Last week the talented ladies at Hip Momma and Mental Inventory threw down the Team-Up Thursday challenge. Always up for a new challenge and hoping to push my new camera just a little further, I asked my friend, Kimberly from Altering Life, to join up with me, and now we are team! You can call us Altering Chaos, or Barely Controlled Life.
Or you can just call me a dork and enjoy what we come up with each week.
The challenge is to pick a “theme” and each of us will shoot a photo to fit it. Then we’ll merge our photos together to make a diptych (a photograph that uses two different or identical images side by side to form one single artistic statement).
Pretty cool, huh? Each week we are going to pick our theme (taking turns) and we’ll shoot from opposite corners of the country and see what we end up with.
Here is Dipy #1:
Kimberly threw out NUMBERS as our first theme and this is what we got.
K.’s is on the left, mine is on the right. It is a little harder than it sounds, I must say. I kind of drew a blank for the first few days, but it did force me to really start looking at everything more closely.
When I opened K.’s photo this morning after I had processed mine, I was surprised (well, not really – we seem to think a lot alike on a bunch of stuff) to see hers in black & white, too. Must’ve been this week’s subject just warranted the cut-and-dry b&w.
Stop over to see some more Team-Up Thursdays.
YOU on the right? I would have guessed you the sewer on the left. Cool. I love it, you gals did great. And I think the bw conversion added to the greatness.
Oh, I love it. You guys are going to be a great team.
I guessed right on Kimberly’s blog!
Love how you cropped yours to deal with the horizontal/vertical.
You both did a great job. I too love the b/w. To me it makes the theme you chose stick out all that more.
numbers is such a great theme — i’ll have to remember that one
. the neat thing about this combo is the swirls and curls in one versus the linear-ness of the other. what a great juxtaposition!
This is great! I love the theme of ‘numbers’. Very cool!
Wow! I love it….and the b&w is just perfect! That’s too cool that you both thought of that processing…and I’m beyond excited about this challenge as well and have been dorkin’ it up too
Okay, if I ever move my blog I may just have to go with Barely Controlled Life, because that shoe fits my friend! I must say, it’s uber cool to see my photo on someone else’s blog. Especially yours.
I love your crop. (Why didn’t I think of that?) 
Great shots ladies! Love that you both did them in b&w. It really brings out the numbers.
Your team names – cracking me up over here!!!
Such a great theme, and such striking captures. b&w for both is just amazing – I think it accents the #s. So, is that a rain gauge??
I struggled with getting a decent photo for this…I thought it would be a piece of cake, but none of my ideas worked out as planned!
It is so cool to see two different takes on each chosen theme. What fun it has been to browse through everyone’s diptych entries this morning. I hope that this idea takes off like wildfire ( I bet it will! )
Mindy
I LOVE IT!
I love that you guys did a similar processing, so cool. The team-ups are going to be really neat. Can wait to see them next Thursday.