An Awesome View of Life

  Frozen Splendor...       For almost 40 years we have lived in the Minneapolis area and until today we had never seen Minnehaha Falls frozen.  It was breathtaking in more than one way. It was -2 degrees out there today.  The top photo was taken from above the falls.  The middle one was taken from the bottom after slipping and sliding down the stairs that were somewhat barricaded.  It probably meant we weren't suppose to go down there but... The final picture was taken just before we got back to our car, my hands were so frozen I could hardly switch the setting to black and white and push the button to take the photo. Today is day 365 of my 365Project!   It has been an amazing journey.   The things I take with me from this project are numerous.   Here are a few: -There is beauty in everything around us.   -Take a deep breath and enjoy life. -My photos showed others the beauty surrounding them. ...

Pigment of my Imagination... I LOVE saying this "saying" wrong. (:  So I thought I'd take a photo or 100 photos trying to capture this saying.  Yes, I took 100 photos today and most of them are crap but that's the process some days. The above photo is what I thought of when I decided to try to capture the "Pigment of my Imagination".  If you look really hard you can see the semi-truck creating the yellow and red scriggly lines.  I could take photos like this all night long.  I just need someone to be the driver for the drive-by shootings. ha! The photo below is a different representation of "Pigment of my Imagination".  It was taken using the selective color setting on my camera.  The item in the photo is one of the suits I design and create.  The stone designs on ALL of my suits are most definitely a result of my imagination with a bit of pigment thrown in. (:  

Puddled reflections...

  A Red Green Moment - one last time... Perfect. ONE red berry and just a bit of the green bush without even a pinch of cropping. I'm quite pleased with my last Red Green Moment of my 2013 365Project. (: 

  Happiness... I'm not sure why I titled it this because I'm not a huge chocolate fan anymore. I will eat it but I almost never crave chocolate.

  Christmas Sunset... What a beautiful sunset on Christmas Day.  I walked out to the middle of the lake to capture a series of sunset photos.     The walk out wasn't too bad but after actually sitting down to take these photos I walked back to the house against a strong, cold north wind with a frozen, wet tush.  I am only adding these tidbits in case I forget the real story when I'm old and senile.  (:

  Merry Christmas from our house to yours... A wonderful day spent with family at our Dad's.

  Merry Christmas Eve...

  Oh so clever (not)... The first couple of shots were with me sitting directly behind this ornament.  I knew my reflection was in the ornament which was fine.  But I thought I'd be clever and move off to the side and not have my reflection be in the photo. ha!  When I started looking at the uploaded photos I laughed at myself so hard I snorted!  So this is an awesome photo! (:  I love that I can laugh at myself. 

  Snowy Halos...

Just Adorable... My beautiful, wonderful daughters.

  A Day of Reflections... Today I almost allowed a negative conversation to make me miss taking pictures.  So glad I got my camera out because I AM better than that negative conversation. 

  Holiday Framed Self-Portrait...

Pretty in Pink...

  Night Lights...

  Frosty Full Moon... Well almost full.  Decided to play with some more settings on my camera.  Love that I found this one!  Look for more night time photos. (:

Blurry Blue...

A Red Green (and White) Moment...

  Blah and White...   Off and on today I have been watching kite boarding in Florida via a live webcam.  Then - I went for a walk in frigid Minnesota! 

  City Sidewalks...

  Snowy Pine...

  Rows and Stacks of Inspiration...   This is my one of my favorite places.  30,000 square feet of fabric, buttons, ribbons, trim and just about everything sewing you can imagine.  I left there today so inspired.  There will be some good things being made.  Stay tuned... This is a very terrible picture taken with my phone camera while dashing around to make sure I got to see EVERYTHING.  I spent the rest of the day creating so never got the big camera out.  Oh well.

  A warm view of the blowing snow... Sitting in front of the fireplace watching the wind swirl our new snowfall off of the roof.

  Frozen Reflections...   And two very frozen and snowy photographers.

  Haunting Landscape...

  Waxing Crescent Moon and Venus at Sunset...

Frozen Drips...   This is not a reference to any persons known or unknown to myself. ha!

  Snowy Day Jingle Bells...   This is my favorite Christmas ornament.  We have had this on our tree every year for the past 33 years.    I took pictures of the snow storm but I'm really tired of snow pictures for my 365 Project.  I'm not sure how I'm going to make it through the next 26 days.  I'll get it figured out though.

  Winter seclusion...   Back on October 8th I took a photo of this same bench.  There are leaves on the trees and fallen leaves cover the path.  This photo is not cropped and was taken in black and white so the perspective is a tad different.  But the serenity and beauty of this spot is still captured.   Life has a bit of a different view when you are looking through a camera that is not "seeing" any color.  There is definitely a challenge to find and capture the true beauty in what you are photographing.

  Laughter...   Today is my baby's 21st birthday.  One of my best creations.  (:   Laughter caused this picture to be a bit blurry.

  Black and white arch...

  Flawless Birch...

  Waiting...   My beautiful, youngest niece Sidney(center) waiting to get back on the ice.  Fun getting to see her play tonight. (: 

  Thanksgiving Sunset...

  Peace in the tall pines...

Classic Vinyl... We have a pretty extensive, diverse vinyl collection.  This Dean Martin album belonged to my parents.  My youngest daughter loves Dean as well Frank Sinatra which we also have a few of in our collection.

  Yes! We have no bananas...

  Cold November morning...

    Baby it's cold outside...

  Homemade...   This is one of the few things I believe I do exceptionally well. (:

  Tilted...

  A few loose screws or just crazy...   I'm pretty sure my neighbors who don't know about my photo project think I'm crazy.  Today I sat on my driveway with no shoes or coat taking various shots of the gate on our privacy fence.  I'm sure I was carrying on some sort of conversation with myself as well.   This was taken in black and white with the selective color option on my camera.  I got exactly the amount of green moss I wanted in this photo.  Love this setting on my camera.

  Far away shot...   I zoomed in as far as I could and this is what I got.  For some reason I always thought these nests were squirrel's nests??  This was shot from my backyard to the neighbor's a couple of houses down and across the street.    I still want a better picture of one of those blue jays. I still have about 40 days left to get one.

  My favorite mirror...    

    Prairie colors...

  Cool reflection...   This picture was taken through my sliding glass door.  The fireplace was reflecting on the door.  Pretty cool? 

  Me and my shadows...   I love finding pretty shadows.  Also shot in black and white and selective colors today.  A pretty fun way to take pictures.  (: