Sunday Still - Pink Tulips

The challenge is to shoot flowers from overhead.  I had this shot in my mind all week and had to make a trip to two stores just to find pink tulips.

And just for fun, here's a shot of my set up.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day.

Looking for spring

It's so very cold here, -23C (-9F) and while grocery shopping, I found a little bunch on pink Gerbera daisies, brought them home, hoping to bring spring along with them.

Not quite spring here yet, but they are very cheerful

  A layer of Kim's new texture, kk_epic was added to all of the photos to give the background a little texture.  Sharing with:

A new today

A new way of looking at each day

Something Old

My Father In Law gave me this camera a few weeks ago after my Mother In Law passed away.  It was one of her first camera's given to her by her Mother In Law.  The Brownie Target Six-20  was introduced in 1946 and sold for $3.50 which would have been a lot of money for a farm wife following the great depression.

My Father In Law is the handsome gentleman in the uniform on the left following his return from England after World War II.  He is posing with his Dad (my husband's Grandfather) and the picture was probably taken by my husband's Grandmother.

Here's the story of the beautiful lady on the right.  When my husband's father was leaving for the war, all his friends were taking photos of their girlfriends.  Not having a girl friend at the time, he wanted to take a photo with him too. He found this lovely lady in a magazine, took a picture of it because he thought she was pretty enough to take along so no one could call his girl friend ugly.

String, Tulips and Texture Tuesday

Yesterday I was showing you my new string project.  As you can see it's progressed a little. It's also Texture Tuesday at Kim Klassen's and this weeks challenge is the color pink.  I love pink in photograph's so it was an easy choice to add pink tulips to "the project". All photos have had a layer of Kim Klassen's embrace with the blend mode of multiply reduced to 50% - 75%. The texture was slightly removed from the flowers. .

My string project has been winding and gluing string around a jar to create new vases. With the theme of "Modern Cariboo" decorating for the house, these little vases will fit right in. It also brings new life to pickle and other little jars that would have been destined for recycling. 

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Once I finished a few more jars, I'll post new pics to show you the completed project.

Spring for $3.99

The weather in Alberta the past week, to put it mildly has been frightful.  The temperatures have been averaging around -25C ( -13F ) with wind chills down to -40C ( -40F ).  It's looking better for the upcoming week but it's now starting to snow.  While picking up a pizza for supper last night, the grocery store had bundles of tulips for $3.99.  I don't get a lot of flowers in the garden until May when we make a trip to the greenhouse to pick up bedding plants, so I thought $3.99 was a pretty cheap price to bring a little bit of spring into the house.  The tulips haven't started to open yet so they should be good for a few days of daily shots.  All photos have been edited in Photoshop and NIK Color Efex 4 with a layer of Kim Klassen's textures added.

Anthuriums at The Enjoy Centre

Images Alberta Camera Club held an outing yesterday at the Enjoy Centre in St. Albert. This outing was one of the major reasons I joined the club. An opportunity to go into a greenhouse with a tripod and shoot flowers and giftware for the day, a little bit of heaven for me. Joining the club has turned out to be so much more, but I did enjoy the day. My favorite exotic flower has always been the Anthurium and to my delight Hole's had these, begging to be shot. I now only realize that I treated these as I would have shooting a flower in nature, touching nothing and trying to maneuver the camera to get the shots I wanted. If I were in the greenhouse to buy a plant I would have touched all the pots and moved the flowers to get the one I wanted. I'm sure I missed a lot of different colors and shapes but, oh well, next year.

Virginia/DC Vacation - Washington DC - Day 1 - Part 1

The first day into Washington was a busy fascinating day.  So much to see and so much to do. Our first day in Washington was September 6th, five days before the 10 year anniversary of September 11th and security seemed to be tight.

But despite the looming clouds and occasional rain shower we continued to enjoy the mall.  As it is at home, construction was a common sight as seen here at the reflecting pool.

But when you were away from the usual vantage points a pretty photo could still be captured.

After spending the day at the memorials and Smithsonian's (part 2 and 3 to follow) we had supper in a little sandwich shop downtown, close to Chinatown.