Photos from my Mother’s Yard

July 16, 2013July 18, 2013Leave a comment

Raindrops

July 15, 2013July 15, 2013Leave a comment

Raindrops in a Stream

I took this a few weeks ago during a light rainstorm. Unfortunately, my shutter speed (1/25 sec) wasn’t nearly fast enough to capture the ripples without blurring. Even at this size, sized for the web, the blur is apparent. That’s pretty bad. The light was too low and I was having trouble getting the image bright enough. I had the iso set at 800, but in retrospect, I should have set it even higher so I could have gotten that shutter speed up. Oh well, too late now.

Photos!

June 8, 2013June 10, 20134 Comments

You know you like photos. Here are some from around my yard yesterday.

Does anyone know what kind of mushrooms those are?

My nearly wild roses are blooming like nuts.
Here’s what my rose arch looks like.

Chives Flower Photo

June 2, 2013June 2, 2013Leave a comment

A picture I took the other day just as
my camera’s battery was going dead.

Chives

Photo Dump!

May 15, 2013May 15, 20132 Comments

Flowers and Leaves

: Daffodil

: Yellow Tulip

: Red Tulips

: Red tulips

: Dandilions can be pretty too!

: More Pretty Dandilions.

: Grape Leaf Budding Out

: Vinca Major

: Cherry tree? Pear tree? I dunno. Something with purple blossoms.

: Purple flowering tree

: Red tulips

: White Wild Violets

: Woodsorrel Leaves

: Azealia Blossom

: Azealia Blossom

: This sopping wet daffodil looks so pitiful, doesn’t it?

: Wild Violet

: Wild Violet

: Cherry Blossoms I think

Black and Whites

: Gazebo

: Corner Store

: Auditorium

: I keep going back and forth on this. I’m not sure if I like it or not.

Baby Hare in the Tall Grass

April 16, 2013Leave a comment

P1070239 2 500 It’s spring. So, I poked around under the tall grass in the corner of the yard. And, sure enough, look what I found! A baby hare.

More Random Plant Pictures

April 7, 2013April 7, 20132 Comments

: Red Tulip

: Red Tulip

: Red Tulip

: Dandilion

: Vinca Major

: Grape Hyacinth

: Curled Leaf

: Pine Tree

Random Photos

March 31, 2013March 31, 20131 Comment

Here are some random photos I took around the yard the other day.

: Maple Bud

: Maple Bark

: This branch on my maple tree broke in this weird, square shape which seemed to sort of frame the empty sky. It struck me as interesting for some reason.

: Daffodil
Three of these because they’re my favorite flower and they actually bloomed this year! They are in serious need of dividing.

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Vinca Major

Candy Cane Hearts

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013Leave a comment

Double Heart Candy Canes 500

I think this will be next year’s Christmas card. I was playing with HDR again. Real HDR, not HDR-style. The image didn’t really need HDR, but… eh. I like how it turned out, though I haven’t printed it, so it may need some adjustments still.

I love the spot healing brush tool in Photoshop, because after several days, the snow I used wasn’t perfectly clean. Also, when you set a candy cane in the snow, it starts bleeding red into the snow. So, I had to correct that as well.

And here’s another one.

little candy cane heart 500

Snow Pictures

March 1, 2013March 1, 20133 Comments

As some of you may have heard, it snowed a bit in the last week or so. I didn’t go out taking many pictures because it was cold and I didn’t want to. But here are three I did manage to come up with. The third one’s my favorite. I was playing with HDR on the last two and I fiddled with the colors a lot for the bike.