Iced Tea for Breakfast
I drink iced tea everyday - even when I worked in downtown Minneapolis in the winter!
Practicing Stillness
This week’s photo challenge is minimalist, explained as: An artfully executed minimalist photograph is anything but mundane. It illustrates a moment in time, or an artistic perspective, with simplicity and grace. Minimalist photography is characterized by a large portion of negative space, a fairly monochromatic color palette with good contrast, and an interesting subject that…
Pears With Textures
For the final assignment in my close-up photography class, we were to take a photograph of something with four different textures. After a great deal of experimentation, I ended up four fairly boring pictures of a pear that we had. So, to make it more appealing to me, I ran it through Topaz Effects…
Time For Tea
You’re invited to a virtual tea time! I’d call it by its real name – PARTY – but in the wisdom of our politicians in this country, the name has been corrupted and I don’t feel like a bunch of landings on this page because people are looking for “the” tea party instead of “a” tea…
Still Life With Tea
Tonight I unexpectedly nurtured my creativity by going prop shopping. I have some ideas for pictures this weekend and needed some different types of teas. I will, of course, have to taste test them as I take pictures! I was thankful to not have many crowds. I went straight from work, which helped, but by…
Grow A Good Mood
This week’s theme for Six Word Friday is “grow” – as in my mantra lately: Grow a good mood by choice. I’m having an above average number of grumpy days lately. It’s for many reasons, but the worst one is “just because”. Why am I in a bad mood? Because. Am I achy? Tired? Hungry?…
Living The Seasons 