enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: photography
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I saw this grid frame* on Pinterest and immediately a light bulb flashed. This is the ideal frame for a photo progression collage. You know the ones – one frame, multiple holes, photos from repeating years to show growth and change. My parents have one with photos of all the houses that we have lived…
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While I am getting things re-organized, I want to share the statement photo wall that decorated my office for the past eight months. I filled this wall with Instagram photos as part of a project for the Big Picture Phone Photography class that ran this past summer. I ordered a few copies of 75 different…
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Weekend days are cherished around here. Mostly because they are rare. Residency for Paul means working three weekend days each month in addition to his normal 10 hour weekdays. This leaves us with just five full days of family time aka magic a month. I took photos last Sunday to celebrate the small and special…
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I became hooked on Instagram in fall of 2011. Paul was deployed and I was on a trip to New York with some of my college girlfriends. We were killing time while waiting out Irene, the tropical storm that never hit the city as dramatically anticipated. I had seen people linking to their Instagram photos,…
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One of my goals for this month is to get more photos printed and framed. I have had a few projects in mind for awhile and this is the first one. Remember when I shared my idea for the dining area? My "sketch" showed a big fiddle leaf fig in the corner and two oversized…
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The past few days, I have made a point to take photos from the time when I wake up until when I sit at my computer to start working. This is usually about a 45 minute time period. I wake up without an alarm, usually between 6:10 and 7:15. I am loving the early rise…
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I was honored to contribute to a new Big Picture workshop about taking photos with (and getting them off!) your camera phone. This workshop is filled with fun instructors and big ideas and it's currently available at the introductory price of $39. You can read more about it and sign up here. Above is a…
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I've been watching Ali document a "day in the life" at the end of every month this year. She's keeping it simple and her photos and layouts (which she works into her Project Life album) have been inspiring to me. The once a month plan didn't really work for me, but I decided to do…
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One thing that I have decided to do to remember each space that we live in as a family is create a small photo book. You can see the one I created for our first time in San Diego here. These books are the easiest. I just go through all my photos from the time…
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I'm a big fan of taking self-portraits. In my house, I am the main photographer. Paul is kind enough to be in photos and happy enough to take them for me, but "oh we should take a photo!" is not an expression that's ever come out of his mouth. Plus, with him deploying often, if…
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