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How Does It Feel?

This is my favorite time of year. I find myself wanting to slow down time so that I can savor this season of new life, vivid colors, beautiful flowering, and delicious scents. But I cannot slow down time. So instead I go out with my camera and make photographs always asking myself How does it feel? My goal is to create images that express answers to that question. Some of those answers might be that it feels… exuberant effervescent sparkly alive soft and dreamy bursting with energy going so quickly that it’s all a blur gentle and soft too short Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Life is a Gift

Yesterday was the most amazingly beautiful day! In the early morning I spent time at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum photographing the tulips and wildflowers. Then I came home and edited the photos I had just made and did my weekly Soma Yoga class (live online). In the afternoon I re-connected with a longtime ago next-door neighbor who has become interested in pursuing photography. It was a beautiful day that reminded me that Life is a Gift! I love this short season of spring blossoms so much! Springtime feels like such a time of expansion and growth. Wildflowers are in bloom, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Visitations

I love where we live! Every day we have Visitations from birds, ducks, geese rabbits, squirrels, and turtles in our front and back yard. Yesterday I noticed a family of mallard ducklings in the pond. They were so tiny that I think they must have just hatched sometime earlier that same day. This morning during the rain, a pair of Baltimore Orioles visited my bird feeders. They ended up liking the little hydrangea tree that grows near the feeders more than the feeder themselves. I was lucky enough to have my camera with long lens attached, at the ready. All Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Shades of Green

This morning I celebrated blue skies and Shades of Green as I looked out at the pond behind our house and the trees beside our deck. I decided to play around with using my 100-400 mm lens with 1.4 extender to photograph what I saw. Making photos every day makes it easier for me to let myself play around and do “unreasonable” things like photograph lilac leaves with my long lens even though I could easily use a regular lens to make the photographs. With the early morning sunlight back-lighting the leaves and the len’s long reach I was able Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Life Unfurling

I went for a walk yesterday morning in my neighborhood before the rain arrived. On my walk I was looking for tiny scenes of beauty, little scenes of Life Unfurling as nature’s spring unfolding speeds up. And I found life unfurling everywhere I looked. One time I accidentally hit the shutter release on my camera as I was moving and later discovered an (un)intentional camera movement photo that expresses how quickly the seasons turn. Even with gray skies above and a moist feeling of impending rain in the air I found beauty all along the path I walked. New leaves Read more…

By Marilyn, ago