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It rained today... garden pictures
First off I want to thank you all for your wonderful support of my garden pictures. I LOVE taking them, I love my garden, I just love the whole process, so some good feedback and outside support makes my heart sing. So thank you! Now on to the post:
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It rained today. Light patter all afternoon on my bedroom wall. The kids playing in the backyard with umbrellas. Everyone wore a coat.
Fall in the northwest is filled with longing for warm soups and fresh baked breads. These rainy day moments are what a lot of us live for. We wait for the heat of summer to disapate and the cool breezes and light rains to move in.
When I went to the garden to pick tomatos for dinner I saw unimagined beauty just waiting to be captured. It is the only time since I have had this camera that I have wished for a better one. The dropplets were too intense to catch on film, the beauty to small and delicate. I tried, but I truly fail to do it justice.
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And just for those other nature lovers out there, the 8 oregon Goldfinch that reside now at my Aunts lake side house.
And the cutest little theif ever, who stole an entire sunflower head while I was out picking daliahs:
Thanks again for looking!
Val
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I like your thief too. I wish we had a thief like that. Our theives are huge 4 legged buggers that have names like bambi, doe, and buck. 3 licks and the bird feeder is gone. lol.
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Val, those pics are breathtaking. I've so enjoyed your garden,..living vicariiously. It is VERY inspiring.
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Location: When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Thank you all so much! I am up tonight with insomnia (a common biproduct of gestation for me) and I really loved seeing the comments.
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what kind of camera do you have?
I have a Cannon Power Shot S2IS... I love it. I want it to have an manual focus function... then shots like the spider web would have been much better. I want it to have a better macro function too, but looking at that first pic, I realise that I just have to master the one it has. It was $600 with two memory cards, the bag, and two sets of rechargable lithium batteries. Best $600 I have ever spent. No joke.
Great pics, Val. They make me long for the Pacific Northwest. I love that area. My heart will always yearn to live there. I know it's where I'm meant to be. Someday.
What type of camera do you have? The quality of the pics are amazing. We just bought a Panasonic 6 megapixals with 12X optical zoom. I'm curious how the pics will turn out.
Location: When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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This is a 5.0 mega pixel. I picked it becuase of the lense. The lense is larger than any other in its price range and that tends to create a better zoom. It has proven to be very true in this case.
Rebecca I really should sign on to flicker. I sent my brother (the pro photographer) that first one, and he said the same thing. So I will find that very soon and get an account there. I am a bit worried about critisism, but I think I am confident enough now that I can handle a bit.
Here is another visitor that came to the garden this morning... There were two, but the camera didn't want to focus on the other one from any distance, so I got a great shot of his underbelly and that was it. lol...
Katie... I did end up sleeping some more. Sleep isn't something I do all at once anymore. lol... it is like getting me geared up to have a baby where you sleep whenever the baby sleeps and are awake whenever the babe is awake.
Val
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Rebecca I really should sign on to flicker. I sent my brother (the pro photographer) that first one, and he said the same thing. So I will find that very soon and get an account there. I am a bit worried about critisism, but I think I am confident enough now that I can handle a bit.
you will get criticism. But, that's one of the great things about it because it will inspire you to get even better.
Your pictures - IMO - are better than mine. My first problem is I need to get a better camera. I'm cool with criticism. I'd rather get the honest truth than to not be given the opportunity to grow. The BEST criticism I got was something like this: "you have a really good eye, but need to get a better camera and then learn how to use it" that was right on and yet made me feel good.
It rained today... garden pictures
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It was $600 with two memory cards, the bag, and two sets of rechargable lithium batteries. Best $600 I have ever spent. No joke. 
Great to see you online, but get to bed girl! 
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