Street Life; Still Life; Tough Life

At the end of the day, night closing in.

A still life of someone's work day on the median of a busy street.

Cinder block to sit upon.

Magazine flipped open to read.

Several drinks sipped.

Did the person walk away?

Get arrested for panhandling?

Is it set up for tomorrow's work?

Challenges, street side.

a Silly class, I learned that...

I believe in challenges.

I love learning.

discovering.

finding out - OH, that's how that works.

Now, I know.

So, I took this class Silly Light.

Above is the Silly Food Sculpture.

Baby Bok Choy (I never did cook it) with Strawberries (I ate them, raw).

I learned some more things about:

 my tripod.

Lighting.

That I need to blur that table cloth in the background so it's not so distracting.

Light from a window source is good.

Aperature.

Photographing fresh fruit and veggies in the winter is a good replacement for flowers in the spring and summer.

Baby Bok Choy is a cool thing to say, and is great to photograph.

Shaking Dog

Stretching again.  Seems a good thing to do in January - stretch my photography skills.  Taking an online class (love these), this time from Steve Soneheim - Photo Silly Light.  Helping me experiment and renew my relationship with Cam, the camera.  Black and White - animal action shot.  Looking forward to summer and soaking this ol' doggie and taking pics of her shaking off all the water!

Still in the stretching category - renewing my yoga relationship, too.

What's on your January agenda?

Imagineering Christmas Cookies and a Snow Romp

Sharing a secret cookie recipe.

there are so many wonderful photos and recipes on blogs for Christmas cookies.

A baker, I'm not.  An Imagineer, I am.

Romping in today's snow!

Thanks to Two Graces for the Christmas goodie sharing.

Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?

I know this is a busy time of year (busy is probably putting it lightly), so take a moment and check out this most fun video.  I discovered the blog, Eleanora Arroyo Ilustraciones about a year ago, and I love love LOVE her art and her videos.  Here is another video.

Note:  Just discovered that Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn is from Evelyn Evelyn.

Note 2.0: Just discovered Evelyn Evelyn is a singing group.  Ah - searching about on the internet.  You never know what you'll find.

Fabulous places - hope you visited and went on your own exploratory online adventure.

Enjoy!  #takeamoment

What's Happenin?

Over Thanksgiving, the 3 "peepettes" and I painted pictures at Canvas and Cocktails,

a local group paint with pop or cocktails.  Quite fun!  Actually - it is GREAT fun.

And we bring home art for the holiday!

A most memorable moment.

Sometimes I like to pretend my life is calm, serene and photogentic-ish.

Then the speed gathers and it's off to another mini crisis with a crazy deadline.

Happy December!

Prepping

pinecone painting up

Step 1:  Gather up some pinecones from a local park (hoping all the while this isn't illegal!)

Step 2:  Paint on white acrylic paint on some of the pinecones - (the snow).

Step 3:  Paint on Golden Fluid Acrylics - Iridescent Gold Deep (Fine) on some of the pinecones.

Question: R U ???  

The finished product has some of the Gold applied over the white, too.

This year one of my daughters and I created a themed display for our outside lights.  We finally had to fire the DH - I think he actually wanted to be fired from the lighting task given the lighting of the past two years.  We had to rip out a dead tree this summer, so we have a tree we can actually reach.

Will have to figure out how to take photos of the nightime display later this week. The weather folks are predicting snow on Thursday.

Answer:  Rudy

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