We've had a pretty mild and relaxing summer so far..until this week. Warm temperatures have sent my daughter and I looking for relief along the coast..
Where we enjoy our "best friend" status..
..And I start to see more of me every day. (That is my smirk for sure.)
Don't forget to enter our virtual collaboration! Send a link to your photo this week! Check out the contributors on the sidebar to the right.
I
frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep
an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old
acquaintance among the pines.
~Henry David Thoreau
In follow up to last years photography collaboration, "From Sea to Shining Sea", JeriAnn and I invite you to our second annual virtual photo excursion. Getting Arboreal: A Nature Collection, will document a single trees journey from Summer to Fall/Winter to Spring.
Grab your camera, find your tree and upload a picture to your blog this week. After you upload your post for the collaboration, please come back to my post here and leave a link to your post so that I can add your link to my sidebar.
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
-Ansel Adams
We will photograph our trees three times.
Mark your calendars, and join us for photographs near the following dates:
Week of August 23
Week of November 8
Week of April 4, 2010
I am interested to see the changes to the trees over time as well as the environment that the trees live in. After all, there is no snow in San Diego! (Southern hemisphere, northern hemisphere- the virtual tour is open to everyone! Camera phone, point and shoot, big daddy cameras...it's all good!)
Feel free to post a close up picture of a leaf from your tree and JeriAnn will make every attempt to identify your tree.
Sound interesting? Meet my tree:
Standing in a local park, my tree is actually a memorial dedicated to a woman named "Phyllis" who passed away in 2003. I do not know her, but I am sure she would be happy to know people from around the world will be able to see her beautiful tree. This first picture of my tree was taken in San Diego on August 19, 2009.
So- seen any good trees lately?
On assignment in San Diego. More details to come tomorrow..but I have a fun collaboration in the works..all you need is a camera. I hope to see you play along with Jeriann and I.
(driving with my camera out the window....)
Last week I met up with my neighbor Denise who lives down the street. Denise has committed herself to blogging everyday for the rest of the year...stop by and say hello, won't you?
At the same gathering, I also met Charita. Charita has a business selling waste-free meal kits. What a great idea..don't you think?
Happy I have met these two new friends, and happy you have stopped by today as well! See you tomorrow!
My friend Katie joined me for some shenanigans on Saturday... on the agenda, a photo shoot for Katie..this B&W was one of my favorite pics of the day. I'm learning new "stuff" on the Mark all the time..yearning for a class to come my way..
After all of the running around, Anna (who didn't have a photo shoot...but she will soon) joined us for a camp out/cook out..Example A: Anna's hot dog..
Side dish to the hot dogs, Pioneer Woman's Potato Bundles. Delicious... I mean.. REALLY delicious.
That's right....
Is your diet canceled yet?
S'mores too....
So Sunday night I made more potatoes.. this time I added more cream and parmigiano reggiano. Can you see the resulting sauce at the bottom of the foil packet? Sorry P Dub...this extra touch made the already fantastic potatoes reach "over the moon" status...as well as my next pant size...but I can walk it off.
The evil eye...
My only complaint this weekend? This:
What the heck is this?? For those of you that don't know, I live in a linear route to the NFL Stadium here. Every home game, we get a "fly-over" just before kick off. It's the highlight of my week. My dad tunes into his police scanner listening for the "clear all air traffic....F-18's en route" signal..once given he speeds over to my place and we watch the horizon. My friend who is always at the games calls when the announcer gives the signal...kids run to the street on our block and everyone anticipates the rumble of the fighter jets. Why am I telling you this? Because normally they are directly overhead. So low I can practically shout up, "Hey, Jimmy- how's the wife and kids?" So armed with my new zoom lens this season, ready to go, the military looks as if they have changed their route. Still loud...but I am not recording sound bytes for the ol' blog here....I want stills. I know...safety, schmafty... I'll get over it.
Happy week, friends- My new online workshop "Super Nova" is open! Classes start as low as $39!
Here we are in Port Orchard, Washington. As my glorious luck would have it, my cousin (who I just met for the first time) is part owner of a yarn shop... thank god. My knitting aint too pretty.
I was looking at this guy last night...checking out the camera settings and what not...and I noticed something strange...is his beak wired shut?
New favorite photography site: Feature Shoot I love the variety!
