Day 245: May 7, 2012

The scotch broom is blooming which means I'm itching to get out to the field to get some pretty photos with the yellow blossoms in the background!

Day 243: May 5, 2012

The azalea bushes were buzzing with bees, so I spent a few minutes trying to catch one semi-still and got this:

Day 234: April 26, 2012

Macro of the wildflowers Grace picked for me when we last visited the field a couple days ago.

Day 224: April 16, 2012

The backyard tree is finally blossomed out, I took this at sunset while standing in a large (empty) flower planter to get tall enough!

Day 220: April 12, 2012

I went outside this afternoon for 15 minutes after helping Grace finish her homework and had some fun with my macro while the lighting was decent.  Love the cherry blossoms on our tree!

Day 197: March 20, 2012

I'm having fun with my macro lens lately!  This is one of the little flowering weeds that are threatening to take over my bark dust.  At least they make for pretty pictures.

Day 196: March 19, 2012

I took some macro shots of the beautiful orchid my husband gave me awhile ago.  I never keep them alive for very long, but the flowers last for weeks so they're better than roses!

Day 119: January 2, 2012

A quick macro shot of the pink flowering bush in our front yard.  I love morning light!

Day 28: October 3, 2007

Today's photo is of the last blooming orange flower in my backyard.  It's hanging in there!

Day 21: September 26, 2011

I wasn't feeling 100% today so I didn't venture very far for today's photo, nor did I get very creative!  This is a macro of one of the buds on my poor mum that survived from last fall.  A minor miracle.

Day 15: September 20, 2011

The Momtographers challenge the past week or two has been sunflare and silhouettes which are some of my favorite things to photograph.  We've been having beautiful golden mornings lately which have my grabbing my camera to snap a few photos while the kids eat their breakfast and watch me from the sliding glass door.  I know the clouds will be rolling in soon enough and beautiful morning light will disappear.

Day 4: September 9 2011

This morning I saw tinges of pink out the window while I ate my Raisin Bran so I quickly grabbed my camera to take some photos while the kids finished their breakfast.  I'm not a morning person, so this first week back to school (and back to a 6:30am wake up!) has been rough.  One of the bonuses in getting up early is the beautiful morning light, and the fact that I'm up and dressed at prime time.  It was a good thing too since while I was outside in the soggy grass a friend came walking by and we chatted a for a minute or two.  Glad I wasn't in my jammies and slippers!

This photo is barely edited, just a little sharpening for web and a little fill light.  The colors are untouched and exactly what I saw this morning.  I'm starting to love morning light!

Week 19: May 10

I have no idea what this yellow flowering bush is but it's growing behind our house next to some blackberries and poison oak and I think it's kind of pretty.

I photographed the same bush last April...

Week 17: April 30

We spent the last few days of the month in Idaho visiting family.  The weather was beautiful and I enjoyed having a new backyard to roam around in during the "magic hour" to get this week's photograph!  I love hyacinths, I need to look up how deer proof they are to see if it's worth trying to grow them in our yard (i.e. deer buffet).

December 28: Day 355

This is a close up of my mother in law's Amaryllis using my ghetto macro technique. Love the red and yellow!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 49 mm
ISO: 3200
Flash: Off

November 8: Day 305

I haven't done any macro for awhile so today I thought I'd bust out my ghetto macro technique for a Macro Monday shot. This is one of the only flowers still in bloom in my pots, a marigold.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO: 640
Flash: Off

September 10: Day 246

We bought this pink dahlia at the same time as the Helenenium from the previous post. Grace picked it out and swears it smells beautiful, though I don't think it smells like much.

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 200
Flash: Off

September 9: Day 245

Today I bought some Helenium plants off the clearance rack at Rite Aid. Supposedly they love swampy soil and deer aren't attracted to them. Perfect. If they survive until next year I might hunt down more of them!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f/2.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 400
Flash: Off

September 5: Day 241

Just a quick photo of one of my surviving pink geraniums. The deer keep munching them!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/200 sec
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 54 mm
ISO: 400
Flash: Off

August 18: Day 223

We were up in Portland today and spent some time in the Hoyt Arboretum hunting for a photo shoot location and couldn't resist stopping by the Rose Gardens and the playground right next door. The roses were in full bloom, perfect time to visit!

Photo Stats:
Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 100
Flash: Off