Day 240: May 2, 2012

More early morning light, the front yard tree has leaves!

Day 127: January 10, 2012

Another pretty morning in my front yard.  Same tree as usual too!  I thought these two seed pods hanging together looked pretty cute.

Day 121: January 4, 2012

I used my macro lens to get this cool photo of the water droplet hanging on the tree branch this morning.

Day 101: December 15, 2011

Don't tell me I'm weird tor crawling around in the gravel to catch morning sunlight...I think I already know!

Day 95: December 9, 2011

This morning was so pink and perfect I literally ran back in the house to grab my camera when I opened the garage door on our way to school drop off.  I parked in front of Abby's Pizza and stood outside in my slippers freezing to take this.  Love the light!

Day 82: November 26, 2011

I barely caught the last bit of evening sunlight tonight but it made for some really cool bokeh.  The circle of light to the left is the sun through all the brambles!

Day 57: November 1, 2011

I realize I post way too many sunflare photos.  And I'm totally running out of interesting things in the scraggly bushes behind my house to photograph with sunflare, so I'm also posting a second photo today that is totally different.  The second photo was taken this morning during our Momtographers meeting when we were talking about pop up camera flash modifers.  I used my external flash to take it :)

Day 52: October 27, 2011

I woke up this morning to a stunning sunrise.  So beautiful!

Day 51: October 26, 2011

Whenever I look outside and see this kind of gorgeous light I can't help myself from grabbing my camera and heading outside!  Seriously, it's a compulsion.  In this case the whole family was outside for a bit enjoying what turned out to the be the last decently warm day of the year.  We barbecued!

Day 50: October 25, 2011

This morning I could tell it was going to be a pretty morning so I threw my camera in the van along with both kids and their school stuff for my morning of school drop offs and saw this beautifully colored bush in the church parking lot before Mops.  I snapped a few photos and love the sun burst!  Nothing makes me happier then my camera, a lovely subject, and sunlight that touches my heart.

Day 49: October 24, 2011

The sun was shining in the late afternoon and I had 10 minutes to shoot before getting the kids ready for Grace's soccer practice.  I found these pretty red berries in the scrub behind our house and was thrilled to get some sun flare!  Oh sun, how I love thee!

Day 24: September 29, 2011

This morning I took two photos of the grass in the morning sunshine and then promptly forgot to take any other photos all day long.  So grass it is!

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 16: April 18

Good morning sunshine!  Yet another morning I reached up to turn my alarm off with every intention to sleep another 20 minutes instead of showering and noticed the pink light hitting the neighbor's house.  Pink sunrises have me hopping out of bed faster then lightning, and within minutes I was standing outside in my pajamas and slippers again looking for something to photograph in the beautiful morning light.  The cherry blossom trees in the front yard fit the bill.  I only got two photos before the lighting changed and the magical quality was gone.  Good thing I acted fast!

Week 15: April 13

I took a photo of this same flowering tree in the rain for last year's Project 365.  In the last year I've upgraded my camera body (from a Rebel XT to the 40D so not a huge jump) and 50mm lens (from 1.8 to the 1.4) but I think a year's worth of practice made the most difference.  I really like this photo, it speaks spring to me!

Week 13: March 31

The sun has been MIA lately so I couldn't resist running outside in my slippers to take this photo when I glanced outside and saw the setting sun lighting up our seriously tall grass (sweetie, you really need to mow).  Serenity.

Week 8: February 23

I love to photograph light, specifically warm glowy late afternoon sunlight!  This time of year isn't exactly well known for golden sunshine so when I see it I grab my camera and run out into the muddy yard slippers and all!

Week 6: February 8

This week's photo has absolutely nothing to do with any of the three themes in my groups.  In fact, I'm starting to think that themes are for people who aren't inspired by the beauty of life around them.  I'm constantly aware of God's beautiful creation and love to capture the beauty that can be found in the details.  Like for instance, an absolutely beautiful frosty winter morning.  On the way to driving Grace to kindergarten this morning we ooohed and aaahed over how sparkly everything was.  I was so inspired by the sparkly frost and glorious sunshine that I grabbed my camera and headed outside to take pictures as soon as I got home.  I'm sure the neighbors thought I had a screw loose crawling around in the frosty grass in my pajamas and slippers!

Week 4: January 27

Back to some color! The theme of "gentle repetition" has been on my mind this week. I do quite a bit with repetition but this week the repetition of dewy grass in the late afternoon sun is what inspired me. Ever since starting my Project 365 over a year ago I have become acutely aware of what lighting creates my favorite images and now when I notice the light outside is "just right" I grab my camera and shoot! On this particular day I really wanted to test out my new (to me) 85mm so I whipped it out. Probably not the best lens for this shot but the bokeh is definitely pretty.