Out and About

I'm heading out to the hospital in about 2 minutes now so I gotta hurry with this one.  ....I'm still getting out and taking pictures! In fact, I think I have a slight issue. I feel like I always have to be taking pictures. I'm not sure why but I just try to think, some things you just have to see for yourself and can't capture it in a picture. But that excuse doesn't work too often.  The top picture, just a leaf off the tree by the dock as you can see. The second one, my aunt found some rocks so I could stack them like this. I saw a picture sort of like that and wanted to try it out... and I like it! The corn field was taken at a friends house while out taking pictures, I like how as it gets farther away it curves down.  We lost my shutter release remote somewhere in this field but I've got another one on the way so I can take my star trail picture ASAP!

Photo shoot with Katrina

We have been planning on taking pictures for a while now and yesterday we finally got to it. It was very hot and humid and we were dying out in the heat but it wasn't as bad as a few days before. Earlier in the day I was out trying to get more pictures for the fair but it was too bright out for what I was trying to accomplish. Katrina was with while I took those ones too. I told her, lets get 500 pictures by tonight. Well I underestimated a little and ended up with over 1000 pictures. These are a few from the pictures I took of and with Katrina, just for fun of course.

More heat and storms!

Monday morning I woke up to the power flickering on and off. Then I heard thunder and looked outside and it was very very dark, and lots of lightning bolts. I had to get up and babysit anyways so I went and watched the storm and got a few pictures of the rain pouring off of the roof! It was really raining! I like storms like these though, they are so entertaining!

Rainy Day!

Its getting closer and closer to fair time, and fair means fair projects. I'm entered in I think about 45 photography projects so everyday I feel like I NEED to get pictures so I have enough to pick from for the fair. Yesterday I got out in the rain and took some pictures of things in the yard. Some of them turned out really neat. I used my close-up filters almost the entire time which didn't make anything easier but I needed them to get pictures of the tiny water drops!

Lost photos

         This summer hasn't been as I would have expected it to be, lets say 2.5 months ago. I've been spending some long, dreaded days in the hospital. And I really really dread having to go back week after week, knowing what to expect but yet never knowing how it will go or what will change. So I sit here with an ice pack trying to find relief but I realized I get the best relief when I keep myself occupied, which is easily done while looking through, editing and uploading pictures.
          As the title says, I found some pictures that I knew I had but didn't think they would work as good photography type of pictures. Those pictures end up in their own "event" in iPhoto and usually aren't looked at again for a few months when I get a chance to go through them. With all the free time I have now, resting and trying to heal, I seem to be finding a lot more pictures that have potential that I never knew of before. I have figured out that these pictures usually take a bit more "fixing up" than ones that I just look at once and see it will make a good picture. Here's a few.

Fourth of July Weekend!