Oscar does lunch!

I haven't managed to kill Oscar yet, the Venus Fly Trap plant I bought at the Museum last week. In fact, he seems to be doing quite well and has caught a few flies on his own. He sure looks ferocious when pictures are taken up close!

A beautiful day in the city

Our field trip for the month was to the NYS Museum where we saw an absolutely beautiful exhibit of photography that focused on life in America from the mid 1800's to modern times. I really enjoyed the exhibit and was amazed at how often breaking the rules actually produces a winning shot. We had a chance to view the city via the observation deck 40 stories up! Then we had lunch and walked around Albany, shooting anything that caught our interest. I found a couple of shots that I really liked and I even got some macros for our assignment, but I'm not sharing them until the next meeting :) Strangely enough, all of these photos to me center around the same theme or at least make me feel the same thing. Can you guess what that might be?

Peaceful Morning

Macro-fied

A couple more macro attempts... a fern in window and some rice for lunch!

A Secret Room

In a kingdom far away, in a tall and crumbling castle, there once was a secret room. It held a young girl's dream and she longed to find the room and call it her own.

The girl believed that she would want nothing else out of life if she could just find the secret room and spend eternity inside of it. It was different than most rooms she knew; it had possibilities that she believed would make her happy. But one day, the girl saw a man who went into that room, someone who she knew and loved. The man, who had onced looked so handsome, and strong, was now worn and ragged. He was only a half a man, his face covered with anguish and age, his life traded away for the glories of the secret room.

The girl swore to herself that she would never become like the man, that she would never go to the secret room or desire it again.
Much later in life, the girl finally arrived at the secret room. But she was wiser than before. And though she saw old dreams floating before her eyes, she realized that they were not her dreams anymore. They were the dreams of others yet to come. And she was content because she found that the room was just one room in her castle. She would never become imprisoned there like the man had been. And she still had made rooms left to explore!

Macro time!

Thought I'd bust out the macro rings and do some experimenting for the next assignment which is MACRO! I changed the tone of the image and added the shading at the bottom; otherwise this is how it really looks...Do you know what it is? If you guessed my knuckle, you are correct. Geez, I really have dry skin today, don't I? :)

People, not a direct hit

The assignment was "people, not a direct hit" from Bridget. I figured I would post my pictures so that Linda could see them, but also to get myself back into the blogging mood. I took a few months ago but I would like to start getting back into my photography. So there they are! I'm really going to try to keep posting once a week if I can. I need the practice and I do miss taking shots!