Alas- this may be the last appearance of these beautiful tulips from Aryn and Jason’s wedding reception. I shot this photo looking down at the bouquet, in keeping with this week’s Texture Tuesday theme, from above.
Textured with Kim Klassen’s “simple” texture.
Playing a bit with intentional camera movement (ICM) and some texture . . .
When we lived in Benicia, I photographed the waterfront fairly often and would almost always take shots of and through the grasses (anise?) along the shore. When we visited last month, I found myself making almost the same shots. And here in Arizona, I do the same thing; there is something about grasses and weeds that call out to be photographed-at least by me. This one was taken in Benicia; in fact, there is a sailboat in the background!
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Gorgeous red and white tulips decorated the tables at the party given by our friends, Debbie and Dale to celebrate their daughter, Aryn’s marriage to Jason. The young couple currently live in Holland, so tulips were definitely the perfect choice. I had fun being the photographer for the event and managed to have a lot of fun while taking photos. Debbie gave me one of the arrangements to take home, so of course they will be making several appearances on the blog!
Sometimes, it’s fun to just capture the lines or shapes in your surroundings. I took the first two shots behind the Sam Hill warehouse near the railroad bridge I photographed last week (it’s the fence surrounding the power company). The third photo was taken walking down steps of the old warehouse, which is now part of Prescott College.
It’s Texture Tuesday, so here’s a collection of photos I took last week of my baby’s breath bouquet (which is still going strong). I used Kim Klassen’s anna texture to edit each image.
I am so attracted to out of focus and ICM (intentional camera movement) images; I’ve done quite a bit, but haven’t put many on the blog. So- just for fun- I took this deliberately out of focus shot of the same bouquet, applied one of the artistic filters in Photoshop, and added a grunged up version of Kim’s dollard texture.
As part of my exploration of Prescott, I visited the old railroad bridge, which is no longer in use. I took several photos and decided I like the bridge best in black and white.
Learning a bit about my new town is a big part of a personal photography project I am undertaking. My plan is to photograph buildings and/or areas in Prescott, a town with a rich and interesting history. I have been taking photos since I moved here, but now I am doing it with the intention of making a collection, eventually a gallery slideshow on my blog.
Yesterday, I chose to photograph the courthouse with a view of the Thumb Butte behind it. I took the photo on a hill (which I’ve read is called Nob Hill) standing just down from the Goldwater House.
I considered Photoshopping the wires out, but decided against it for the sake of authenticity- but may reconsider. There are wires obstructing almost every view in this town- perhaps they add to the character!
And below is the Goldwater House, built by Henry Goldwater (uncle to Barry) in 1894. 
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From our plum tree
Textures are my own, from one of Kim Klassen’s lessons a few months back.
I took this photo for Texture Tuesday and then realized there is a THEME- still. I’m not sure this photo represents still, but it is a still life.
Textured with sybil by Kim Klassen.
My husband and I tried geocaching this weekend! Armed with a GPS and an iPhone with the geocaching app, we searched for three geocaches (out of hundreds to choose from) in our area. We started with an easy one at Lynx Lake, where we had lunch- I think it took us about 20 minutes to find. Then we went out to Willow Lake and quickly found another (a tiny one this time), although it took us about 20 minutes also, most of which was spent tromping through weeds and climbing an embankment to get to the location.
Our confidence high, we tried to find a third one hidden on or around the granite boulders closer to the lake itself. It was an educational geocache in that there was a quiz as part of it, based on the information the cache hider provided about the Liesegang bands or rings found atop the granite rocks at the location. These bands are concentric circles or rounded squares formed by a chemical process involving erosion and minerals and other things beyond my comprehension. And they are pretty amazing to look at! I can attest to how cool they are, because I spent a good hour and a half looking at them as we searched for the cache. I kind of gave up about halfway through, because the iPhone battery gave out (why didn’t we bring the new portable charger I just gave my husband for his birthday?). My husband had become pretty obsessed, though and was charging around determined to not be beaten. But beaten we were- at least for this weekend- but we’ll be back!
P.S. If you are interested in finding out more about geocaching, go to geocaching.com and set up a free account.
I’ve got that Happy song by Pharrell Williams going through my head (it was in my Facebook feed this morning)- a great way to start the day! If you know it, sing (clap!) along as you look at these two photos from our walk at Willow Lake earlier in the week. I know that going on this walk certainly made me happy, as did remembering how to add a frame on each photo!
I used two of Kim Klassen’s textures in both: bien and daisy.
Linking up with Friday Finds.
We spent a few hours in Benicia on our California trip last week- long enough for me to visit the waterfront and take a few photos.
The photo below is of boats at the Yacht Club, with the refinery towers looming in background. I edited this in Photoshop, using a filter to “posterize” the image and adding one of the free Flypaper textures from Adobe Exchange.
This is your basic Benicia waterfront photo, edited in Lightroom.
Special breakfast treats, presents, phone calls and facetime with kids and grandkids, and a walk at the lake were all part of my husband’s special day yesterday. And evening brought a delicious dinner and cake at Debbie and Dale’s house.
We puzzled over the big white bird we could see in a tree by the lake, but it was too far to see clearly, even with the zoom lens.After, looking at it on the computer (and asking my bird expert friend, Carol), we have decided it is a black-shouldered kite, which isn’t supposed to be in our area.
Textures by Jessica Drossin and Kerstin Frank
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