tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19228648756491162132024-03-13T14:00:39.807-05:00Bobbi Heyde PhotographyA blog where I share my love of photography and living in the country.Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-18188978093045823552015-04-01T00:00:00.000-05:002015-04-07T08:07:49.962-05:00Dreaming of SpringAs I've been going through pictures from last summer I am continually looking forward to warmer weather and green grass. We've had a fairly cold winter here this year, though we haven't had much snowfall compared to past years. Now that we're into April I'm hoping the warmer temperatures and the rain will start coming soon!<br />
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I thought I would go through and share some of my favorite pictures from last summer/fall.<br />
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This last fall my sister and my brothers and I went out on a walk through the back pasture, taking pictures and checking on the cows. The leaves in the timber were popping with color!<br />
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The sun was setting as the cows were enjoying the lush green pasture.<br />
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Maggie, our calf to one of our milk cows, was pretty curious as to what we were doing out in the pasture.<br />
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Storm clouds rolling through during a nice spring day last year.<br />
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I always look forward to the Grape Hyacinth blooming in the spring, and if you can get close enough they even smell good!<br />
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I've been experimenting with verses and quotes over photos lately.<br />
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What are you most looking forward to this spring/summer?<br />
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<br />Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-47500075257295168642015-01-06T21:26:00.003-06:002015-01-06T21:34:53.386-06:00A Radiant Sunrise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
One morning I was up early and noticed that there was a heavy dew and that the clouds held potential for a colorful sunrise. I grabbed my camera, slipped on some shoes and headed out the door to the east to see what I could capture. I adjusted my settings, took a couple of test shots just to be sure, and started snapping away. In the time it took for the sun to rise I had snapped somewhere around two hundred pictures. I also did some experimenting with the HDR settings on my camera, you can click <a href="http://www.bobbiheydephotography.blogspot.com/2014/09/experimenting-with-hdr.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see those. The dew on the wheat added an element of uniqueness to an otherwise normal sunrise photo. </div>
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I love the way the sun is starting to peak over the tops of the trees and illuminate the heads of wheat.</div>
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I love that this shot includes more of the sunrise, along with the little streak of fog hiding behind the row of trees to the right of the image. </div>
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The anticipation before the sunrise of what is to come.</div>
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Do you make a point of it to get up early enough every morning to see the sunrise? I'm not always up early enough to enjoy it, but if I am I am usually doing the morning chores so I don't always get to photograph it. I guess there are many ways to enjoy a sunrise though!</div>
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This evening as I was working on the computer my little brother came running down the stairs hollering "Bobbi! You're missing an awesome sunset! It really is awesome!". So I followed him back up the stairs to get a glimpse of the awesome sunset, it really was awesome! I'm thinking maybe the phrase should be 'Stop and enjoy the sunset'.</div>
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When I got my new camera last August, I noticed it had an option for HDR (High Dynamic Range) so I thought I would give it a try. HDR photography is where you take several shots with different exposures of the same scene and put them together, one over the other. That way you can incorporate all of the exposures together to result in a photo with more even lighting. My camera's HDR setting will automatically put three different exposures together. This is definitely the easy way! This is especially helpful with landscape scenes where the land is darker and the sky is lighter. If you do it right, you end up with a photo that looks more like real life, but you can over do it too! I still have a lot to learn, I've only tried it out three times in all!</div>
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These three pictures are ones I took on an early heavy-dew June morning. My favorite would be the one above, as the wheat isn't quite as blue looking as the other two. I also like the framing of the trees and the clouds. I did a slight edge vignette to help draw the eye in to the center of the photograph.</div>
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Because the dew was so heavy, it caused the wheat to have a "frosted" look, even though there wasn't any frost.<br />
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This one also has a slight vignette.<br />
