Rainy Days And Mondays

 

Always Get Me Down........

 

Funny but it seems I always end up here with you...

and my camera. Do you remember that old song by

the Carpenters....that's a way back in the day song!

 

 

Well that has been playing in my head all day....it's Monday

rainy, and a blues kinda day. Rained all day yesterday too!

And here it is Tuesday now as I write this post....and yep it's

raining again! I wonder if I would start singing "You Are My

Sunshine, My Only Sunshine", this rain would go away!

 

I was itching to get the camera out today and head out to

the country to see if anything would grab me for photo's

but, here came the rain. Dag nab it anyway!

 

I was making breakfast of just fruit and I thought....

hmmm, lets shoot fruit! The lighting wasn't the greatest

but I pulled a chair up to the breakfast nook window,

got two large pieces of canvas board....put one on the

back of the chair and one on the seat. Then I gathered

my breakfast fruit, an ironstone pitcher with greenery

that was on the breakfast table, a pretty cup and saucer,

and a white stoneware bowl to play pretty! Next the

camera and set out to try to catch some pretty. As the

clouds moved over above, the lighting change quickly,

so I just clicked away on the camera to see what I

could get. At times the lighting wasn't bad, and other

times the shadows of lighting looked kinda of cool.

I'm no pro by any means, but I love trying to learn and play!

The next fun part for me is editing the photo's.

I love playing with different features in the photo

editor. The photo above is a feature called "Posterize."

It's a really cool feature to use on some photos. It

gives the photo a poster look allowing you to work

with the brightness values and,

the amount of color you want to depict....

sometimes I end up with some pretty good photos to

use for wall art work. That's always fun!

 

I found these overlays of water and thought

they were kinda of neat. Played right into this rainy

day perfectly! The first one below is an overlay of

rain, but I turned it sideways....kinda cool looking!

  

 

Rain coming straight down....I thought this would be

what this vignette would look from the outside looking

in. Wish there were more features to this.....I would

have liked to add some rain drips too. I do really like

it though....another kinda "that's sorta cool" look!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was another water feature I played with. This

one was like water rippling like if you were to

throw a rock in the water. As I was moving it around

I loved how the blue of the water hit on the cup and

saucer. The rippling wave motion spreading itself

across the iron stone pitcher that was blurred out

with using my macro lens looked so cool!

 

Love shooting pictures with the macro lens!

I love trying to capturing the close up detail of

my focus point in photos. I'm a close-up shot kinda

of photo girl. I love to try to capture exactly what

I see. Sometimes I get some great shots!

 

 

Now I am going to go finish my breakfast! These oranges

are so juicy and sweet!

 

The rest of the rainy day Monday I spent lost in playing

with my photo's......one of my favorite things to do. So

not a bad day after all! Now I got that silly song going

on in my head, "You Are My Sunshine!" Hope it works

to drive this rain away to bring me back my sunny days!

 

Thanks for spending your time with me....makes a

gloomy day so much more fun don't ya think!

 

Have a Blessed day...... and may Your day

be filled with sunshine!

 

TaTa Till Later!