Capture It – “Sprung”

shot with my iPhone 4 using Hipstamatic

Hello!

I’m Amber Marlow Blatt, blogger at theAmberShow.net, professional freelance photographer, and brand new host of Capture It! You may thunderously applause.

When the folks at Aiming Low asked me to be a part of this I was so excited, until I got to the part in their email where they asked me to be humorous.

Uh oh.

You guys, I’m just not funny. I eat high-fiber cereal, get eight hours of sleep every night, and wear sensible shoes. I do have a sort of afro which is sort of funny, but is that good enough? I’m worried, friends.

Here are the ground rules of Capture It, just to refresh: I give the weekly prompt each Friday and you take a photo that captures the essence of it. It can be as literal or as figurative as you’d like, and you can snap a shot with your cellphone or bust out your fancy camera – whatever you want. Photos have to be taken in that week and submitted to our Flickr pool here: Aiming Low’s Capture It Flickr group.

So! My first prompt is but one-word: “Sprung”. My photo above is my submission to the group; I took it in celebration of the fact that spring has finally sprung here in Brooklyn! My husband and I went to a friend’s house and sneaked up onto her roof to drink beers and watch the sun set behind the F train bridge. YOU can take a photo depicting any usage of the word you’d like (maybe you “sprung” for a new sweater or bike and you want to capture it on film, or perhaps your significant other has got you “sprung”, a la Beyoncé.)

Go forth and take photos, comrades! Do your best, and have fun.