Macro Friday Happiness

Happiness comes in many forms, and can be interpreted differently by everyone. Who can resist the Peanuts characters, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the others. This globe is in my sons room. I thought I would try a macro with it. Check out other macro submissions at Blogging From Bolivia.





I must admit this is not very original. When I think I have found a great shot, I have no reason to show it. When I want to use a shot for a challenge or theme, the ideas escape me, or better yet, time slips by and I miss it.

I found a new program to process photos. I think I am going to just upload some of my latest photos to Picasa or Flickr and then link to them. I have been promising myself for months that I would do this.

Macro Friday joy

I've always enjoyed this challenge, run by Laura at Blogging from Bolivia. Check out what others have submitted:

I was trying to find a suitable subject, which in summer would have been a flower or bug, but here in the northeast of the U.S., it is cold and snowy! There are no flowers outside, and all the bugs are either frozen, or just dormant. So on the table in the dining room was a glass ball, about an inch in diameter. The reflection of the door looked nice, so I took several shots. This was the best. I wish I had used the sun for natural lighting. Maybe next time.

Buildings...

...is a new challenge run by Destiny at Twisted Fate Photography. It has the following rules:

Rules:

• Photo must be taken by you.

• It can be a new or archived photo.

• Post my button or link back to me with your entry post.

• One submission per person.

• You must have a blog to participate.

• Please be a follower.

• and of course have fun!

I took a peak at some of the entries...really nice. The link is open until Friday, at which time I will comment on others' submissions. So, here is my entry for buildings:



This is a photo of the old railroad station that was part of the CNE (Central New England) railroad, which ran from Beacon (on the Hudson River) thru Millerton, and on into Springfield, Mass. (Technically this was the NDC in town). This station was at a crossing of the CNE and NYNH&H railroad. Although in utter dis-repair, there is a broad history of the station and the railroads as well, and now that the ROW is becoming a trail, more emphasis may be placed on its revival (I hope). At some point, I'll be able to walk (or bike) from Hopewell Junction, all the way to the Poughkeepsie Rail Bridge and into New Paltz.

Feel free to comment on this and other posts of mine, if you wish.

BW Wednesday and Winter Blues

I imagine many bloggers who knew me last year thought I dropped out of sight. I did sort of. Amy got me to sign up for the February challenge, and I feel the urge to get back into posting again. Winter is starting to get on my nerves, with all the damn ice and snow. Enough already! Living in the Northeast is nice from April thru November (sometimes December, but I do love a white Christmas)! Any other time of the year ... please no snow!!

So, to get back into posting, I thought I would do one of my favorite challenges ... Black and White Wednesday, run by Lisa at The Long Road to China. This woman must have a camera in her hand 23 hours a day. She has some wonderful photos, and great looking children. No wonder she carries the camera around!

This is a gas lamp globe in the breakfast room, which is almost ready to use as a breakfast room. Anyway, I played around with the photo in Photoshop in Win7. Usually I use Gimp in Linux. I also now have a program in Linux that could replace Lightroom. Quite a memory hog though...

Join in the fun here...

Now for some winter fun! Photographic fun that is. Since I hate winter now (at one point in my life I loved it ... skiing, snowmen, etc.,) I can almost enjoy the icicles hanging by my windows, the sound of the plow truck coming down the road, the furnace running non stop. The following photos are of things I don't see that often, depending on the conditions in and out.

I took these recently. Hope you like them....

February Challenge

I signed up the February challenge. Go ahead and sign up here.


Snow! and more snow! I am so tired of shoveling and cleaning the cars and the driveway. To think that when I was younger I thought nothing of getting in the car and driving to a ski resort, or just driving, and taking photos with my Canon film camera. Then I purchased a Canon AE-1, which was and still is an excellent camera, although I have not used it in a awhile. It took many really nice shots of sunsets, snow, ice, people, etc. My favorite film was Kodachrome or Ectachrome, usually 200 or 400 ASA.

Ashley (http://www.ashleysisk.com/) had commented on my blog back in October that she wanted to see my fall colors, so I'll be posting them very soon (perhaps Wednesday since we are OFF AGAIN!! another snow day! One of the benefits of working in a school district). I also will post some of my winter shots. My only problem is trying to make the photos perfect for posting.