Watery Wednesday

I love taking photos of water fountains and waterfalls and playing with the shutter speed on my camera to catch the water falling or to make the flow smooth and shiny. Here are a few pictures of small fountains and falls for you!!

The waterdrops are suspended in the air here.

Fountains and falls!!

I love the reflections in the pool at the base of the small waterfalls.

Flowing smoothly here. If I slow the shutter speed even more the water becomes  shiny and silky and smooth.

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Macro Monday

One of the plants that I really like are Cactus. There is such a wide and interesting variety of cactus around and I like that they are low maintanance  or in other words don't need too much water!!

I don't have much of  a green thumb so I need plants that are hardy. Even these plants can succomb to my best intentions. Just my luck.

I love the gradual colour changes on thier petals. Almost rainbow like.

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The Weekend in Black and White

This Spider's Web is tattered and torn,

It could use some repair but it still is enough to house the Spider in. It reminds me of my house a bit, which could use a coat of paint with some repairs here and there. It needs some renovations, just like the web but its still comfortable and its very much home sweet home!!

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Friday's Fave Five

Its been some time since being able to post here. I have been quite busy this summer and today have a bit of respite being at home catching up on all those mundane chores that have to be done. So here are this week's Fave Five for you!!
1) My long time friend Jane was here this week visiting from her home in Las Vegas. We have been friends for over 30 years and it does not matter how much time passes between our visits, we are able to pick up where we left off and it seems like no time ever passes for us. I really enjoyed her visit this week, and I miss her already!!
2) My hubby who made sure we could get to all the things we wanted to see and to visit while Jane was here. He was our driver the whole visit.
3) A week off work so that I would have all the time needed to enjoy Jane's visit. It has been hard to get even a day off work this summer with lack of staff, and everyone working.
4) Cooler weather! We have had a very dry hot summer and as a result our province has a lot of forest fires burning. The bit of respite of cool weather has really helped all the fire fighters do the work they are doing. The bit of rain has not helped much, we do need some more.
5) Outdoor concerts: We are going tonight to the last of the free outdoor concerts held throughout the summer. There has been excellent musicians playing, and wonderful concerts to be enjoyed!!

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Skywatch Friday

We have had such a dry summer with hardly any rain to speak of since June. Our province has over 300 forest fires burning as a result and at times the smoke is carried from its place of origin and down with the winds to the coast where I live. The air quality can be bad but the smoke particles in the air can make for some awesome sunsets.

This is taken at White Rock, B.C.

Taken later in the evening.

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Watery Wednesday

For the past few days my friend Jane has been visiting from Las Vegas. We have been trying to squeeze in as much in the few days we have as we can. We had to take her to the ocean of course so my water pictures today are from our travels!

It was a beautiful and sunny day, a great day to be on the water. This is in Steveston Marina where we went to have Fish and Chips right down on a floating dock at the Marina. Lots of boats out and about.

We went right down on the docks to walk around. Took quite a few pictures of the boats moored at the docks.

One of the docks we wandered along.

After we left Steveston, we went to Crescent Beach to watch the sunset over the ocean. There have been many forest fires in B.C. so the air has lots of smoke particles in it and the sunsets have been very colourful as a result.

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Today's Flowers

I think these flowers were taken at Minter Gardens in Chilliwack. A while ago I just pooled all my flowers pictures into one big file, and now I am not sure where they were taken. I need a better archive system!!

I have been working on making the backgrounds interesting while making the flowers pop.

And playing with the picture composition.

Getting in close and breaking those rules of composition by placing the area of interest smack in the center.

And making the photos square rather than rectangular. I think it works!!

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