Scavenger Hunt Sunday--June 5th

I know I say this almost every week, but I really love this challenge!  It stretches me sooooooo much and I get to see a lot of beautiful work.  If you don't have time to take 5 themed photos each week, you can still join in the fun by checking out everyone else's creative interpretations at Ramblings and Photos.

HOT, HOT, HOT:

I asked my husband for help with this prompt, but he REFUSED to tell me anything he found Hot, Hot, Hot...then I said, "okay, what about "Finding Form."  He just laughed.  I finally came up with  this idea and THEN my children suggested spicy food, steamy food, tea pot boiling, and the sun.  I guess it was much easier for them not having their minds in the gutter.  I believe this set would have turned out a little better if I had a tripod and a husband less concerned about his fingers and more concerned for my art.

Finding Form:

I am not sure I understand this prompt completely, but I think these photos illustrate it.  Same ladder from two different perspectives.  In the first photo it looks fairly flat and straight; you cannot really tell that it twists as it reaches towards the sky.  In the second photo you can see more of the shape of the ladder and realize that is twists and has lots of angles and shape.  It was hard to find an angle that "found the form" so while I don't think these photos are "frame me and hang me on the wall" photos, I did enjoy the exercise of looking for form and, I think, finding it.  My family suggested taking the photo from above but THAT was not an option.

Chore:

Given the wet and mild winter and spring in our area there has been a lot of growth in the vegetation around our house and not many opportunities to get outside to take care of it.  Since it has started warming up, we have been focusing our energy on the front yard.  By the time we get around to this giant weed it will be a real "Chore" to remove it.  Yes, our kitchen window is the usual 4 feet or so up, not a less terrifying 6 inches from the ground.

Beads:

This picture is from my archives because I do not have ANY beads in my house.  Ummmm, except for those tiny little beads you put onto forms and then iron to melt into carefully designed creations, but I wasn't willing to get them out with my two year old around--even for the sake of the hunt.

Front Page News:

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FYI--I did not use any collages.  For most of them, I decided what size of picture I wanted, created a new document, cropped the pictures to the size that would fit, ran Painted Moon rounded edges on white, moved the picture to the document, arranged and then added text.  On the newspaper page I did similar things, but no rounded edges on the pictures.  I have been using Photoshop for collages forever, only recently have I started editing pictures in it--who knew it could do so much?