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I'm definitely looking forward to the options HDR presents, along with the challenge of learning how to use it better to achieve the look I want.<br />
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Have you ever used HDR before? Which picture is your favorite of the three? What's your favorite thing to photograph?<br />
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After a long winter, the thing I look forward to the most in the spring is all of the new flowers popping up here and there. It's as if everything was asleep during the long cold winter and is just waking up, vibrant and newly revived for the coming months of summer. There's nothing quite like all of the new life surrounding you to get your creative juices flowing! This usually ends up in an over abundance of flower pictures, but of course not all of them are worth posting. Here are a few that I was pleased with the way the focus, composition, and subject matter all came together to make a complete story. Although each one of these definitely has room for improvement.</div>
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During the winter months we like to fill the bird feeder and watch as all of the "overwintering" birds help themselves to dinner. We always have a lot of Dark Eyed Juncos, all different kinds of Sparrows, a few Blue Jays and Cardinals, and every once in awhile a Tufted Titmouse or a Nuthatch will show up. </div>
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On the warmer not-freeze-your-face-off days I like to bundle up and take my camera out to see if I can get some shots of the birds at the feeder. This day was sorta in between the warmer and the freeze-your-face-off weather!</div>
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To capture these two pictures I was laying on my stomach in the driveway for thirty minutes waiting for some of the birds to get close enough. I was finally able to get a few shots! The rocks didn't make a very comfortable spot to wait, though!</div>
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Back in August of last year I purchased a new Nikon D7100. At first I was having trouble with the focus, but after experimenting and reading through the instruction manual I figured out I could select where I wanted the camera to focus! Most of you photographers out there probably already knew that, but oh well! ;) These two pictures are from when I finally got that figured out! I was so excited and was finally able to enjoy my camera more! <br />
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Here is a picture I snapped of my sister in her freeze-your-face-off-weather getup. :) Luckily the sun was shining and the wind wasn't blowing too bad!<br />
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And here is the picture she took of me in my getup! You always gotta carry an extra pair of insulated gloves! :)<br />
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Last year our garden did fairly well. We actually had watermelons! That was the first time I've been able to get them to grow, so I was pretty excited! The variety we grew was called Desert King. They are a yellow heirloom watermelon. They kind of have a mild fruity flavor and pale yellow flesh. We picked several ripe off of the vine, but the rest we had to pick early because a frost was coming, they did seem to ripen okay in the basement.</div>
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<i>A slice of Desert King Watermelon.</i></div>
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We had a ton of these pumpkins! They grew like crazy! The vine tried to take over the whole garden! They had deep orange flesh and very good flavor. They are small 2-4 lb squash, perfect for when you only want to cook a small amount and not have a bunch left over. Or as my sister says "Perfect for when you only want to cook one and have no more than one cooked!" She's not ornery at all........ ;) She likes to help me with my posts! </div>
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We also had carrots grow last year, too! We usually don't have much luck with carrots, but last year we were able to freeze a few pints for the winter. They're good for getting out of the freezer and plopping into soups for an easy-to-make meal. We grew yellow carrots, red carrots, and orange carrots. In the winter months I like to plan out the garden and take seed inventory. If we are low on a variety of vegetable I always like to flip through seed catalogs and pick out a new kind to try. The yellow carrots are <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/jaune-obtuse-du-doubs-carrot/" target="_blank">Jaune Obtuse du Doubs</a> (don't ask me how the pronounce it!) and the red carrots are <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/atomic-red-carrot/" target="_blank">Atomic Red</a>. I think I preferred the yellow carrots over the red carrots, they had a better flavor, though both were good. Unfortunately the carrots haven't sprouted yet this year, they probably need re-planted.</div>
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These were taken during hunting trips last fall. I like to take my camera along to see if I can capture some of the excitement! Though it was mostly weather, a squirrel, and a few geese flying over, they didn't have time in their schedule to stop for pictures, maybe next time. ;)<br />
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<i>I love the way this picture turned out! If you look closely you can almost see them moving by!</i></div>
