Texture Tuesday with Kim Klassen

The Outside eDition

Our challenge is to use a photo that we took outside and at least one of Kim Klassen's texture.

I took this on my trip to Lake Tahoe, CA.  We were walking around town and came across a little shop that rented bicycles.  They looked really cool all lined up and thought I should take a shot.

I used Kim's texture "Wonderful Magic" on blending mode Screen at 100%.  I also used a Cross Process on this photo.

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Capture Life!

Keeping cool in the grass

Every morning after I grab my cup of coffee (a must), my dog wants to go outside.  Since I live in the desert, this time of year, it's a wee warm in the mornings.  Our backyard faces east, so we get the morning sun, anyway I head out with my coffee and see that one of the Hibiscus flower hasn't quit opened up all the way and decided to take a picture.  I have so many pictures of them opened all the way.

 

Then as I looked around our Rose of Sharon bush had some blooms on it and decided to take a few pictures of that one as well.  This bush is right outside my kitchen window, so I love it when there's blooms on it.

I was about to head back inside when I noticed my dog lying in the shade on the grass.  I went over and sat down and casually took a few pictures.  As you'll see he's pretending to be asleep and then well I think he's getting annoyed with me in the second photo.

 

He has days where he likes to have his pictures taken and then days he just doesn't want to be bothered.

Boys will be Boys....

Yesterday, my son was at a friends house up the street from us playing. I figured they were either inside playing video games or riding their bikes up and down the street. So I decided to go outside (it was a gorgeous day here in the desert) and saw them outside sitting on the ground bending over doing something.

Well I thought I'd go and get my new camera (love it) and try putting my 200mm lens on to see how well it works (I haven't had a chance to really use it yet). Well to my surprise they were making "paper airplanes"!



So I hid behind our wall and took a few pictures of them (without them seeing me...lol.) playing and throwing their paper planes up in the air. It's nice to see kids use their imaginations again to have fun, instead of sitting in front of a computer or video games.

Practicing Bike Tricks.....

My son has decided he wants to learn how to do BMX tricks with his bike now....hummm! Scary thought, but I'm trying hard to support him in his outdoor activities/sports he chooses.

He has gone down to the local "skate/bike" park a few times. He watches the other (even older) kids doing some of their tricks and tries to duplicate them. Some of those kids are pretty good (no pros), but still good.

So we've been looking for possibly some training, but haven't seen to found anything here were we live. But I did find a BMX track for all levels of experience to ride on (it's dirt) and it looks really cool. There's all kinds of jumps, hills and whatever else goes with the sport...LOL...

But part of the condition of him wanting to do this is....He NEEDS to wear a helmet!

When the weather cools off again, we're going to head over to that dirt track and let him go...