Oh August, with your blazing heat and days full of hope and fear as children and teachers alike prepare for back to school. But the hope you bring as we anticipate the lowering temperatures, orange leaves, football, and best of all pumpkin spice lattes. Yes, fall, you are my favorite. So while we continue to wait for you in sweltering heat I'll just take a look back at the world's favorite places: Paris. Because we can all admit that Paris make everything better.
Refresh My Soul: Switzerland
I have a long list of ideas I've wanted to start. My inbox floods with newsletters from talented creatives offering inspirational words of wisdom to funny anecdotes. I've collected my favorites over the years and "promised" to one day do something similar. Well I'm finally making that happen. For a long time I've wanted to take a moment (whether once a week or once a month) and post the things that refresh my soul, because I think we can all agree that our soul needs a little refreshing now and then.
One of my favorite authors who does this extremely well is Ann Voskamp. Her "Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins For Your Weekend" is a great compilation of funny videos, amazing photographs, and short stories she has gathered across the web. While I don't know what my refreshing material will be each time, I do know that I want to start with a few photos from a place that refreshed my soul like no other—Switzerland. High in the mountains, surrounded by snow and orange leaves, free of cars and itineraries, it was only for two days, but it captured my heart forever.
Shot and edited on iPhone 5S
View from our hotel room. Shot and edited on iPhone 5S
Shot and edited on iPhone 5S
Shot and edited on iPhone 5S
March 2015: Recap in Photos
Well it's another month down for #thebethadillychallenge. And this month I used photos I had taken from my travels in the past. I have to say it was a challenge to find a photo that fit the prompt each day! But it was fun looking back through photos and realizing how blessed I am to have traveled so much of the world. March's photos range from South America to Europe to Africa. I've posted them below as well as the most popular ones for March.
This month in April I'm going to be doing stylized shooting. This means I'll be using backgrounds and natural light sources to get a more professional look going on my feed. This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile so we'll see how it goes!
So what are you all doing to keep yourselves creative? Share below in the comments!
