28 posts tagged “macro”
1. drink bunches of delicious Coffee! We buy from a place online, they roast the beans in my state's capitol and the name of the coffee delights me. Dancing Goats coffee A local artist created the design for the Coffee, and it is CUTE! and Man, I just saw some of the new Merch from the artist and I am going to have to check the bank account to see if there is enough for something special.
2. draw beautiful things on my sidewalk in chalk this afternoon.
3. play with my new 70-300 lens that has been intimidating me but begging for a photo walk around town.
4. look at photos on flickr to get more inspiration
5. make cookies
6. make a list of all the words that make me giggle, like
*rhubarb
*pookie
*fanny
7. go to see the new movie "Burn after reading" tonight
8. make a pot of iced tea
9. make faces at small children when their parents are not looking, not mean ones, just funny ones
10. bathe in colors today, wear a very loud and bright outfit today (if I have any clean clothes)
11. color with crayons today
12. play solitaire with real cards so that I can cheat if I want to. It does feel good to win.
13. enjoy the sunshine that is still blessing my pacific northwest home. It is a rare thing to have such wonderful weather this time of year. It is nice, I feel it is making up for a rainy August and June.
So cool and wet, there was a part of me that wanted to drink up the fresh rain water. It smelled so sweet and fresh outside. These are my poppies I just bought at the hardware store. Lovely little things.
Did I tell you all that I sold some prints? A woman e-mailed me after seeing my photos on Flickr. She chose 4 black and whites. I got them printed and she just got them yesterday. She was very happy with them. She described the photos exactly how I would, she wrote me an e-mail yesterday telling me she had received them. She made the whole transaction so easy and pleasant. I am SO grateful for her, she helped me open a door I was afraid to open.
Tonight I am meeting with bunches of local photographers and I am going to learn about lighting and portrait work from them. They just don't know it yet, that they are going to be my teachers tonight. Haha! I may model as well, but I really want to watch and learn.
I had this crazy idea, to incorporate my preschool education and photography. I think It might just work.
If anyone would like to buy a print please check out my Flickr page and send me a message.
(thank you WrightBrained for the gentle pushes I need to get going)
Things I am not liking this morning:
1. never went grocery shopping and so I did not have plain yogurt for my smoothie
2. I had flavored yogurt so I decided to use that even though it would probably be too sweet, but discovered it was past it's expiration date, then realized it was past it's expiration date when I bought it!
3. my arms are SO sore from scrubbing the river rocks SIL and I picked up for my massage
4. when I went garage sale-ing with granny I picked up some vintage clothes, and one shirt was too small and I got stuck in it. Husband had to help me out. We were laughing really hard, so I guess this belongs in the list below, but I really liked that shirt and was bummed it was too small.
5. Camera bags are expensive and ugly. I want cute!
Things I like about this morning:
1. husband has dentist appointment and we got to sleep in an extra hour.
2. I got a new close up filter, as you can see to the side, a few of these pictures are magnified quite a bit.
3. I am making a new friend in photography class, she is really nice and I think she should start a blog here even though she does not think she can write or have anything to talk about. I think that she would be surprised at how fun this is. ;-) (I know you are reading this!)
4. There is a class field trip this weekend, and next weekend some of us might get together too. I like photo walks.
5. I gave my baby brother some awesome vintage t-shirts that I don't wear anymore, it made him SO happy! One of the shirts is a 1984 Police concert tour shirt. It is awesome.
6. After scrubbing about 50 rocks, my hands are SO SOft! I think I scrubbed my fingerprints off, I can totally commit a crime and they would only find smudgy fingerprints.
7. I am getting a massage today, SIL needs to test the rocks we just found
8. It is sunny now, but at about 5am, it was POURING
and it sounded so lovely!
I am thinking maybe some fruit trees, but our yard is not really that big. Anyway, here are a few more photos of the backyard.
In honor of Johnny Appleseed Day, show us a tree.
Things I do not like about trees
1. the pollen makes my eyes itchy and my head ache
2. um....I think that is it
Things I LOVE about trees
1. The beauty overwhelms me
2. they inspire poetry, songs, art, and playfulness
3. In the Spring the leaves and blossoms are So bright, they banish the winter greys for months
4. In Summer they shade from the warm sun
5. In Autumn they have a colorful showing in fiery shades
6. They encourage us to climb up to see the world as they do
7. In Winter the bare branches look like crooked fingers trying to grab the sun above
8. a gentle breeze would never be heard if it were not for leaves on a tree
9. Trees are pure Joy
10. all the different shapes they create
11. even after they have fallen and died, they still nurture the soil below them to create more life
12. Birds gather in them and you can listen to their songs about trees
13. they make homes for really cute animals like squirrels, raccoons, and possums.
14. they hold hillsides together
15. they create food for many
seriously I could go on and on.
The pictures on the side, the pussy willows, are from tree that had fallen and it still has enough inside for one last spring showing. I had to take pictures of it's strength.
My fingers. The Sweet Mr. Lavender is feeling under the weather today and is still in bed. So no big strange photoshoot today, just my fingers holding something very sweet.
Things On Tuesday
Loathe:
*getting out of my jammies
*looking at the piles of dishes that must be done
*looking at the long list of stuff to be done, then looking outside and seeing the sun tease me (nana, you have to go to the store and not get to play in my warmth!)
*being awoke in the night by my deaf cat while he announces every time he moves
LOVE!:
*sunshine and 50 degree days! That is Shorts weather here in Washington!
*Coffee in the morning
*still sitting in my jammies at 1 pm
*husband took today off for a 4 day weekend!
*Husband
*I took the thing off of my wrist! My hand is FREE!
*cats laying in sun patches across the house
*spring!
*husband singing while he is getting ready for a run
*so many things, seriously I could go on and on, I love that!
I was going to take a long cold walk through the woods, but this large mud puddle BEGGED for my attention, who am I do say "no beautiful pond with layers of bubbles on top of each other and decaying leaves sandwiched between the glassy ice, I will walk past you" I spent 20 minutes photographing these two boys breaking it all up, only after they asked if they could. How polite! They saw me photographing it and did not aim to destroy until after they asked! Husband met me at the bottom of the trail ( he goes on a run through the woods leaving me to photograph whatever fancies me.) by the time I got back into the car, my toes and fingers frozen. So here are some of the pictures I took. There are so many more on flickr.
