Christmas Spirit.

This is a photo I had taken last year, played around with it, with some topaz filters..

 I am participating in the 2011 Mommytography 365 Project! For this year long project I will be posting an image a day, to get me out shooting, using my camera and learning new things with it daily. Anyone interested in photography can join, no need to be a Mommytographer. We have teens to adults, male and female, as well as people from all over the world. Come join the fun!

Christmas

Christie & Hailey Dec 2010

Christie &  Hailey   I came down to there house after Christie was done with work. that gave us about 15 mins of shooting time outside.. Winter daylight is so short.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Teddy Bear First Winter

I don't know what happen to this picture, it disappeared... but now he is back.

SUMMER DESIRE

I have been going through my photos I took this summer and found this Queen Ann Lace

Acorn Leaf Dark and Bold

Fall Treats

I took a bunch of photos of fall and some taste treats that I never shared.

DAHLIA TEA

This Dahlia was grown in my flower garden this past summer.
Playing around with it I added a couple of layers from Chasing Dreams her blog is in my list of blogs.

Daddy's Little Girl

I added a background to this one..

Day Dreams

My daughter took this picture this past summer of her friend Ellanna. I think Kristen has a pretty good eye..
What do you think.?.. I converted it into a B&W to practice.
I need to go back and work on the eyes again.. But I think this is a beautiful photo of a beautiful girl..

Grandma's Delight.

We had a practice photo shoot at my daughter-in-laws house, We hung a sheet to get more light and a blank background.. . this was in the evening so we had lamps all over the dinning room trying to get enough light to make this work, with out a flash..( I was using my 50 mm f/1.8 )
Well they came out pretty dark so I had to do some cleaning up of the photos, This round corner board is from the Coffee Shop the link is on this page on the right.

Happy Thanksgiving

I had a few minutes tonight to play with a frame.
The frame is from the coffee shop, its a free one.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends!

Early Spring Morning...

I'm wishing with this one.

B&W Practice

Playing around with B&W

Gone To Seed

I took this picture last year. Played around with it a little tonight.

Country Pond

Took this picture last year. This photo has 1 texture and one glaze. I also use one bird brush. I like how it turned out...

Sugar & Spice

Sugar and Spice that is what my oldest daughter Mechal is made of. She Moved away and I am missing her something terrible.. Any ways I was playing around some more, with texture and glazes. I made the face a little to light, will have to play around with it some more.But I really like how the grass turned out in the background.

Purple Haze

A photo of my daughter taken this summer while trying to get a good senior picture, we didn't use this one, Playing around with it tonight with layers and textures and a glazes I made. I really like how it made the rocks much darker..

Mother's Love

Some special somebody's in our lives, I use a action on this and a texture playing around.

Old Barn Owl

I have found a new love.. I just love playing around with layers. Here is the same barn front again with a old owl sitting on a beam taking it all in .

Old Barn Front

Front of the old barn.

Farmer Dell

Old Barn

A old barn that's almost completely fallen down. I really liked the vines growing on the side. Taken this fall.

On The Range

This past spring on a cold morning driving around I ran across these cattle out in a pasture. . I had posted a photo of them running away before, But tonight I played around with this capture with my topaz plug-ins. Plus added a couple of textures and layers.

Pumpkins Wait

Fall Splender

Bed Bug Warning ..Please Read

He says that since much of our clothing, sheets, towels, etc. now comes from companies outside of America, (sad but true), even the most expensive stores sell foreign clothing from China, Indonesia, etc. The bed bugs are coming in on the clothing as these countries do not consider them a problem. He recommends that if you buy any new clothing, even underware and socks, sheets, towels, etc. that you bring them into the house and put them in your clothes dryer for at least 20 minutes. The heat will kill them and their eggs. DO NOT PURCHASE CLOTHES AND HANG THEM IN THE CLOSET FIRST. It does not matter what the price range is of the clothing, or if the outfit comes from the most expensive store known in the U.S. They still get shipments from these countries and the bugs can come in a box of scarves or anything else for that matter. That is the reason why so many stores, many of them clothing stores have had to shut down in NYC and other places. All you need is to bring one item into the house that has bugs or eggs and you will go to hell and back trying to get rid of them. He travels all over the country as an advisor to many of these stores, as prevention and after they have the problem.

Send this information on to those on your e-mail list so that this good prevention information gets around quickly

Letchworth State Park 2010

I found a group of turkey Buzzards flying in the cannon of Lecthworth this week while I was their. They are pretty ugly.

We got to the park pretty late in the morning so most of my shots are pretty bright. I loved this angle of the upper falls. Where I was standing was in shade.

My first try at slower shutter speeds with a filter on my camera. It sure works a lot better than with out one. There was a lot of shade here so I was able to pull this off. But less light would of been better.

The Fall colors this year so far have not been very vivid, But we final got a good heavy frost so this week they should be better.

Sunrays On Mushrooms

Chipmonk checking me out.

This little guy was watching me photograph the mushrooms. He wouldn't let me get to close to him.

Another Mushroom Hunt

Pixie Umbrellas

Sporing Puff Ball

I went out this weekend and found some more mushrooms , I need to hunt up the names of this batch..

Fall Color At The Pond

Walking the rail

I was out looking for some older building to photography when I noticed the golden grass on the railroad tracks.. It was so tall soft and smooth looking, I think it was just beautiful..

Misty Queen Ann Lace

This photo has 3 layers and a few textures.. I love how dark and moody it is .
Textures used are from Ghost Bones at Flickr

Here is another Old Pump House

This is a old Oil Pump House, It pumped oil for years and years, and was very loud you could hear it pump all day and all night long..Boom Boom BOOM Boom Boom BOOM but now it is silence and empty. I would visit this place when I went to see my grandmother... How grand it all seemed them... LOL

Remake of the Old Pump House

I had this photo up before.. but this time I have added some texture and layers I like the old look.

SOFT BLUE

I was playing with a photoshop action again, I just love this effect. You can get this action at www.mcpactions.com/ it is a free one. But you need a program to run it.. it tells on the site which programs runs what..

Sunny Days

Look At What The Cat Drug In..
So I drug it back outside and put him/her in some water while it rested..
then I had a photo shoot.. .Some one told me it looks like it's smiling with teeth.
I like this eyes and that you can also see his toes in the water.

Mosaic Monday (Home Sweet Home)

Just a few shots of things around my house and yard..

Dragonfly

My husband found a stick on the dinning room floor this morning, When he picked it up it buzzed and he screamed like a girl... giggle.. So it was not a stick.. but this guy in the photo... I was delighted to have a captured pry to photography, so I set him on this bunch of flowers, I was in a hurry though, I had to be some where in a few mins.. so I only got a few shots.

Getting Down Low

My daughter and I went to a near by park and crawled around on the wet ground to get these photos of fungi..
It was a lot of fun. I hope to get back there this fall when the leaves change color and fall.