Showing posts with label sally russick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sally russick. Show all posts

FOL14- Week 17 - Evening Moments

Continuing with April's theme of 'Moments', Sally, over at The Studio Sublime, gave us this prompt for week 17 of the Focus on Life: 2014 weekly photography challenge:
 
 
 
Evening Moments
 
"There is a moment when the day begins to quietly slip away from the earth and the calm of evening floods over the land.  Colors deepen, stars peek through pin holes in a twilight sky.  We begin to exhale and slowly let the world of the day slide from our shoulders."
 
Dusk, next to dawn,
is my favorite time of day.


 
Especially in the desert.
 
 
 
For my birthday last month, my sister took me to the Desert Botanical Gardens to see the Chihuly Exhibit
 
His glass sculptures are out of this world!
 
 
It was so cool to see how the sculptures mimicked the desert vegetation.

 
We went an hour or so before sunset and enjoyed all the beautiful flowers blooming on the various cactus.
 
 
 
Then, as the sun settled down and the day turned into evening, we were able to see "Chihuly After Dark".
 
 
 
 
It was a breathtaking 
Evening Moment in the desert.
 
 
This one was my favorite. The way the sunlight glistened off the tips of the glass as day turned into night
made for a very special moment indeed!
 
 
Until Next Time,
 
Peace, Love and Life's Evening Moments!
 
Cheers,
~Shel~

FOL14 - Week 15

It's Week 15 for the Focus on Life: 2014 weekly photography challenge.
 
 
For the month of April our topic is:
Moments
 
Our weekly focus this week:
A Moment of Focus
 
"Allowing yourself to focus on one moment, one subject.  A crisp, clear moment of focus."
 
Sally really gave us some great tips over on the Focus on Life Blog this week, and I tried out the 'depth of focus' tips. 
 
Here's my 'Moment of Focus' this week:
 
 
 
 
This one was fun. Fun taking the photo(s). Fun editing. Fun learning.
 
I still don't always have it down right, especially when I'm trying to do this with my jewelry shots - but I do love to try to get the type of shot where something in front is totally in focus and the background is blurred. I think it looks really cool.
 
 

 
 
Check out what other Moments of Focus the other participants have captured this week!
 
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Moments in Focus!
Cheers,
~Shel~


FOL14 - Week 14 - Morning Moments

It's week 14 for the Focus on Life 2014 Weekly Photography Challenge and Sally over at The Studio Sublime has given us the theme of "Moments" for the month of April.
 
 
This week our prompt is
"Morning Moments".
 
Sally asked us to photograph what our Morning Moments consist of; whether it be a quiet, coffee drinking moment or a mad dash to get the kids off to school, a 3a.m. feeding for those with little ones or stolen moments waiting for the train or bus to take us to work.
 
Most of you know that I capture as many 'Morning Sunrise Moments' as possible.
 
Despite the fact that I LOVE the time where the sun starts to rise and it goes from dark to light and the day officially begins,
my favorite morning moment is actually chatting with my son for a while
 before he leaves for school each day. 
 
But, since he wouldn't let me
snap his photo (surprise!)
or capture any of these moments on film
(digital camera! LOL!),
I captured this Morning Moment instead,
 
Yep, pretty much everything is 'outta-focus' until I have this! :-)
 
 
Ah, the morning Cup O'Joe!
 
It's my second favorite morning moment.
 
Okay, well maybe it's my third, favorite!
 
 
 
Please go check out what
Morning Moments
every one else has captured this week!
 
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Morning Moments!
Cheers,
~Shel~
 

FOL14 - Week 13 - Eye Level

It's week 13 for the Focus on Life 2014 Weekly Photography Challenge and Sally over at The Studio Sublime has given us the theme of

"Checking Out" for the month of March.
 
 
"For the last Saturday of March, we're going to check out what's going on at eye level.
From where you stand, sit, kneel or lay, take a look around at your surroundings and capture what's at eye level."
 
I was going to snap a photo of my computer screen for the prompt this week because, lately, it's what's at 'eye-level' every single day as I work on analytical data review.
 
But, I thought that would be rather boring
for you all to see, so,....
 
I had lunch out on the patio one day
and this is what was at eye level.
 
Well, it was at eye-level as I leaned back in my chair to enjoy the scene. :-)
 
 
And then one night this week, Mike and I walked over to the neighbor's and had cocktails by his negative-edge pool and watched the sunset.
 
This is what was at eye level
as I sat in one of the comfy chairs.
 
 
 
 
Of course I had to include a photo
of a sunset (or sunrise), right?
 
(today's my birthday, so I'm allowed!)
 

This is really 'eye-level'. You can't tell where the pool ends and the lake begins. I love that!
 
 
 
Please pop over and see what every one else captured at eye level this week.
 
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Eye Level Beauty!
Cheers,
~Shel~

FOL14 - Expression

It's week 12 for the Focus on Life 2014 Weekly Photography Challenge and Sally over at The Studio Sublime has given us the theme of
"Checking Out" for the month of March.
 
This week's prompt was:
 
Expression
 
"Whether is is someone by themselves, interacting with others or (this is always the best) the way they interact with their animals;  the way a person expresses themselves is always so interesting.  This week we are checking out expression.   There are many definitions of expression and it doesn't have to be a capture of the face."
 
 
So, I captured two snapshots of Mike.
 
One of him working in the garage on some pewter skulls for me.
 
 
 
 
 
And, one of him helping me with
my apple pie crust.
 
 
 
 
A very 'serious' expression in both
pics if you ask me.
 
 
But, then I thought of these two silly kids.
 
 
 
My son and his girlfriend - what a cute and funny couple!

 
Yep. They make me smile!
 
 
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Expression Fun!
Cheers,
~Shel~
 

FOL14 - Week 11 - Beauty All Around

It's week 11 for the Focus on Life 2014 Weekly Photography Challenge and Sally over at The Studio Sublime has given us the theme of

"Checking Out" for the month of March.
 
This week's prompt is:

 
 
Beauty All Around
 
You've all seen the sunrises and sunsets I've been posting lately, which would have been super for this week's prompt, but I'll spare you yet another one!
 
I was out walking in the neighborhood keeping a keen eye out for something to photograph that would embrace this prompt.
  
This was some of the
beauty I found all around.


Pretty flowers outside our subdivision


And, even more.


Beautiful Bougainvilleas

 
 
Okay - so I couldn't resist.
 
Here's another sunset.


Friday Night's Sunset Over the Big Lake
(sorry I couldn't make it bigger w/out it running off the page!)



And here's a duck landing on the water, too!

  
 

 
 
Please go check out the "Beauty All Around" that everyone else found this week, won't you?
 
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Beauty All Around!
Cheers,
~Shel~