On our visits to Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone, I’m always captivated by the architecture of the buildings on Officers’ Row, especially the roofs. Here are a few photos I managed to take on this last visit.
All were edited with Kim Klassen’s kk_chill texture; the top photo also has a layer of kk_forreal.
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Homework time
Making a Halloween picture
Making pancakes
Playing in Miles’s room
Gramma, there’s an elk out my window!
Textures: kk_chill and kk_linda
Linking up with Texture Tuesday.
I almost didn’t post today- we JUST got back from Yellowstone and are beyond tired! I did manage to put together several fall still lifes for BeStill 52 in the few relatively quiet moments during our visit ((you saw one of them on Friday). I gathered some leaves with the boys, and added some pinecones and bits from my daughter’s flower arrangement. Here are two versions of the same photo, the first with Kim Klassen’s daysofold preset (modified) and the second with darkday.
And here’s a peek at what happens when you try to set up a still life with a three-year-old in the room.
After bemoaning the fact that I can find no signs of Fall at home, I am so happy to report that Fall has begun here at Yellowstone! I haven’t had a chance to get out to capture the landscape, so I created a little fall still life during Henry’s “quiet time” yesterday.
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We’re at Yellowstone taking care of the grandboys, who have grown SO much since we saw them in May (photos to be posted soon)!
I’m sharing a few iPhone photos from our travels. All were edited with Snapseed, and some of the plane photos also have a gradient added to the sky in Lightroom.
We flew over the Grand Canyon!
And here is somewhere in Utah :
On the drive from Montana to Yellowstone, we stopped in Livingston for dinner. It’s an old town with great old buildings; someday I want to explore it with my camera. The sky was dark, and the light was golden, and as we walked into the Mexican restaurant, we spotted a rainbow.
Connecting today with Barb’s App-Happy Wednesday.
Here are some leftover photos from last week’s shoot with my macro lens. Happy Wednesday!
Textures:
kk_chill
kk_Aulneau
I finally got back to some still life last week, inspired by my new mug that I picked up at the grocery store.
A week or so ago, I entered 6 photos in the county fair. I haven’t done anything like this since high school, when I entered my crocheting. And the big news is that I earned 4 first place ribbons and one second place! Here is one of the winners, Sunflower Mystery (you might recognize it):
The other 3 first place winners were Feathered Gold (the owl feather), Point Arena Lighthouse (from a couple years ago), and Rodeo Dreams (a photo of Henry standing on the fence watching a rodeo). Dusty Jeans got a second place. A photo I took of prairie sunflowers did not place. And. . . I came home with 14 bucks for my efforts! We won’t mention that the printing and matting cost more than that. But I will re-use the mats.
It was raining cats and dogs- and, evidently, hawks while we were out at the fair on Saturday. We drove back through flooded streets while thunder crashed around us- and found this guy in the backyard.
I took this shot through the sliding glass door (which was covered with raindrops)- when I opened the door, he flew up the hill and disappeared.
The soundtrack for this blog post is Bonnie Raitt’s Have a Heart (can’t get it out of my head- and I love her!).
Did you see the heart?
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And for your listening pleasure. . .
This version is less up-tempo than the the one in my head- but it’s Bonnie! And any song that begins with “Hey, shut up!” certainly gets my attention!
I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this week’s bouquet. I thought I was done with it, but walked by yesterday and noticed the light- the rest is history!
It is FALL, but still no beautiful fall leaves. So here is some Fall COLOR for you. . .
No, it’s not the moon- just lens flare- but I love the effect.
kk_chill texture added
Linking up with Texture Tuesday today.
Here are two more shots I love from last week’s (short) walk up the hill to the top of our lot. I want to make clear that none of this land above is ours- and it does crack me up that it took me a year to walk through our weeds to get to the pretty ones above. Just know that I don’t like the possibility of snakes- or even lizards. Or frogs. I think that covers it.
Lovely weeds!
And here is a view of Prescott’s iconic Thumb Butte.
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