Nurture Photography ~ Green

Fall is one of my favorite seasons.  Along with spring, summer, and winter.  :)  I just love all the earthy tones of fall.  And the cool, crisp air.  And the warm, comfy clothes.  And the comfort foods.  And pumpkin.  I love pumpkin.

Anyway, I've been busy this fall with photo shoots.  Seems many people want family photos during this time of year.  But in between photo sessions I have managed to still take in the nature around me.

The Nurture Photography Challenge is starting back up again and this week's prompts are Green/Active.  Here are the green things I was able to discover lately ...

While waiting for Keira to finish up her violin lesson this week, I noticed the light hitting her teacher's tree.  So I had to hop out of the car and snap a few shots.  Her neighbors were probably wondering about me.  My neighbors are used to it.  :)

The leaves are changing from green to yellow/orange.

We had a thunderstorm this afternoon.  It rained hard!  Afterward the sun shone brightly so I went out to take in the glimmery beauty.

The leaves they are a'fallin'.

Despite the fact that fall is here, my zinnias are still blooming.  There are LOTS of flowers still growing and some buds yet to open.

Alex loves the heart-shaped leaves on our little tree.  So pretty with its shades of green and red.

Next week's prompts are Yellow/Shine.  You should play along!

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday 09.22.13

Time for another Scavenger Hunt Sunday!  My new macro lens has gotten me inspired to head out and shoot again - plus having a little time in my schedule helps too.  You may notice a few close ups this week thanks to my new inspiration.  :)

{something you wore}

One of my favorite bracelets was custom made by a friend of mine.  It is something I wear often.

{reflection}
On Saturday it rained.  And rained.  And rained some more.  Which was mostly fine because we were inside having Keira's birthday party.  Although it would have been nice to be outside too.  Anyway, the sun came out just before 7:00 in the evening so I headed out with my new lens to try to get some rain drop shots.  You can see the reflection of the sun in this shot, which was taken on some dying weeds (it's what I had to work with).  Those few minutes of sunshine were absolutely gorgeous!

{inside your fridge}

The veggies that made up this vegetable tray came from inside my fridge.  :)

{daily routine}

The never-ending supply of laundry is definitely part of my daily routine.  Now that we have our water situation straightened out, I'm still trying to get caught up without having to go to the laundromat.

{morning}

Saturday morning I drove to a friend's house to pick up Keira's birthday cake.  My friend, Laura, makes the BEST cakes!  I took a day off from my sugar fast because of it.  :)  YUM!

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to visit Ashley for more Scavenger Hunt finds!  And have a super fabulous week!

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Project 52 - Week 2

First of all, thank you to all of you who voted for my December photo!  I won the digital goodies from Jessica Sprague thanks to Gina and Sarah!  Now to just pick one.  That will be the hard part!  :)

This week I barely picked up my camera.  I think I mentioned last week how I am enjoying the freedom of not doing a Project 365 this year ... well, I am.  I really, really am.  However, I think I will need to motivate myself to pick up my camera more.  It is feeling neglected after so much love.  :)  I believe it is harder in the winter too.  Especially when it is yucky and gray outside.  For me, anyway.

On Friday it was yucky and gray.  And it rained.  A lot!  But around 2:45 the sun came out and everything sparkled!  I knew I had to get outside to capture some of that sparkle.  

Honey still refuses to look at the camera most times.  She's a lot like my boys!  :)

Looks like spring!

If you saw yesterday's Scavenger Hunt, you already saw this photo of the rain drops on the pine needles.  But I really like it so I'm sharing it again.  :)

Linking up with Gina and Tamar's Project 52 challenge (still can't get that button to work) and the last photo with ...

 

Have a great week!

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday 01.13.13

Welcome back to another Scavenger Hunt!  This week I managed to post on time.  Go me!  :)

The items to find this week were: Outside, Backside, Little things, A cup of ..., and Reflect.  

{outside}

It rained a good part of the day on Friday.  But the sun did peek out for a little while in the afternoon, prompting me to go outside and find some rain drops.

{backside}

Knowing that the world does NOT need to see a photo of my backside, I photographed this photo of Nick's artwork.  A pencil drawing of the back side of his hand.  You are welcome.  :)

{little things}

Another hat by Laura from Wix Works.  I had Laura make a Yoda hat for Nick.  Little things like this really make him happy, and he was very happy about this hat.  It goes great with the Yoda slippers Alex got him for Christmas.

{a cup of ...}

Alex has to have a cup of hot cocoa when he comes in from playing out in the cold.

{reflect}

We bought an exercise bike this week.  Alex loves the fact that he can see himself in the wheel.  Can you see him?

Be sure to head over to Ashley's for more great Scavenger Hunt finds!  And have a great week!

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Week 41 & 42 in Pictures

Hi there!  Remember me?  I'm finally back in business now that my new laptop is here. I ordered it on Thursday evening after finding out from the computer repair guy that he could not fix my Gateway.  Well, that's not entirely true.  He could have replaced the processor.  But after spending around $300 on parts and labor, that may not have fixed the problem.  So I opted to have him not fix it and we bought a new laptop.  An ASUS.  It shipped on Friday and was delivered on Saturday!  And I didn't even pay for expedited shipping!  I was glad I didn't since it came so quickly anyway.

