Macro Monday, Raspberries

I work as a nanny for a family and I love it.  One of my favorite things to do with the girls, was to go outside and pick some of these yummy raspberries.  Unfortunately their season is pretty much over in Western PA.  I just like this photo because of the variations in colors and you can see some of the unripe white berries also.

As always, please provide feedback. I heard about this from my great friend Holly.  I hope you don't mind me posting my very amateur photos.

New Idea. . .

So I know I have my favorite photos, and I'm sure you do to, so I'm going to try to start asking every Sunday for you to vote for your favorite photo of the week.  Please give me constructive criticism so that I may get better!  Thanks so much!  Oh and On Tuesdays I will post the favorite photo of the week.  Thanks everyone!

Sunday was full of flowers

like this one I saw on my way home.  I liked the variance in the colors. . .For some reason I'm getting into mums lately.  They really are kinda beautiful!. . . Who knew I liked them? I didn't.

And candles. . . I tried to take some candle pictures tonight and this was my favorite.  I don't know if I like it too much though. In the background is a picture from my grandparents 50th anniversary party about 9 years ago.

Sunday Stills, Happiness is . . .

Meg playing ball.  She was super excited when I took her outside to play ball because she wanted to inside, but Aaron was sleeping before work.  She really is a very wonderful little girl.  I love this little ACD.

She was bringing me the ball. . . I love her legs in this picture.  BTW, only editing on these photos is rotation.  Haven't gotten around to editing them, because I didn't really want to, and the Steelers' game is on, and I'm watching and typing while not really looking. So please be patient with me.

Normal picture of Meggie.  Look at how good she is, she just sits there holding the ball while I take her picture.

And the picture below was taken at the same time to make her look crazy on purpose because she is crazy, BUT, she's such a good dog, she just sat there waiting for me to get the ball from her as I took forever! haha

I love this crazy dog!

Thanks for looking at my first Sunday Stills challenge entry. 

Saturday Flowers. . .

This is the original. . . Then I rotated it, and added some shadow, and a soft focus and got this:

And then this one is a bit closer up. . .

And here is another original. . .

and then I rotated it, clicked the "i'm feeling luck" button on Picasa, and used a bw, focus. . . and got this

 

And another one of this bud. . .

which is unedited. .. probably one of my favorite photos I've ever taken on the new camera.

Friday's Entry: Family Bonding

We all had gathered on the couch at Holly's to watch her open her birthday gift.  And then Aaron and Court decided Holly wasn't allowed to leave so they smooshed her, then Holly called Conner for reinforcements.  Eventually she was able to break free. 

And then this happened. . .
Aaron started smooshing Court and not letting her get up.

And then this happened. . . He is blessed to have a sister who loves him.  I just really like this one for some reason.

2 Weeks Ago

Holly took me out to take some pictures with her camera.  Here is what I came up with after playing with photoshop.

 

 

Light as a

Feather. . . My submission for today's photo of the day, which was actually taken yesterday but this is just in case I don't get to post on today.  So you might get two for the price of 1 :)

Series

This is a series of the goose who thought I had food. . .He starts out way over here on the other side of the pond

And then the pesky seagull gets in the way. . . but look how much farther he's come already.

And he's still coming. . .

 And then he climbed up on the shore . . .

Looked straight at me and said, "Where's my food?"

To which I replied, " I has none". . . And he said, "I'm outta here"

Water Fountain Funness!

So I went to the bank after work today, and I've been planning on taking photos of the water fountains in front of WallyWorld/Wegmans for a while now and decided today was a GORGEOUS day to do so.  Here are the first few samplings of what I got.  Thanks to Andrew's advice I downloaded Picasa 3.  I am rather impressed for it being a free program.  It's pretty nifty.  Here is my first pic of the water fountain.

 

And my edited pic