First Giveaway Day of 2012 is here :)

I hope everyone had a wonderful Weekend :)



I am very excited to announce the Winner In The First Giveaway Of 2012 here on PoppyPlacePdx !!!!!!

Just to remind you this is what was the first prize in the giveaway :)

An 11 x 14 Multi Layered Photo of The Golden Gate Bridge :)

 

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The winner is Meeling at The Hairy Peach blog

 

Congrats to Meeling :)

 

Now there were 2 other prizes offered in this giveaway, so 2 other lucky people win  a 4 x 6 photo print of their choice from my Etsy Shop, so go choose your spoils my dears :)

 

The other winners are; Annette from So Many Memories Blog and Artsings1946 Blog Congrats to these Ladies too! :)

 

I would like to Thank everyone who participated in this Giveaway, commented on my blog, went to my Etsy shops, hearted them and everyone who is so supportive and follows my blogs :)

I love visiting with all my Blogger Buddies and Giveaways just add to that joy :)

Have a Wonderful Day!

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

My Year in Photos :)

Good Morning Everyone! :)

I hope you are all well :)

In 2011, I took over 12,000 photos with my Nikon D90 camera! I uploaded them and then didn't have time to go thru and look at all of them. Over the past few weeks I have been looking at them and found so many that I wanted to share with you. Last year I shared 2 previously unpublished photos for each month of the year on my blog and I thought it would be fun to do that again this year! :)  It was really hard to keep it to just 2 photos for every month of the year, but here is my 2011 year in photos.

I hope you enjoy them :)

JANUARY

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Sunset over Willamette Falls New Year's Day 2011 (SOOC)

Sunset ove the Willamette River New Year's Day 2011 (I love how the light just catches parts of the railway tracks) (SOOC)

FEBRUARY

Coastal Range approx. 100 miles away (shot taken thru the window in my Dining Rm.) (SOOC)

The glow of a Wintry Southern Evening Sky shot thru my office window (SOOC)

MARCH

Magnolia's at the Crystal Springs "Rhoddie Gardens" Portland Oregon. (SOOC)

Goose on a Mission (SOOC)

APRIL

Magnolia in my Garden :)

Easter Bonnets in the window of John Helmer Haberdasher, Portland Oregon.

MAY

Red Tulips in my Garden

Beautiful Rose, taken as I was driving around a neighbourhood

JUNE

Lovely Peach Iris in my garden :)

One of my "Babies" I really am crazy in love with my Poppies :) (SOOC)

JULY

Stars and Stripes on the 4th of July to honour at a local Cemetery.

It isn't everyday you see Vultures on the roof of a suburban neighbours house, well, not the feathered variety anyway (He! He!) (SOOC)

AUGUST

Flowers in pots in my front garden :)

Surfers on the Oregon Coast, the one and only day I went to the Oregon coast last year, but it was a great time, I went with my son before he went back to college and we sat and watched these guys for nearly 2 hours :) (SOOC)

SEPTEMBER

Rows of Grape Vines in Napa Valley, in the California Sunshine :) (SOOC)

Grapes on the Vines in Napa Valley, great reminder of our lovely vacation :) (SOOC)

OCTOBER

Then the leaves start to change colours, so prettily :)

Fall Leaves, Lake Oswego, Oregon :)

NOVEMBER

Fall Leaves, Portland Oregon

Fall Leaves West Linn, Oregon

DECEMBER

This sign was originally "the White Stag" sign, then the "Made in Oregon" sign and now it is proudly displaying the University of Oregon colours as they have a campus in that building. It is a huge part of the Portland historical landscape and every year over the Holiday Season the Stag's nose is lit in RED :) (SOOC)

Light display in a restaurant we went to over the holidays to celebrate with our whole family together :)

I tried to do more SOOC (straight out of camera) shots this year and it is an interesting challenge when you are taking the photo to know that you are not going to be colour enhancing or adding bits or taking away anything. It is a fun aspect to photography for me. After spending 2010 learning how to alter photos, it felt more like using a film camera, what you take is what you get kind of thing.

I really am enjoying my photographic journey and I truly appreciate you coming along for the ride, cheers, T. :)

 Don't forget to enter my Blog Giveaway to win this lovely

11 x 14 Photo of The Golden Gate Bridge :)

Hope you all have a wonderful Day! :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

Thankful Thursday :)

Good Afternoon all :)

Again I am joining My Blogger Buddy Annette at So Many Memories blog for "Thankful Thursday".

I LOVE the idea that we, at least for one day a week, stop and think consciously about what we are Thankful for :)

This week I am Thankful that all the snow the Meteorologists were predicting for us didn't show up :)

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I love how this out of focus shot made the snow on the bush look like Dandelion Seeds :)

We did actually have some snow but if you blinked or didn't take photos at Midnight (he! he!) you would have missed it. It was all washed away by the crazy amount of rain we have been

having instead :(

I took this photo thru the window of our Family Room and I love the way the yellow wall colour reflected and made this image look vintage :)

This shot I took thru a tiny 6 x 6 window in the top of the outside door to our laundry room, it was tricky to stand on tippy toe and hold the camera with 300mm zoom lens steady long enough to get a good night time image without flash but that is the joy of photography for me, getting the beautiful unexpected shot with depth without flash :)

Hope you enjoy these! :)

Don't forget to pop over and visit Annette at So Many Memories to see what she is Thankful for today :)

 

Also, Don't forget to enter my Blog Giveaway to win this lovely

11 x 14 Photo of The Golden Gate Bridge :)

Check it out HERE! :)

Hope you all have a wonderful Day! :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

What are you Thankful for Today???

Thankful Thursday :)

Good Afternoon all :)

Again I am joining My Blogger Buddy Annette at So Many Memories blog for "Thankful Thursday".

I LOVE the idea that we, at least for one day a week, stop and think consciously about what we are Thankful for :)

This week I am Thankful for candles and night lights :)

click on photos to see larger sized images :)

I know it might seem frivolous to be grateful for these items but when the power goes out and it always seems to go out at night then I am so, so THANKFUL I have candles, torches and camping lamps (even though the camping lights have never been used for camping, I'm not a camping girl, camping is a 3 star hotel for me (He! He!)

Don't forget to pop over and visit Annette at So Many Memories to see what she is Thankful for today :)

 

What are you Thankful for Today???

Don't forget to enter my Giveaway :)

Check it out HERE! :)

Hope you all have a wonderful Day! :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

First Giveaway of 2012! :)

Hi All!

I really hope you are all well and your New Year got off to a great start! :)

Unfortunately my New Year got off to a pretty crappy start with a wonderful chest infection (sarcasm) but with some kick ass antibiotics, you know the ones they use for Anthrax, yep, those ones, I have at least kicked the infection but am now worn out and feeling a teensy wee bit sorry for myself :(

So, I was thinking what could I do to cheer myself up and then I thought a Giveaway is always a lot of fun!  So here it is, the first Giveaway on my blog for 2012 :)

One Lucky person will win this lovely 11 x 14 Fine Art Multi Layered photograph Of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

(click on photo to see full image :)

(all images taken by Teresa Chipperfield)

Now, I know you are asking yourself how do I enter this amazing Giveaway? (He! He!) Well, it is simple just follow my blog and leave a comment (make sure you leave a way for me to contact you if you win. :)

Giveaway is open to everyone, so please go out and share this with all :)

Giveaway will run until Midnight (PST) Friday 27th January :)

Also, 2 other lucky people will win surprise goodies :)

What's not to love about this!! And it will make me very happy too:)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)

WARNING!

This image may seem distorted to people who partied too hard last night!!! (He! He!)

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! Cheers, T. :)