Spring Break

We did a bit of traveling over this spring break. Unfortunately, my allergies took me for a spin and then turned into a sinus infection, which left me somewhat miserable over the entire break. Thanks to that, I didn’t feel like taking a whole lot of pictures, but I did catch a few interesting sights along our travels.

We visited Charleston first, but those were my worst days of sickness, so Mr. Lizard was the only catch I got from there.

 

Then we came home and flew out to Boston, MA. While we were up there, we drove a few hours west to Northfield, MA, to see the birthplace of Dwight L Moody. His grave was also there. Beautiful area with such a view! 

So we were on the road quite a bit, but we enjoyed every minute of it (minus the sick part).

 

On our way back to Boston from Northfield, we took a scenic route to avoid the major traffic, and one of the tiny, curvy, backroads on which we found ourselves had a pile of rocking horses just sitting on the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere. Crazy and a little creepy, but I like the picture. Haha.

So that’s it. I’ve got some portfolio sneak peeks to share soon, so stay tuned.

Nature Challenge: Days 2-7

Okay, I got quite busy this last week and although I posted these on Facebook, I never quite made it here to finish posting them here. This was SUCH a fun challenge. I really do love nature photography and it was neat looking for interesting stuff to use for this challenge.

So looking at facebook, I think I might have gotten my days mixed up and accidentally skipped a day, but I posted seven pictures altogether so I think I still covered it anyway. LOL.

Day 2: cloudy blue sky day:

Day 3: yard weeds (a repost from a few weeks ago)

Day 4: Rosemary that survived the winter:

Day 5: Pine

Day 6: Little Crooked Big Horn

Day 7: Stumped

And that’s all folks. Seven day challenge ended. Time to find a new challenge.

Anyone have a good one?

Creativity Boosted

Sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in a rut in photography. To just get used to shooting certain things or certain styles. Sometimes, I just need it to be fun again…I love fun stuff!

One of my school assignments this semester is to shadow a local photographer, so I did that this past weekend. That was so amazing! I have great teachers at school, and I’ve been in some inspiring classes, but it’s always incredible to get unique perspectives and learn new things. We went down to a local lake (not more than a pond, really), and shot at sunset. It rocked.

I love fresh perspective and energy.

Here are my favorites:

It’s SO cool how much the sky and light changes in such a short amount of time.

Anyway, it was a totally cool experience…both in coolness factor AND temperature. LOL, my hands were numb when we finished, but I’m a total wuss when it comes to cold weather. It was 47 degrees which was totally not bad. Haha. But still. Incredible.

And now it is time to call it a night. Till next time…

New Semester...

Well, another semester has begun. Needed some pictures for class tomorrow, so I drove around this morning looking for some options. I think I have a few to work with now, and thought I'd share these.

This was an old boat sitting on the side of the road...I just liked how it looked so out of place with the weeds growing up in it.

This one I went back to get...I passed it the first time and though...OOH. Something about the way the light was bouncing off the water and the solar flare...my favorite shot of the morning.

And then I found these guys sitting down at the boat dock...the sun wasn't quite hitting this part of the lake yet but I still liked the reflections and the repetitiveness of the birds. 

And finally, a morning grooming. Yum.

That's it for today. Thanks for dropping by.

Random Beach Shots

A few random photos I took while walking the beach on a recent trip….

Backyard Wildlife

I found this little guy in the backyard the other day.  Box turtle I think.  I put him in an old parmesan cheese bottle till the kids came home from school to see him, and then we let him go.  He was TINY!  He was also very ready to leave when I opened the lid and let him out outside.  LOL

Then today, there were five deer out there.  Of course, I had to take pictures. 

Pretty spotted babies…

NY Weekend

Not NY City, but just a pretty town…  

Sunsets & Waterfalls

Sunset inflight to NY. What a VIEW! This first picture looks like what I'd imagine heaven might look like...it seemed like the clouds were glowing!

In this one, the sun is dropping over the edge of the wing. The colors were so brilliant. I loved it!

This is the upper falls at Letchworth State Park in NY....It kinda looks like a miniature version of Niagara Falls.

Rainbow Waterfalls

One of the waterfalls at Letchworth State Park in NY. They were absolutely picture perfect and to top it off, the mist from this falls created.............

....this cool rainbow. If you look close, you can almost see a second rainbow above the first one. Awesome!

More rainbow pictures. I couldn't resist....I love rainbows. They are so beautiful!

It kinda seemed like if you could only see far enough over the edge, that there should be a pot of gold down there at the bottom....