Hello, All,
Purple is a passionate color. On Palm Sunday...all the statues in the Catholic churches are covered with a purple cloth to highlight the Passion of Christ...also, the flowers in this season display quite a purple passion themselves.... Here are some purple and pink Calla lilies in a vase from the Flower and Garden show a couple of weeks back and some purple crocus along the Lake Union Marina.....;)
Dragonfly by Donna
A Quick burst of spring pink! Pink petal rain...I don't mind!
Dragonfly jewel compliments of Donna's Designs
Hello again,
This is a bit of a record for me....so many entries within 24 hours. However, I feel as though I'm sailing along with my journal this weekend. The photo of the ocean and the waves breaking with the Picante catamarran sailing behind them is a trigger to a more relaxing memory and time earlier his year.
The first photo is a snapshot in time...the second is a gif which gives a little motion to the magic. Join me in dreaming of your ship coming in and your troubles just sailing away! That would be good,now, wouldn't it? Maria
Troubles sail away.........................................
Hello, again!
Just thought I would share a couple more Ixtapa photos...Mexico! These are views from almost two months ago! It's hard to beleive it was so recent. Why do vacations always seem so far away whether you are waiting to go on one or looking back to one that just happened. I could sure use some of the sunny weather from there right now...it's a raining frenzy around here in Seattle being that time of year. I'll just reflect on these views from above and below our getaway in February of this year...:) Maria
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Tonight or should I now say this morning...it's after midnight...I accomplished my very first homemade animation. Crude and simple as it may be I am very proud of it! It is a manta ray swimming on top of an undersea restaurent. I did not take this picture but it seemed to call to me for some reason. My last entry had a praying mantis and now this one has a flying manta ray. You just never know what you will get here. There is actually an underwater restaurent being built somewhere in the world. I got an email and it had some pictures of what it will look like...imagine sitting at the table and having the seafood watch you! It is kind of an eery picture for sure!
Hello all,
I'm jumping around a little bit...keeps me on my toes. This entry is about the praying mantis that stopped by our deck in Mexico. These insects bring back memories of Pittsburgh for me. I used to find them in the outside play areas all the time. I really thought they were holy when I was a child...they were PRAYING! It just looked like that, I later discovered....duh!!!!! These two photos are different views due to lighting...in the first one the light is behind the object and in the second it is in front of it. Sometimes we can be blinded or distracted by something and not see the entire picture...although we enjoyed it as it was. How much different is the picture when the light is shining directly on it. More color and detail...yet there is something about silhouettes that has always impressed me. It's is a simpler view drawing me in to look more closely at the edges and the white spaces. I miss all that when the light is shining right on the object because THAT is where my attention is drawn. Before really getting to know anything we must look at it from all sides....think of the praying mantis......
Maria
Hello all!
I've been thinking about roses. A few days ago I got some very nice roses and took some pictures, predictable..... I thought it was interesting how the mood of the flowers changed slightly when I added different backgrounds the the photo. It's the same photo just seen in different ways. It's like that with most things..our mood can change with how we frame things.....say the yellow background is more for an easy and fun occasion...the darker background for a more elegant or somber occasion. Try framing your photos in different colors and see what you get! I framed these using microsoft powerpoint. Nothing fancy just plain old presentation software...surprised? It's good to try different approaches, I always learn so much that way.
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