10 on 10: square crop

Because cropping an image changes its entire composition, and therefore feel, I struggled more with this theme than any of our previous “10 on 10” topics.  I’m just not a square crop person- I envision my images in rectangles… traditional, 4×6 aspect-ratio rectangles.  I guess I’m not much of a rule breaker.  Even on Instagram, which forces a square crop in their feed, I still convert nearly all of my shots back to a rectangle… I just can’t seem to make that square crop feel right.  (Hooray for “Squaready”- an awesome little app that gives you back control of your Instagram composition.)

For this month’s challenge, instead of shooting to fit the theme as I normally do, I selected images taken in the last three months to re-edit.   When Kelly first start talking about a vision for this blog circle, her goal was to find a home for many of the photos taken each month that never made it into a blog post or onto her website.  I have so many of those too.  Homeless images that never go anywhere- the downside to digital photography.

So this month, I embraced a new challenge of attempting to create something a little outside of my comfort zone, while also having the chance to recycle a few images that otherwise may have remained untouched…