Down on the Farm

I spent a lovely afternoon at my Aunt & Uncle's farmhouse in Almont, MI.  During my drive there I noticed this beautiful horse and wanted to capture the beauty of it.

Photo Funk

These last few weeks I have been in a photo funk :(  We had a dear friend of ours pass away and I just have been feeling out of it.  Today I wanted to get back into my swing and had just had no creative ideas.  So this is just me playing around.  I'll get my groove back, I promise.

A few more macro shots

I couldn't help myself with these new extension tubes for my camera.  In the backyard I noticed more of my plants in bloom and of course the dreaded dandelions in the yard!  Even though these are a weed they sure do make a nice photo as a macro shot.

Dandelion

Lilac bush

Where is Yogi the Bear?

We were fortunate enough to take a small vacation to TN.  One of my absolute favorite spots is the Smokey Mountains and Cades Cove.  This time we took along my two step-daughters in hopes that they might get the chance to see a black bear in the wild.  Well, the mountains didn't let me down, we did spot one bear (photo isn't the greatest). 

Our oldest enjoyed the hunt for bear, while the youngest listened to her Ipod in the car and continued to let us know how bored she was. LOL!  A few of my fav photos below.

Vultures drying their wings

Black Bear just outside of Cades Cove

My step-daughter actually took this of me doing what I love to do best!

Cupcake Tuesday

My sweet step-daughter brought me a Strawberry Shortcake cupcake from a new bakery that just opened in town.  The icing is literally about 3" high and it smells just divine!!!!  I can't wait to dig into it later tonight for my snack.  Mmmmm, I wonder if it is fat-free, NOT!

Thanks Melanie :)

More Macro Photography

I am really liking these extension tubes, but I find it hard to manually focus at time due to the weight and my excitement with this new experience.  I will get better with time & practice!!

Macro Photography

I've always wanted to play around with macro photography but not ready to purchase a macro lens.  My girlfriend and I decided to purchase some extension tubes to experiment with.  Some of you may be asking, "What is macro photography?"  Basically it is close up photography with a 1:1 or closer magnification.

Here are a few shots I took today just playing around with the tubes.

Bud of my tree against the blue sky

A tiny weed

My husband's bad habit!

I Dream of Jeanie

Storms always bring interesting cloud formations and tonight was no different.  This one looks like a headless jeanie to me.  What do you think?

Northern Michigan Winter Storm

Northern Michigan is an absolutely beautiful state and in the winter it continues to amaze me.  I used one of my photos for my weekly photo challenge so I wanted to post the additional shots from today.  Just beautiful!

 

 

 

Wk 9 Photo Challenge - A Great Leap

This weeks photo challenge is  "A Great Leap" by Life With My 3 Boybarians.  At first I thought this would be a difficult shoot but it actually turned out to be very easy.  My husband has a bowling tournament this weekend up in Norhtern Michigan so I decided to tag along for a much needed weekend away.  Little did we know that we were going to encounter a snow storm and today we woke up to appx 12" of snow!

Many would look at this as a day inside, but I decided after dropping my husband off at the bowling alley that I was going on a photo shoot as my "Great Leap" (of course I had his 4 wheel drive truck)!  I was able to capture some amazing shots, this is my favorite from today.  I'll post the rest in a new post once I have them completed.