If you know me very well, you know that for a couple of years now, I’ve been working very hard to improve my photos…upgrading my cameras, trying new lenses, practicing, practicing, practicing. Then tonight I found these photos* in my archives, taken at an art fair several years ago. These pre-date my blog, taken with…
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Dear So and So: Running Edition
Been a long time since it occurred to me to write a Dear So and So note, but a few cluttered my mind tonight while I ran. So here goes. Dear Neighbor Who is Fortunate Enough to Have a Garage: Your cars are parked in the driveway because you can’t fit them among the floor-to-ceiling,…
Sunday Morning Run
My Sunday morning run route started and ended at our little downtown Farmer’s Market. Gourds, pumpkins, mums, temperatures in the 60s…looks like fall is heading our way. This is a new route that afforded some unexpected encouragement… …unexpected beauty and photo ops. Love these prayer flags. What a funky little route! I’ll definitely be doing…
Sisters, Soap, Sunflowers
Last day of a work road trip brought us back to the countryside for another visit with the Benedictines. Today we visited the convent, or as I like to think of it, home of the Holy Water soap. (Not the official name of their business, but the Sisters do add Holy Water to each batch.)…
Conception, Missouri
A small detour during a work road trip took me to a beautiful Benedictine monastery in the Northwest corner of the state. I’ve been here a few times before, but there’s something new to photograph every time. There’s a wonderful collection of Madonnas, the Basilica, small grottos on the grounds…it’s a peaceful, holy place. Given…
Thanks, Twitter!
Thanks to some useless trivia I discovered via twitter, I’ve dug up a couple of favorite photos in honor of World Cat Day! Many happy returns!
What a gift…
As part of a photo project for work, today I got to spend some time with a lovely elderly patient of ours. The objective of the project is to provide our patients’ families with large, framed photos of their loved one’s hands. To some, I guess this might sound strange. Not everyone has attractive hands….
Redefining Rest Stop
What better way to break up a six and a half hour drive from Madison than a stroll through Anderson Japanese Gardens in Rockford, Illinois? What an amazingly beautiful, peaceful place. The waterfalls…the tea house…the koi ponds…it was exactly what I needed before continuing the long, monotonous drive through the endless cornfields and wind turbines…
Loving the Lantern Festival
Since its May opening, we’ve heard nothing but rave reviews about our Botanical Garden’s Lantern Festival. I’ve so wanted to go, but the descriptions of the enormity of the crowds was, to me, a little daunting. (Okay, I know we just ran The Color Run among a sea of people, but that’s different. You’re expected to…
Stalling Tactic
After an entire day of sitting in the sun and 100+ temperatures at the tennis courts watching my boy, I’m doing everything I can to put off my daily run and a trip back into the heat. So I’ve been fiddling around with a few photos I took today and it’s still topping 90 degrees…
Summer!
I took this photo a long time ago, but it still says “summer” to me. Well, that, and Tinkerbell. I’ve never figured out what made this little bloom glow in the middle, so I’ve always chalked it up to this quote: “Garden fairies come at dawn, bless the flowers, then they’re gone.” On that note: happy first day…
Uh oh.
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/2715192/e6f5d447dd6fd5f17acc79ea73abd4bc0324bd34 I’m sure I’m the last person to discover this, but that’s okay. I still think it’s the coolest thing. I’ve been wanting to give Blurb a try for quite a while, but our Seattle trip photos gave me an excuse to finally dive in and make a book or two. And it was so not what…
Before I forget…
My friend Jean’s new magazine “Splendid” features a few of my photos — and you can view the whole publication if you click here. It’s really lovely. She amazes me. I could not be more thrilled/honored/silly-giddy that she included some of my work. (My photo in this post has nothing to do with the magazine. Or anything else…
Playing
Same hyacinth, three different lenses and films on the Hipstamatic. I am totally convinced that iPhoneography is the coolest thing ever. And by the way, this flower is making my office smell so beautiful.
Images
Today I ordered close to two dozen prints at the lab and not a single one came from a digital or film camera. Instead, every photo was taken with the Hipstamatic application on my iPhone. Six different lenses, eight types of film, and six flash options are available with the swipe of a finger across…
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