Hey, guys! Clara alerted me to the very important fact that this is National Photography Day. Of course I had to do something for such a day. So instead of a planned recipe post (which I think you’re going to like, girls and book lovers), I’m going to do a photography prompt to get your creative juices flowing. If you have a camera, this is the day to use it! XD
Here is that bubble picture that I’ve put on my blog I-don’t-know-how-many-times. XD
Look at these reflections! I’ve never quite figured out what the reflections were…I was so excited when I got this almost-perfect reflection of a Canadian goose at our pond.
Water is a really fun reflective thing. Especially mountain lakes, or ponds at sunset.
This is a picture of my Dad’s eye. You can see the reflection of my camera lens and finger poised to click the button. You can even see the scene from our window! (I think there’s the cornfield and the leaves of a walnut tree.)
I just took this one recently. You can see a distorted reflection of our house and me sitting awkwardly on the steps holding the sprinkler between my knees. XDI really love this one! I took this picture of my friend on our Amelia Island vacation. I edited it (if you haven’t noticed) to make her hair and the reflection in the sunglasses stand out.
Which was your favorite reflections photo? Are you going to “celebrate” National Photography Day? Do you think you’ll use this prompt?
***Allison***
P. S. The baby bunnies are one week old! They are also THE CUTEST THINGS THAT EVER LIVED OH MY GOODNESS HELP! Don’t worry, I’ve been taking lots of pictures. 😉
We went to a Lake Eerie beach on our vacation right as the sun set. It was absolutely gorgeous!
I love this picture with the lighthouse and the orange sky!
Whoa! I don’t think the sunset was quite THIS bright in real life.
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I love sunsets and beaches, so a sunset on the beach equals twice the love! 😀
Now for my BIBPC entry. The category this time was “Worth It.”
Story Behind the Photo: My friend is posing for a picture after we had a big shaving cream fight with her and her siblings. It was so. Much. Fun. Even though we and the lawn got super messy (we had to take showers and change, as you can imagine), and the smell of shaving cream was everywhere for a while, it was definitely worth it!
***Allison***
P. S. Oops! You guys were right! Two of the flower pictures in the garden postwere the same. I changed it now. 😉 If that affected your guess, please feel free to guess again!
Our county fair opens in about two weeks, and I’m so excited! These are my entries for the photography section of the fair. (The fair categories are in bold). The links will take you to the post where the photo was first featured on my blog. Enjoy!
There we go – a few photography highlights from 2016. 🙂
Which photo was your favorite? Do you have an annual fair where you live? Do you enter things in it?
**Allison**
P. S. Hayley and I are renovating Art Lab! We’re adding a few more artists to the group and starting it up again. We’re also going to collect and repost all of the Art Lab posts onto the official Art Lab blog, so you can scroll through the posts with ease. 🙂 You can follow it if you like! Hopefully there will be an Art Lab post up tomorrow. 😀
Guess what? Today you get pictures AND a story. I know, I’m so generous. XD
I raced outside and up a hill to take pictures of the brilliant sunset tonight. I wish you could have seen it! It was so orange and pink and just gorgeous! But I suppose my smaller-than-life pictures will have to do. (Note: The sunset was way prettier in real life. 😉 )
This picture captured the colors about the best.
I edited this one:
I also took pictures of a sunset when we went to my grandparent’s house.
Now that your mind is saturated with pictures of sunsets, here’s a little story I wrote. (Yes, I did use Esme from WordCrafters 2. 😀 ) I’ve been wanting to write something like this for a long time. Enjoy this little tidbit of a story!
Esme lay on the hillside, staring up at the sky. A little kitten breeze played around her. It pounced on her face, batted her clothes, and ruffled her hair with soft, invisible paws.
Esme gave a sigh of contentment as she lay there with the breeze for company, watching the sun step down from its stage in a brilliant finale. The sunset was like a giant bonfire, and the puffy golden clouds like marshmallows toasting over the blaze.
Esme closed her eyes and imagined what it would feel like to sit on one of those clouds. It would be warm and soft and springy, just like a perfectly roasted marshmallow. She would nestle deep into the softness and let the colors of the sunset wash over her. The colors would feel good – tingling and throbbing with energy. If she jumped from the edge of the cloud, she would fly – she would soar over the fire in the sky, over everything and everyone.
Esme opened her eyes. She had landed back on her hillside. But Esme liked it up there with the clouds. She closed her eyes again and floated up to the clouds. This time she imagined how a sunset would sound if it were music. The notes would start off smooth but bright, like blue sky just beginning to turn rosy. The music would build, louder and louder, higher and higher, crashing in great golden waves over everything it touched. The notes would play so fast that they all blurred together into one glorious, chaotic crescendo as the sunset burned brightest. Then, gradually, the music would fade with the fading colors. The happy, throbbing tune would turn slow and mournful as the sun breathed its last. A few sweet notes would linger – the sun’s last golden tears – then the music would stop.
As Esme walked back to her house with the kitten breeze tagging along, she could still feel the softness of the cloud surrounding her and hear the sunset’s wonderful music playing in her ears. She was flying again, over the grass instead of the sky, but flying. Soaring home.
