All Entries in the "Photography" Category
Floral Pop Art via Picnik
So I recently posted some tips about how to make your photos better, and another post about recent photos I have taken, and how I edit them with Picnik when I’m pressed for time, or on a computer that doesn’t have Photo Impact, or Photoshop… Picnik is super easy. Here’s what I just did to [...]
Carpet, a Picnik, and Some Weeds
Saturday. Mood: annoyed Just said goodbye to the carpet cleaner. He came by to clean little D’s carpet, which was the only carpet we didn’t change when we bought the house. It needed cleaning, badly. Let’s see how long my little guy can keep his white carpet clean. Who puts white carpet in their house [...]
Peeping Tom!
I have a Peeping Tom. Or, in this case, a Peeping Tom-ette. She is a beautiful doe that is completely enchanted watching me prepare coffee in the morning. She is always right outside my kitchen window, and she stands right there as I stand on the other side of the glass, chatting her up each [...]
It’s A Wonderful Life
One of my greatest pastimes is to sit by the window and watch the cattle and horses move across the vast expanse of land in front of me. I feel truly blessed. It is a wonderful life. Share2
Bright Colored Post
First: an update on the duckling… he was taken after work to a farm nearby where a nice German woman raises orphaned birds, goats, and just about everything else. She lovingly accepted ‘Joey’ (the college girl had named him but then abandoned him when I arrived yesterday) and ‘Joey’ was happily swimming in a bowl [...]
Pig Kisses…
Pigs play volleyball, didn’t you know that? Of course, pigs also like to dig up roots. Ian the Pig has taken a liking to a certain patch of St. Augustine grass in our yard. I totally take the blame. I spoil the pig rotten. He deserves it. He’s the coolest pig I’ve ever known. Though [...]
Photos on a Friday
Almost anything is cannon fodder for a great photo. Well, that is my philosophy at least. I tote my camera with me most everywhere and take zillions of photos. Over the past few years of taking lots and lots of photos (and I am downplaying the ‘lots’, I take more than a papparazzi), I have [...]
Affordable Photography for You
I shot these photos last week in less than an hour. We played around the duckpond and the museum where I work and got some super shots during the afternoon while I was on a break from work. These photos are unedited, unposed, and just a result of me goofing around with my camera. I [...]
Good Morning Ranch Style…
This morning I saw something really beautiful. Most mornings the sunrise captures my interest and I am awed by the beauty outside my front door, but this morning? Pretty darned spectacular. Two things were working against me, though. Actually there were three things: the changing, rapid sunrise; the moving cattle; and my inexperience with the [...]
The Log Cabin: Before and After
This is the Rock Wall, before we even decided to make it a rock wall… this is just framing the area… the rock wall and stairs BEFORE I love ‘before’ and ‘after’s’, don’t you? Well, I have several here for you. We have officially handed over the log cabin to the owners. They arrived yesterday [...]
One Happy Accident
If you know me or read this blog, you know that I love to take photos. Wait- maybe I should rephrase that: I love to take digital photos. I’m an instant gratification kinda girl. I could kick myself that while studying art at Rice University that I didn’t at least take one measly photography class. [...]
Simple Photos
Ah yes, simplicity. Simplicity is good. Many of you have commented about the new change to the blog and I agree, simple is better. Easier to read. Less distracting, for you and for me! I will warn you though, I am already finding problems with this simple theme… it is so simple, I can’t do [...]
Friday, sweet Friday…
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen“- Frank Lloyd Wright I have a book of quotes that I have read many times. I picked it up again this morning just to thumb through it, it is one of those handy, cute little sizes that [...]
Sunday the Day of Res….. Shopping.
Its Sunday, the day of rest. Well, at least it should be the day of rest, but in my house it is the day of ‘catching up’. This past week I obviously had to work each day, and little D had practice, and yesterday he had 3 games. Yowza. Today is the day of rest [...]
Beauty Through the Lens
Sunflower taken at Sam Houston Memorial Museum Good morning Sunshine! Hope you’re having a great weekend! Did you know that here in Texas, it is SWELTERING HOT? Its just ridiculous. This is August weather, in June! What will August bring? The funny thing about the soaring temperatures outside is that Hubby knocks the air conditioning [...]
