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 Last year I shared 2 previously unpublished photos for each month of the year on my blog and I thought it would be fun to do that again this year!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 :)
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. :)
11 x 14 Photo of The Golden Gate Bridge :)
Hope you all have a wonderful Day! :)
Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.
