my weekend's starting early ...

As you read this i am either on the road heading down to Garmisch or already there enjoying the Alps! Since me & the hubby some how still manage to have crazy busy & opposite schedules we're getting out of town for a few days of family time & pretty picture taking. Anyways i hope you all have a fabulous weekend.

ps. my wonderfully talented friend Nelou has recently opened her photography shop on etsy & is hosting a giveaway on her blog ... worth checking out!

Fall ...

This is the first year i've actually gotten out & appreciated the colours of fall ... it's not that i don't love fall, i do it's just it's the end of summer & the days are getting shorter & well you know how it goes. By the time you get over your post summer blues at least over here i feel like i've missed the falling leaves & everything that goes with. So off i headed down to a lake close to where we live in search of inspiration ... & instead i got clouds & the threat of rain (oh & duck poop on my jeans). I was disappointed so the next day i threw (not literally of course) the camera in the car with the hope of blue skies (a given since i had to work that day). & yes there they were & on leaving work i got to head back to said lake & have some fun with my new lenses. I think it was worth it!

working on photos for etsy

so you'd think it would be easy to pick the photos i want to sell but there are so many things i have to take into account & so often i worry as to whether "everyone" is going to like something when really i already know that everyone is different & i don't want to aim my photo at "everyone". I mean obviously i want something commercial but i don't want it to be something you can buy at ikea, mass produced world wide. I want my images to stand out, have that little something that makes people want to hang it on their wall. So in this vain i'm not just picking out the images i like, i'm picking out those i think others would like too but don't all fall under that umbrella of mass produced pretty pretty same same (that's my term for it). So here's a few of the one's i'm currently working on. I hope they're all a bit different, like the variety bucket at kfc!