It's just another Macro Monday! 19/26

Come take a walk with me through the websites of four photographers who are sharing their love of macro photography every other Monday throughout the year.  We shoot what we love, what makes us happy,  to hone our skills,  to stretch our minds and our imaginations, and because it's who we are! 

One of the first things I learned when I took my first online photography course and the single most important thing that made a difference in my photos was to move my feet.  To climb on top of things.  To lay on the ground.  To look around.  To see things from different vantage points.  

Most of the time when I shoot, it's morning.  I just love morning light. This week I chose to wait until the evening to challenge myself.  And challenge myself, I did.  

I waited until the sun was almost down.  

My camera was literally in the grass.  

Why?

Well, that's where this week's subjects came from!

A buttercup and some type of weed hiding in our "well" manicured lawn!

To continue around the circle and see what the other photographers found this week, 

start here with Stacy Heap Vitallo

and click the link in her post that takes you to next photographer, and so on!

It's just another Macro Monday! 18/26

Come take a walk with me through the websites of four photographers who are sharing their love of macro photography every other Monday throughout the year.  We shoot what we love, what makes us happy,  to hone our skills,  to stretch our minds and our imaginations, and because it's who we are! 

Ready or not, it's coming!

Shorter days.  Cooler nights. Falling leaves and these!

To continue around the circle, start here with photographer 

Stacy Heap Vitallo

and click on the link in each Macro Monday post until you get back here to mine.

It's just another Macro Monday! 17/26

Come take a walk with me through the websites of four photographers who are sharing their love of macro photography every other Monday throughout the year.  We shoot what we love, what makes us happy,  to hone our skills,  to stretch our minds and our imaginations, and because it's who we are! 

My apologies to the arachnophobics out there!

No bigger than a half inch and yet they creep out so many people, myself included.  I can't even stand the though of walking through a cobweb and getting the spider's silk on me.  Ewww!

What I had never noticed before was how much thicker and stronger the silk is that holds the spider's next meal.  

 

To see what the other talented ladies found to shoot this week, start here with

Stacy  Heap Vitallo

and click on the link in each Macro Monday post until you come back here!

It's just another Macro Monday! (16 of 26!)

Come take a walk with me through the websites of four photographers who are sharing their love of macro photography every other Monday throughout the year.  We shoot what we love, what makes us happy,  to hone our skills,  to stretch our minds and our imaginations, and because it's who we are! 

"Can't see the forest for the trees."

I was outside a few days ago looking for a subject for this week's Macro Monday post.  I was also looking for the elusive humming bird my husband swears is there or maybe even the hummingbird moth he's seen near my butterfly bushes.  Since the hummingbird feeder and the bushes are in close proximity, I camped out there with my camera.  I did see a few monarch butterflies, but I shot them a couple of weeks ago.  The only other flying creatures I saw were two whites moths, that is until this little guy showed up.  I didn't really think he or she was very pretty and it was definitely NOT was I was hoping for. So I waited and waited and waited. Then I thought, why not?  Take a picture.  What can it hurt? I had no idea of the details that would illuminate themselves once I put the image on my computer.  

Look at his furry little head and furry little body. Then notice his striped antennae and huge eyes.

 Come in a little closer and take a look!

I was so glad that he decided to stick around and that I finally noticed his beauty even though originally, I'd passed him by.

To see what the the other photographers have found for us this week, 

start here with Stacy Heap Vitallo

and her MM:16 post,

then click on the link in each post until you've viewed all of our images.

It's just another Macro Monday!

Come take a walk with me through the websites of four photographers who are sharing their love of macro photography every other Monday throughout the year.  We shoot what we love, what makes us happy,  to hone our skills,  to stretch our minds and our imaginations, and because it's who we are! 

Can. Not. Wait.

 

If I'm shooting macros of my tomato plants at this point in the summer, I'm thinking I won't be seeing any edible tomatoes for quite a while.  Good thing my neighbors let me poach from their plants!

Don't get too excited for me with this last one.  It's smaller than a golf ball!

To continue around the circle and see what the other three talented ladies shot this week, 

start here with Stacy Heap Vitallo

and click the link in each post to see the next photographers images.

It's just another Macro Monday!

Come take a walk with me through the websites of four photographers who are sharing their love of macro photography every other Monday throughout the year.  We shoot what we love, what makes us happy,  to hone our skills,  to stretch our minds and our imaginations, and because it's who we are! 

Note:One of our photographers is unable to participate at the present time

Just hanging around...

I've been waiting for weeks to see a butterfly on my butterfly bushes.  The blooms seemed delayed this year, but with all the rain we've had I couldn't understand why.  I was ready to give up and think that the butterflies had gone the way of the hummingbirds, whose feeders I still even though I have only seen one or two in years. Finally, this week, I found hope.

   And a happy missed shot!

Check out the other awesome gals by started withe 

Faye Kingston of Miramichi, NB

Baby "C" and his Baptism

I had the privilege of witnessing this little guy's baptism a couple of week's ago. It was a wonderful day, filled with family, friends, and a supportive church community. 

 

He'll be a blessed child of God!

 

Don't you just love how his little fingers are already folded? 

 

Sleeping peacefully before the service begins..

 

 Mom and Dad with Pastor John Inghram

The Godparents!

He barely made a peep! 

 

Baby "C's" mom has the most incredible voice. 

 I have no idea how she was able to keep herself together and sing "Find Your Wings".   

I'm sure there wasn't a dry eye in the sanctuary.

One of his grandmothers..

 

 

One of his grandfathers.

 

One of his great-grandmothers!

 

 

 Two more great-grandparents!

Two of his aunts and uncles!

At the reception after the service...

Two more grandparents!

This connection was melting my heart!

 

This is one of baby "C's" second cousins or something like that!  Their mothers are, each, one of three granddaughters to one of the great-grandmothers.  The three cousins were all pregnant at the same time and due within a few weeks of each, two on the same day.  One was born a few weeks early and these two came along a little bit later.