Odds and Ends

Enjoying experimenting and playing with  natural light.  It's amazing what you can bring out of simple objects with just window light and a reflector.  These are a few vintage sewing odds.

 

My Niche

I had a fellow photographer ask me a question the other day that stumped me for a moment.  He asked, "What do you like to photograph?"

I've been asked this before and at that time my answer was everything, because really, it was true.  As I was learning photography basics and then bending the rules and getting creative I would shoot just about everything.  That's how I learned about photography and what inspires me to keep shooting.

 

I think for many of the photographer friends in my camera club they have developed a style, or niche that inspires them.  We always try new things don't get me wrong, but we definitely develop a style that is often recognizable within our group.  Some are skilled nature and landscape photographers, some portrait and others are always trying something new. 

I was recently asked to submit a collection of my work to be exhibited on a 14 x 20 foot screen in Center City Philadelphia.  It required me to choose 90 images from my portfolio.  It was interesting to see which images I felt were the best representation of my work and I have to say that the majority of them were flowers/insects or close up photography as well as things with a lot of natural textures.  Although I love to shoot everything, including portraits or people and pets, I really do gravitate toward florals and especially the ones that are past their prime of life as well as the details of things.

So although I do find photographing florals more inspiring to me and my "niche" I definitely love getting out there and finding gems like these to shoot.

 

 

I'm definitely loving the journey!

 

Linking up with Macro Monday at Lisa's Chaos

 

 

Two day break from winter

It was a glorious weekend in southeast Pennsylvania and we enjoyed it down to the last rays of sunshine.  One more day of mild weather and then we are back to our regularly scheduled winter...

 

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More winter coneflowers.  Yes, it's become an obsession.

 

 

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Raindrops on roses...

 

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It's amazing what you can find in the City of Brotherly Love.  Just one block off such shopping names such as Burberry, Coach and Juicy Couture and the finest dining establishments in the city you come upon these buildings.  One block of urban decay, in the center of fine living.  The story behind the buildings and sad, they've been abandoned since the early 90's, but as a photographer it was my Burberry, Coach, Gucci and Prada.

Then, just one block later, we were back in the land of fine living for an amazing brunch at Tintos.

 

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Like a kid in a candy store.

 

 

My husband and I went on a little getaway weekend in Philadelphia.  He loves going into the city, me, I'm more of a country mouse but I went with it anyway.  I'm glad I did.  It was nice to have nothing to do but eat, drink and be merry, away from all the cleaning and weekend responsibilities that most weekends require.  I took this photo of him looking out onto 17th Street as we sat in the tavern enjoying happy hour, perfectly named.