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Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

Low light photography.

Remington

Remington – Chub Lake, Northern Ontario

mossy rock

Mossy Rock – Northern Ontario

The forest floor

The Forest Floor (yes my dog is photo bombing the shot!) – Northern Ontario

I believe one of the most beautiful sights in the world is the shadowed floor of a forest.

Enjoy more shadowed photography at The Daily Post

Travel Theme: Laughter

Laughter is so important. I believe it helps me stay relatively sane in a relatively insane world!

The people in this picture are dear friends of mine (I am the gray-headed girl!) We spend many hours together training to walk 60 miles in 3 days. The 3 Day walk is meant to raise money and awareness for breast cancer.  These pictures were taken after completing one of our many fund raisers….a pageant for girls and ladies with developmental disabilities. We are always on such a high after that event. This year we ended up at Sundance Square and for some reason we needed a picture of our team “jumping for joy” over the money we had raised.

We quickly learned that 3 of us (over 50) could no longer jump like we did when we were 16. Who knew? We sure didn’t….we were totally shocked! But we didn’t give up and in the process we found people on the periphery quite entertained!

Bees trying to jump

In this photo I am trying to explain to my teammate…if only he’ll put his foot in my hands I can flip him into the air! Needless to say that didn’t happen…but we did laugh!!

Bees flip Corey

Submitted to Where’s My Backpack photo challenge: Laughter

365 Days of Photos – Day 8

I snapped this picture quickly while cutting through downtown yesterday. The church you see is the First United Methodist and even though it is a beautiful church it is not the reason I took the picture.

I took the picture because I feel the pristine blue sky is quite deceiving! It has been very cold here the last few days (20’s and 30’s F). On one hand I enjoy the blue skies…they almost make the cold tolerable. On the other hand the blue skies make me think I can run outside in my shorts to do any fun activity…then the bitter cold wind hits and I must run back in!

I know weather is relative. Many of you live in places much colder than Texas. But my reality is…I didn’t move to Texas to be cold! I could’ve stayed up North for this!

Anyway…pristine blue skies always make for a lovely background. Even if it is misleading!

blue skies

A Failed Stay-Cation?

When we go away on vacation nothing gets done at our house, right?

So why do we expect a “stay-cation” to be any different?
My last day at work was December 24, 2014. I had big plans. I would clean out the garage, organize a closet or two, and maybe even build a path in the backyard!
Did I do any of it? NO!
What did I do on my 11 day stay-cation? I rested, Tina and I went to several movies, I napped, I took down the outdoor Christmas lights, I did a little binge watching of Raising Hope (don’t judge me, I love that twisted humor!), worked out a bit, hung out with friends, relaxed, ate, played cards, tested multiple desserts, went on photo taking journeys and took another nap (or 2).
What I did not do….clean out the garage, organize a closet and I did not do any yard work!
So where is the guilt? Why do I feel like I should’ve worked on my stay-cation? We go away on vacation and obviously we can’t do any of the chores at home…so why stress about them during a stay-cation?
I can’t lie…it was absolutely fantastic not having to abide by a schedule. My bedtime quickly switched to 2:00AM. No alarm was set to wake me and I squeezed in multiple naps…no guilt here, just a well rested individual that enjoyed 11 days of lazy!
So today I returned to work…jumped on the treadmill that always moves a bit faster than my feat….and started off my new year a week or two behind…so I guess its a good thing I love my job and its a good thing I took plenty of naps…here is to a new year!!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Industrial

old warehouse

Abandon Warehouse

Train Industrial

Factory edit practice

This week’s Fun Foto Challenge is to photograph industrial sites. It was the excuse I’ve been looking for to head downtown and photograph an old abandon warehouse I’ve eyed for as long as I’ve lived in Fort Worth. The first two photos are of that building.

For more industrial photos visit Cee’s Photography page