See ya later, alligators! (Or would you rather be unicorns or dragons? Speaking of which, I shall soon show you one of those, though I’m sorry to say, it’s not actually alive. Actually I’m not sorry! XD )
On Friday we went fishing at our uncle’s pond with some friends and family. Here are a few pictures of his pond:
It’s a lot bigger than this, but my camera only fit this much from where I stood.A zoomed in picture of sheep on the hillside. Aren’t the little lambs so cute? ♥My sister kayaking (with a dog in the background). 🙂
I love fishing! I caught two fish (a bass and a perch), but the bass was too small so we had to put him back and let him grow. 😦 But my brother got a nice big bass, and my grandaddy got a humongous catfish! It was so exciting! It took a long time to reel him in, but we finally did (with the help of a metal rake since we didn’t have a net XD ). And guess what? He was almost two feet long!! Seriously, he was about 22 or 23 inches! Catfish may get a lot bigger than that, I don’t know, but it was sure huge to us. We normally just catch little 6-8 inch perch.
And now you’re waiting for the fish pictures, right? *Sniff* I didn’t take any pictures of the fish. WHAT?! I know, I know, I’m with you there. But it we were so excited when we got the catfish, and by the time we thought of taking a picture, he was already cut up and cleaned. Megan got a picture of the fish head just for proof, but it wasn’t too pretty… so… okay, let’s move on, shall we? XD XD
I DID get some pictures of the pond at sunset, however.
My bobber photobombing. (Try saying that three times fast. XD )The poor little thing has drifted out into the sunset pool of no return. XDThe water was so gorgeous!
And these are two edited versions – I especially love the first one:
Ahhh… sunsets are delightful, aren’t they?
***Allison***
P. S. I have so many photos I want to post, but it seems that’s like all I’ve been posting about lately. That’s okay with me because I love photography… but I don’t want to post photos so much that you start yawning from boredom. 😉 I’m working on a survey so you can tell me which your favorite kind of post is. Until then! XD ♥
Hello, hello! Today I’m back with some pretty pictures of a sunset and some birdies. I took these when we were at my grandparents’ house recently.
For once, the pictures I took of a sunset actually might have been prettier than the real thing! The ‘sunset’ setting on my camera made the colors more deep and fiery than they were in real life. First, this is a picture of the whole
And now for the others…
It looks like the sky’s on fire and the mountains are blue waves rushing to put it out… Which of those pictures was your favorite? I can’t decide!
This is a branch silhouetted against a glorious sunset background.
I think I took these next pictures toward the beginning of the sunset. I especially like the second one.
Ahh… I love sunsets. Thanks for taking a peep!
***Allison***
P. S. I have even MORE photos from my grandparents’ house of several different kinds of birds we saw there. (I already made this post with pictures of our farm as seen from my grandparents’ house.) Be looking for the bird post soon!
When I was up at my grandparents’ not too long ago, I took some neat landscape pictures of our farm. (My grandparents live just up the lane – we are super blessed that way!) It was a beautiful spring evening and the farm just looked so pretty…
Isn’t this neat? I took it on the “panorama” setting of my camera.
(Click on any photo in a collage to enlarge.)
I love these photos – this one especially.
Can you spot the bird?
Geese at the pond – my camera zooms really well!
Sun through a tree at my grandparents’ woods
I hope you enjoyed looking at these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them! Which picture was your favorite?
Oh, and I think a PFA (Post from the Forgotten Abyss) might be due. Check out this post I made in September 2014 (!!) with pictures of lots of different animals found around our farm.
It was a beautiful foggy evening yesternight (I know that isn’t a word, but it should be. XD), and when the sun set, it was even more gorgeous! The fog reflected the sunlight and made the sky all bright and glowing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as pretty or as foggy in pictures as it did in real life, but oh well… I’m still going to show you the pictures. 😀
These first pictures are more about the sun than the fog. I especially like this picture↓. (But don’t stare at it too hard or you might see sun-spots everywhere. 😀 ) It’s like the sun is a glowing bead threaded on the branches, and the twigs touching it are rimmed with white fire.
A few more similar pictures…
Now we get to the fog.
(Click on any photo to enlarge it and the rest of the photos in the collages below.)
Whew! That was a bunch of pictures.
Thanks for reading!
***Allison***
P. S. I’m learning Spanish for school on Duolingo, and I somewhat recently I learned that “smile” is “sonrisa” in Spanish. I think that’s beautiful. It sounds like “sunrise,” as if a sunrise comes over your face every time you smile. I hope your day is full of “sonrisas!”
I ♥ PicMonkey! PicMonkey is a really fun, free, picture-editing website. I’ve been playing around on it lately, and I thought I’d show you some of the results.
This is another edited dandelion photo, which I edited to look like night.
I really had fun with a certain sunset picture I took. A few weeks ago there was a pretty sunset, and I got a rather washed-out phot for some reason, which I saved for precisely this kind of thing. If you put a texture over a white spot in your photo, the results are amazing! This is the picture I used to make the edits. Blah right? But then…
These are the edits!
I especially really like the top one, but I think the bottom one is neat because it looks like the mountains are an underwater world beneath the surface of an ocean. 🙂 I might make a story prompt post sometime with some of my edits.
This is an edit of my dad’s eye. The picture looks basically the same, I just added a filter. My dad thinks his eye looks really old in that picture, which I guess it kind of does, but I think it looks beautiful – I love the starburst of colors in his iris!
And here is just a funny one to end with. 😀 Cute lil’ Maggie!
Tee-hee! Isn’t she adorable?
Which edit was your favorite? Sometime I want to do a contest where I post, maybe three pictures, and then people edit them on PicMonkey and see who wins the best edit of each photo! But I’ll wait till WordCrafters is over. Oh, my sister is actually doing a neat photography challenge right now that I can’t wait to do! Click here to see it.
Actually I’m not sorry! XD )
Allison Marie 