Macro Mystery Monday

I don't know how much of a mystery these will be, but I took them for the Project MCP weekly challenge.

If you're wondering why I chose these items, well, they were sitting on my desk.  :-)

You Capture - Looking In

Friday, February 17

Here's looking in a player piano - so cool.

The girls and the cows both looking into the feeding area.

 Sydney looking in to her newly earned gold sash.

Looking in between overpasses from the bus window.

See more Looking In photos here.

New Camera?

I know it's a shot in the dark, but it can't hurt to try.  You could enter to win a Canon 5D MKII + 85 1.8 Lens OR Nikon D700 too.

You Capture - Colorful

Thursday, January 26


Enjoy the colorful things I found this week.  No time for explanations - I'm in the middle of baking a double batch of chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.  

To see more Colorful photos visit Beth's blog.

Resolution - water drops!

Friday, 20Jan2012

I'm posting these as part of a monthly photography challenge called MCP Project 12.

  These water drops show my resolutions of :  

what happens when the water drops (very appropriate during our non-stop heavy rains), 

trying new things with my photography this year,

taking more photos for me,

using my macro lens and 

learning more about off camera lighting

 (here I used a continuous source instead of my new flash, which will give me an excuse to try this again),

Check this tutorial which includes some awesome videos of water drops.  

Rule of Thirds

Wednesday, 18Jan2012

I was thinking I should use some great photo for the Rule of Thirds assignment, but I got tired of looking decided to use something recent and amusing.

Here is the before.  I wasn't really thinking about composition, but concentrating on focusing the "eyes" and how my new flash was working.  

Here is the after.  I put her "eyes" on the top horizontal third, the right eye on the right vertical third and the space on the left takes up about a third.  

OK, if anyone can guess what these the "eyes" are, I'll send you a free note card of  your choice.  

Hint: The two halves used to be one.

Corn Maze

Thursday, November 17

I entered a few photos into the Oregon Cultural Trust  "This is Culture" photo contest and this one made it to the finals.   So this is my last ditch effort to get more votes.  If you are on Facebook  please click here to vote!  The voting ends Friday at midnight, Pacific time.  Thanks!!

You Capture - Apples

Sunday, September 18


Ever since I sent my 10 year old to archery camp (at TrackersNW, which she loved) I've had this fear that she would come home and be tempted to shoot her little sister.   Luckily the arrow that she came home with doesn't have an arrowhead and there are strict rules about not even pointing it towards people (except for this photo, don't worry there is no tension on the string).  The girls were very helpful with my photo challenge this week even though we're a few days late.  

And then she ate it.

For more apples visit Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry.

You Capture - Flowers

Thursday, June 9


Have you ever seen the flower of bok choy?  This was a first for me.  I love bok choy in soup and stir fry!

Irises found on one of my many walks to school today - I think I walked there four times.

 Daisies were a theme at my cousin Katie's wedding last weekend.  It was the nicest day of the year so far and we all got a little pink.    

The sunglasses were for when it was all over.  

It was super windy and she kept having to corral her veil - too cute.   No flowers in this last shot, but it was my favorite, with the bride and groom leaning on each other and her windswept veil.  

Click here for more Flowers at I Should Be Folding Laundry.

You Capture - Games

Thursday, June 2


Considering how many games my family owns I should probably have some better photos than these.  I could probably take enough games photos to last a years worth of You Capture challenges.   


I don't know if anyone has actually played the game that goes with these tiny pirate ships, but they are fun and sometime challenging to put together.

Poor Sydney used to have wall to wall games in her room, but we finally moved some out so she could store books and toys of her very own.

OK, here's your bonus - an article of kids' game reviews written my hubby, the board game geek.  He gave a presentation at the preschool last October, so there is also a section of Halloween games.  He is super awesome for figuring out how to make this available on the web to share with you all.
Click here for a copy of Beyond Candyland.


To see more Games photos click visit I Should Be Folding Laundry.

You Capture - Pretty

Thursday, May 26

Here is Kyla in her pioneer costume on the Oregon Trail field trip.

The rest of these pretty things we found on the way to the park.

 

Click here for more Pretty over at I Should Be Folding Laundry.

Close Up Photography

Wednesday, March 23


As usual, I'm waiting until the last moment to post my photos for a photography assignment over at Views Infinitum.   I'm lucky that the nicest lens I have happens to be a 60mm macro.  I really should use it more. 
Here are a couple of the ones I liked best.  If you know me, I'm sure you're impressed because I really don't like bees, but this one was holding pretty still and didn't look like it was going to attack. 

  1/100s,  f/14.0  ISO 800

 1/100s,  f/10.0, ISO 800

 1/80s,  f/6.5  ISO 640

 1/80s,  f/2.8  ISO 1600

 1/80s,  f/4.0  ISO 800

I used a Canon Rebel T1i with a 60mm 1:2.8 macro lens for all these shots.  I got pretty lucky with the animal shots, but using a tripod for the other stuff would be helpful.   

You Capture - Cold & Red

Thursday, February 10

It really hasn't been too cold here lately, but the fog makes it look cold.  

Here are a couple of Red shots from last week.  This heart was in better shape before the cat starting chasing it around the house.

For more Cold visit Beth's Blog.

You Capture - Circles

Thursday, January 20

I'm behind on editing, dishes and laundry, but I found a few circles to share. 

A gumball machine from a birthday party.

These may look like stripes, but they are part of a big hula-hoop we made for a different birthday party.

My friend Amber, makes these amazing hair clips out of vintage fabrics and jewlery.

  See her website at Itty Bitty Betteys

Also visit Beth's place for more circles.

You Capture - Top 10 of 2010

Thursday,  January 6


Hope it's not too late to say Happy New Year!  since this is my first post of the year.    I've been busy this week working on starting a business of selling my photos as note cards.  Even though I don't have a webpage or a logo yet, I'm sending an order to the printers tomorrow as I've already had some requests to purchase cards.
I also worked on portraits this year and was tempted to include some, but decided to leave them out because it was getting too hard to narrow down the list.  Hope you enjoy today's top 10!

Click here to see a lot more great photos at I Should Be Folding Laundry.

Autumn 2010

Wednesday, November 24


I'm so thankful Thanksgiving is not at my house this year.  It's been a crazy week with no school and a sick kid.  Everyone is better and ready to visit with family now - yay!   Here a just a few photos from this fall for Scott's Assignment #10.


I took a bunch of shots with the girls in our leaves before they got rained on.  Here is just one.

This one was taken in sunny Ashland, Oregon and it was an experiment with the zoom lens.  I wonder if this is what a bird sees when it is flying towards a tree.   

The next two were taken a couple weeks ago just a mile from my house.

  I love the St. John's Bridge, so photogenic.