Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, August 14, 2010

All Things Bright And Beautiful

I’m back from my blogging and photography break! It was a much-needed rest as I had to take time off to get better after getting my wisdom teeth pulled. Here are some pictures that I’ve taken recently…I think you’ll all enjoy them!

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   All things bright and beautiful…

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All creatures great and small…

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  All things wise and wonderful…

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The Lord God made them all.

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What are your favorite subjects to photograph? Please share your photography favorites in a comment below.

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Friday, July 9, 2010

Photo Editing Fun

Usually, the photos that I share here have only had minimal editing done (e.g. cropping, brightness/contrasting, and sometimes temperature/saturation). As a rule, I use Picnik to do my photo editing and it's the perfect website for a amateur photographer like me. :-)
Today I was in the mood for some fun editing so I chose a few photos from my ever-growing collection of photos on my computer...unique photos that look interesting when more dramatic editing is added to them. I'll show you before and after editing each photo as well as the name of the Picnik feature I used to get that look.
{Photo #1}


Before: Bouquet of flowers on grand piano

After: I used Picnik's "Orton-ish" feature on this photo. I love
the antique look that it gave this picture.
{Photo #2}
Before: A cheerful Day Lily

After: I used focal Black & White to add an interesting touch
to this photo.
{Photo #3}
Before: A little inlet near Bermuda's capital city, Hamilton

After: For this photo, I used "Sepia" to imitate the look
of an older picture.

{Photo #4}
Before: Willowbank Hotel's entrance sign

After: In this picture, I used Picnik's "Lomo-ish" tool to create
an unique look for this photo
Which photo editing feature do you like best on Picnik? If you haven't tried them before, head over to Picnik's cool website and have some fun yourself as you try out their exciting features!

Friday, July 2, 2010

A Few Miscellaneous Shots

I was just looking through my photos this morning and selected a few pictures to share with you all --no particular theme to this post, just some of my favorites.
A garden full of marigolds!

Pink snapdragon with marigolds in background

The beach at low tide!

Another garden view with our home in the background

This is our cottage! I took this photo earlier this year just as the
amaryllis was beginning to bloom!

Our local flower shop!
This is the grand piano in one of Willowbank Hotel's lounges and I enjoy playing it! :-) If you look
closely in this picture you can see me in the mirror taking the picture. 
I'm hoping to start the weekly Scripture Caption feature again so look out for that post early next week! Have a blessed day!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Sunny Days!

These past few weeks have been filled with many sunny days here in Bermuda. And sunny days also mean great photography days for me. :-) With a few nighttime showers and plenty of sunshine, the flowers are blooming beautifully. Here are just a couple of my favorite shots:

Yellow Day Lily

Orange Cosmos

Butterfly Daisies

A bouquet of latanas

Suriname Cherries

Leah took this photo of me playing the piano

A sailboat on a sunny day

Which photo do you like best? Leave a comment and let me know!

"The flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come." Song of Solomon 2:12

Sunday, May 23, 2010

A New Camera!

The pictures I've been sharing with you until now, were taken with the Olympus camera my Dad uses for his architectural business and lets me borrow when I need to take pictures for my blogs. It's a great camera with a monitor setting and quite simple to use.

Recently, a friend of mine gave me a lovely camera as a gift! It is Pentax camera which is excellent for a wide variety of photography and features manual focusing, wide-angle lens, and has so many settings that I'm still learning how to use it! The  memory card can hold over 1,000 photos so I've been busy taking photos! :-)

Here are just a few of the photos I've taken with the new camera!

Beautiful pink geraniums!

A lovely sunset

This adorable honeybee flitted about from flower to flower!

Pink snapdragon

A lovely amaryllis

A beautiful pink rose!

Which one do you like best? Hope you all have a blessed week!