leftovers...

these are some leftover side photos from various times that i've taken pics....


what i was going for before the grasshopper joined me...

this leaf got a little crowded...

my princess and her new princess dress...

aaaaand again...

and some more of my lil model's pics with her bear...

and i leave you in peace with a shot of my very active pup...

another new technique...

usually the point of good photography is to try to put things into focus....but sometimes it's fun to capture things out of focus too!  It usually drives me nuts but this time i was able to capture the photo just right...enough in focus to know what it is, but out of focus enough to make it interesting...

practice

Today i spent a little bit of time practicing my closeups and flower photos as well as my black and white editing.  I am such a fan of b/w photography but it's actually difficult to edit just right.  Some photos call for overexposure, others require filters to bring out certain colors as brighter white or darker black.  Either way this bright yellow flower created some good practice for me!

i was capturing some water beads on a piece of grass and the second i started to snap this grasshopper joined me.  He was so well behaved as i was within about 3 inches of him and there he just sat!  What fortune!!