community 'word' project - COMMUNICATE

The sun is shining so we're hoping that Summer has arrived!! (fingers and toes crossed!)... and we have also launched our next community 'word' project on our flickr page so if you haven't already had a go then this weekend could be the perfect time to get out there and shoot your little hearts out... :)

This months word is COMMUNICATE.

community 'word' project - BIRTH

Well, once again our gorgeous 'from our hearts' community have come up with the goods! Our second community 'word' project was BIRTH... a real tricky one as lots of you wanted to try and take the word away from the obvious... but then again... how beautiful the obvious is... :)
I think the submissions, again are wonderful and it's so lovely to see people chatting and thinking of ideas together on Flickr and then seeing the work appear is just fantastic... thank you to everyone that submitted... here are a few from this month... (please check out lots more in our flickr group!)...
We'll be announcing the next project in the next few days.... :)

Danielle Benbow

Caro Hutchings Photography 

Dave Jenkins Photography 

Cinzia Bruschini 

Cassie Craner 

Amy Radcliffe 

Garlicky Mum 

Teacup Dreams 

Reidy Girl

Hannah Millard

Lindsey Mack

Holly Bobbins

Angela Ward Brown

Nicki Feltham

Summer Love Photography

from our hearts project...

What started out as a simple thought that maybe, just maybe there will be a few other people out there who feel the same as us has grown into a group of amazing photographers all coming together. To meet new people, learn from each other, inspire creativity and above all shoot for the sake of it again.

Our first From Our Hearts first project was announced in January and the theme was simply, From the Heart. Shooting and sharing images that came from within or were felt to represent what the group stood for. And so far the response has been astounding! We have seen over 200 images submitted to the group pool and have had photographers sharing, encouraging and meeting new friends. We have seen photographers go back to the root of why they shoot and share that with the group, sparking conversation and encouragement. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to this and got stuck in, we really hope you keep doing it!

We wanted to share with you all a small, randomly selected taster of the amazing images that have been shared within the group and we really, really encourage you to head over to the Flickr page and check out every one of the amazing images posted to the set. In doing so you will hopefully also make some new Flickr friends, find inspiration and find out more from those around you who enjoy shooting from the heart.

Sacco and Sacco

Lucy Jane

Live it out photo

Garlicky Mum

Ant Lockyer

Amy Radcliffe

lauraglitter

FoPhotography

Theresa Furey

Pennie Crayon

Cut The Cake



Rubygirl22

Shansemp

Cath Regan

teacup_dreams

Summer Love Photography

Kirsten Mavric

As for the next project... well we are just finalising a theme and we will let you know what it is to be very soon!

from our hearts project

You have just one more week to submit your images to our first project!  So far we have been blown away by how many people have joined the Flickr group and are taking part.. the photos are really beautiful and your descriptions are so touching.  It's also nice to see everyone introducing themselves and starting discussions... that's EXACTLY what we want!!

Here's one that caught my eye that I wanted to share.... thanks Jenn! :)

Jenn Stark - I really wanted to use this 'from our hearts' group as a way to take the idea/theme and shoot something new around what those words mean to me at the time....
'from our hearts' to me brings about a feeling of sharing and freely giving out slices of ourselves and what's most important to us.... and there really is no better feeling than cutting into a large stack of pancakes :)


Looking forward to sharing more of your submissions very soon!
DEADLINE FOR PROJECT - Monday 14th February 2011

Also keep your eyes peeled for our first competition!! Woop woop!!

get involved...

...in our first project...

Our aim is to create an inspiring, creative, supportive, encouraging, exploring community of artists who come together to share ideas, thoughts, feelings, hopes, fears in a way that makes us all smile and feel proud of our wonderful art.  We will be regularly setting projects where you will be free to join in, submit images, comment, talk, meet and learn from each other in a positive and exciting community.

We want you to be completely free with your creativity too!  We found that one of the main reasons why we wanted to come together in the first place was because we weren't shooting for the hell of it anymore... we were shooting beautiful people, beautiful weddings etc and we were absolutely loving it but at the same time we felt we had even more to give...

So... for our first project we are going to call it From our hearts (I promise very soon we will stop saying it as much.. it's just because it's all new and exciting!)

We have created a 'From our hearts' Flickr group which everyone is free to join and we want you to get involved by submitting an image that represents what the words 'From our hearts' mean to you....

We want you to be as free and creative, or as literal as you like...

We will then choose up to ten images from the project and on Monday 14th February we will add them to the 'From our hearts' blog.  This will be a regular thing with a different word/emotion/thought each time as we want this community to be something where everyone is involved... :)

There will also be other projects popping up regularly which we will keep you posted!  It's all very exciting!!!