Colour Challenge

I chose the colour purple for Inspiration Challenge #1 - Colour over at Two Photogs. Basically all you need to do to participate is pick a colour and shoot it. You then use the handy template they provide to put the pictures into a neat little collage, post it on you blog and then comment and leave a link to your blog on their blog. Easy peasy right! Well, I guess that depends on what colour you choose. I chose Purple because it was my daughters favorite colour. Who knew I would be able to find so much purple around, or that purple came in so many different shades and hues.

Somewhere over the rainbow....

I think I have had that song in my head since seeing an amazing rainbow the other morning. When I first looked outside early in the morning, the sky was a orangish/gray colour off into the west while the sun was just rising in the east. I also noticed a red beam of light off to the north. I went out for a better look and noticed that is was actually part of a rainbow.




Just after taking a couple of pictures of the rainbow, it started to rain ( I thought the rainbow came after the rain, not before), and the rainbow became more vibrant.

Here it is over our house. I changed the white balance on this one to get the nice blue sky, it was actually the sort of eerie gray in the second picture. Fun to see how colour temperature can change the look of a picture.




It was just so amazing to see, the colours were so vibrant, I could see the colours in front of the dull gray bare trees in the forest.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing all my clients, friends and family a wonderful Thanksgiving.

A Splash of Fall Colour

Glorious Sunset

With the rain coming and going every 5 minutes these days, I felt pretty lucky to capture a glimpse of the sun just as it was setting the other night.

Autumn Days

It is hard to believe it is October already. I mean really where did the month of September go??? Fall has also officially arrived. I thought this image sort of summed up fall, the leaves are changing the weather is cold, and lots of dark stormy skies.

Sneak Peek for L and K

Congratulations L and K on baby "M", she is beautiful. It may have taken a while, but once we got her to sleep, she slept like a trooper. D, I know Mommy says you are "willful", but honestly, I don't think you could have been better behaved while I was there. I enjoyed our little chat about farming and trucks too.

Enjoy your sneak peek L and I will be in touch with you soon with your gallery information.

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Happy Birthday D

Well it is hard to believe that another year has gone by already. Where exactly does the time go??? Anyways, D celebrated his birthday last week, by going riding out at a local track with a few of his friends. It was a beautiful day weather wise which made for some great pictures.






I have done a combined exposure picture for D before when he did a jump with his petal bike, but never the dirtbike, so I got out the tripod and snapped away and then combined the exposures later in photoshop.




I made one for his best friend also. I love the way his turned out as I captured him right from the take off to the landing!

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

I thought I would share some more photos from our vacation a few weeks ago. We stopped at Sleeping Bear Dunes on Lake Michigan, and what an amazing site it is to see. My pictures hardly do it justice the dunes just go on and on as far as the eye can see.



As you go around the scenic drive to view the dunes there are various lookouts to stop at. The dunes are delicate and the natural vegetation is easily damaged by foot traffic so people are encouraged to use the paths and lookout spots provided. Once the vegetation is damaged it is easier for erosion to take place. Here is the warning just before you get to the lookout platform.


This is the view of Lake Michigan looking straight out over the lake from the warning sign.


I did manage to inch a little closer towards the edge to find the shoreline. It may not look that high in the picture, but trust me it is. Can you spot the two people who decided to descend the dune that morning?


I have circled them in red for you.


Here is a close up as well. The quality is not great with that much zooming in, but I wanted you to see that they are actually people.


A couple of different views of the steep dune.




The view to the north from the lookout platform:






The view to the south: