Spring Self-Portrait with Tripod

Set up tripod on back deck.

screwed up the timer.

screwed up the settings. (love this blur though !)

testing…

ready, set… (what’s with the flash ?!)

Ta-da ! Yay, it’s spring !

I’m going back to taking self-portraits at an arms length. This is too much work.

Happy Tuesday, Beautiful Ones.

edit 03/29/11 : Speaking of Ta-das !

Head on over to Kate's blog, the Queen of Creativity, to read an interview with yours truly. With some good photos included !!!

Monday Morning Bliss

The last ice on Dorrs Pond

So Chica and I went for a great walk this morning to a lovely local park. There is a path woven around a pond ( a highly polluted pond, I am sure, as it is filled with city water - no swimming for my lab in that sludge !). The park was beautiful in the brisk spring morning. Strangely, I have never brought my camera with me until today. Maybe I was too concerned with making the walk good for the Chica-girl instead of myself ? Anyway, I really enjoyed snapping pictures (difficult when your 65 pound on-leash lab wants to sniff the next bush while you are trying to get that shot !!!) until the camera battery died ! No worries though ! There will be many more photo opps now that I know how much it adds to the experience and now that that horrible winter is finally over and I feel like walking again !

Chica pauses by a red bush - "Is that a squirrel ?"

This next shot is dedicated to The Stumbly Diva whose blog I discovered yesterday. She wrote about the messages she gets from trees. I left her a comment promising to "listen" for messages from trees today myself. I looked up and saw this face. The message I got : "Let me out ! I have things to say !" Also "Leave me alone, you damn woodpecker !!!"

I was pretty happy with this photo ! It really got exactly what I saw ! Hope your Monday was bliss-filled too !