Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread - Proverbs 30:8

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

May Sunshine


taking a moment to find joy in the little things

{pretty}
found in my backyard




spent an afternoon at a lovely park (by myself!)






{happy}
Grandma (my mom) came for the weekend



lots of tame wildlife at the park I walked around




{funny}
a beer tasting paddle boat


 a love scarred tree


{real}
After more than two years of owning my DSLR, I'm getting serious about learning how to use it.Thanks to a new hub on instagram, @beyondthesnapshot,  (led by three of my favorite instagrammers), we are getting weekly tutorials, assignments and feedback of how to better use both our DSLR cameras and our phone cameras. The first week our assignment was learning about aperture and how you can change the focal point with different sizes of f stop. It's all still very fuzzy in my brain, but it was fun to see the difference that one setting can make.



12 comments:

  1. Cool photos!
    Thanks for linking up at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-walk-on-beach.html

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  2. Baby geese! They make me smile (-:

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  3. Great series of shots. I love poppies and the petals are really lovely.

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  4. That sounds like an interesting group, Jill. I think I'll check it out! Oh, what a beautiful park - how blessed you are to have spent an afternoon there. Beautiful images!

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  5. Isn't spring fantastic! You have a lovely backyard. Great shots and that last one is wonderful the way much of it is blurred except for the petals.

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  6. Very pretty shots. Loved the goslings and that orange flower as well as the green pod in the first shot.

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  7. Beautiful photos. I love poppies and just planted some in my garden this spring. I cannot wait! You will be amazed at how much your photos will improve as you learn how to use your DSLR. You already have a wonderful eye. Nice aperture demo.

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  8. Beautiful pictures. I'm definitely in the camp of needing to learn how to use my camera....

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  9. great photos - and such a treat to have a solo afternoon in the park! #LTTL

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  10. You found some real beauty! Congrats on your dslr classes. It's awesome when you learn new things!

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  11. YEA!!!! you are off manual, you are going to LOVE the creativity you can master once you fully embrace your DSLR features. It is so very fun. That poppy shot, I am swooning.

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  12. YEA!!!! you are off manual, you are going to LOVE the creativity you can master once you fully embrace your DSLR features. It is so very fun. That poppy shot, I am swooning.

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