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Sage

2005-09-09T10:34:00.000-04:00

An Old One
This is a very old picture. I think it was one of the very first ones I took when I bought my Canon last year. I'm not really sure. I just know that the color of these flowers makes me smile!

Light and Shadows

2005-09-06T20:30:00.000-04:00

Ferns
It amazes me that you can see the spores on this fern...I have this framed in my house.

Nic in Action

2005-09-02T15:04:00.000-04:00

Corner Kick
I have two soccer playing kids, which takes up the majority of our free time during this part of the year. This is my younger son this past Spring taking a corner kick for his team. The composition of the picture isn't very good (who is that man in tan pants, anyway???), but he's showing good form and this is his personal favorite picture. So, hat's off to Nic for the beginning of soccer season.

Is the party over?

2005-09-01T19:56:00.000-04:00

Merle
This is my friend, Beth's dog. I took this at her daughter's 6th birthday and it was clear he wanted all of the loud little girls to just go away!

Boy, is this kid cute...

2005-08-29T21:56:00.000-04:00

A.W.
With apologies to Philip for not asking permission to use this picture, I just couldn't resist. This is his son in a picture I took in the spring during soccer practice. He and I were killing time while the big kids played. I was asking him to make different faces (happy, sad, mad, scared, etc...), he would make the face and I would snap a picture of it. This was his "happy" face. This is just one of the darned cutest kids on the planet, I do believe. Just look at those eyes.

Red Plant

2005-08-28T20:21:00.000-04:00

Red
Backyard plant

Defunct

2005-08-26T09:29:00.000-04:00

Sad Sunflower
This is how I feel about the end of my vacation.

Day One

2005-08-25T22:11:00.000-04:00

A New Year Begins
Today was the first day of school

Soccer Tourney Weekend

2005-08-21T11:23:00.000-04:00

Header
My son is the one in the red shirt, trying to head the ball into the opposing team's goal. He's in a soccer tournament this weekend, so today's picture is in tribute to him! And, no...the shot didn't go in!

Conch

2005-08-19T23:37:00.000-04:00

Reflection

When we were at the beach a few weeks ago, my sister in law was determined to get a picture of this shell on the beach. We cleaned it off and set it right along the shore line. She lives down there and is decorating her house in a beachy kind of way! This picture is blown up and framed in her house.

Cosmo

2005-08-16T21:16:00.000-04:00

Pink
Seems like all I take are flower pics, but that's really not true. I just haven't had the chance to get out and take any new ones this week and I'm going through my archives...The flowers are just jumping out at me.

Blue

2005-08-15T22:44:00.000-04:00

Hydrangea
This pictures says "summer in NC" better than anything else in my photo archives.

Hermit Crabs

2005-08-14T18:22:00.000-04:00

Panama City
This is a very old picture - I think Carson was 4 and Nic was 2. We went to Panama City for vacation and when we first got there, we drove to the beach near our hotel. They were still wearing long pants from the trip and rolled up their pantslegs to play at the edge of the water. They each found a hermit crab and were racing to see who's would make it to the water first. I have a whole series of candid pictures of them from behind. I love capturing them when they don't know anyone is watching. I have this framed in my living room and it always makes me smile.

Father and Son

2005-08-13T15:30:00.000-04:00

Quiet Moment
The exposure on this is dark because all the lights were off in the room. Mike was lying on the bed, watching tv and Nic climbed up on his back and was watching with him. I think they were watching something silly like Spongebob, but they didn't know I was there with my camera and it was such a sweet moment, I tried to capture it. I kind of like it dark with the tv lights reflecting off their faces.

Reaching

2005-08-12T10:59:00.000-04:00

Black Eyed Susans
This is the very first picture I ever enlarged and framed for my house (other than snapshots of my kids). It's 5x7, white matted, simple black frame and it makes me smile every time I look at it. It was the beginning of this photographic journey. I should have used this in my first post, but I wasn't thinking!

Golden Baba

2005-08-11T14:45:00.000-04:00

Baba at Dusk
This is my best friend's cat, Baba. I was in her backyard, actually taking pictures of flowers and I saw how the light was hitting him and making him glow with this beautiful golden hue. I can't remember what he was looking at, but he was sitting so still and he looked so beautiful to me. I had this one blown up and framed for her daughter. This is also the very first (and only) picture I ever took that won an amateur photography competition.

Stump

2005-08-10T13:40:00.000-04:00

Stump
I'm not sure what it is about this picture that makes me like it so much...I didn't think anything of it when I snapped it. Maybe it's the new lush growth around the stump of the cut down tree. Maybe it's the contrast of textures of all of the different plants and different shades of green. Whatever it is, it works for me.

Sunflower

2005-08-09T16:59:00.000-04:00

New Bloom
I took this one at my mom's house this weekend. I need to do some work to lighten the shadows and blur out the background, but this makes me smile. I love sunflowers. They are among my favorite flowers.

Under the Bridge

2005-08-08T19:05:00.000-04:00

New River Gorge Bridge
This was taken under the bridge on our family camping trip this summer. I love the angles and the contrast between the steel and the green of the landscape. It's a beautiful bridge from the side, but a fascinating structure underneath.

Missing Petal

2005-08-07T15:12:00.000-04:00

Purple Coneflower
I took this yesterday at my parent's house. Most of her flowers are looking pretty pitiful right now due to the heat and lack of rain in her area. This one looks a little worn and sad, but I liked it anyway.

Brotherly Love

2005-08-06T09:23:00.000-04:00

Brotherly Love
This was taken on a family camping trip this summer. We were in the mountains of West Virginia, sitting on a big rock in the river, watching the kayakers and rafters float by us. It was a beautiful day. We were "unplugged" for a whole weekend. The boys, as you can see, were very happy. One of those moments to bottle for a dreary day.

Iris

2005-08-05T23:10:00.000-04:00

Iris
These were growing in my next door neighbor's yard. The sun was filtering through the flowers and I loved the contrast between the bright green and the blue flowers. I particularly love taking flower pictures.