11 Monday Jul 2011
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Last night the kids were leaving and yelled for me to come look!
The sun was going down over the bay and I can always tell if it’s a good sunset or not by west through the trees at the color of the sky. But I’ve never seen it like this!
It looked like the forest was ablaze!
Red sky at night, Sailor’s delight…
08 Monday Sep 2008
Everyone who knows me knows my new obsession is my camera. Everyone knows I take it everywhere I go. And I use it. All the time. Sometimes I come home and upload my photos to my computer (see? I don’t even say “pictures” anymore…learning the lingo) and I feel so discouraged, like I haven’t learned a thing or improved even a teensy bit. Then other times I get totally stoked because I have a photograph that is amazing. To me. At least.
Well, a couple months ago I started submitting photos into contests. Online photo contests where other photographers, amateurs and pros, vote on my photos, and I can vote on others’ photos. People can leave comments, what they like or dislike about a photo, and can give you pointers to make it better, either through photoshop, or just better next time. (By the way, I almost never edit in photoshop. I end up liking them straight out of the camera better and revert them to original, except for cropping or brightening).
Today I received an email one of my photographs had received an award! I was so shocked. For one thing, it was one of the first that I entered into this particular site, and mis-categorized it. It should have been a “seascape” or “sunsets”, but I entered it as a “landscape”. One Very Helpful Person pointed this out right away. She never did say if she liked it or not. Just that it was in the wrong category. So, even though I entered this photo in haste, and put it in the wrong category, it won an award!
Click Here so see the Award
And here’s the photo that won:
06 Saturday Sep 2008
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From Zuanich Park:
29 Sunday Jun 2008
For Rick and I the last few years, a big part of summer is going and enjoying the Concerts In The Park program here in Bellingham. And after weeks and months of cold, gray, wet weather, last night was a dream! We took a small picnic supper and our camping chairs. Enjoyed the music of Marion Weston Band, soaked in the sunshine and visited with family and friends. Our friend John said, “now we just need about 200 more days like this”. I’ll settle for 60.
Recognize the guy in the window at Boomers?
03 Saturday May 2008
Once back in Bellingham Abbie and I went to her new place to start putting her room together. This must not be taken in any way as me condoning her moving out. I don’t. I am officially against her living away from me. Ever. But I will pretend to think it’s a great idea until I come up with a plan to thwart it. Right now I’m just too tired to think of one.
From there Rick and I went to Hannah’s surprise graduation party (which again, wasn’t a surprise after all)
And from there, we went to Boulevard Park where we sat and watched the sun set while chatting with Darryl and Stacy Smith who we ran into outside Woods Coffee.
I’m exhausted.
18 Friday Apr 2008
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