Month: December 2005

  • Weekly Photo Challenge “Light and Shadow”










     


    The
    Weekly Photo Challenge     
    always fresh and new on Friday.     Find the challenge, hosted by Renee, and the list of challenge takers at Renee’s site,  weekly_Photo_Challenge .

    The subject


     … Light and Shadow…
    comes from     Climenhaga


    Light and Shadow; are a photographic tool that gives the end product enhancement improving the telling of the photographic story.  I am not a great photographer.  I hunt for better light for my photos.  It doesn’t always happen.  Great light seems to kill a lot of shadow so light and shadow don’t play a big part in my photos unless I learn new technique. 


    I do have a few photos where I think the shadow helps to tell the story, not hide it.  I know if I have shadow in a photo I want it to enhance it, not detract from it.  I hope the shadow in these photos do just that.



    I thought the light and shadow in this photo helped to make the spot more inviting.



    Here, light and shadow made the wet ground look wetter
    and the shadow created the conditions for a reflection.



    This photo was taken because the light and shadow in it caught my eye.  I thought it was beautiful and the reflection made it even more so.


    My last photo for this week, CLICK HERE is on a previous blog, and I think the light and shadow “make the picture”.  I liked this particular view a lot. 


    I think all pictures are about light and shadow.  Light and Shadow is what makes the colors look as they are and features look as they do.  If I could deliberately create the light and shadow as I’d like it to be I would try to add it to all of my photos. 


     


    Have a wonderful New Year, be good to yourselves.


    Keep on taking those photos.

  • Weekly Photo Challenge, “Glamour”


     

    The
    Weekly_Photo_Challenge      
    always fresh and new on Fridays. 

    The subject … Glamour…
    suggested by     XiaoEmily

    We are on the final count down to Christmas 2005, ho ho ho and Merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays to everyone.  Looking towards your new year, I hope it is the best ever.

    I am casual, not glamorous but if I want to feel glamorous, a bubble bath is where it begins.

    I like candles and classical music with my bubble bath.

    I think you can be glamorous at a casual picnic spot

    or gazing from the top of a hill at a sunset.

    Beautiful gardens are particularly glamorous and the best of spots for the most beautiful of weddings

    And nothing does it quite like roses for that finishing touch of glamour. 

     

     

    Have a glamorous Christmas week and be good to yourselves.

     

  • Weekly Photo Challenge, “Christmas/or Seasonal Close-ups”

     

    The
    weekly_Photo_Challenge      
    always fresh and new on Friday. 

    The subject

     … Christmas/or Seasonal Close-ups …
    comes from     countrycleveland 

    Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Blessings and Happy Holidays to everyone.

    Christmas is our families tradition.  I love Christmas and it begins to have that Christmas feeling for me just after Thanksgiving.  Anytime before that is too soon and I have a real problem with retailers setting up for Christmas in October or before.  Here are a few photos of what I usually see at Christmas time.

    This or similar goes up every year at a local business.  

     I love flowers and the Poinsettia is a favorite.  Any color will do but my fav are the lighter pinks and reds.  If I had money to burn, I would have a gardener as I don’t have a very green thumb and my poinsettias manage to get thru the season but then pass away into a compost pile.  I always feel guilty over that happening but I never get better at caring for them.

    I collect white porcelain figures for Christmas usually receiving them as a birthday gift, also December so it works well.  They aren’t expensive pieces, just pieces I like and once in a while if lucky, I find what I want at the GoodWill or at a garage sale.  The figures stay where I can see them year round.  Quite a few are night lights and I love being in the room with them just relaxing.  It feels very cozy and it makes a quiet place to watch TV.  The figures remind me of Christmas year round in my own way.  A decorated Church photo is in an earlier post but I didn’t want to put it up again.  You can, if you want to see it, just CLICK HERE.

     

     

    That’s it, keep On Taking Those Photos and have a great week.

