Your new assignment is: Your Food

You know how Monet became an unstoppable Impressionist juggernaut? He painted the same stuff over and over again.
It works for photographers too — Cecile Figuette takes a Polaroid of everything she eats. Every. Single. Day.
Focus on one subject, and you’re forced to evolve your style to keep it interesting… change your perspective, change the way you see things, change everything!
Do it for a while and everything you shoot starts looking better, not just your spicy sopressata with Italian Fontina and pesto on country bread. (Fancy pants!)
Leftovers: The Prettiest Polaroid Food Blog You Ever Saw

Take some photos of your food this week and see if you can match the exquisite beauty of Cecile Figuerette's photos on her blog (linked above).

"summer"

This is my dog.

Your new assignment is "Summer"

Think about this for a bit. So many ways to share about what this particular summer means to you. It is a season, for sure, but for most of us a time of specific activities: sleeping in (or not--working full time), vacations, new or old friends, changes in direction, new ideas , hobbies, boredom, etc. Technically in the northern hemisphere, it begins with the summer solstice..the day with the most hours of light. (June 21st this year)

A solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice each year, when the tilt of the Earths axis is most inclined toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun's apparent position in the sky to reach its northernmost or southernmost extreme. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, the apparent movement of the Sun's path north or south comes to a stop before reversing direction. (Wikipedia)

Post no more than two images. Give some explanation about each.