Photo A Day ~ July 6 - 12

July 6 ~ My Name
July 7 ~ Minimalist
July 8 ~ Inside my Fridge
July 9 ~ Street
July 10 ~ My Story
July 11 ~ Late
July 12 ~ Early

Photo A Day Challenge

First week of July is done...well I missed one day.

* July 1 ~ In the house

* July 2 ~ Signed Sealed Delivered (missed that one)

* July 3 ~ Outing

* July 4 ~ Red White Blue

* July 5 ~ Me today

This month my personal challenge is to take all the daily prompts with my cell phone.

If you're interested in joining in on the fun click here!

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One week down...

Here's the first week of June from the "Photo A Day" challenge.

June 1 ~ Many
June 2 ~ Looking Up
June 3 ~ Silly
June 4 ~ Starts with "B"
June 5 ~ Looking Down
June 6 ~ Who am I
June 7 ~ Forgotten

If you're interested in joining in click here.

Visitor

My morning visitor, waiting on the front porch.

It's a Spinx Moth, they are huge!

At first, I wasn't sure what it was and didn't want my dog to step on it.

I ran in the house and grabbed my camera hoping that us stepping over it didn't scare it away.  He was very cooperative as you can see.

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Photo A Day

Week 5 photo a day challenge.

                             *Day 26 ~ Three Things
                             *Day 27 ~  Morning
                             *Day 28 ~ Strange
                             *Day 29 ~ Winter/Summer
                               (depend on where you live)
                             *Day 30 ~  Favorite food
                             *Day 31 ~   On Top
                             *Day 01 ~  On your plate
                          As you can see I didn't actually take a pic for Feb.1

If you're interested in the FMS Photo A Day challenge, click here for more details.

FMS Photo A Day Challenge

Week 4

Prompts for the week:

*  1/19 - Homemade

*  1/20 - Window

*  1/21 - In a row

*  1/22 - Collection

*  1/23 - Something far away

*  1/24 - Playtime

*  1/25 - Black and White

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Photo A Day Challenge

I've been in this group for some time now and haven't always participated every day or even every month.  So, I decided I was going to make it a point to stick with it this year.  I have missed a couple of days and I'll admit a couple of the photos are from my archives, but at least I'm trying...right?  Here in a few collages are the first 3 weeks of the challenge from Fat Mum Slim.

Week 1: Sky, Something Yellow, You and What you hear

 Week 2: Square, Round, What you're reading, 

Landscape, Pattern, Hello and I see

Week 3: Bright, Lucky No., New, Old,

Nature, Jump and Today is

It's a lot of fun and a great group of people too.

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Traveling Ornies!

New listings at...

...Dark Decors

Hand painted Tapered Candles

Festive Witch Hat ornaments 

(more designs in shop)

Who wouldn't want a 

pair of these...

...oh how we laughed.

Fall Decor

A few pictures from my table setting.  Are you ready for Thanksgiving?

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Haunted House

This house was taken by Carrie Lago during her trip to Bristol, CT.  Edited by me in PicMonkey and Corel PSP.

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Memes from...

...Dark Decors

Summer Vacation 2014

This year we went to visit family in Morro Bay, CA.

If you're not familiar with Morro Bay, it's kind of famous for the big "rock" which is at the entrance of Morro Bay Harbor.  I captured the fog rolling in so you can't really see how tall it is.

I miss the ocean, growing up not to far from Galveston, TX.  I love just sitting on the beach watching the waves crash up on the sand, seagulls running around and kids building sand castles.

I like to play in the sand too...lol.  Personally, the water is a bit chilly for me, but I did eventually put my feet in it.

Ok, maybe just my toes.

There were these really weird, but kind of cool looking jelly fish that washed up on the beach.  Here's Charlie writing a message out of them to his cousin (that's who we're visiting).  They don't sting, so no worries there.  Here's a better photo of what they look like (top and bottom)

We had a great time just relaxing and hanging out with family.

I love the beach!

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Beauty

Not only will it restore your soul, it will restore the souls of those around you.

I saw this peacock just walking down a neighboring street.  I had to pull over and take a picture of him.  His feathers were so beautiful.  I sat in my car just watching him walk with such elegance.  It was if he owned the road, not something you see everyday.

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Macro Fun

Bouquet of flowers for Valentine's Day.  Collage was done through PicMonkey.  

I use to do a lot of Macro photography and then shied away from it, not sure why. While sitting next to this beautiful bouquet inspired me to shoot some macro. Hmm...maybe I'll start doing a "Macro Monday" challenge myself.

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Texture

I've been working on creating my own textures to use on photos.  Here's one using two photo's I've taken and made a few adjustments using "curve" and different brushes and tones.

Wee Little Bird

Lately here in Las Vegas we've had some spectacular clouds (which is very unusual) so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to snap this shot not only of the clouds but of the "wee little bird" perched upon a tiny limb.

I shot this with the camera on my cell phone and edited it in Snapfeed and also PicMonkey.

I do enjoy my early morning walks with my dog at the park.  Everything looks so fresh and new.

Where and when do you find some of your photography inspirations?

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Dark and Dreamy

During my morning walk at the park the other morning, my dog stopped and I just happened to look up.  This tree and it's branches were just to cool not to snap a pic.  

I edited this pic in #Snapseed.  I uploaded it to #Instagram and someone commented on it, that's where I got the title from.

Sometimes it pays to look up every once in awhile.

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Into the Mist

I pass this tree daily while out walking my dog.  Today, I decided to stop and take a picture of it.  Actually for some reason it just jumped out and caught my eye and I thought, "Why haven't I notice how fabulous this tree is before?"  I took the photo with my phone (unfortunately didn't have my DSLR on me) then I edited it in "Snapfeed".  

I'm planning on taking a picture of this tree with each season.  I have another photo of a tree that I'm going to do the same with.

I don't know why, but I'm really drawn to trees and have decided I should start photographing them, maybe it's what I'm suppose to do...lol.

What type of things are you just drawn to that you feel the need to photograph?

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Playing with textures

Playing around in Pixlr Express using Shadow House Creation's textures (sorry can't remember which ones) and different types of blending modes.