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Joy of spring - wallpaper!

I love the spring season. A lot. Maybe since my birthday falls on spring. Just the renewal of life seen in the outdoors is inspiring. Course, I love all the seasons. But it's spring right now, so, I love spring.
Here's a few from today. Oh, and if you click on your favorite, it will come up on a new page and you can right click and save as background for your computer. I have the very soft monochromatic pink one on mine and it's so refreshing to look at.

Ho hum gets pizazz treatment

I had these two images that were just so-so. Oh, we all do. I liked them enough to shoot them but then was less than thrilled with either image when I went through the files. A few moments on flickr and I was inspired to dig into my textures and fake TTv blends. Now I feel they are worthy of printing. Getting them done in glossy.
Quick edit: And along the same lines, I love seeing new people click me as a favorite over in my etsy shop. Today made 160 people marked my shop/photos as a favorite. The newest person chose this image: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8117973
It's "Morning sunlight on mossy trees" shot it in Florida, November 2007 and it's one of my favorites, again after adding a finished look to it. I have it in metallic 5x5 hanging on my inspiration board next to my desk.

American Idol and mushrooms

OK, now if that doesn't get some attention, feedback, something, oh well ....
My favorites tonight were David Cook, always! Carly and Amanda and Brooke. But the person I really enjoyed watching was Chikezie. Wow, what a dynamite performance! I was a tad disappointed in Michael Johns performance and really disappointed in Kristy Cook's performance. And I really think she's good, same with David Hernandez. Now, the rest of them, they can all go home tonight. That's right, even little Mr. Archuleta. He blew it for sure. He missed the lyrics, not once, not even twice, but three times and you know how that goes, 3 strikes, you're out!
OH, I know, everyone thinks he is worthy of the top 3 spot. I am not so quick to agree.


Mushrooms ... I shot these photos the other night while cooking up a great dinner of chicken breasts with a Shiraz cream sauce, red onions and of course, the mushrooms. Yummy! I didn't do any post processing on these images and the only reason I wanted to post them is so I could point you in the direction of a new foodie/photographer blog I have discovered. It began with a night of enjoying the great photos of Jenifer Altman. From there, I ended up at Matt Armendariz' photography site. One of my high school friends had same last name, so I let him know I liked his photos and the nice memory jog. He wrote back and gave me a link to his food blog. Wow! You have to visit his blog! Not only are the photographs beautiful, his writing is so open, pure and fun to read. And, his archives will keep you from being bored.
So, if you visit him, be sure to post a comment over there and come back here and post letting me know if you liked it! I'm really trying to be a better blogger and get back into writing. I haven't been inspired to write since my mom's death now for three years. Oh, sure I've done some stories at work, and of course this blog, but kind of lacked any direction or inspiration.
But the past few weeks, I've been blog browsing and coming across some great writing, combined with photos, of course. www.mattbites.typepad.com is one of those fun places to visit online.
I'm adding the link to the permanent list here. Hope you enjoy! Oh and here's a link to an online magazine article featuring Matt, nice magazine!

Heart

I overexposed this image when I shot it of a red birdhouse hanging in a Christmas tree in a local antique mall. I did this on purpose after reading someone's blog about intentionally overexposing images for a dreamy feel. I also created one with a texture overlay. I have a thing for collecting heart items - rocks in the shape of hearts, little heart windchimes, photographs, notecards .. I believe there is a blog somewhere that called for heart photos and the blogger had plans to create a book. If I rediscover the link for it I will come back and repost it. So, do you have a favorite heart image? Share the link in your comment!