Well I intended to go out into rural Texas (which frankly is ALL of Texas pretty much) and find me some awesome barns to shoot but post-vacation business got the best of me so here I am posting what I already had. I really do love this assignment and hope to revisit it in the near future on my own because I only just recently, within the last year or so, started to see value in shooting things that are old and juxtaposing them with things that are new. I never understood the appeal, now I do. But my eye rarely goes to those things and I rarely remember to look for those shots. I’m getting better but verrrry slowly. So this is all I’ve got, from my recent Mother’s Day picture series.

This is when I first moved into our new house. I loved all the rusty metal and weathered wood contrasting with our “new” yard and home:

Bonus: this is aged via post-processed. Usually I’m not a fan of the sepia and the post-process aging but I had this photo I loved that was otherwise too grainy to use. I really like how this one turned out

See many more aged photos over at the Land of K.A.’s Theme Thursday!

Filed under Nature, Post-Processing on May 22 | 8 comments

I spent Mother’s Day on the beach in full sun so had lots of opportunities to play around with the sun. There wasn’t a beautiful sunset to work with but I had fun experimenting with silhouettes:

Other than the vignette, they are both SOOC so I probably could have enhanced the silhouette effect better with Photoshop.

See more creative uses for sunshine at the Land of KA : Theme Thursday

Filed under Nature on May 15 | 3 comments

Do you remember that 60’s horror flick “The Birds”? That was the first scary movie I saw (ahem, many years after it was made, I might add) and it took me YEARS to get up the guts to watch the entire thing beginning to end. Freak-y.

These are Laughing Gulls, not crows. Way cooler.

BONUS:

{brown pelican}

Filed under Nature on May 14 | 0 comments