Fairy Garden

During our trip to Maine, while visiting one of the lighthouses, we passed by this scenery. One of our good friends that went with us on that trip said "I love this. It looks just like a fairy garden".

While I've never had the pleasure of seeing a fairy garden, darn'ed if I don't agree with her.

As continuation of my previous post, The Story about Unnecessary Noise, below is a photo from one of my boards on Pinterest (click the photo to get to my Pinterest board). I think this is a great photo, and it is 'just an escalator'.

If you find any interest photos of something that is just ordinary, but a great photo, please become a member of this blog, and post some comments with links ;-)

Source: flickr.com via Roger on Pinterest

The Story about Unnecessary Noise

I am beginning to think I also need to get a fairly high end, smaller, point and shoot type of camera that I can carry with me all the time. Since becoming more serious with photography, I find things I'd like to shoot a picture of all the time. It just isn't practical to carry my SLR with me all the time.

On the topic of 'things to shoot', it's interesting how a critical eye can find ordinary things to shoot pictures of. On our recent vacation that took us to New York, I took this shot that had signs I found interesting to be posted in New York City:

We particularly got a good laugh out of the "Don't Honk/$350 Penalty" sign...IN NEW YORK CITY.

Now from that post of signs we came up with one my wife wanted me to work with to put in our bathroom we were remodeling. I cropped into the "UNNECESSARY NOISE PROHIBITED", then did some Photoshop work on it, making it look like a painting. Then printed it on a Canvas Thin Wrap. This is the picture we printed and hung:

My wife and I went on a drive into Kansas City recently. Decided to go through Lake Jacomo.

Given the winter providing trees with no folage, nor snow, during our short drive I didn't find that many photo opportunities. I did find one area that I had some fun with. 

The photo below is my favorite of the few pics I took that day.

Just a few more photos at the gallery on page 4.

This is an interesting article for budding photographers. Thought I'd link it up here. It is "10 Photography Tips for Enthusiasts.