Of course it didn't come until around 4:05 p.m. when I was planning to leave at 4:15 to go to my friend, Laura's, for a girls' night filled with hot soups, fresh breads, games, and fun.  So I ended up leaving a few minutes late 'cuz you know I couldn't leave without at least checking it out first.  :)

I spent most of Sunday getting it ready to run.  Burning recovery discs, updating Windows, installing Photoshop Elements, etc.  It felt good to be able to edit some photos today but it took a while to get back into my normal routine.  I had to re-do a couple because I forgot a step or two.  I'm blaming that on my cold which is making my head sort of foggy.

Anyway, I hate to overload you with pictures, but since I didn't post last week's pictures, you get two week's worth in one post.

{Sunday, Oct. 7}

I had taken this for the October 14th Scavenger Hunt prompt "water drops", which I ended up not participating in because of the laptop.  Or lack thereof.

{Monday, Oct. 8}

Woke up to a foggy morning.  Glad I didn't have anywhere to go.

{Tuesday, Oct. 9}

I had the pleasure of photographing Anna at her family's beautiful farm.  We had a great time!  Here are more photos from our session, if you are interested.

{Wednesday, Oct. 10}

My not-so-great attempt at foodtography.  :)  I was excited about making homemade dinner rolls and tried to capture that.  Obviously I need more practice.

{Thursday, Oct. 11}

Alex had helped me try out a new location for photo shoots.  We took Nick's little pumpkin along since Alex's is huge.  I truly have no idea what he's doing in this picture.  I do know that we had fun though.

{Friday, Oct. 12}

My sister-in-law, Terri, had asked me if I'd take Jordan's school pictures this year since the ones you get at school aren't so great.  We had a good time.  I even managed to get Terri in a few pictures.  More from this photo shoot will be coming soon, now that I can edit again.

{Saturday, Oct. 13}

My friend, Lindsey, asked me if I'd take some family photos for her.  It was challenging but fun - trying to get four people (including a 4 year old and a 9 month old) to look at me and smile at the same time.  And I just love the color combinations she chose!  More from this shoot coming soon also.  (Yes, I will be an editing fool this week.)  :)

{Sunday, Oct. 14}

Pretty grass.

{Monday, Oct. 15}

While out running errands, I stopped at a local park to see if it would be a good place for a photo shoot.  While I was walking around, I happened upon this mama deer and her two fawns.  Notice that the mama only has three legs.  It didn't seem to slow her down though. She grunted, snorted, and stomped at me a few times but eventually ran away when she realized I wasn't going anywhere.

{Tuesday, Oct. 16}

A friend asked if I would take her daughter's senior pictures.  Natasha was so easy going and would do just about anything I asked.  This photo isn't my normal style, but I thought I'd try going for the hazy look (in camera, not in processing).  I like it.  More of Natasha's photos coming soon also.

{Wednesday, Oct. 17}

Sometimes I just walk around in my yard to see what I can see.  This day I saw this wasp.

{Thursday, Oct. 18}

Doug found another stick bug while he was cleaning out the flower beds.

{Friday, Oct. 19)

The leaves are just so pretty this fall.

{Saturday, Oct. 20}

You'd think I would have taken a photo of my new laptop since this is the day it arrived, but I didn't have time.  In fact, I didn't take any pictures this day.  I even took my camera to Laura's for girls' night but never got it out of my bag.  So instead, I give you a cheat picture of the mums Keira bought me.  I just love the soft pink/purple colors.

     

If you made it this far, thanks for sticking in there with me!  Hope you have a fabulous week!  I plan to be back to my normal posting schedule soon.

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Random Wordless Wednesday

As you may or may not know, I am in my third (and last!) year of Project 365.  Because of that, there are some days when I only take a few pictures and other days I take a ton.  As you can well imagine, there are many, many photos that don't make the cut for the photo of the day.  Here are some that didn't make it ...

Keira and I were able to attend my mother-in-law's Mother-Daughter banquet this year.  This was what our plate looked like before we ate.  A jar of sugar scrub placed on this very cool folded napkin.

One day after a good rain I stepped outside to see what I might capture.  These rain drops were on my gladiolus leaves.

And this bug was making a snack of another bug.

When I went along with Doug and the boys on their first fishing outing of the year, I couldn't fish because I don't have my license yet.  Instead I took pictures.  I tried and tried to capture some fish jumping out of the water.  There was one in particular that I watched jump out over and over again, but I was never fast enough to capture him.  Somehow I did manage to capture these two although I didn't have time to adjust my camera settings which resulted in a very noisy, underexposed photo.  But I got them jumping!  And I think that might be a turtle poking his head out there too.

We have summer phlox growing all over the place this year.  Nick was sweet enough to go out and bring back a huge bouquet of it for me.

Lastly, I bought myself a bouquet of roses a couple weeks ago.  But I enjoyed photographing the baby's breath more than the roses themselves.

          

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