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<i>Storm clouds are always my favorite! I love the different hues in this one.</i></div>
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Over the last several weeks I've been busy in the garden pulling weeds, mulching paths, planting seeds and making raised beds. I hope to finish mulching in between plants next week. <br />
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We've added a third garden this year! It contains the unruly squash vines that try to take over everything. We also added corn and a lot of melons. This year with the corn I'm going to try planting pole beans along the rows to climb up the stalks. I also plan on saving bean seeds from all three varieties I'm growing this year.<br />
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Two days ago we got 2 3/4" of rain! Hence, the blog post! ;) I'm hoping this year will be a wetter one than last year.<br />
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I will try to post more often now that things are working again, although this might be a "rainy day" blog.<br />
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</span>Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-75472738555743715222013-07-17T14:27:00.001-05:002013-07-17T14:27:29.560-05:00Week 28: Carrots and Beets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I've been harvesting a few things out of the garden lately. First there were <a href="http://bobbiheydephotography.blogspot.com/2013/06/week-25-peas-in-pod.html" target="_blank">peas</a>, then some radishes, and now there are carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, and kohlrabi. Of course, we've only gotten two kohlrabi, about 3 or 4 turnips and a little more than that of rutabagas. So definitely not an overload of vegetables! Although, it is about time to pull the rutabagas so that a Fall crop can be planted.</div>
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These carrots are called <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/tonda-di-parigi-carrot/" target="_blank">Tonda Di Parigi</a>, they're a 19th-century Parisian heirloom carrot. They only get to about 2" long and about 1 1/2" in diameter, so they're perfect for hard soil. They grew really well for me, as you can see. I can't wait to cook some up for dinner!<br />
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These beets are <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/lutz-salad-leaf-beet/" target="_blank">Lutz Salad Leaf</a>. The tops are supposed to be good in salads, I will have to try it sometime! They grew pretty well considering they got trampled a few times by my little brothers!<br />
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I like to grow old heirloom varieties because it's almost like planting a piece of history! It's fun to imagine all of the people before who may have grown the same variety at one time!<br />
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So I'm a little late in getting these up, say about 12 days late? ;) But here they are! I always end up trying all of my lenses (3) and a ton of different settings for firework pictures. I don't quite have it figured out yet. Here are a few that turned out.</div>
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Did I mention that it helps if your batteries are charged? About halfway through my battery went dead and my other two wouldn't work either! So I just got to enjoy the show and not worry about pictures! ;)<br />
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This pink one is probably my favorite! It could have something to do with all of the others being the same gold color....<br />
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This last one wins the award for the best picture I took of the night!<br />
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I thought I'd share some pictures of our garden. This year it was so cold much later than normal, it's still not quite as hot as it usually is. I'm fine with that! Because of this the garden was planted much later than I would have liked. I still have three more beds to plant! As far as weeds go, we've done a pretty good job at keeping them down, at least in the beds that are already planted. Mulch helps a lot!</div>
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Last Fall I mulched half of this garden with leaves and chicken manure. This Spring I left it like it was and planted right in it. At first the mulch hadn't composted much and some of the smaller seeds had a hard time sprouting unless I added a little dirt on top and planted the seeds in there. Now it seems to have composted more and the seeds sprout better. It has helped keep the weeds to a minimum. </div>
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With the other half of the garden I have put down one layer of newspaper and added a thick layer of grass clippings after I planted the bed. If you were planting seeds I would wait until they have sprouted and are about 4 or 5 inches tall before adding the mulch. That way you don't suffocate them. You want to be sure and mow the yard before anything goes to seed, otherwise you will be planting grass/weeds in your garden by adding the grass clippings.</div>
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This is a bed of onions, one of the first things I planted this year. I only just got around to putting the newspaper and grass mulch on.<br />
