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52Frames 2021 - Week 25: Macro

"Beauty Before the Bloom" Without macro challenge this week I might not have stopped & looked at the hydrangea bushes & the "pre-bloom" buds. While I find the flowers pretty, they aren't my favorite or even my favorite color so I'll admit I just don't intensely look at them. The challenge made me look this week. LOL. I was looking & snapping photos of everything this week - hair, feathers, glass, old ink bottles with separated ink, cicadas, tree bark - literally anything BUT

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Nicole Beus Harris

Jun 14
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 24: Door

“ Into the Courthouse ” The brick walkway directs each person drawing them into the warm oak doors. There's something comforting about the gentle arches and warm glow of the late afternoon sun on the entrance & yet the shadows speak darker tones. The rounded arches repeated in the brick walk are almost like a reflection of the doorways & windows above reminding you of the river that often mirrors its surroundings only feet away. While entering the building may be a scary prop

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Nicole Beus Harris

Jun 7
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 23: Music

"Memorial Day Bagpipes" I'm really not a music person, but there are certain times when music can overwhelm me. The biggest time is at funerals & memorials like this last Monday's Memorial Day Ceremony in town. Bring the bagpipes out & I feel every soul lost & the pain of their families. Memorial Day has become a more personal remembrance for me since I have traveled overseas to the many American cemeteries & walked the beaches & fields of so many battlefields. I have also le

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Nicole Beus Harris

May 31
2 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 22: Wide Angle

So this week I originally submitted this photo, but for the first time ever - I changed my submission. Scroll down to see the final submission and then an additional option I contemplated submitting. Why was this week so hard? I don't know. “ Favorite Tree ” This is my favorite tree in my yard and I think the wide angle looking up the trunk shows off the wide canopy it provides my walkway to the porch. It really isn't too tall and it's sprawled out like an umbrella under tall

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Nicole Beus Harris

May 24
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 21: Portrait

“ The Graduate Captured ” Senior portraits haven't really happened for my son - so why miss this opportunity to capture him? In just a few days my son will be graduating high school so I felt the cap was a necessary element. The funny part of that is that's my old cap! Every good portrait painter includes elements that define a person so in addition to the cap, I had my son sit in his personal car. This car is his baby as he's been rebuilding it and modifying it to suit his p

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Nicole Beus Harris

May 17
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 20: Red

"Red Juggle" I've been told I look good in red, but it used to be "too bold" for me and I rarely wore it. Now I have more red than any other color, other than black. I often feel like I'm juggling red for a number of reasons, so my idea on Monday was to set up a flat lay "juggle" shot. It took until Sunday to do it. I'm fairly happy with how it turned out (would have moved cardinal if I had to do it again) and it was hard to decide which photo to use, the only difference was

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Nicole Beus Harris

May 10
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 19: ISO 100

“Pull Me In” For those of us who wrote research papers in school before the Internet - this was a common sight. The good old card catalog! My school library's catalog wasn't very big, the city library's was bigger - this one at an antique store in Virginia is HUGE! I saw this originally 2 years ago when we first discovered the store & they just haven't sold it. It is at least 6.5 feet tall & 10 feet long & I am not sure how they would even be able to move it out of the shop w

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Nicole Beus Harris

May 3
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 18: Fabric

“ Reminder of Grandma ” My grandmother brought this all fabric doll home from Japan decades ago. I'm not sure about all the details but there's a family story about grandma being called while overseas & either I was being born or I was in the hospital & she was told I may not make it. She worried the whole flight home wondering if I would live & whether she'd ever see me. This doll is my reminder of my grandma's love for me & her love of travel - which I am trying to follow d

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Nicole Beus Harris

Apr 26
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52Frames 2021 - Week 17: Nature

“New Life” On Sunday we found a birds nest in our front door wreath. It had 4 eggs and an upset momma bird whenever we tried to use the door. On Tuesday we had this - a baby bird and 2 eggs. Unfortunately I found the little lifeless body of another bird on the doormat below the nest in the wreath, but I know that sometimes a momma bird knows that one will not survive. On Saturday momma bird took off when I was looking out the window so I cracked open the door and grabbed a vi

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52Frames 2021 - Week 16: Edited by Someone Else

Nicole Beus Harris

Apr 19
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 16: Edited by Someone Else

“ Opening a World of Imagination ” Little Free Library: Opening a World of Imagination (Edited by Marco Ciavolino) I'm kind of obsessed with Little Free Libraries. I stop almost every time I see one & peruse the books inside. If I can't stop & look, I try hard to at least take a photo & post it on social media with the location especially if they are in my home district. I found this Little Free Library for the first time on Saturday & sent the image to Marco who then made th

