Handmade with Love - P52 Week Two

The best gifts are those made by a loved one with their own hands and given from the heart.

I have a house filled with handmade treasures, so it was actually quite hard to choose which one I wanted to do for this week of P52. I could easily do 52 weeks on just the theme of Handmade with Love.

I chose this beautiful hand woven scarf that my daughter made in a high school art class mainly because I love the soft soothing colors. I also wanted the challenge of photographing it. I used my daughter's wire mannequin to drape the scarf around and set her up next to a north facing window, then I just played. I tried difference apertures, different compositions, and ISOs. I would take a few pictures then load them on my computer, find the one I liked the best, then go back and continue tweaking the shot. I am happy how this turned out.

Without Project 52 I wouldn't have taken the time to really get the shot I wanted, so thank you Darcy for starting this project. The accountability of this project is just what I needed.