Choices

Choices

A man is what he thinks about all day long.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something to Go Round

Going Round

I dug into the archives a little on this one.  Sometimes it takes me a bit to get back to the gazillions of photos I have taken over years.  Okay, maybe not a gazillion exactly - give or take one or two and that might be more accurate.

Back to the whole looking at things in a new way . . . I love the shadow here.  What a terrific image with the different shapes.  Throw in the texture from that tire - and voila, I'm a happy girl.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.  ~ Adrienne Rich

See Things with New Eyes

Keep Your Eye on the Ball

I love the concentration in watching that ball to see just how many pins will actually be knocked down.  Now, if only we could get that amount of concentration to carry over to other areas. . .

So here is a good quote that not only makes me smile, but also makes me think, and feel very good inside.  Try today to look at things with "new eyes" you may learn something new, or have your heart softened to another way of thinking, or even notice the simple beauty in something you see (and pass by) every single day.  Always remember there will never be another moment just like the one you are living in right now.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.  ~ Marcel Proust

Release and Effort

Release

The only thing you can control is your own effort.  ~ Theodora van den Beld

What A Face

What the . . .

This picture always cracks me up.  Several things come to mind here, mostly did Grandma pinch him just before the picture was taken?  No way, she would never do that - would she?

Here's a quote that my mom posted in a comment from yesterday's posting.  I really like it, so I'm sending it out tonight.  And thanks to everyone that has shared some of your favorite quotes.  I love getting them and watching my file of quotes keep on growing larger and larger.

I am not as good as I should be.
I am not as good as I could be.
But thank God I am better than I used to be.
~ Unknown

Tada!

Tada!

Helping Grandma with her knitting.  What a great helper don't you think - getting that yarn all ready.

Here is a pretty good quote for tonight, something to think on for a bit:

There is just one life for each of us:  our own.  ~ Euripides

Take a Look at Some Borders

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Having fun while waiting for our food to arrive.  I seem to pull my camera out a lot when we are out to eat.  I'm not sure if it's the texture of the food or the colors, but out it comes.  This was fun.  I really like the look of ice and the air bubbles that sometimes get trapped in the glass, not to mention the condensation that forms on a glass full of cool liquid.  And, really the bright color was what drew me to this glass to photograph.

After taking a few photos of just the glass (for example last night's photo) itself I decided to have a bit of fun.  The first thing I always tell people when they express an interest in taking better photographs - always pay attention to the borders of your image before snapping the picture.  How many of us have taken a photo only to find something very distracting in the background?  It happens all the time.  Just pull out the old family photo album and I'm pretty sure you will see photo after photo of less than stellar images.  Mostly because there is something undesirable in the image.  The best are the kids that look like they have trees or flag poles growing out of their heads.  You know what I'm talking about right?

Well, in this instance, I intentionally wanted to include the person just beyond the glass.  And by putting that person just slightly out of focus, it is not so distracting in the background.  By paying attention to my borders I was able to include more information that helps to tell a story.  I've included what I wanted to, and left out what I did not - the table of people to the left. 

So, practice shooting by only paying attention to everything you see in your image.  Don't worry about anything except those borders, until that becomes habit, and you will find that one simple step will improve your images.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.  ~ John Muir