Vulnerability

There are so many pictures I wanted to try for this assignment, but I decided on this macro shot from a few weeks ago. This time of year always makes me feel vulnerable. One year ago Sunday, I lost one of my good friends to cancer. The holidays, while always full of family and cheer, also bring a remembrance of pain and loneliness. And so I find myself much like this snowflake, clinging to the glass, hopeful yet so vulnerable to the outside world. A single brush of a finger and the snowflake drifts away. Sometimes I feel like my soul is like a snowflake, delicate, tender, unique, always somehow standing on its own...scared of being brushed away.

Think this counts for Phil's assignment

Breanna received this as a gift at her bridal shower yesterday. It was a beautiful gift in my opinon and reminded me of Phil's assignment.

Assignment two in one

Bridget's assignment for last week was DOF so in this first picture the branches are representative of that part of the assignment. However, it also fits my assignment for this week which was lines. I like the lines of the branches in the background and the focal B/W filter to emphasize the leaves. Still a bit of fall color left there.

Also, this sunrise peeking through my curtains represents lines. Again I used the focal B/W filter here.

My first wedding as a photographer!

Here are a few of my artsy shots from my cousin Sonja's wedding yesterday. Wow, I realized yesterday...it is such a demanding job to be a wedding photographer!

Did I post these already?

Can't remember if I posted these or not...Taken on Sunday at my grandparent's. Used my new soft focus filter on both.

More fine art

The picture is from last fall, and I have used two textures here...one beige colored with the scribbled like lines, the other a gray gravel like texture.

A huge rutabaga and another fine art attempt

This rutabaga grew on its own at my grandfathers. WOW!

Another fine art attempt...took the leaves picture this morning after church and added a grunge textured background.