Based upon the type of blog I write, most of the photos of my dogs are candid. When they’re doing something crazy, I don’t have the time to set up a shot, so I just point and shoot. BUT that doesn’t mean I don’t like to look at beautiful photos or even attempt to take a few myself.
Inspired by the beautiful photos of my friend Mary from Tales from the BackRoad, I’ve been experimenting with my picture taking skills and saving them up to share with you all.
Keep in mind, I’m not a photographer!
The Fog Is Rolling In
The fog was hanging over the road and rolling down the hill, almost as if the rising sun was chasing it away.
I have a couple of different settings on my camera, so I thought I’d take another picture using the “magic” setting. I love the way this one turned out. To me it looks like the fog is moving or a time portal is opening up.
Which photo do you think looks better?
Bold Bloom
This flower grows around my neighbor’s mailbox. I’m not really sure what kind of flower it is, but the bloom is bigger than my hand. If you know what it is, would you mind sharing? It’s beautiful in the morning with little drops of dew sparkling on it too!
Who’s There
This is the only photo I’ve altered. I put it in Ribbit, cropped it and then lightened it a bit because it was rather dark. This was taken on one of our wood walks. She flew over my head and sat in that tree watching me. I can’t believe I got such a nice shot of her looking directly at me.
There you have it, my feeble attempts at photography. Not bad if I do say so myself. 😉
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I’d say your “feeble attempts” turned out very well. I love pix of morning fog, but I really love the magic effects. The fog almost seems to be beckoning you to enter a parallel time warp.
I love the barn owl. My mum had two who used to sit out the front of her house every night. Maybe it was trying to give you some owl post or your hogwarts acceptance letter lol.
These are some gorgeous photos! The fog pictures looks so beautiful and magical! And what a great shot of the owl too!
The pictures are amazing! As a nothing-but-candid-dog-pictures-person, it gives me hope. Can the flower be a poppy?
The second fog photo has some creepiness to it…maybe do something with it for Halloween?
You did a great job jodi..love the fog and the owl one…i always say i am Going to dabble with photography…samantha raw in my dog group. Takes such beautiful candid shots…calendar worthy i always say…she said she uses Instagram…see if you can click on her page and see some..they are beautiful
Looking forward to enjoying more of your photos…
I’m not a photographer either, but I love taking pictures. One of these days I hope to take a photography class.
You did great Jodi. The second shot of the foggy street is way cool! And the owl, nice! The flower looks like a hibiscus to me.
These are really good, Jodi! I like the first fog picture better. I guess I’m old school and enjoy realistic photos or maybe I’m just experiencing filter overload from browsing images on Instagram. Catching that owl was awesome! 🙂
Those are awesome, you should definitely do more photography! Both fog pictures are cool, but the magic effect really does add something.
That flower looks like some kind of poppy to me, I think Oriental poppies get that big, though I thought those were more a spring/early summer flower.
How cool to see an owl when out on a walk!
Love the owl shot. When we first looked at it we thought it was a dogs nose, BOL
Snorts,
Lily & Edward
Well done! I like these photos! 🙂
I’m very impressed with your efforts and artistic accomplishments. I gave up camera work years ago when my shots were so bad and the dogs were ready to mutiny from the flashes. It’s better for some of us to just write 1000 words.
great pictures!
Cool pictures and very cool that you saw an owl. Sometimes at the cabin we hear them, but I have never seen one.