Color

How absolutely beautiful

This is a series of photos taken by Duncan yesterday. I love when my kids pick up the camera and just snap away. Sometimes they are trying to capture someone/something (me above) and sometimes they are just clicking away (the shoe and sky). Either way the results always amaze me. I remember taking a photography class in college and one of our assignments was to not look through the lens but rather put the camera at our hip (or anywhere) and just shoot away. Well let me tell you, to a perfectionist control freak virgo such as myself this was all but IMPOSSIBLE...because...well...what if it was a BAD picture, what if I WASTED film, what if it was blurry, what if I get 23 photos of the SAME thing, what if something wasn't centered, or what if something (or worse SOMEONE) was cut off, what if, what if?? Well, I'm 39 now...and I'm learning...I'm learning "so what"? So what if my head is cut off...I actually really like the photograph. It's my hands, it's my coat, it's a sunny fall day, it's relaxed...it's a lot of beautiful things in an imperfect photo.

Some of my "so what" comes from just getting older, living life, learning to let stuff go...but some of it my children teach me...and this I love

Loving grey lately

1. Hydrant against grey wall, 2. Grey Glacier, 3. splashes of red on a gray day, 4. youth nowadays, 5. Shades of grey, 6. TuNNeL°To°THe°CiTy°oF°aNGeLS, 7. There is thunder in our hearts ..., 8. To°FRaNCe, 9. Heritage, 10. Grey Crowned Crane, 11. grey&blue, 12. wood against water, 13. Gray Hairstreak, 14. Red and grey, 15. P1010423 trains, 16. P1020038-b Fastening point

Diary of an evening

What I see

I remember in one of my photography classes in college we were encouraged not to look through the lens but rather to just shoot. I remember being taught to shoot from the hip (literally) and I remember learning to pick a shot and photograph it from many different angles (getting down on the ground, standing on a chair etc). This photograph was taken at my parent's house. This is a view I've seen over and over and over. One could argue that there is nothing particularly magnificent about this photo but none the less I took this photograph in about 7 or 8 different ways and wasn't sure what I would get (if anything). I deleted them all but this one. Believe it or not...I loved the colors. I love the brown and black, the blue, the green, the white and the cream. I love the warm and cool colors mixed together. I love that I can be reminded to not take an old view for granted. And most of all I love that I can find beauty (and color) where others may just see gray.