Week 29: Garden Tour

Oh this is gonna be a long post friends. Yesterday I had the pleasure of going on the Kenmore garden walk. It's an event held every year in my town where people put their gardens on display for the public. I only visited about 6 different houses, but they had some gorgeous flowers. Here's a bunch...and forgive me but I don't know most of the names. The one above is a passion flower and it smelled as great as it looked.



thistle




this butterfly was being very stubborn


bee on dahlia action

Loved the colors on this one


hydrangea




They had 2 of these in their backyard filled with frogs and fish




Black eyed Susans


Up close and personal with a lily




Not the best photo but this flower was seriously as big as my head



Next week is the Buffalo walk. I'll have to see if I can make that one. Hopefully it's not 90 degrees again!

Week 28: Vintage Owen

My favorite little guy had his second birthday party last weekend. He was anxiously awaiting the train at the station when I snapped this shot of him. He looked so old-fashioned so I thought it was a good vintage black and white photo. We had such a great time!

Week 27: Falling Waters

Yes I know I'm late posting, but we were out of town last week. So catching up-here's my shot. We were visiting our parents in Horseheads last week and I really wanted to try some waterfall shots. There's a great little park on the way to Watkins Glen called Havana Glen that has some really pretty waterfalls. I took my tripod and tried some long exposure shots to give them that "painting" look.

Week 26: Baby Belly

Earlier this week I did a maternity shoot for my friend and coworker Collene. She is due at the end of August with her first baby. She wanted to do the shoot as a surprise to her husband so we snuck off one night after work and took some pictures at a local park and my house. She also wanted to include her adorable dog Joey in the fun. It was my first maternity and pet shoot at the same time, but I think we got some good photos out of it.














her husband's dog tags

Week 25: Steam Train

My boys are going to love this one. This was the steam locomotive getting ready to take us back to the train station the other day. I had to clone out another photog and did a film-y black and white conversion on it. Boston tomorrow, so should have some fun shots from a new area!

Week 24: DAD

I know I'm late, but with good reason. This is the D-A-D picture we did for Dennis this year. I didn't want him to see it before Father's Day. Last year I did one for him as well when Owen was teeny tiny and had it framed for his desk at work.



Crazy how much they grow in a year! It's also crazy how hard it is to do this photograph with a toddler compared to a baby!

Week 23: Garden in Bloom

My garden is taking off with a vengeance now that we finally got some sunshine. I tried a little different post-processing on this one, but believe it or not the lovely blue color in the background is actually my car. If you look closely you can see the little Toyota symbol. I have a ton of flowers to share this week. What's your favorite?

Irises

Iris close up

I wish I knew what these were called, but they're pretty and pink

Pretty pink one close up

Clematis

Clematis in macro mode. Love the color on this guy.

Some bee on flower action for you..ha ha!

By the way I won the photo contest with last week's entry. Woo hoo!