New Directions

Good Evening,
It's been awhile since I last posted and I have been busy.
I started a part time Photography gig at a dental clinic doing pictures of surgeries, which I must say is pretty cool.
I can't show you any of the pictures though do to confidentiality but I can show you a few pictures I took of my mom's mouth when I was practicing before my first day.

As well for this job I went out and bought a ring flash for my camera, I very much like it. As well I was given a polariod camera for free which I am very excited about, now all I need to do is find some film for it and away we go.

These are my new babies!!!

As for gluten free stuff, the last time I was in Guelph we went to "Portions" and picked up a cake mix and a cupcake mix... we made the chocolate cake into mini cupcakes and lets just say they didn't last. They were so delicious and chocolatey that every time I passed them I grabbed a handful to munch on.

yum yum. 

I took a picture of the other box so you could see the brand:

 

As well recently my mom was in Guelph again and found me these giants marshmellows (I'd say they are like 3 times as big as normal ones) and she also found 2 of the gluten free Chex cereals in Canada. YEAH!!!! I haven't tried them yet but I will soon.

 

And lastly I have been quilting up a storm. 

Here are the pictures

 

This is for a challenge my quilt guild is 

doing for next year's Quilt show. You can't be over 100 inches

in perimeter. Mine comes in at 86.

 

As well because I can't do anything small (the challenge was hard)

I decided to make my quilt "Heart's Desire" also in black

and white, these are the hearts, I haven't figured out how 

I'm going to piece them together into a quilt.

 

This here is the left overs from the quilt below that I was

going to make into another scrappy quilt but my dad came up 

with a good idea of making it into a pillow case.

 

And finally here is "Compass Rose", it's not fully

finished I still need to applique a circle in the middle and of course

get it quilted but I still love it.

I hope everyone is beating the heat and until next time keep cool.

-Photo Alley

ToTo I Don't Think We're In Kansas Any More

Hello,
Well today was a wonderful day albeit a very warm one. However it turned for the worse around 4- 4:30 today when all of a sudden the sky darkened, see I had been expecting that because the news had mentioned that our area was potentially going to have a thunderstorm. All good but then the wind picked up and it picked up fast. Then my brother came out to me and my mom in the front yard where we were planting some plants and told us we should get inside, the top of  tree in our backyard had broken off, just before we went in a tree down the street broke and almost hit a guy. So in we went to inspect what had happened in the back while simultaneously getting out of the storm. I had been thinking it was just our Hazel Nut tree and nothing big or the tip of one of our pines but oh no almost half the tree was in our yard breaking our deck gate and part of the roof. We are lucky so far that it did not break the windows and hopefully there won't be too much damage after it is inspected. Shortly after getting inside the wind died down almost as suddenly as it had come on and the rain stopped, because of this my mom thinks that maybe it was a mini tornado one that hit our street. Fellow friends of ours let us know that they had trees in their pool and furniture everywhere luckily I haven't heard of any injuries though, but a friend walking by after it all calmed down stated that it really was just our side of the town that had any damage and the other side looked like nothing had happened.
Here are a few pictures I took so that we would have photos of it in case it was needed for insurance to show what we could see.

 

If you can believe it our barbeque is under all that mess, you

can just see some of it

 

This is almost the whole seen, to the left what you can't see

is the rest of the tree

 

This is the tree that they broke from

 

These are the two ends

 

The inside to one of the trees

 

The other tree end

 

And one of many nests found among the depris.

Keep safe everyone this summer during these crazy weather changes.

-Photo Alley

Fraulien's Adventures

 Hello Again,

WARNING..... Loads of Pictures to Follow.......

So these past couple days have been quite beautiful and I hear that it is suppose to stay nice and sunny for the the rest of the week, so fingers crossed.
Yesterday I went out and took some pictures in my mom's garden and here are just a few of the flowers I liked most:

Then today it was so sunny out that me and a friend went to the provincial park again... here are the images I like best:

 

We were so close to the momma and her babies she 

was hissing at us like crazy.

 

I unfortunately didn't get the picture of that goose to the right

taking off but I did get him landing.

 

I think this is my favourite of all the images today.

 

It was so hot out today in the sun that even this seagull

decided to take a dive in the water, I only had the camera ready on his 

way back out.

And if you hadn't noticed there is a spider in this dandelion.

 

I hope you enjoy the pictures and maybe I'll have more in the coming days.

-Photo Alley

Sea Shells By The Sea Shore

Well hello once again,
So I warn you in advance this post will have tons of images.

After the rain I went out and took a few pictures of the water drops left on the plants in our garden. Here are my favourite:

None of these images have been retouched as well all of the images were taken with my 60mm micro. I liked these two images of the drops because it is a nice balance between in focus and out.

Then just yesterday it was the most gorgeous day ever. The previous day had been extremely hot and humid, apparently with the humidex it was around 30 degrees.... Just to hot to do anything, but yesterday the wind started and it cooled the weather down a bit so my friend and I decided to go down to our provincial park and take pictures, it was even cooler there and of course there was the sound of the ocean.
Here are the images... be prepared....

 

The waters were so rough it was amazing

 

The goose with the head down had been attacking all the other

geese. He created some great shots

 

Then by the lighthouse the waves crashing were just amazing.

I hope you enjoy the pictures, till next time.

-Photo Alley