It’s poppy season here in Northern Italy! I LOVE driving around this time of year and seeing the poppy fields everywhere! In between a couple sessions for friends, I even managed to get a photo of me and Ben in the poppies!
The Poppies!!
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I’m Back! Energized, And Ready To GO!
It has been an awesome, crazy, super busy couple of weeks! Ben and I spent a week in Amsterdam, where we experienced Queen’s Day and the crowning of a new king, along with seeing gorgeous fields of tulips and the AMAZING Keukenhof Gardens! (lots of photos of that trip coming soon, along with more of my Paris photos!) I was back home for a whole day, spent volunteering at our annual bazaar, before leaving again-this time for a week-long Leadership Conference in Germany! I am now home, and excited to get back into the swing of things! I will be taking one more week off from my 365 Project, and will officially resume it next Saturday, May 18!
Kids At Play
I absolutely love love LOVE photographing kids!
My absolute favorite way to photograph a child is to take them outside and play! Today I took some photos for a friend of mine, and I don’t think it could have been a more perfect day to let her girls run around as I chased them with my camera.
The older girl even helped me pick out some awesome spots for photos! One of the places she wanted a photo at was the tree below!
I had a lot of fun with these two today! They were absolutely wonderful, and made perfect models! Of course, I’m sure the promise of gelato afterwards may have helped at least a little.
IR Photography
The first time I saw an infrared photo, and knew that’s what I was looking at, was on an awesome photography blog I found through WordPress. Ever since, I found myself wanting to experiment with IR photos! Tim’s IR photos are probably about a million times better than mine, so you should check them out! Today I experimented a little bit more with it, and finally got a photo closer to what I’ve been shooting for!
Too Much To Do, Too Little Time!
I will be taking a short break once again from my 365 Project. I have several trips coming up and need to get caught up on the massive pile of photos waiting to be edited before I take any more!
I did take some time to experiment with my IR filter again today (it’s been a while!) Still not getting the results I want, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out one of these days!
365 Project–Week 30
I usually do a Thankful Thursday post each week for my 365 Project. This week, as I was going through my photos for the week, I realized I could easily do a Thankful Week instead! So here it is, week 30 is now officially Thankful Week!
Day 204-Saturday, April 13, 2013
Thankful for our trip up the mountain. We were supposed to go to Trieste with the Photo Club, but when Tiffany and I were the only ones that showed up (along with our hubbies) we decided to go to Piancavallo instead. The trip didn’t last long, as there was several feet of snow, but Ben and I made a couple stops on the way back down (including the spot above) and then spent some time at the market in Pordenone! It was a wonderful, relaxing day!
Day 205-Sunday, April 14, 2013
Thankful to see beautiful flowers in my yard, that I didn’t have to plant, or attempt to keep alive! This year I realized I need to plant flowers that require zero regular maintenance to stay alive, like tulips and daffodils. (I also like that they come back on their own every year!)
Day 206-Monday, April 15, 2013
Thankful to live in Italy, where wine is not only cheap, but also amazing! I’ll miss spending no more than 5 euro on a bottle of awesome tasting wine when we move back to the states.
Day 207-Tuesday, April 16, 2013
As much as I miss having a car, I am VERY thankful that I can call these people friends! This is the awesome, amazing family that let me use their car for the past 6 months while Dad was deployed, walking out of the airport right after he returned!
Day 208-Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Thankful for the cooking classes we have with an amazing Italian chef! One of the things I wanted to do while living in Italy is to learn some authentic Italian cooking, mainly how to make tiramisu. At this one we learned filled pasta, but the one before we learned tiramisu!! (I put my skills to the test this week and tried making it on my own, and it was a success!)
Day 209-Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thankful for the amazing women I’ve met in the past year. They never cease to amaze, inspire, and entertain me.
Day 210-Friday, April 19, 2013
Thankful for the beautiful weather we’ve had all week, and the beautiful flowers I see everywhere I go!