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Nicole Beus Harris

Apr 12
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 15: Trapped

“A Metaphor for Life” We're all stuck in this life, on a planet that's spinning. While we may not feel the daily physical spin, we do all have periods of life where we feel we are spinning out of control or someone is spinning us around - right? Much like this Bingo ball cage, we get tossed & tumbled through our life & at some point we are chosen to move on & removed from the trap of this physical life on Earth. This was my 11th hour photo. I actually took my first choice on

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Nicole Beus Harris

Apr 5
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 14: Fast Shutter

“Favorite Beach” This is the first good sunset I've been able to enjoy on the Eastern Shore in 2021. I decided to do a few fast shutter photos of the waves coming in just to be a little different than the normal water drip photos. Like last week, I am not that enthused with fast shutter (although more than slow shutter) and I didn't have a lot of time to figure out another scenario to photograph. My 14 year old dog said he didn't feel like running this week and his hair is cu

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Nicole Beus Harris

Mar 29
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 13: Slow Shutter

“The Inevitable Goodbye” My son is almost 18 - literally just days away and graduation is around the corner. I'm feeling the empty nest blues big time already. What better way to capture that than to set up a goodbye photo this week. Pretty soon he will just be a ghost of an image in the house most of the time, as he'll be away at college and then move on with his own life. No matter how much I reach out, it is inevitable that we will not be together daily anymore. *** I rea

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Nicole Beus Harris

Mar 23
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 12: Window Light

“Read and Relax” I love books and my bookcases. Last month I moved 3 bookcases upstairs next to this window - placed this library chair and pillow under the window and moved my antique rotating library display bookcase on the other side. It's quite a cute little reading corner and has great morning light coming from the east, but if it hadn't been for this challenge I might not have noticed ALL the highlights and shadows the window supplies late in the morning. #window_light

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52Frames 2021 - Week 11: Color Relationship

Nicole Beus Harris

Mar 15
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 11: Color Relationship

“ The Harris Shoe-''doscope ” Under normal circumstances for "color" week I would have done a complementary or split complementary composition, because that's my normal fallback. The extra credit changed this. With the last name Harris, wasn't it mandatory that I learned what the effect was and applied it to my photo? I thought so. This week's photo is actually a composition of 8 photos of my shoes. I used to be a very simple black, navy, or brown shoe person and then I deci

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Nicole Beus Harris

Mar 8
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 10: Negative Space

“The Cool Wait” I try to imagine what this train station was like in the day that it operated. The tracks are barely noticeable in a very select few areas. I'm not sure if anyone even goes in this building these days, but it's only a 100 yards off a main thoroughfare and stands feet from the side road you can see at the bottom of this photo. I've always loved the corbels and the mixed directions of the siding - such class. With the winter sun at high noon there's this cool bl

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Nicole Beus Harris

Mar 1
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 9: Details

“Literal Detail” Decided to be literal this week. Tried this on a couple different types of paper and with different pens. While the contrast isn't as high with the brown paper and red ink, I really liked the grain of the paper also coming through. Stippling is actually one of my favorite art styles, but it takes a lot of work - this is just a nod to it. #details #stippling #nicolebeusharris #NDBHPhotography #LowContrast #BeingLiteral A few other ideas I had...

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Nicole Beus Harris

Feb 22
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 8: Roll Credits

“Love and Justice” Movie Preview: He bled out on their bed. No signs of a struggle. No suspects, no motive, but one anonymous tip, "The wife did it." The happiest couple on the block, the couple who had it all, the couple that helped their neighbors before they could be asked - they were not who they appeared to be. What was their life and love all about? Will justice be served? Movie summary: Wife arrested for her husband's murder as she comes home late. Ripped from her por

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Nicole Beus Harris

Feb 16
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 7: Golden Hour

“Miami in Snow” What a week to have "Golden Hour" when I haven't seen the sun for at least 9 days and most certainly not for sunrise or sunset. So like a lot of fellow framers - we improvise. My way of doing that was to take one of my photos from a Miami sunset and recreate it. I hung the original photo and the sketch of it on my glass door and took this photo during what should have been the golden hour here at home. So I have the best of both worlds now on my door looking o

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52Frames 2021 - Week 6: Single Focal Point

Nicole Beus Harris

Feb 8
1 min

52Frames 2021 - Week 6: Single Focal Point

“Bookend Snow Storms” This week was bookended with snow storms. We started last Sunday through Tuesday morning with snow and we've ended this week with another storm today. So what better subject matter for my single focus?! I love having four seasons of weather and feel robbed if we go a winter without at least one good accumulation. This year it feels different because the snow isn't giving us a day off, a change of pace - it's just another day working/schooling from home

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