Archive for the ‘nature’ Category

out-of-focus #14

of course i had to get an out-of-focus shot from my fire escape… :) see more photos in the post below!

my photo walk the other day wasn’t too far. i just crawled out my living room window onto my fire escape. the rain had come and gone, but the clouds still hung overhead, making me too nervous to go on a real photo walk (for fear of getting my camera soaked with raindrops).

my favorite photos are always the vintage-y feel ones… with the yellow tones and warm feelings. sometime i just cannot get photos there though… depending on the colors in the photos or whatever and probably what i’m doing in photoshop. but this one makes me happy. i love the yellows of these flowers. i used part of the action that i shared earlier (with the keep of the dunes photo). but i didn’t click the lighting step, and i also made a few adjustments to other steps, added a few… and this is what i got.

georgia posted a few screen shots today over at it’s just how i see things, and it reminded me of a photo i had taken last month through a screen. so before the photo gets moved to the external hard drive for storage and forgotten in the folders of photos, here it is.

so thanks for the reminder :) and thanks for sharing one of my photos on …shhhh (click over to see what she shared!)

out-of-focus #9

when i start looking for something, i start seeing it everywhere. each time i pull out my camera, i see the blurry moments everywhere waiting to be captured. and when i’m reading other’s blogs, i see blurry photos, beautiful blurry photos. i love all the photos i’ve seen, and wished i’d had a way to share them all together… when i remembered… flickr. so away i surfed across the internet, and poof: a new group is started. go. join. share the blur in your life. so many wonderful out-of-focus photos have already been shared across the blogosphere… please head over to the 100 out-of-focus photos group and add a few of your own so that everyone can see and share!

take a look at a few i’ve spotted recently: here, here, here. have you been capturing out-of-focus moments?

my favorite colors to photograph are greens and blues. these are a few from last saturday’s walk in the park. i hope to be back next week with a few photos from real nature (real as in outside of the city).

out-of-focus #7

in honor of love thursday and my out-of-focus project, i’m sharing this beautiful heart-shaped green leaf. i also wanted to share a few things i love today:

• all the wonderful comments that are being left on my new photography blog. it’s so encouraging, especially since my own fears were holding me back…
• this beautiful photo taken by rebecca. i’ve only recently found her photography, and i love, love, love her work.
• hearts in the sky in the photo love is everywhere.
• my new art supplies and the discover of peaceful creating. (and i’m using some of my photos for inspiration… the flower one has been seen on this blog recently…)

this photo of sunflowers is the photo i choose for best shot monday. i may have better shots for it, but i opened my folder of photos from yesterday’s photo walk, and this is the one i loved the best.

out-of-focus #6

i love the sidewalks in my neighborhood. every 20 feet or so, a tree is growing and around that tree, a passerby may have the pleasure of seeing a small but beautiful bit of nature growing. this is a sidewalk garden with purple beauties. on the bottom of the photo you can see the blurred wrought iron fence that protects it.

this is my first photo project that i’ve started inspired by a photo i took. i am only on photo 6, but i am already loving where this has gone and looking forward to where this will go next. and since the project was started, i’ve seen other wonderful out-of-focus photos. georgia and i were on the same thought path because when i posted my project and she was sharing blur she’d captured. i love moments when people connect thoughts by magic across the universe. and then elk posted her out-of-focus inspiration through her post embrace the blur. and the always inspiring mrs. e shared a blurry photo that she couldn’t bring herself to delete, describing these out-of-focus treasures to be much like memories… and shared her beautiful words, blur happens! sometimes i’m grateful for that.