One of my favorite subject matters to photograph is flowers. Since it's Halloween, I've found an orange marigold to post. It's been nice since I've moved to the new house. The flowers do so well here. I guess it was the soil at the old place, but it's absolutely fun to garden at this house. This past summer, the marigolds reseeded and I had so many I actually had to thin them out. My daughter is already taking the seeds and spreading them around the yard this fall. I can't even imagine what next year will bring.

When I photograph flowers, I like to zoom in a close as possible. I like to get the texture of the flower in the shot. I also find it so interesting how many of my photography session take place in my front yard. It's fun to go on location and find landscape scenes, but it's also great to be able to through in a load of laundry and go out the front door and enjoy my garden.

A Day in the Park

After a short day at the Louvre in Paris, we ended up at Les Tuileries. We would have stayed longer at the museum, but my son was not interested in any of it. We saw a few things and traumatized him as little as possible before moving on to the next thing. He was only four at the time, so I guess it shouldn’t have surprised us too much. Anyway, after all the art gazing, we were off to Les Tuileries which is a park in Paris that has a well known place to sail boats. Before we got to the boats, there was this walkway that was just amazing. I was taking pictures as we went. We just happened across this since we thought we'd be at the museum most of the day. My daughter just happened to be wearing blue that day when I was talking these pictures. I have this picture hanging in my office. Often my coworkers don’t realize that it’s my daughter in the picture at first because it seems more staged since she’s matching her surrounding so well. I love the colors in the walk way. The contrast makes for a dramatic effect in the picture. After the enjoying the scenery for awhile, we went off to sail boats which the kids really enjoyed.

Scenic Wyoming

This is one of my favorite pictures. We were out for a drive and I made my husband pull over to see what I could get. I've given this picture away as a gift and quite often they'll tell me that it's neat that I left the fence in color and made the rest black and white. This picture is in full color. The fog of the day and the soft covering of snow creates the effect all on it's own.

Abtract Photography

When ever the family goes to the bookstore, which seems to be quite often these days, I'll always end up in the photography section thumbing through the books looking for new techniques to try or just looking at amazing pictures from other photographers. A few months ago I found a book on shutter speed called Understanding Shutter speed by Bryan Peterson. Like many people love photography, I'm always interested in figuring out night shots or interesting ways to catch action in a still shot. After reading some of the book I went out and took some great photos of flowers. It took me awhile to get the right shutter speed and aperture setting so I wasn't letting too much light come through. If was a really fun photo shoot. One of my favorites is this one I call spinning daisies.