sharleenstuart10 on 10: March 2018
Posted on March 10, 2018
The 10th snuck up on me really quickly. I suddenly realized that today was the 9th and I still had not written my blog.
So last weekend Amy and I headed south to a Scottish Festival. There is a wee bit of Scottish history in our family on my father’s side of the family. They emigrated to Australia, and then story goes that my great grandmother was homesick and wanted to go back to Scotland. So they boarded a boat to head home. Halfway home she became very ill and they ended up docking in South Africa and never leaving. My grandmother married my grandfather in South Africa. He though was also of Australian decent. So we claim that wee bit of Scottish blood running through our veins along with the Australian, South African and Irish blood.
The Scottish Festival was fun. Lots of kilts, marching bands, bagpipes, dancing and pole tossing. Actually, pole tossing aside, tossing rather large metal blocks and hessian bags filled with straw and various other things got tossed as well. So we experienced our mini highland games.
The highlight for me was English food and I automatically gravitated and salivated over the English Sausage Roll. My all time favorite and something I miss here in the US. And of course, beer was plentiful. It was a great day and added to that we stopped home at the South African shop and filled up on home goodies as well. A day well spent. So here are 10 images from the Scottish Festival.
Overheard as we were walking by a group of men talking was the words of the famous song “The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond”. The song was written by a MacGregor of Glen Endrick
“Ye’ll tak’ the high road and I’ll tak the low road
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye”
Today we had our little taste of Scotland. A first for Amy and a second for me. I have visited and loved Scotland.
Thank you for joining me for this month’s 10 on 10. This is a circle blog. Please take time to visit my fellow blogger Lexie from Alexis Merritt Photography and see what she has for you this month. Keep following the circle to see what the other photographers have shared this month. Don’t forget to leave a little love on their pages.
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Share Six: February 2018: Color
Posted on February 6, 2018
Share Six is live once again and it seems like just the other day we were working on the January theme. This month Katherine of Cobert Photography chose the theme color. I love the different colors of crayons and pencil crayons, and for me that was a great way to represent the different color spectrums. For the images I opted to use my 70-300mm lens so that I created a shallow depth of field image, slivers of focus. I chose various setting using a frillede vase, directly on my desktop, positioned on a mirror and with solid base and backdrops.
Thank you for joining me for this month’s Share Six. This is a circle blog. From the sneak peak images I have seen, you are going to want to follow the circle. Please take time to visit my friend Liz of It’s Still Life Photography by Elizabeth Wilson and see what she has for you this month. Keep following the circle to see what the other photographers have shared this month. Don’t forget to leave a little love on their page as well.
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Now it is your turn. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook at Share Six and come and share your images on the theme {Color} throughout the month of January. A new theme will come out on February 6.
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By Heart P52 – 2017
Posted on December 28, 2017
By Heart has been one of my favorite groups to be a part of and over the year I have been featured a number of time. I am always grateful for all the work the Admins have put in and all the encouragement I have received from an amazing group of photographers. I do hope that they do this again this coming year.
Below are the images from my By Heart P52 for the year 2017. To see them in a larger format click on each image.
2017: Be Inspired, Be Soul Focus Inspired
Posted on December 28, 2017
I did another project in 2017 called Be Inspired, Be Soul Focus Inspired. Here we were provided with a quote, or a poem, or the lyrics from a song, and we had to come up with an image once a month. So it was a P12 photography Project
This project challenged me to think outside of my comfort zone. I had to ponder on the text and really think hard before pulling together the image that I wanted.
I have enjoyed completing this project.
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Thirty Minutes in the Life: October 2017
Posted on October 30, 2017
Knowing that I was going to have surgery, I took some time to go out and pre-shoot some images so that I would be able to keep up with my blogs. Today I am sharing some images taken at the Butterfly World.
I am always amazed at the beauty of creation. Butterflies encompass that beauty and the unique creativity that we see in this world around us.
The aviary was tropical, hot and humid. My lens kept fogging up, I was glistening, and overheated, and being bitten by mosquito, but it was so worth the visit. I may well have to go back in the winter and enjoy spending a couple of hours just watching their beautiful angels flutter around.
Tree Nymph
Blue Morpho – this shows a tiny bit of the blue that the upperside of their wings looks like.
Piano Key
Malachite
Piano Key
Piano Key
This could be an owl butterfly
Blue Morpho – The upperside of their wings is a beautiful blue color
Piano key
Piano Key
Malachite
Piano Key
Malachite
Piano Key
Possibly Rosina
Thank you for joining me for this month’s 30 Minutes in Life. Please take time to visit my friend and fellow blogger in Germany Sonia of Sonia Epple Fotographie and see what she has for you this month. Keep following the circle of photographers to see what the other photographers, from the US and around the world, have shared this month. Don’t forget to leave a little love on their pages.
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