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10 on 10 - September

Summer went by so fast and it seems ages since we got back from the Canary Islands. With school and all my children's activities starting so soon after we returned to our home and life in California, I never had a chance to post all of the photos I took on film while I was there. Here are ten that form part of a 35mm roll I took one day on a photowalk with my oldest son in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

This year, I am joining some of my very talented photographer friends in a project called 10 on 10. We will all take 10 photos on one day and try to tell a story through them by posting them on the 10th of each month. We will be linking to each others' sites to create a blogroll. This project will force me to find beauty where or when I can't see it, and will release my time constraints when photographing the beauty that I do see. Here is a link to my friend Jennifer's 10 on 10. Go visit and follow the blog roll!

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