Day 16 - And there was light

This is the bottom of one of the lights in my kitchen. It used to be in a ship, although I don't know more about it than that (never got the whole story from my landlord). This is looking up at the light from underneath, which I have to say is a horrible angle at which to take a photo *LOL* Just hard to be steady!

From Inside the lens

Blessings!

Day 15 - Remembrance

This is a bit of a sampler that was stitched in 1933 by a lady who used to live in the apartment attached to my Grandmother's house. I forget when Doris passed away, but when my Gram passed away and we were cleaning out the house, we found this and I loved it. I don't remember much of Doris, but apparently she and I were buds when I was a little girl :) The sentiment on the sampler is lovely. Since you can only see a little bit in the picture, here is what it says: "Rememberance is the sweetest flower of all this world's perfuming. Memory guards it sun or shower, friendship keeps it blooming."

From Inside the lens

Blessings

Day 14 - Light one candle

Geez, you miss posting one day, you miss it for the next three!

This is the wick from my hurricane lamp (notice the fuzziness of the metal casing? Yeah... don't get to dust this lamp much *LOL*). I thought the texture was interesting, especially with the red coloring from the oil.

From Inside the lens

Blessings!

Day 13 - Thtuck, thtuck, thtuck!

Ahhhhh, gotta love that scene from A Christmas Story. Anyways, this is a close up shot of an icicle hanging down from the gutter on the house next door. Taken with 18-55mm lens, no flash; cropped in Photoshop Elements.

From Inside the lens

Blessings!

Day 12 - Fuzziness

ok, so I took this yesterday, but whatever :) This is one of the blossoms off of my mother's hibiscus tree. The sun was hitting it just so and I was trying to get the fuzziness of the stamen (pistols?). This was the best out of the ones that I took (with the 18-55mm lens, BTW), and I just cropped that portion of the image (which is HUGE... 3K pixels in one area) and then resized it. LOVE Photoshop :)

From Inside the lens

Blessings!

Oh and thanks to all of you loves for the delightful comments!! I appreciate the compliments and critiques, or just when you leave a little bit of yourself :)

Day 12: I-see textures

ok, tried for a play on words. This week I'm going to take pics of different textures, so this might be a really fun challenge! I figured since we had freezing rain yesterday (yuck) that I would try and incorporate that, since it is pretty on the holly tree :)

From Inside the lens

Blessings!

Day 10 - ME!

Decided to try and take a self-portrait and for fun, did it in black and white mode. Took a few times to get the angle right *L*

From Inside the lens

And because my Mom gave me grief about it this morning (LOVE YOU, MOM!), I had to take a picture of my Ben Roethlisberger ornament and my Jerome Bettis bobble head since I didn't put them in with my other Steelers stuff :) So here they are :

From Inside the lens

Blessings!