weekend reflections in Maine

Summer is winding down and the air is getting cooler...  This reflections photo is a shot of the lake, taken on the last morning of our vacation.  The water was so still and it was a chilly 47 degrees..

visit James at Weekend Reflections to see a sampling of gorgeous photographs

Monochrome in Maine

We lost our electricity for 4 days after the hurricane.  Then we had our vacation in Maine, in the middle of nowhere without any electricity..Now we are back into the fast pace of work and life..

I took this photo while we were driving in Maine, on our way to Eastport - one of the easternmost locales in the mainland USA.

I liked the photo in color, but the blues and reds drew your attention away from the old car. In black & white,  I like the way your eye is drawn to the textures in the car and the way it is framed between the two old gas pumps.  I wonder what the price of fuel was back then??

Visit Dragonstar at The Weekend in Black and White for a fabulous sampling of Monochrome Photography

water and mist - awaiting hurricane Irene

a black and white photo featuring water and mist...thought this would be appropriate as we await the approach of hurricane Irene here on the east coast...

unlike today, this photo was taken on a hot summer day in Boston...

check out The Weekend in Black and White if you enjoy black & white photography.....you are in for a treat - stay safe and happy weekend !!

The Liberate Your Art postcard swap and blog hop !!!!

Kat Sloma from The Kat Eye View was the creator, host and laborer for this creative and fun event.  Each of us created 5 unique postcards and forwarded them to Kat.
Kat very graciously received, stamped, sorted and mailed 1020 of them !!  phew!

I studied my photos and went back and forth before finally selecting the final 5.
I wasn't certain what I would write on the postcards, but finally chose a quote which came from a fortune cookie of all places.  The fortune read “Never judge a work of art by its defects".
I never look for the defects in anyone else's artwork, yet it is something I always to do myself. … see my previous post here…

Every day I looked forward to checking the mail, eagerly awaiting a postcard.  I displayed the postcards on our fridge and let my family know every time one arrived.  It was so much fun to participate and receive the lovely postcards.  And the fun still continues as we meet each other and share our creative lives with each other on our blogs.

I chose to use a little creativity with the scanner in my sampler of the beautiful postcards I received…..

And after all of the effort Kat had already put into this project, she was kind enough to send each of us a postcard from her.  I am really grateful that I was fortunate enough to find Kat’s blog and everything that she has brought out in me since then.

Flower from a friend

visit Dragonstar at The Weekend in Black and White to see more black & white images

Weekend Reflections - 2nd week

It's true that time flies.....and a weekly posting really reinforces just how quickly it does !!


 Linking with James at Weekend Reflections.  This photo was one of my first blog photo's and one of my favorites as you can tell by my blog header.  Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and week ahead.

The Weekend in Black and White

It looks as though I have traveled to some exotic locale to take this photo, but it was actually taken in a neighboring town on a gorgeous property run by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.  A beautiful spot to walk around, dream, picnic or take photo's to your hearts content...

The texture in this photo is not crisp and sharp, as many black and white photo's are.
But I like the graineness of it - somehow I think it works with the grainy texture of a stone or cement statue.

I've come across a very interesting blog - The Weekend in Black and White - and am linking this post up with them.  You could spend hours looking at all of the great black & white photographs and blog postings.