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As you can see we have to have the garden fenced to keep the chickens out. The bed in the middle is a row of cucumbers down the middle with some radishes on the sides. The bed to the right is peas. To the left you can see a few kohlrabi and beets.<br />
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This is a row of beets growing between two rows of bush beans. Some of the bush beans have climbing tendrils on them!? I don't think that's supposed to happen!<br />
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Some cilantro that is past it's prime.<br />
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This is a close up of the cucumbers in the second picture. They are Poona Kheera cucumbers from <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/poona-kheera-cucumber/" target="_blank">Baker Creek</a>. I grew these last year. Boy did they produce!! I ended up with enough to make two kinds of pickles and also some left over to eat fresh.<br />
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These are <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/purple-plum-radis/" target="_blank">Purple Plum</a> radishes. They were planted kind of late and are having to grow in the heat, they seem to be doing ok though.<br />
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Do you like to garden? Do you have any tips for getting the garden in earlier?<br />
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It's been a pretty good spring for growing peas. At first I was afraid it was going to get too hot before our peas bloomed, but then it cooled back down again. We have had a ton of snow peas! I have been eating them raw with almost every meal! I grew the same kind last year and they've done well again this year. They're called Oregon Sugar Pod II, you can find them <a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/oregon-sugar-pod-ii-snow-pea/" target="_blank">here</a> on the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds website.</div>
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The pictures that I am sharing with you today are shell peas. They are also from Baker Creek, they're called<a href="http://www.rareseeds.com/lincoln-garden-pea/" target="_blank"> Lincoln</a>. They have also grown really well. Though they produced about a week and a half later than the snow peas, we were still able to get some pickings in before the hot summer heat. These were a nice addition to some stew I made about a week ago.</div>
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They produced about 6-7 peas per pod average, with a few having 9-10 peas per pod! They were nice sized, too. I plan on saving seed from these this year and planting them again next season.</div>
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I planted this clematis about three years ago. The first year I don't think it bloomed at all. The second year (last year) it had several blooms. This year it has exploded! There are tons of blooms all over it! I really like Clematis and hope to get a few different colors started. I believe this one is called Nelly Moser. Though I may be wrong on that one. It doesn't look anything like the picture that was on the package that I bought!</div>
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This picture was one of those where you think, "Hey, I wonder how it will look from this angle." One of those times where you normally wouldn't have tried it this way. I really like how it turned out!<br />
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This one is probably my favorite! Sometimes I have a hard time getting the camera to focus where I want it to. I will think I have it right, take my camera inside and unload the pictures only to find out it's not focused where I thought it was! With this picture I wanted it focused on the white stamens in the center of the flower to help draw your eye into the picture. It's pretty close to where I wanted it.<br />
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Strawberry Orange Sorbet. What can I say? It was awesome! My younger sister, yes the same one that made these<a href="http://bobbiheydephotography.blogspot.com/2013/04/week-17-pink-popsicles.html" target="_blank"> Pink Popsicles,</a> found <a href="http://deliciousshots.blogspot.com/2012/03/strawberry-orange-sorbet.html" target="_blank">this recipe</a> on Pinterest and decided to make it. Well I 'm glad she did, because it was really good!! Creamy, sweet, and very Strawberry-y (I know that isn't a real word, but how else do I describe this awesome goodness?)</div>
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The only thing my sister changed was that she didn't cook the strawberries or use an ice cream freezer. I asked her how she made it, and she didn't even know that the recipe called for it to be cooked! She just looked at the ingredients and made it!! It turned out just fine, though. So if you don't have an ice cream freezer you can still make this. She also used frozen strawberries which probably took away the need to freeze in an ice cream freezer. She just blended the recipe in a blender. If you need a good blender, the Ninja one is what we have and it works better than any I have ever tried. We really like it.</div>
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Here is our adapted recipe, or maybe I should say accidental adapted recipe:<br />
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4 C. Frozen Strawberries</div>
