Shots
Week 50 Circles
Week 51 Your car
Week 52 Self portrait
I like that you explained your picture. I really miss the explanations on the 52 WoA posts 🙂 I love the pics, but often wonder about the thoughts behind the photos.