Photo compilation: January-February 2022

Hello and welcome back to another Photo compilation. If this is your first time here, in this series, I usually share some of the photos I've been posting on Instagram the past two months, and sometimes I add something extra like a "behind the scenes" pic or a photo that I discarded. What a better way to kick-start March by looking at all the photos from January and February. 

I haven't taken many photos these past few months. I've mentioned several times that I haven't felt very inspired to take doll photos. So, to see if I could get some inspiration, I tried to go "back to basics" and take some photos with just some colorful cardstock and a doll. This is how I started taking photos, so I thought this could help me get inspired. 

I really didn't put much thought into it, just some bright colors and a doll. 

Once I started taking photos with the white and pink background, I started getting ideas for other color combinations. For the second combo, I mixed pink with lilac. 

One thing that I like to do on this type of photos is use crates as a prop, to either add contrast or "carry" the color from one side to the other. This photo of Kira is an example of the latter. 

I wanted to somewhat connect all the backgrounds by using one of the colors from the previous combination to the new one. For this, I went with blue and the same lilac from the photos above.

This photo of Lea is one of my favorites from the set, because of the color palette I created with the baby blue and pink crates. The one with Victoria is one of my favorites too because I really like her pose. 

I also published this photo that I took when I unboxed Linda's package, but it didn't make the final post. 

I took a break from photos to focus on some sewing projects (see my last post), but once the "sewing spree" was done, I decided to take some photos in my balcony. I didn't have any ideas for color combos and, since spring is coming, I thought it could look nice. I wanted to take some photos of Chloe in her new top, so here she is.

During this time of year, around 3 p.m., the sun hits the wall and a bit of the floor. That helped me create this effect on the photos, where the top part of the background looks overexposed, but you can see the dolls clearly. I also did use the "Portrait" mode of my phone, which blurred the background even more. 

That's pretty much all I have to share today. This is quite a short post, but, like I mentioned, I didn't take many photos. Even it being so short, it's taken me forever to finish it. I've been very anxious about everything going on in Ukraine, and I've had a difficult time focusing on anything. I don't like to get too serious in here, as there's already enough negativity in our day to day lives, but sometimes we have to acknowledge that, what happens in the real world affects us. 

Since I don't want to end this post on a negative note, I'll tell you that I've been making some progress in my sewing. Shasha and I have been working on something that I think we'll be finished in a month or less. I've also bought a couple of geraniums for my balcony, which I'll start cleaning and getting ready for spring soon. Not this weekend though, as we have just been hit by a storm.

I hope you're all doing well, and I'll see you soon.

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