In a deep and dark December.
Today is mid-winter. Here is a gallery from this, the shortest day of the year. It’s being a chilly one!
Brrrr!
Hope you are all able to stay safe and warm this winter.
Tagging Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky.
A winter’s day…
Category Archives: Snapshots from a Happy Life
Miss Max
Some photos I took last week of my dad’s dog, Max. In a rare period where she was holding still enough to take a picture.
Max is a girl. Dad likes short easy to spell names, his last dog, also female, was Sam. I guess we kids were lucky that he wasn’t tasked with naming us.
I used Topaz Studio 2 Impression and Texture filters on Max, Dad is beyond help.
Spring forest greens
A literal interpretation of Cee’s Mid-week Madness Challenge: forest or dark green.
Spring Greens
Lots of colors in the flowers at this time of year, but the dominant color of spring is green. The green of new leaves emerging, but also of moss, catkins and some flowers. Here are a few spring greens from this morning’s walk for Cee’s Mid-week madness challenge: Spring Season.
One Drop
For Cee’s Black and White: Just one of anything. Also For Wordless Wednesday.
Early morning waves and rocks in black and white
Sandy Beach on Oahu really is sandy, but toward one end it has these interesting lava rocks. Watching the waves crash on the rocks is rather hypnotic. Even though the sunrise colors were very lovely I think black and white brings out the drama of the water.
For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Rocks, Boulders, Stones, Lens-Artists Challenge: Water, and Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome.
I used a combination of the black and white tools built into the GIMP and Nik Collections Silver Effects Pro to create the images above.
Who needs words?
The gray is back today
It’s too dark to take decent photos outside today. But I want to share yesterday’s golden hour and sunset. The clouds were rather unusual; they had a cool texture that caught the light in interesting ways.
Sunset through a dirty window
A little sky in the clouds
This week the cloudy skies have let up quite a bit. The skies have been beautiful. A nice change from flat grayish-white.
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