The theme today is homemade– perfect for today, because I was at Claudia’s for lunch!
Here is a shot of part of Claudia’s latest quilt- gorgeous!
Jan’s delicious carrot cake, a recipe from Pioneer Woman, was definitely blogworthy ! Yum!
Day 307- Fence Friday
I love having fences to fall back on on Fridays; I don’t know why I don’t do it more often. Here are two taken on a quick one block walk downtown this morning with just my 50mm lens.
I have photographed this gate before- but not in fall. Today I created an easy preset in Lightroom which emphasizes the yellows and oranges in the image- fun!
This shot is of some magenta flowers peeking through the fence around the community garden. Magenta isn’t one of my favorite colors, so I used one of Lightroom’s built-in split-toning presets to make it more to my liking.
Day 306- Indigenous to Suburbia
The topic is indigenous! What could be more indigenous to our suburban hillsides than weeds? I drove to a nearby park and then wandered into the “open space” (aka weeds) on the hillside.
This one will be the official response to the prompt. I wish I could have captured the beauty of this clump of weeds covered in raindrops and sparkling n the sunlight. I am still working on it, but like this black and white version for now.
I couldn’t resist snapping this shot of a park bench. What is it about park benches, fences, and bicycles that makes them such great photo subjects??? It might be my favorite shot of the day.
I have taken so many photos of the open space over the last year or so- and will probably take many more- especially when there is a barbed wire fence in the scene. The next two photos both have some texture added (Jessica Drossin).
Day 305- Trick or Treat!
Textures: warm grunge (Kim Klassen), cornered warm (Jessica Drossin)
Day 304- Macro Mini (and more. . .)
One of my mini pumpkins was the subject for my photo of the day- but this time I used my macro lens. Because it is Texture Tuesday, I played around with textures (Kim’s golden and kk_grannyscupboard) and ended up using a square crop as well.
My Daily Challenge group on Flickr has window as its topic today. Interesting windows are among my favorite photography subjects, but I have no real time to go out and shoot one today, so…..
I took this photo when we were in Mendocino a few weeks ago, but I can’t use it for the Flickr group because I took it BEFORE the topic was posted. I edited it in Lightroom and tried a bit of desaturating and split toning to give it a vintage look- a technique I learned from Kim Klassen (of course) in her Round Trip class. I tend to have bright, saturated colors and lots of contrast in my photos. In fact, one of my Flickr friends said it was my trademark, so I am experimenting with other editing styles just to step out of my box a little.
Go visit Kim Klassen’s Cafe for links to more textured photos!
Day 303- Woo hoo!
Congratulations, San Francisco Giants- 2012 World Series Champs!!!!
Day 302- Three
I have three mini pumpkins set in front of the TV, so I took a few shots and moved them to a table to try some more. I then played around with processing three of them- one into a black and white, one with a texture, and one with minimal processing. I decided just to post my first shot, the one with minimal processing. There is something about the orange pumpkin against the black background.
Orange and black? Halloween you say? I say- GIANTS!!!
Day 301- The Power of Intention
A couple years ago, the minister of our church dressed up as Professor Dumbledore of the Harry Potter books and presented a wonderful sermon on the power of aligning our intention with Spirit/our higher self/God to transform things in our lives to greater goodness. The next week, some of the wonderful people in our church community made “intention wands” and sold them at services. Of course, I bought one- and often look at it to remind myself that I have the power to make changes.
The theme in our Flickr group is magic today, and I know that the power of intention is indeed magical.
No texture used today- that texture in the foreground is the worn top of my father’s dental cabinet!
Day 300- Sun and Snow
Beautiful Lake Tahoe again- snow capped mountains and deck chairs on a sunny, but cold, beach:
Taken from River Ranch on the Truckee River, the scene of Anderson family (mis)adventures in river rafting twenty something years ago:
Day 299- Fall at Tahoe
A business trip to Tahoe- okay, we can handle that! And with a bit of synchronicity added, as today’s Daily Challenge theme is cold. It IS cold with snow on the ground, as evidenced by this shot taken at Incline Village ( a bit of split-toning was added in Lightroom).
These last two photos were taken at the beach- no snow down here!
And now it’s time to watch the World Series- GO, GIANTS!!!!
Day 298- White and Puffy
Clouds! We’ve got clouds!
It makes such a difference to have white, puffy clouds in the background instead of a dull, gray sky. I took a short walk in the neighborhood and captured this shot of the hills overlooking the mothball fleet way in the background. This photo does not follow the rule of thirds, but I like it better than most of my other ones because it shows the beautiful sky.
Walking back, I spied this Halloween display in front of a neighbor’s house.
Day 297- Guessing Game!
Clue #1: You can see this from inside.
Clue #2: You can see this from outside:
Clue #3: It has this inside!
Clue #4: We bought it from Joseph!
Clue#5: We saw this view on the way home:
Clue#6: This guy is very happy now!
There’s nothing like a new car to put a smile on a man’s face!
FYI:
Not being a camera snob, I took half of these photos with my iPhone (probably the best ones!).
Day 296- Danger!
It’s Macro Monday- and the theme of my Flickr group today is danger. I took a macro shot of a chef’s knife as a response to the theme, although I was really thinking about the stabbing scenes in Psycho or Play Misty for Me– and not chopping vegetables as this photo would suggest.
Day 295- On the way home. . .
Coming home from Lodi today, we took a drive through a part of the Delta I hadn’t seen since my teenage years, when I was dragged unwillingly along as my father piloted our cabin cruiser through the waterways. It is a much more interesting place when seen through adult eyes. We walked through the tiny town of Isleton, which I thought I would remember more vividly than I do. As I stopped to take a photo of this prickly pear, two other women photographers descended upon it at the same time, and we all three snapped companionably for a few minutes. Funny.
These wind turbines were definitely not part of the Rio Vista landscape when I was a teenager.
Day 294- Bird Stalking
We paid a visit to the Cosumnes River Preserve this morning in hopes of seeing some of the sandhill cranes which are just beginning to fly in. The marsh seemed relatively empty compared to our visit last winter, but we did see a couple sandhills, an egret, and many ducks and geese- and others we will just call “birds.” Lonnie and I are totally out of our element among these birders, but find it fun nonetheless to see so many birds in one place.
Here are some scenes from the marsh:
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