Mike – Ok, maybe “Rejects” sounds a little harsh, but that’s what they were. Some more than others. Seriously, some were awful. You’ll see.

Pleasure: This local place makes delicious empanadas. I didn't like the glare, so I chose to spotlight my guitar (which I'll choose over food anyday)

Fear: My lame attempt at creating a creepy scene. There's this wall panel in our bike locker at the office, so I carefully placed my mitt and just started laughing because it looked so comical.

Fear again. I had a lot of trouble with this theme and biked around until late in the night taking pictures of "creepy" things. This reminded me of Stephen King's "It". In hindsight, I probably should have gone with this one in the end.

Same night that I tried to take pictures of "Fear". The newly renovated Maisonneuve monument is pretty cool, but not very scary.

Mirror: I liked this but I decided not to use my guitar twice, although I probably could have done 30 days of guitars....hmmm...

Outlier: The idea was to have all these incense with the "outlier" over there on the right. There would be swirling smoke and a red hot ember. It looked awful and just failed miserably.
Nicky – Ok, maybe “Rejects” sounds a little harsh, but in fact, may actually be too kind a description. You’ll see.

This is what happens when you go for a walk with your 18 year old son to take pictures for a photo challenge. He held the list of prompts. We stopped at the pharmacy and he suggested I take a picture of condoms for the Pleaure theme. Do you know how people look at you when you take pictures of the boxes of condoms at the pharmacy?

I took a picture of fire and then saw Max's face mesmerized by the flames and went with that instead.

Back when I actually cared about who saw me taking pictures of everything like a maniac, I tried to take this picture of people waiting in line for popcorn at the movie theater without anyone noticing. Fail.

My cute little black boots died this year. I tried to take a picture of them at the funeral, but I was crying a lot and my hands shook and all of the pictures were blurry. Plus *sob* it was just too painful. I miss them so.







