Silence

Jan 8, 2012 | inspirations, photography, Textures

So I’m a little late to the one word party but better late than never. At least I hope so — because I’m late, a lot. Anyway, I really like the prompts in Ali Edward’s class so I thought I would share them here. I choose Silence because...

…I’m Coming Up for Air!

Jan 2, 2012 | just everyday

Wow! What a month this has been. : ) Daniel made his entrance to the world a few days ahead of his scheduled induction. Which was a real blessing because I was dreading labor (those pitocin induced contractions are killer!). It was actually a very easy labor and...

Texture Tuesday — Outside My Window

Nov 22, 2011 | just everyday, Textures

Ten days until the baby is born. The good thing about being induced is that you get to know exactly when you will go into labor. The bad thing about being induced is that you get to know exactly when you will go into labor. Until then I’ve really slowed down...

Gingerbread Weather

Nov 17, 2011 | food

Ah, November has finally arrived! After enjoying some sunny and mild weather, today was cold and cloudy and definitely Fall-like. I was craving gingerbread and of course a woman who is nine months pregnant gets to indulge in any craving. I’ve earned it! ; ) This...

Texture Tuesday — Playing in the Leaves

Nov 15, 2011 | Textures

Today Kim wants us to use her beautiful new texture, Phoebe in our TT entries. No problem there! This is one gorgeous texture! So pretty in fact, that I decided I wanted the texture to really be the main focus of my photo. To that end, I desaturated and added motion...

365: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Nov 14, 2011 | 365, photography

Yesterday was the first day that I didn’t HAVE to take my camera out and find something to photograph. At first it felt weird, almost rebellious, and then I took a certain satisfaction in it. “Look at that beautiful pink sky,” I thought to myself...

Autumn Palette

Nov 9, 2011 | Uncategorized

As I mentioned on my flickr stream, I really love this time of year. The colors, the clear skies, the bright sun — the trees are fairly glowing with the warmest, most lovely colors. One of the things on my “one day when I have nothing else to do”...

Texture Tuesday — Two

Nov 8, 2011 | photography, Textures

I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve gotten a Texture Tuesday image up! I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve written a post on the ol’ blog. I was hoping I would have a few more posts ready to go. My 365 is...

Texture Tuesday — Red

Oct 11, 2011 | Textures

Pin It My favorite color! So many possibilities…but when I saw this quote I decided to do something a little different. I used a couple of Kim’s textures to texturize my red blur photo: That was a desperate attempt at getting in a shot of the day that day...

A Photographic Vocabulary — Exposure

Oct 9, 2011 | photography

In a comment to an earlier post, Rppizio, wondered about the vocabulary of photography. That made me think — I remember feeling like people were speaking a foreign language the first time I started to scroll through flickr, photo forums and photo blogs. So much...

Thirty-four Days and Counting

Oct 9, 2011 | 365

Thirty four days left until the 365 is over. Whew! I think. But that also means I’ve only thirty four shots left. They need to be awesome shots — shots that prove (to me!) that I improved and grew as a photographer. All through out the year I would...

Gregory Reading

Oct 7, 2011 | Textures

Since I turned India into a charcoal print last week, I thought I’d try my eight year old this week! I know I had a Photoshop Creative magazine that had a tutorial on this very look — I should probably try to dig it up from the basement. I’m sure...