Weblog » Archives » April 2007

  • One more night rose..... Shot taken at night, backlit by a flashlight with a red filter, and the center illuminated by a white-lighted pen light. Pink rose, ISO 100, exposed for about 10 seconds, 18-55mm lens, same …

  • Night RosesMore roses.....I think I have decided that roses are my subject for the first assignment of my creative photography for women class. This series was done after sunset, using flashlights, a tripod, and the gra…

  • more roses......I took these last week. My idea was to create a dreamy feel. I wanted to compose out of focus dreamyness in the foreground and background, with an area of interest in focus somewhere near the center. S…

  • Days of sun and roses...More roses! I remembered this morning that we have a most lovely rose garden at the local university extension campus...so off I went.......It was 10am when I started taking photos, and the sun w…

  • Spring Photofesty Time.....I am taking a series of Annakmair's creative photography for women classes right now, and am working on the first assignment. I am really drawn to flowers- but I also feel pulled to devoting t…

  • The urban yuccaLast Saturday, while walking to the park from the nearby middle school parking lot, (there was a carnival in the park- we were walking there from the overflow parking) we passed an early-blooming yucca. Th…

  • Ta da! My first animated gif:(these may take a moment to load) and the 2nd one: I used Imageready in Photoshop. (-: a few random haikus:Rip! I'm getting therereach in the earth..Tug! Snap! Ow!weeding without gloves…

  • for my friend......who has entered a painful time:softness of life to you.....(in the form of a early-blooming yucca)

  • Midnight (early morning) oil.....I took this composite shot the other morning- on my very tippy tripod. (I was a bit sleepy) (-: It was the view out my kitchen window- the candle was lit to help me see to make the mor…

  • Happy EasterCourtesy of our beautiful White Lady Banks "Tombstone" Rose..... The misty effect came from burying the camera lens in the rose bush. The blooms in the extreme forground of the shot (the blooms righ…

  • More Fairbank....a ghostly tourCool SlideshowsI've been playing with Picturetrail this week, and thought it would be fun to put the Faibank tour in a slideshow. My apologies if the slideshow isn't fun for your computer!…

  • Down by the river......Son, mid-hurl, down by the river near Fairbank- the in-restoration town we visited this weekend.Daily Haiku is up and about, especially because it's National Poetry Month...the prompts:It's Nationa…

  • A ghostly glow.............It was a dark and stormy night....bitter cold, not a soul around. The wind howled with discontent. There was a glow in the distance......and a group of abandoned buildings beyond an encasemen…

Recent Weblogs