     

  • Weekly Photo Challenge, “Fresh”


     

    The
    photo challenge     
    always fresh and new on Friday.     Find the challenge, hosted by Renee, and the list of challenge takers at Renee’s site,  weekly_Photo_Challenge .

    The subject

     … Fresh… <<< click link for ideas
    comes from     PhotoGraphics (that’s me)

    My topic crept up on me, I had actually been thinking of changing it but I can tell you “FRESH” came in handy as it is “fresh” in Cincinnati, today.  We had a fresh snow that has left it freshly cold and my pigs are feeling the freshness of it all with a biting bit of a nip on their tips. 

    When I think of fresh, I think of new babies, fresh fruits and veggies (yum strawberries)  and fresh young beauties in their freshly done make up for the seasons parties. 

    Well now, thinking you have seen many of my snow scenes so I’ll dig for some FRESH VEGETABLES to give this blog a bit of color.

    They don’t get any fresher than this unless they are still in the field.  The one I maimed is in this next photo.

    Not fresh anymore, he lasted thru to the middle of November with all of his re-freshing beauty baths I gave him then gave out.  I was hoping to use him as a center piece on the Thanksgiving table filled with fresh flowers.  My daily re-freshing didn’t save him I’m pretty fair with a knife and he wasn’t forgiving.

    This was a fresh and piled high display and I do love these stuffed.  Looking at the photo, there are some wrinkles among the younger set.  Look carefully at what you buy.  Wrinkles mean older in veggies as well as on gray heads.

     

    My very favorite thing and It has to be fresh.  I don’t eat one of these if it’s filled with cooked berries.  Only fresh will do.

    If you click on this one to bring it up and look closely you will see the driving snow.  That is as fresh as it gets from here.

    That’s it, I’m sure these aren’t the most exciting pics you will see today. 

    Have fun and,
    Keep On Taking Those Photos,


  • Weekly Photo Challenge, “Place of Rest”


     

    The
    weekly_Photo_Challenge      
    always fresh and new on Friday. 

    The subject

     … Place of Rest … 
    suggested by     boydcreek

    Place of Rest and I am thinking cemetery but I found photos that fit that description but in a happier vein.  Most beautiful outdoor scenes, to me, are places of rest.  So, going fishing into my photos, I have come up with way too many again …

    This is John’s Birthday in 2005 and, he was resting or trying to.  Our daughter keeps him supplied with Starbuck’s and we go, relax and rest that is until I get out my camera.  He knows what to expect but is so good to put up with me.  Anyway, he was resting and, in a “place”.

    This is a resting place of my childhood.  This tree still stands or did a year or so ago in the Mount Notre Dame Academy grounds.  I played here many a day under this tree.  I am sure the sisters of the convent found it a spot to rest in the shade as well.

    We like to get out and when you walk, you need rest stops.  This tree was built for resting and fit John’s narrow frame quite well.

    If you can’t sit on one, you lean on them.  This is a good resting place to view the water flowing slowly along on this sunny day.

    You don’t catch me in many photos as I am not as co-operative about having mine taken as John is.  Possibly I put him under a lot of duress  .  Going on, I am resting, in a “place” even if my face is not in view.  I wondered about the camera as I am holding it but reading my notes, my sister was with us on this particular outing and she had her camera with her as well.

    Another photo of a spot I played and rested in many a day.  This shot is also on the convent grounds but closer to home and home is only a block away.  This old Oak tree provided a lot of shade.  I know it was old when I played under it and I believe many an Indian child would have found it the perfect spot as well.  This tree was taken out not long after our photo visit.  I am so glad I got there when I did.

    I submit to you that this busy bee is resting his pollen covered butt and legs in a place.  He may be there for only seconds but he looks to be, “temporarily rested”.

    Not to avoid the issue of final resting place, this gorgeous place is a cemetery.  We love going to it as it is the most beautiful place filled with lakes and trees and flowers giving those who find their final rest there, the most beautiful views.  The reflection is one of many family mausoleums that sit on the grounds.

     

    That’s it for this go round.
    Keep On Taking Those Photos,