Waterfalls

I finally got to do some photos here in Richmond. Elena showed me a wonderfully beautiful area decorated with snow and icicles. I loved the waterfalls along with the interesting twisting and curving of the trees along the banks. Here are the pictures I took with my digital camera. I will get my film developed here soon to scan in.

Valentine's Day

I know my husband well enough to be sure that I was not going to receive flowers for valentine's. Which I really don't mind because they die, I would much rather get some sort of plant. When we went to Meijer Friday night to drop off his prescription I decided to pick up these pretty pink tulips for myself since I will be able to transplant them to my garden come spring.

I didn't think about trying them against a black background until after my little photo session, and now they are about dead, so to late.

Snow Day!

When I woke up this morning I found out that we had a level 3 snow emergency and that we would be stuck at our house the whole day. I grabbed both my digital camera and my old school camera and trampled around in the snow. It was great to hear the shutter and the advance of the film since this is the first time I have used my Canon in awhile. I went out twice, with overcast skies and when it all cleared up and the sun as setting.

Sorry the thumbnails are sideways - click on them and the new picture will be right. I haven't figured out all the technicalities of this site yet.





I kept trying to get this icicle dripping. The digital camera had a really hard time focusing on the icicle itself. Once I get my film developed I hope to have caught the drip at the right time because I'm sure those pictures will be sharper.



the hill behind our house is very steep and very hard to capture without a wideangle lens. However, I was to amazed by the drifting and snow capped woods.



The overcast skyline.



My two favorite pictures of the day :0)
These are most enjoyable!



Me standing in the snow drift that accumulated in our back yard.

Hodgepodge

I decided to do a hodgepodge post with a few favorite selections from past vacations and roadtrips.



Frankenmuth, Michigan - Nov. 2009

I'm obsessed with covered bridges and waterfalls. Surprisingly, this wonderful little Bavarian Christmas town had both!





Shipshewana, Indiana - July 2008

The Amish lifestyle is very honorable and intriguing. I love the picture with the miniature horse and his larger counterpart with corresponding buggy and cart. The fact that they are parked across from modern vehicles and in front of the Wells Fargo sign just had irony written all over it for me. This picture was a must for me - most other people do not find it as amusing, but I'm an odd character.
Little Audriana Grace was my favorite subject during that vacation aside from horses and buggies! This is by far my most favorite picture of her.




The butterfly house in Whitehouse, Ohio - Fall 2007. This is where we did our engagement photos. Since we had to pay $18 for three of us to get in there I decided to take more pictures then just the ones of us.



Dominican Republic - May 2008. The first as on Isla La Saona in the Caribbean where we took a day excursion. The second are two chairs sitting on the beach at the Dreams resort in Punta Cana.




Look up when you go to the Dayton Art Institute and this is what you will see!

Staged Subjects

Fruit - mmmmm
The first is a kiwano - I did step by step shoot of how I ate this. Or at least how I attempted to eat it. Maybe I'll post that some other day. The other fruit is the plate our honeymoon suite in the Dominican Republic offered us. We only ate the mango and about puked so we didn't touch the rest of this plate. None of them seemed very fresh leaving us to eat the fruit at the drink stands.




This glass was just sitting on the edge of the pool in the Dominican. It just looked so yummy and sums of the atmosphere of the caribbean!




I had some fun at Sean's cousin Jay's wedding. The ceremony and reception was held at the Dayton Art Institute. I love pictures that can tell a thousand words. Get down to table level and you see the party from a whole new angle.

Flowers

MY FAVORITE SUBJECT....

FLOWERS!

The first two photos were from a wedding and the third one was in in northern Indiana.
The rest of the flower photos in this post are grown right in my own garden. :0)






The hostas are from my mom, I'm lucky they came back from the dead after transplanting them.
The calla lillies at the end I found at Lowe's, I'm hoping they come back this year!



Shasta daisies are my favorite and this bush keeps getting bigger every year.
The hosta flowers are so dainty; Almost like little fairy homes.



The black-eyed susan came out of nowhere but was stunning against the stone face to our house
I was surprised my roses bloomed this past summer, I had just planted them.
They were much more beautiful they I had anticipated and smelled great!





This Dalia was stunning, but I forgot to dig up the bulb. Hopefully I can find a replacement next year.
The yellow flower is from a pumpkin plant that the squirrels planted after snacking on ours last year.