“Fire spirit, fire sprite
Share with us your golden light
Come for us our candle light!”
—Waldorf verse
This week’s assignment for the 52 photo challenge was to photograph something at night. As the days get darker faster, I find myself burning more candles. I wanted my photos to capture the warmth and comfort of flickering candlelight.
“This little light of mine
I’m gonna let it shine”
My lovely daughter agreed to be my model and we ended up with these Victorian-inspired photos. I think they capture a bit of the danger of the darkness too and I’m in love with them. Please let me know if you have a favorite and have a wonderful week.
- If you want to read the short story I wrote this time last year:
Week 45: A Night at the Carnival
She’s unharmed as you can see! Thank you Lola for being a fantastic model and a wonderful daughter. You make me proud every single day.
- Photos were taken with Olympus OM-D and edited with ON1 Photo RAW
- If you want to join the 52 Photo Challenge, you can find all the information at nicolesy.com
52 Photo Challenge
Week 1: Bokeh
Week 2: Silhouette
Week 3: Black and White
Week 4: Motion Blur
Week 5: Texture
Week 6: Framing
Week 7: Leading Lines
Week 8: Negative Space
Week 9: Patterns
Week 10: Symmetry
Week 11: Green
Week 12: Sidelight
Week 13: Sense of Scale
Week 14: One Lens
Week 15: Series
Week 16: Flat Lay
Week 17: Behind the Scenes
Week 18: Water
Week 19: Blurry Foreground
Week 20: Unique Perspective
Week 21: Shadow
Week 22: Food
Week 23: Abstract
Week 24: Reflection
Week 25: Contrast Color
Week 26: Think in Threes
Week 27: Starburst
Week 28: Low Perspective
Week 29: Macro
Week 30: Backlight
Week 31: Big Sky
Week 32: Dominant Color
Week 33: Fill the Frame
Week 34: Spot Metering
Week 35: Handheld Long Exposure
Week 36: S Curve
Week 37: Shoot Through
Week 38: Faces
Week 39: Blossom
Week 40: Environmental Portrait
Week 41: Texture Overlay
Week 42: Details
Week 43: Season
Week 44: Fog & Steam
Wonderful atmospheric snapshots, especially 2 and 5 – really capture that light-dark contrast. 🙂 Beautiful tones of candlelight, Bridgette! <3
Thank you so much, Tom! I love these photos.
The vibe is mysterious, eerie, and I am here for it. Tell her she left no crumbs.
She will appreciate that! Thank you.
Three is my fave this week. Wonderful job. I’m always impressed. 😊
Thank you, Michael! That means so much to me. I’m glad you like them.
Lola is a fantastic and patient model. Love the collaboration between you two. 💞
Thank you! She’s really such a natural artist and model she makes it easy to get beautiful images.
So very sweet! 🦋
These are all so great, Bridgette! Lola plays her part perfectly. It was tough to choose just one but #3 gets my vote.
Thanks! Yes, I’m so lucky she wants to do these photos with me.
You and your lovely daughter did a wonderful job. You, both of you, inspire me to do something more although right now won’t say what – because, it’s a secret and two, because I don’t yet know. I often start that way – some image appeals to me, lands on my shoulder, starts murmuring – so what ya gonna do? Thank you both for how you share with us. me
Thank you! I’m so glad you liked these images and they are inspiring you. I can’t wait to see what comes forward.
so much shadow – spooky!
Thanks! Yes, I wanted to do “sweet” but my daughter kept going the more “spooky” route. I think we met in the middle quite well.
Well done Bridgette. Number three is my favourite. I wish I had a great model like Lola, lucky you 😉
I am so lucky! Thank you 🙂
Mastery of photography. Lovely & pretty all candle light 🕯️! So good looking last one candle keep in hand.bgood job. You always new photography post. I am impressed 💯
Thanks Bridgette!
You are so kind! Thank you. I’m so happy you liked these.
You are most welcome!
You so 🤓
All of these photos are excellent but my favourite is No.1 with just a tiny hint of something in the background. Wonderful 🤗🙋♂️
Thank you! We had a lot of fun creating these images and I’m glad you like them.
I can’t pick one favorite because I love them all! What a great sport your daughter is to pose for these beautiful photos. 🙂
Thank you! I felt the same when I was editing them and had a hard time pairing them down to this selection. I’m so lucky my daughter loves modeling and is a natural.
Great pictures!
Thank you!
Great job capturing the soft candlelight, the warmth of skin and hair, and the deep, deep darkness. #2 is my favorite, it so well depicts the experience of wondering what is out there
Thank you so much Ali for the thoughtful comment. I really like #2 as well. Lola’s a natural model.
What fun!!
Thanks!
eerie and captivating; your daughter is a fine actress, modelling the nuances of moods; perhaps some TV work might be in the offing 🙂
She’s pretty amazing! It would be her dream for sure.
I think she has the talent 🙂
#2 I think but all are lovely. Something about this sequence reminds me of the Sancta Lucia festival held around this time of year in the Scandinavian countries.
Thank you. My daughter actually played Santa Lucia at her school once. It’s a beautiful celebration.
And A Night at the Carnival is excellent – what a mixture of conflicting colours, sounds and sensations.
Thank you for reading it and I’m so glad you liked it.
The photos are pretty eerie. I think you’ve done a great job at capturing a certain atmosphere.
Thank you! We were both going for a little uneasiness with these photos and I’m glad you got that.
What a lovely photo shoot and model you had….SO many of these pics felt like the cover of a Nancy Drew mystery book! 💞💞💞
They do! I’m so lucky she likes to do these photo shoots with me.
She done good! Such painterly shots, especially, for me, shots No.6 and 8. They look just like they could be Victorian paintings.
I thought so too! I’m so lucky to have a daughter who loves to create art as much as I do.