Month: July 2008

  • Sand in my teeth, sand in my hair, sand in my under…

     

     

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    We have been busy, busy, busy…

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    See those two little people… way out there?

    That’s charlie and Is…

    It’s hard to get pictures of them.

    I am also working on some photo shop projects for my sister…

    Have I mentioned that I REALLY like Photoshop?

    I am still red like a lobster, so I wore a long sleeve shirt and a hat.

    I was stylin!

  • Some of what I saw

    Every day we go to the beach, usually I read or dig in the sand with Cooper.

    Some days I take my camera out and take pictures of…

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    everything.

    ( I know most of you know this.)

    Today I saw HIM…

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    This is Zeus.

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    It was his first day out on the jet ski…

    How could I not take a picture?

    Then since the camera was out I had to take another picture of

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    Cooper.

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    and the beetle who decided it was in love with me and wouldn’t leave me alone.

    What can I say I am easy to love.

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    When I was editing I just thought this looked fun.

    TELL me what you’ve seen today!

    I was going to ask nice, but I feel like being a demanding brat!

     

     

     

  • *sigh*

    So far this weekend I have had to explain 9/11pandemic/pandemia, bird flu, and Chernobyl to my children… can I cry now?

    I really didn’t expect this to be a part of parenthood…

    *sigh*

  • A Good Day on the River

    The reunion was great!

    We stuffed ourselves with food and then some of us stuffed ourselves into bathing suits!

    Off to the river we went!

    I took the water camera, of course.

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    River bottom

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    As usual the camera takes AWFUL pictures… which is why I LOVE them.

    It’s like a Cracker Jack prize

    I never know what I’m going to get.

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    There was a group of twelve of us.

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    River and sky

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    Floating under a birch tree

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    I like this camera so much because I feel like a REAL lomographer!

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    Wavy dancing river tree

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    I took 254 pictures and think maybe ten are usable…

    Just because I have posted them doesn’t mean they are useable!

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    There is something so relaxing about laying back in your inner tube and letting the current take you.

    UNTIL it takes you over a log that pokes you in the rump or

    floats you into a tree hanging over the bank!

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    I managed to get a shoe shot for TheGreenPanthers footprint project!

    I found it ironic that the same shoes I walked around NYC in are the ones I wore in the river…

    Maybe I need more shoes?

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    Isabelle all done and ready to to go home!

    It was a very good day on the river!

    Have you ever been tubing down a river?

     

     

     

  • SEEDSOWER has her post up and it is wonderful! It almost makes me want to take my pictures down her’s are so good! That’s okay though… Part of taking pictures with her is I can watch her and learn… I CAN’T WAIT to go do it again. I miss my friend.  Go check out her wonderful  pictures! I wish I could convey to you how fun it was to go out with her and take pictures. To sit down at night with each other and look through them and edit togeher, it was just, well wonderful… I need some new words, You know what I mean?

    I am off to my family reunion today. I will eat lots of food, talk to people I have known since I was a babe and some I haven’t… then we are going TUBEING! I am, of course, taking the water camera.

    I really enjoy our family reunions, we have one every year and that’s just enough…

    What about your family reunions, do you look forward to them or dread them?

  • PA photo overflow

    I still have a bunch of shots from my trip to see Seedsower.

    I thought I’d put them up, Beth will be putting up  more of her’s today too!

    The first day I arrived we had just enough time to go get a few shots.

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    Beth took me to an old mill she had been saving for my visit.

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    I wonder why she was saving it?

    I can’t wait to see the shots she took of it and how ours are different.

     

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    Another  slightly blurred shot… I just really like the light in it.

    What do you think? Does the light make it a keeper or should I ditch it?

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    I didn’t take many pictures of the Amish, just a few working fields or driving down the road.

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    I tried to be respectful, but it’s hard when I am used to taking pictures of EVERYTHING. I don’t discriminate.

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    Mennonite church windows

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    Lean on me

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    Double door

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    Cloister door

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    Towards dusk my camera starts to get all grainy on me.

    I am so ready for an upgrade… Unfortunately my pocket book isn’t. *sigh*

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    This is the first DOOR  Beth and I shot together. I like her shot of it better.

    Well I think that is all, no more photo overflow.

    There was so much we didn’t get to, I needed at least two more days…

    I guess that  means I have to go back soon, oh the hardship.  

    I have a question for you!

    If you could take a picture of ANYTHING in the world, what would it be?

     

     

  • DOORS UP!

    Sunnymitsu has DOORS UP!

    I am ashamed some of her doors are from Traverse City!  I haven’t been inspired by TC doors at all… she found some fun ones… check em out.

    Okay really, now I’m off to the beach!