Last One First......May I Introduce.....

Such is the way of Blogging, the most recent photo posted is the latest. lol

Please say hello to Laurie-Anne, Becka and Michelle, 3 sisters who asked me to photograph them as an Easter gift for thier family.

I used Michelle's camera (a Nikon d3000) that she got for Christmas.

We spent some time indoors, then changed into something brighter and headed outside to enjoy the gorgeous weather!

The 'rents' were away for a few hours, and we took advantage (hehehehehe) I hear they were very pleased with the pics (we took abt 250 all told I think)

Eye's this way please??!!

Geeze...you'd think I could keep all of them looking my way, but sheesh....they have minds of thier own!

Pose please

After being inside for a bit, we changed up the clothes and headed out to the grey but bright spring day.

The girls were the colours, the landscape the setting. The dogs came for our walk too!

This one is already printed and framed at thier dad's workplace.

:)

Peekaboooooo!

Hehehehee....horsing around is much fun too...mucho in fact!

The Flowers of the Day.

What characters these 3 girls are!! I had so much fun, thank you for having me take your pics girls!

Spring Sunset Last Night

What was the reason I took this..... look below.

This was just after the sun faded. The picture below is only moments before..... Such a massive difference.

They call it the Golden Hour don't they??

hmmmmm maybe this is why?!

This is facing East, with the gorgeous 'golden light' shining on the still naked spring tree's from last nights 'dull as dirt' day. The sky is grey, the cedar's the only bright thing in the county....and then those lovely sun rays peeked, just before disappearing below the horizon behind me.

Thanks to the 'cloning tool' I got rid of the power lines too :)

It's Time

Thanks to my friend Michelle, and a need to learn her new camera (Nikon D3000), we hit the bustling town of Carleton Place this past Saturday for a few hours.

We wandered around the park and then more downtown, but stuck near the river and just snapped pics, trying different things to get a feel for the 'way' to take pics.

And among other things, a fresh look at ordinary things is always a suprise to discover, and that resulted in a bunch of new pics.

I've been busy as nuts can be crazy the last 3 months and I can't believe it's been that long since posting anything...but it has.

And a weekend home (finally) feels so good to recharge the batteries, find one's groove again and smile.

really smile.

So, there's a few here, as on Facebook. Hope you enjoy.

Earth Hour

We did our part, as I hope many many others did too.
Candlelight is so forgotten, the soothing sense of it too.

A Boathouse

Across the river, looks a tad forlorn, but hey....who knows what's just back a bit in there??

Was the start of a lovely few hours playing with camera's with a friend (she was learning her new camera)

Perspective is a funny thing

Remember being small and looking up, waaaaay up a building, that was only a generous one storey? This is one of those, but taken from abt 6" off the ground.
Prooving a point of perspective and I think it worked out alright.

A new look

Michelle, checking out the wall, yes, the wall (and the vines) for inspiration. Wild how getting out again with new eyes opens them again for me too.

Look up....look waaaaaaaay up!

Maybe not the tallest thing in the world, but tall enough for the day! Thanks Michelle, I'd not have stepped out into the street to take this if you weren't trying to get the same pic with your cam. Awesome!

Island in the Stream???

OKokokokokokok I know that's the name of a country song....but this little bit, near the beach yesterday, was just like a tiny island.
Hence.... Island...um..ya....in the ...(ok) river (not stream) sigh...hehehehehe
:)

Sunshine, a Friend and some smiles

made for a lovely day, thanks Michelle! Hope you're getting the hang of your new Nikon D3000. (I'm jealous....)lol

Peeking at the boathouse

From in the tunnels (see below) it looks different

A New Outlook

inspiration of being a little kid again sent me up the playstructure and into the tunnels there. They have peekaboo holes! How odd the world looks when you tunnel vision it...and capture it on the angles too. hehehehehe

Lean on ....

A big tree at the park, reaching for the water, or so it seems.

Rushing...everything rushing

This is only spring water coming down thru the river in Carleton Place, but man, there's lots of it.

Icy Mistress

Dreary day, set the B/W on instead.

This is only part of the Big pine that is at the end of my driveway.

It's also just after xmas this year, and everything is laden with ice from the freezing rain we had on Boxing Day.

I could wink out that power line, but didn't want to fuss with it. Only resized it to post.

Taken from almost kneeling on the road.