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mornings {18/52}

posted by janice on May 6, 2012 · wanna leave a comment?

In my love affair with natural light, I'm often hard-pressed to decide which I like best - morning light or evening? Both equally beautiful, evening light is soft, romantic, dreamy. Morning light, while still holding those same qualities, is simply chock full of promise. The dawn of a new day.

And aside from that magical light, morning holds infinite possibilities. Carpe Diem, my friends. Seize the Day.

These photos and a few more from this week (hello instagram!) can be found on flickr :)

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signs of ...spring? {17/52}

posted by janice on April 29, 2012 · 3 Comments

I REALLY have to stop with the weather prompts. Honestly, when will I learn? Because every time I post one, something bizarre happens.

Something like this ...

The snow started coming down early Monday afternoon and didn't stop.

We woke up to this on Tuesday morning ...

DaisyPuppy contemplates if she really has to go that bad after all ...

Unbelievable, right? But, within 48 hours, my little town straightened itself out.

My gorgeous summer car. Not. (one can dream, right?)

Loving that baby lamb. I had to get him from pretty far away, with a crappy old zoom lens I have, so he's not the best shot I've ever taken, but man is he cute!

And you know I wouldn't willingly let the week go by without a few florals (and textures!)

Here in Ontario, April is Daffodil Month for the Canadian Cancer Society. You can read more about it here if you're so inclined.
Buy a pin, buy some daffodils and show your support.

And that's it for me this week! Between my camera and instagram, I've been a little photo-happy and that's a welcome change from the past few weeks. The sunshine definitely helps to inspire! It's still a little bit chilly outside yet, but temps are on the way back up, thankfully. And there is NO SNOW.

Small miracles :)

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it's all perspective {15/52}

posted by janice on April 14, 2012 · 18 Comments

errr... relative.

whatever.

Being confined to the house this week, busy recuperating and catching up on some TV (gawd, I don't want to see TV for awhile) I was limited in subjects to shoot for this week's prompt, 'perspective'. Luckily for me, my loving friends and family kept sending in the flowers, so I had all sorts of smily floral faces to choose from :)

I couldn't resist the gerberas.

gerbera perspectives

Always such a willing subject.

Out of all of them, I think this one is my favorite ...

An accidental shot, really. I love the surprise of an accidental shot.

The re-broken belly couldn't quite cope with a 'down low' perspective.
Something about the crouching.
heh.

Thank you all for your well wishes, this week and last. I'm on the mend :)

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greens {11/52}

posted by janice on March 18, 2012 · 3 Comments

Ah, St Patrick's Day. The day the entire world claims to be Irish :)

Last year, I made my way around town enjoying the festivities (alcohol free, no less!) and snapping photos. This year, I stayed close to home and watched daughter and her friends Irish themselves up for a night of fun.

I think I'll leave the partying to them. These days, I'm quite content to stay at home.
And take photos.
And eat cupcakes :)

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come out and play [30/52]

posted by janice on July 30, 2011 · 17 Comments

Hey you guys!

Yep, I actually picked up my camera. Hell, for that matter, I'm actually walking. heh.

Recovery from major surgery has been slow going. For weeks, I thought I'd never feel right again. But once the four week mark reared it's head, my body finally started listening to me and got the hell up. Since then, I'm better everyday. Finally.

That's not to say I can venture too far. This tickseed is right outside my front door :)

What started out in my head as just a floral with maybe a texture thrown on for good measure, turned into me playing around looking for a toy camera kind of look. I started in Lightroom, messing with color blending and adding some fake light leaks using graduated filters, then took it over to photoshop and added some textures, one of them being Vintage Tinted Lens from Jerry at Shadowhouse Creations. Great texture to get a bit of that plastic lens look. A simple gradient gives that over-exposed look in the upper left corner (or some lovely fake sun?) and then a slight color overlay finished it off. I have to say, I had a really hard time not taming those yellow-greens. I had to keep telling myself to leave it alone. You get those overly vibrant colors with the plastic lenses. Kinda.

Oh, and yes, I added rounded corners. Rounded corners just scream retro, right? Right.

It's probably not for everyone, but I kinda like it.

You know, sometimes I have way too much fun processing. heh.

I'm so glad to be back, you guys. You have no idea :)

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