I'm a Finalist!

Some of my photography friends have been encouraging me to enter photos in the free monthly contests held at BetterPhoto.com. I have been entering for several months, getting comments here and there, but not placing in the contests, until now.



Here is the email that I received :

Congratulations! You have placed as a finalist in this month's BetterPhoto
Contest! Over 26000 photos were entered into the competition; it is an honor
to have your image selected among the top 898 finalist photos.

Your finalist photo: Little Miss Sunshine

I am so excited to be a finalist. What an awesome feeling.

Lil' Biker Chick

I don't think that I need to say much here, the pictures pretty much speak for themselves!

Dollies Need Swimming Lessons Too

Well, at least my DD thinks so.

While she was swimming a few days ago, decided that she should give her Dolly some swimming lessons, so that she can swim with her this summer in the pool. I was able to capture some of the action to share with you.

Here she is showing her how to swim:


This is how you do a back float:

Now try it on your own:

A big hug for Dolly for a job well done:

First Swim of the Season

Yes, the nice weather has finally arrived and swimming season has officially arrived for my daughter. I prefer the pool to be just a little warmer yet, but the cold water does not seem to bother her at all.

When we had been out getting shopping and getting groceries, she spied this stick on belly button jewellery, that she thought would be just perfect to wear for the pool party she was planning for her pretend friend for the first swim of the season.


I am not sure which picture I like better, the centred one or the one where the "belly button ring" as she calls it is highlighted by the sun.





Here she is with the caterpillar that she rescued from the pool.



when I took her out after supper to play this was the foot wear she chose to compliment her outfit!




She is trying to coax the cat out of the tree, using a butterfly net. You can only imagine how fun this was in real life. What makes it even funnier, was that the cat was quite content to be up in the tree just out of her reach.

Dancing with the Wind

It has been so windy around here that is has been impossible to get nice sharp macros in the garden, so I decided to embrace the wind, and capture movement in my pictures instead.

I am not thrilled with the background, but it was the best background I could come up with given the tulips were growing under some large trees at the edge of garden.


This is one of those artistic images that you either love or hate, there is no middle of the ground on whether you like this type of thing or not.


Please feel free to leave your thoughts, comments, good bad or otherwise.

Spider Webs

I couldn't resist taking some picture the other morning of this spider web covered with dew. You would wonder how something as icky as a spider could make something so beautiful.

Track and Field

I received an email this morning telling me that it was time to change the banner for my blog. Hmmm, do you think so. To be quite honest, I had not thought that anyone was even checking my blog any more so I had stopped posting on it. I will start posting again for those of you who are still checking. But you are going to have to give me a little time to get the banner changed.

Friday was track and field day at my son's school. I would not say that action photography is my speciality, but I did my best to capture the events of the day. This makes me what to have more of a sport lens, that is quick focusing and low stop for background blur, but that is not likely to happen for a while, so I will just have to work with what I do have. These are all in 8x10 storyboard frames made by Tina, but since my background is white too, they do not show up, and I just do not have time to change this right now.


EnjoySOFTBALL THROW:
HIGH JUMP:
TRIPLE JUMP:

A Little Sunshine

It has been rainy and overcast here all day, so I thought I would post some bright and cherry pictures, that can't help but make you smile.



I think that this one is my favorite:

My Little Flower

It has been way to long since I updated my blog. This working thing is really cutting into my photography time.

I was this flower headband the last time we were over to Target, and thought it would be so cute for little girls for photo shoots. DD is probably a little old, but she was still a good sport about it. Here are the pictures that I was able to get from a little photo shoot with her the other weekend.


This one was her own pose, it really shows her personality.

A Frosty Cold Morning

I woke up yesterday to a heavy frost. We usually only get heavy frost like this a couple of times a year, so I thought I should try and capture the beauty of it when I had the chance. I tried, but still think that it is much prettier in real life. I took some macro and a few landscape and other shots to share with all you Southern folk.