Weekend Assignment- Major Purchase

The theme of this week's Weekend Assignment, from Outpost Mavarin,
was to photograph your latest Major purchase. My only major purchase recently falls a bit short of the price limit given but it's the only thing I've purchased over $100 in months. I am not an impulse buyer as some of my friends can attest to. I research until I am so confused that I give up, I wait a few days to mull over the options, I go back for a bit more research and then go for the buy, making sure to keep the receipt in case I change my mind. It took me about 3 weeks to decide on a macro lens and even then it took me many minutes to click the complete purchase button. I am thrilled with it and have been using it almost every day. Unfortunately, I couldn't use it to take this picture. But I took this one with it:
You can actually see the grains of pollen! I'm really loving this lens.

Shadow Shot Sunday

It was beautiful this morning. I caught this shadow of the house in the back yard as the sun was rising. It almost looks like a giant set of stairs.

For more great shadow shots go to the links at Hey Harriet!

Politics- Round Robbin Challenge.

This barn is on the dirt road to our cabin in the mountains. It was painted right after 9/11 and to me it represents the patriotism, freedom and pride, that is the foundation of out political system, here in the USA.

Head on over to The Round Robin Photo Challenge to see other shots that represent this weeks theme of Politics. Or click each link below
1. Karen...Outpost Mavarin
2. Carly... Ellipsis
3. Suzanne... SuzyQ421's Photo Blog

Chasing Picture Perfection- Assignment #3- Window Light Portrait

Over at Chasing Picture Perfection there is an online photo course! There are 6 assignments that keep rotating so that you can jump in at any time. Once you have completed the 6 photo assignments, you will get a certificate badge to put on your blog . For each assignment, an A+ badge will be awarded to one person and they'll also get a $5 Starbucks gift card! This week's assignment was to take a photo of a person or animal using only window light. My kitty was sunning himself and it was the perfect time to catch this shot.

Nikon D90
Shutter 1/250
Aperture- f 7.1
Focal Length- 42mm
ISO 3200

Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot- Trees

The theme for this weeks Monday Photo Shoot from Ellipsis is Trees.

I took this photo after an ice storm last spring.

Shadow Shot Sunday

Here are my entries for this week's Shadow Shot Sunday, from Hey Herriet!

Photo of the day 28

Hooray, my new lens came!!!!! I've been saving up for a new macro lens for my camera and the combination of a sale and the fact that I finally saved up the money for it, meant that I got my new lens!!!!!! I bought the Sigma 70mm 2.8 macro. It is amazing.!!!! Today's photo of the day is untouched and straight off of the photo card to upload. I can't wait to play with it more tomorrow. The dang sun set to fast!

Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot-Laundry

The theme of the Ellipsis Monday Photo Shoot Challenge this week was Laundry! Here are my photos.

One of my favorite things on laundry day is putting the clean white towels on the shelf.


In my laundry room, I hated seeing the boxes for softener sheets, color catchers and all the lingerie bags so I took an old basket I had and bought 2 inexpensive cookie jars to put all of those items in.