Yellow Crocus

The Last of the Creepy pictures

My mom and dad stopped by today for a coffee and check on the laundry room reno's. For people who dislike getting their picture taken, they seemed awfully keen to take part in the Creepy picture experiment.

Creepy Dad

Creepy Mom

Creepy Kid

Possibly one of the greatest threats to our creativity is self imposed-the individual barriers people place upon themselves. --Richard Martin

Catkins

Gotcha

Happy Guy

Portrait Practice

Last month a few friends and fellow keener learners decided to start a photography club. A prerequisite for joining was a love for sushi as our meetings will be held at our favorite Japanese restaurant.

Each month we have an assignment to work on. The first one being portraits. We have to bring in three portraits to the meeting where they will be critiqued over sake and sushi.

The following pictures are some ideas I was playing with. A little creepy but fun none the less. My husband, neighbor and child humoured me and played along with my idea. My poor child was being a good sport for having a fever and feeling really quite crappy! What a guy!

Boy in the Window 2

Boy in the Window1

Peeping Tom 2

Peeping Tom 1

Yellow Crocus

Yellow Glass

Spiralling Beads

Yellow Bead

Bee

Purple Helebores

Helebore Explosion

Snowdrop 1

Snowdrops

Gardeners! It's Official...Spring is just around the Corner!

Okay, I know gardeners are a different bunch of folk. We get excited over things that most people probably never notice. Today when I went for a garden walk about, I was so happy to see the new growth on one of my clematis. The snowdrops and helebores were an added bonus. I even noticed my lollipop lillies were starting to break ground. Yipee! A light at the end of this dark, wet tunnel!

Winter Garden

Wet Leaves

Baby smells and Sore shoulders

Yesterday I was lucky enough to look after my friends baby for a couple of hours. I love babies. They smell so good. This little or I should say big guy gave my shoulders a good work out. I can't believe how sore they are today.

It is funny though how one soon forgets that you get nothing done with a baby around. Any aspirations of cleaning the house went out the window. I am not complaining though. When my little guy was a baby, I would sit for hours just holding him. In hindsight I probably held the poor guy too much. Those days have gone by much to fast. Nowadays the smells are of muddy clothes and sweat. I still wouldn't trade it for anything and I will still take a cuddle whenever I can get it!

Smiley Baby

Purple Tulips

Tulip Leaf

Purple Tulip4

Purple Tulip3

Purple Tulip5

Anemone'Honorine Jobert'

Sunny Bright

Tulip Tip

B/W Glass Ornament

Rusty Latch

Deer Fern

Happy Birthday Melanie!!! Love Ya!

The Urban Nest Rocks!

Day 26 of wind and rain. Since it wasn't an outdoor shooting day(again), I decided to head down to my friend Melanie's store and take some pictures. This is my favorite store! Lots of cool things to take pictures of.

I went to a talk the other night on portraiture photography. The instructor emphasized on how important it is to step out of your comfort zone and take pictures of subjects you don't normally take. So here goes.... 

Leaves and Glass

Colorful Plates

Robins Egg Blue (Bowl and Pestle)

Faux Flowers

Nice Balls...Glass Balls

Napkin Rings

On Sale

Sushi Plates

napkins

Mahonia with frost

Frost on bench

Goof Balls