Assignment- 'Where I do most of my thinking'

I do most of my thinking and work in the den.  Tonight I had a fire going as I corrected papers and so I took time out to capture these images.  The one above is obviously 'lighter' and vertical whereas the one below (my favorite) is darker and horizontal.  Photographing a bright fire in a small, dark room proved challenging, however, unlike last week, I did the assignment!

Have Heart

This week's assignment was 'heart shaped'.  I tried many different subjects, however, this was the best I found -though ordinary.  In this image I used a white background and then altered it to black using my photo editing program.  I then practiced making the image size small enough to email so, as I write this, I am not sure of the quality.  I'll soon find out once I hit the 'publish' button.