A promise is a promise

Well, now that I am home and staple free as of today, slowly starting to feel better and hurt less--I thought I would go ahead and tell you of the last snowmobile trip of the season.  In my previous blog I did share a couple photos, from the ice shelf on Lake Superior. 

This has to be the most amazing thing. I know it's not super significant, but since I have never seen anything like this, nor had my husband or my son, it made the trip worth it.

Let's start here, snowmobiling is NOT my favorite thing to do. I actually find it very boring, let me tell you why. First, you ride by yourself and talk to yourself, please don't misunderstand; you have a group of people, but you are on your own snowmobile using hand signals unless you stop. Second, it's very easy to get cold. Third the trails can be really rough. Fourth, the towns you stop at, usually miles apart, consist of a bar/restaurant and a gas station, usually not very nice.  Fifth, well I could go on all day as to why I don't like it...but I think everyone gets the point.
Do you want to know why this trip was the best trip ever?
We went all the way up to Newberry in the U.P. The last trip to Newberry, well it wasn't great. This time we arrived right after a snow storm which made for wonderful trails.

It was also really cool when you were riding down the trail and there was snow as high as you! When we were stopped, I stepped off the trail to take this photo

and the snow was up past my knees!
The whole time I was riding, I kept thinking I can not wait to blog a bout this trip! The trails were smooth, the snow was piled up and the tree stumps looked like mushroom because of the giant piles of snow on top of them. It was beautiful!  As many times as I have been snowmobiling, this trip will always be remembered, with the smooth like butta trails and the ice shelfs!  Oh it was the first time I got to go snowmobiling with my son too! 


More photos:






This blog should have been done sooner, like right after I got off the snowmobile, so you would have been able to feel my excitement, but like I said, I will never forget this trip.
Until next time friends!

Here's what went down!

Holy Moly!  There has not been a blog from me since September!  Sorry about that.  Things got busy and blog got put on the back burner.  I thought about blogging but then I got side tracked which happens to me,  shiny stuff, oh right blog!

Since I last left you, I have received a new camera!  For Christmas I got the 7-D that I was drooling over and let me tell you I am in LOVE with this camera!  I still don't even know all the stuff it does, BUT I do know it takes AWESOME photos!  Let me share:
 click it for a full view


These ladies were the first people to be shot (teehheee) with my new Canon 7-D


Most of you know about the huge ice storm that hit Hillsdale.  I spent some time outside taking photos to share--








This one is a little sneak peak of why scarlet equals pink?

On that note, I will leave you wondering and giving me good reason to come back and blog again tomorrow!

What with the weather and all...

So In the last two weeks, it has been crazy!  Last week there was a snow storm, and last night there was a super wet snow that resulted in a mess and no school!   When there is a lot of snow I like to get out and take photos for my yearly winter photos and I have a blast driving in the snow, but I also have to take care of my husband too because he is out there plowing and he won't stop and get himself food so I take him food and drinks and tools and what ever else he needs!

This last weekend my son and I went out to find something abandoned, if you remember from previous post, that is my favorite thing to shoot and I would really like to get some models to go along with me and be my contrasting element--girl in a pretty dress with crumbling abandonment around them.  Well we didn't find as many as we wanted to, but here are a few that I have played with:

I have added my own texture, and then a gradient and other little tid bits as well
This one below is one of my favorites.




These ones will be posted on imagekind.com for sale.

Now I am hoping to have a couple models this week to show off. Until then, I will cross my fingers that facebook will not suck up so much time and I will get some more photos edited for your viewing pleasure!

Return

Over the month of December, I had a few photo shoots that I will get to sharing, but first I want to share this wonderful flower that my husband and son bought me for Christmas.  They went shopping for my Christmas presents together and when they came home, Jaden carried in a plant that looked like this:

He said, "Mom we have to give this to you now because we won't be able to take care of it if we wrap it". Chuck said,"Jaden wanted to get you this one so you could watch it bloom", to which I replied, "then I will photograph it's growth".




With a final result in full bloom.

This was such a beautiful plant and since it is a bulb plant, I just store it until next winter.