Photos again

 I noticed that I had lots of pix that didn't seem to fit into my particular blogging posts, so here is a grouping of things that I like that have no category exactly.  I feel like there are more, but I haven't laid my eyes on them, yet....  I will continue searching!

I have found a new obsession with an app on my iPhone called instagram.  It is sort of a social network for photographers and casual picture takers alike.  It is a lot of fun to participate in and takes so little time to do it!  Some of these pix are from my Instagram interactions.

just look up

Loves me

Power lines- if you can't beat them, photograph them!

birdhouse on the river

shades of monet

speckled skies

Streaks and stripes

watering can theme and variation

silhouettes

Lilies

Day lily

Amazing morning

Sunrise in the mist

Hello favorite tree

water lilies- yet another Monet reference! 

Purposeful misfocus

evening vista

I have the seed of an idea here all of a sudden.  Stayed tuned!

Until next time, be a joy giver!  And love the summer you are in!

A bounty of (photo) riches

So, Lola thinks that I have not posted NEARLY enough pictures of her this year, so here is her loveliness surrounded by fall beauty.  She is slightly resentful of the lack of -ahem- companion that I promised her earlier this year, but I swear I have the crow mostly made.  I just didn't get to the cement! Sorry Lola, I will make a few more things over the winter and the concrete will be first thing in the spring......

Queen Lola 

Well, now that she is happy I can go on with my pictures.  See, Lola didn't get any companions that are actually in completed form, because as many of you know, I have been walking my buns off, literally and figuratively.  And as you know, I always have some sort of digital recording device along with me- camera- and I do take a lot of photos!  I have a bunch of pix that I haven't posted at all, and I have even more on my cameras, so the posting isn't even done for the day YET!!

I have a variety of landscape pix and a couple of artsy ones, where I was goofing around with some settings on the camera and focus and depth of field.  Enjoy the bounty!

Color experiment

Close focus

Medium focus

Distance focus

Nosy cat focus

Bark patterns

Favorite tree

Ridge of birch

Tamarack swamp

Just Perfect!

Red berries, white birch

Tangle of branches

Seedheads and cobwebs

Alma Potschke aster

Details

Still-life in orange

Sun bather

Long horn, full curl sheep

At the end of the tree tunnel

Breath taking evening

Frosty post

swirls

Amazing patterns

Criss-cross clouds

Favorite tree, different angle!

Deer path

Tucked away and almost forgotten

Framework

Perspective

There is the first round, the next should follow later. today or tonight.  I'm sick of sitting for now!  :)

Until next time, be a joy giver!