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Enjoy on a hot summer day!</div>
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Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-83518502828138740472013-06-24T15:39:00.003-05:002013-06-24T15:39:36.585-05:00Week 22: Another Old Barn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I took these pictures back in February while I was trying to get pictures of Bald Eagles. Needless to say, the barn pictures turned out better than the Eagle ones.</div>
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When I edit pictures I will try editing in black-and-white to see if it looks better than the original. With this picture, I couldn't decide which I liked better. Though, I am leaning more toward the black-and-white version!<br />
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Which is your favorite? Do you tend to like black-and-white or color better?<br />
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Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-8110633174072725002013-06-14T12:25:00.003-05:002013-06-14T12:25:34.714-05:00Week 21: A Vintage Barn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This is a picture of my Grandpa's barn where he grew up. I love how the vintage edit turned out!</div>
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Seeing pictures like this makes you wonder what stories took place here. Who the people were that used this barn throughout the years, and what their life was like. I think old pictures are neat, though this is not an old picture, it is an old barn.<br />
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The editing of these barn pictures is going slowly. I have been using the nice days to work in the garden, and the rainy days to edit pictures. Yep, today is a rainy day. Although, I would like to do a photo shoot in the rain sometime. I haven't been able to convince anyone to model for me! :) Oh well.<br />
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Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-53865232007543870092013-06-14T11:52:00.000-05:002013-06-14T11:52:24.069-05:00Week 20: Snow in a Green World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
This Spring we had several heavy, wet, snows. These pictures are from the second or third snow. Normally, we don't get snow past March in the Spring. This has been a weird year as far as the weather goes.</div>
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I have been experimenting with food photography now and then. Sometimes it's a little tricky placing things in the picture and getting the right angle. Here are some of my most recent attempts.</div>
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These are some biscuits I made the other day when it was cold and snowing. It helped warm up the house! Not to mention yummy biscuits!</div>
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This is probably my favorite out of the biscuit pictures.<br />
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My other sister made some lemon cookies. They were also very good!!</div>
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Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-89623895609815417862013-05-03T13:24:00.000-05:002013-05-03T13:24:28.026-05:00Week 18: Snow.....in May?We've had an up-and-down sort of Spring this year. Going from 70s and 80s for a high one day, to 35* and snowing the next. Yesterday was the day we got snow. Big, soft, wet flakes flying down rather rapidly almost all day. On days like that, we usually end up baking to warm the house a little. (More on that in the next post.) After I made some biscuits, I suited up and headed out to get some pictures of the snow.<br />
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These tulips were bent from the wind.</div>
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A pink tulip capped in snow.</div>
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The perfect treat on a hot Summer day!!</div>
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Some more barn pictures!! My Aunt asked me to take some pictures of the old barn that her Dad grew up with, so of course I said yes! I was originally planning on getting some pictures of the barn in Winter with snow and some in Summer. But, I never got any with snow on the ground. It will have to wait till next Winter I guess. Unless we get snow tonight, as it is in the forecast! This Spring doesn't seem too eager to warm-up, that's for sure.</div>
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Originally, I wasn't going to keep this photo as it had a weird bluish tint to it (my fault in not getting the settings correct). After some editing, I was able to save it! I liked how it turned out.<br />
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<br />Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-54782206640045688632013-04-15T09:49:00.000-05:002013-04-15T09:49:01.259-05:00Week 15: Spring Is Here, But Winter Came to VisitSpring is finally here! The grass is green, the daffodils are blooming, the birds are singing and new baby calves are being born! But Winter isn't going to give up that easy, so for the next few days he'll be hanging around until Spring kicks him out for good. <br />