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Lugano, Switzerland
As I was catching up with some of my favorite blogs, I came across a photo by Meg Travels that reminded me of a trip Ben and I went on last year. You see, I have a photo of the same exact gate!!
Ben and I went on a trip to Lugano, Switzerland about this time last year and had a wonderful day at the lake! We got to tour a chocolate factory…
Look at really awesome cars all over the city…
See lots of beautiful flowers…
And I may have spent a good amount of time photographing this fountain as we were waiting on our bus, as this trip was shortly after Ben and I started going to the photo club, and we had just learned about photographing moving water!
It was great to see Meg’s photo, and have it take me on a stroll down memory lane!
365 Project–Week 29
What a great week! Very relaxing, and very fun. I’m pretty excited about some of the photos I have to share with you this week!
Day 197-Saturday, April 6, 2013
One of the neighborhood cats has become very fond of our glider. I’ve tried to get a photo of him several times in the past few weeks, but he always left before I could get my camera. Today the photo was a success!
Day 198-Sunday, April 7, 2013
Went to the driving range with Ben! 
Day 199-Monday, April 8, 2013
Mail!! One of my absolute favorite blogging friends had a sale in her Etsy shop, so I HAD to take advantage of it and got this awesome tote! She even added a few extra items in the package! Terri’s Notebook, and her Thankful Friday posts, were the inspiration behind the Thankful Thursday theme I have each week, which, btw, is the only one of the three themes I started with each week that I still make sure I always include.
Day 200-Tuesday, April 9, 2013
One of my favorite kids! It makes me happy that he still gets excited every time I pull my camera out.
Day 201-Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Day 202-Thankful Thursday, April 11, 2013
I am thankful that our Yarn-A-Holics group met at the park this week, and that the Italians had an air show going on at the same time. I am also thankful that I always have my camera with me, along with several lenses, including my 55-200 lens which was perfect to take photos of the show!
Day 203-Friday, April 12, 2013
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Paris!
I have a feeling it’s going to take me a while to finish editing all my Paris photos. We went almost a month ago now, and so far I’ve done the walk to the Louvre.
first photo taken in Paris!
Of course, it’s been more of a busy schedule preventing me from finishing my Paris photos. Once I really get the chance to sit down and work solely on my own photos, I should fly through them!
We had such a wonderful time in Paris! I hope I get the chance to go back again one day. It really was an incredible trip!
Tons of beautiful sites to see, and lots of memorable experiences. One more city checked off my “places I HAVE to see before we leave Italy” list!
It’s a very long list, and I doubt I’ll get everything checked off of it, as we only have a little over a year left, and Ben has this crazy thing called work that keeps getting in the way of traveling! I guess I can’t complain about it too much though, as it’s the whole reason we have this chance to see Europe, and what is paying for it all!
And here we are at the Louvre! We kinda flew through it pretty quickly, as we only had 2 days to fit everything in, and I had a lot of stuff I wanted to see! My next Paris post I’m sure will have more about the Louvre, since those will be the next photos I work on!
365 Project–Week 28
How is it already Monday, and I haven’t posted week 28 of my 365 Project yet?! Well, here it is! It’s been a pretty crazy week, ended up sick halfway through it, and my back decided to hate me a little bit, but I made it through! And I even have 7 photos from the week to share with you.
Day 190-Saturday, March 30, 2013
Day 191-Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013
I went to the Easter sunrise service. There wasn’t much sun, thanks to the rain, but this beautiful chandelier was in the church.
Day 192-Monday, April 1, 2013
April Fool’s Day. Also my brother’s birthday, and the day of one of my recent newborn sessions! As I was driving home from the session I came across this church and decided to stop and take a photo.
Day 193-Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Day 194-Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Day 195-Thankful Thursday, April 4, 2013
I am thankful for the simple things in life, like blowing bubbles on a beautiful spring day.
Day 196-Friday, April 5, 2013
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