Hi all! As you can see, on this photo-walk, I shot anything and everything that was yellow. I highly recommend taking a leisurely walk and focusing on one primary color to photograph. When I do this, I seem to see things I wouldn’t notice otherwise, and I like the cool captures I get. Try something NEW this week!
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I LOVED this quote! I know of a few teachers that basically “teach” their opinion….which is only that – their opinion; not absolute truth. I hope this quote goes viral among educators! 🙂
Plus..don’t you love that little face!!!!??!!! So precious!
Do or Learn something NEW today!
I think it is AWESOME when people do something for the sole purpose of making someone smile. I’m choosing to believe that’s what happened here: I went on a photo walk yesterday and wandered by an abandoned gas station. There were two old cars parked in the stalls where the gas pumps used to be. The windows of the cars were really quite dirty, but as I looked closer….I saw Mickey and Minnie in one of the cars…and I couldn’t help but SMILE! I think the owner put M&M there just to make people smile (unless Mickey and Minnie were so big the owners didn’t have room in their house to put them). But again, I’m choosing to believe they’re there for people’s pleasure. I think it was a GREAT idea and an act of kindness to do that!
Have a great week! Learn or DO something NEW!
How many of you have a bucket list? If you have one, is “Visit all 50 states” on it? I’ve noticed that goal on quite a number of published online bucket lists lately. The map above is a map I made at Big Huge Labs. Map Maker: Show off where you’ve been or where you’re going. (It has maps for the entire world, or just the US, just Europe etc.) It looks like I need to get over to the East Coast more often, right? (I’d Love to!….send me a plane ticket!)
Another option is: You can keep a simple list like this one at Project Light to Life. That works good too!
I love, loVE, LOVE keeping AND working on my bucket lists….however, it seems to be getting longer and longer! More things I wanna learn, do, read…experience! All soooo much fun! Let me know what you’ve crossed off your list lately!
Have a great day! Do something NEW!
My favorite photo from this morning’s shoot is this wet rose. The park’s sprinklers must have recently been on, but were not on when I got there. My timing was good ( for once! :o)
I also made a mosaic so I could share at:
You all know about the popular ‘Nailed It’ meme, right?
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Well, yes, I have my own Failed Nailed It experience to share with you 🙂 I saw this very cool exercise belt that I really wanted to make (at Pink Polka Dot Creations) because the arm-band that I bought for my iPhone to run/exercise with is ANNOYING!!! Anyway…I guess I’ve never really sewn on spandex before, so it was a NEW experience. That junk is SLIPPERY! How do you do it????? I even had a REALLY pretty blue fold-over elastic to add to the edges. But I didn’t even get that far. Do you see all the puckers around the zipper? (The zipper was suppose to be the easy part! The tutorial mentioned sewing the elastic edge part was a “litte tricky”!) I gave up 😦
I MAY try it again, but I’m going to research if there’s any tricks to sewing on that impossibly slippery stuff before I do! Let me know if you have the secret!
Have a great day! Do something NEW!…even if you ‘nail it’!
There’s nothing like waking up to the aches and flu-like symptoms to start a weekend off! I took a sick-day off work today and I’m hoping these symptoms get better instead of worse! So while I’m resting and trying to feel better I visited a few websites that always seem to inspire me, but I haven’t gone to for quite a while. I know they always have good stuff, but life is life and I don’t normally have hours to spend on the computer 🙂 I know you know what I’m sayin’!
So!…I’ve rediscovered a few:
I think I’ve mentioned this site before, but it’s such a motivating site for my photography efforts. Check it out if you haven’t yet….it’s called Light Stalking. Good stuff!
Now, you all know I LOVE doing or learning or reading NEW things. I’m also interested in how I can accelerate learning. That subject is a fascinating one for me. So today I took the time to watch 5D Secrets of Accelerated Learning. It was about an hour long, but I really liked it. Loved, loVED, LOVED Tanya Moore’s accent! Good stuff!
And lastly, I found a NEW app I want to use. It’s call Stuck on Earth and I heard about it from the Digital Photography School’s newsletter that came in my email. I was reading the article about 5 Creative Ways to Find New Locations to Photograph and they recommended this app. Sounds very cool, so I’m going to download it soon.
Have a GREAT day! Learn or DO something NEW!
ps. You may know that my goal is to post photos from my own stash whenever possible, but sorry, I don’t have a picture of me being sick (thank goodness….what an awful sight!) So in honor of the snow that appeared on the ground this morning, I’m posting a my favorite winter scene from last year.
Happy Monday everyone! I have a good book recommendation for you! I read this book a few years ago, but this last week I re-read it. I needed to refresh my memory because I am hosting a book club next month and this is the book we are going to discuss. The first time I read it, I knew I liked it a lot, but didn’t really think why. But this time, I think I realized WHY I enjoyed it so much. Because I love family history research and love finding mysteries of old, I really connected with this book. I won’t go into details because there’s some twists and turns…and if I say too much, it would ruin it for you! But here’s the review from GoodReads:
I’ll be getting some discussion question ideas from these sites…but WAIT until you read the book before visiting these sites!
Stephanie Rische’s Book of the Month Club
If you get a chance to read this book or if you have already, be sure and let me know your thoughts! Have a great day….DO or LEARN or READ something NEW!
I FINALLY when out shooting last evening, and saw this abandoned scooter at the edge of a lake. Some little tyke came to a dead-end! This fishing pole also looks abandoned, but I think it’s owner was probably close by.
Have a great week everyone! Do or Learn something NEW!
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