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Over the last week I have been busy planting potatoes and strawberries. We had several days in a row where it was in the 70*s and the nights in the 40*s. I planted 10 lbs. of seed potatoes and hope to get 4 more planted soon. This year I am going to try to grow some purple potatoes, they're called Purple Majesty. I should've taken some pictures of the cut seed but I didn't. I'll have to get some pictures of the harvest to show you guys. In all I am growing seven different varieties of potatoes, they include: Purple Majesty, Purple Viking, German Butterball, Red Pontiac, Kennebec, Irish Cobbler, and Dakota Pearl. I was going to grow Yukon Gold instead of Dakota Pearl and Irish Cobbler, but I was too late in buying the seed tubers. I couldn't find them anywhere. We grew them two years ago and they tasted amazing!<br />
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As for the Strawberries I planted 3 varieties: Jewel, All Star, and Honeoye. Seventy-five plants in all. They are all June-bearing. I planted them about 12-14 inches apart both ways in my strawberry bed and another small bed we had. The last Strawberries we had were Honeoye, they grew very well and the berries were big. Hopefully we will have lots of strawberries next summer!!<br />
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We have been getting lots of rain the past few days. Maybe not a lot, but some. Compared to last year we are getting a lot. I'm just thankful to be getting rain at all! I like cloudy-rainy days! The rain seems to make things all the more pretty. It makes the grass greener and the trees darker. Not to mention the lighting, even though it makes taking pictures all that more difficult. IF I can figure my camera settings out, the dark rainy days make for better photos than the bright sunny ones do.<br />
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The Grape Hyacinths are blooming, aren't they so cute!<br />
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The Chickens are also happy Spring is here.<br />
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Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-22676626460694214232013-04-13T11:52:00.000-05:002013-04-13T11:52:59.143-05:00Week 14: A Stormy PastureThis is also one of my favorites, edited with the Pioneer Woman's Photoshop Actions. I had edited it several times before trying to lighten up the trees without making the sky too bright. My last edit was pretty close to the way I wanted it. Yesterday when I downloaded the actions I was trying them out on a few pictures and thought I would try it on this one. It finished the picture up nicely! This goes to show that the right editing can really benefit the over all feel of a picture, making the difference between a good picture and an ok picture.<br />
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<br />Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-45527123998886689992013-04-12T13:24:00.001-05:002013-04-12T16:07:28.469-05:00Week 13: A Pine ConeThis is probably one of my favorite photos. I have edited it so many different ways. I think this is probably my favorite edit though. I used one of the Pioneer Woman's Photoshop Actions on it. I had never used any actions other than the default ones that came with the program. I'm glad I finally decided to give the Pioneer Woman's Actions a try! If you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements you can download the actions for free by clicking <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/2010/08/pioneer-woman-actions-for-photoshop-elements-2/" target="_blank">here</a> for Elements users and <a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/photography/2010/03/actions-update-2/" target="_blank">here</a> for Photoshop users.<br />
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I took this photo at a cousin's house. They have big pine trees bordering the north side of their yard, and there just happened to be some pine cones on! I tried several different angles and this one was always my favorite! To see some more edits of this picture visit my Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobbihphotos/" target="_blank">here</a>, they can be found in the set titled "Nature".<br />
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<br />Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-40289782384528157272013-04-11T17:33:00.000-05:002013-04-11T17:33:30.295-05:00Week 12: Golden LightAs the sun is going down I'm helping my Dad load a bull into our trailer to take him back home. He had escaped into the adjoining pasture, and we were using the land owners corral to get him into the trailer. The rest of the cows stand back and watch curiously. A gentle breeze is blowing, stirring the dust up and bringing a welcoming break in the heat of the day.<br />
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I liked how the sun filtered over the corral boards. I took this in August of 2011.<br />
<br />Bobbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11100165595609816197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922864875649116213.post-4100303065266184272013-04-11T17:23:00.000-05:002013-04-11T17:23:52.529-05:00Week 11: One Fancy DudeThis guy is one fancy dude. He insists on fixing his hair everyday! Sometimes his obsession gets annoying! As if that isn't enough, he goes around showing it off, strutting here and there all day!!<br />
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I took this picture in 2011. He is a Polish Crested (I think, but who knows!) rooster that our friends gave to us because they had too many. He definitely doesn't blend in with the rest of them!<br />
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