Macro photography is incredible at showing all the intricate details!
Monochrome Monday | The Bee + Flower
Macro Monday | Ice Cream + Cake Pops
Our nieces birthday party had an ice cream theme with various toppings to the kids could each make their own ice cream sundae and enjoy an “ice cream” cake pop on the side!
Cell Pic Sunday | Dogs Life
Mom told him she needed to relax and rest her knee… he felt his weight partially on me would also be very helpful. He kept himself off my knee, but snuggled up on my lap haha!
Silent Sunday | Rocks on the Shoreline
One Thing?
What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life?
Honestly, it would have to be creating a non-negotiable morning and evening routine FOR me…
Regardless of anyone or anything else in this world…
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There really is nothing stopping me then… except me.
The Shifts in Life | Car Racing
Our son began stock car racing late this summer. Its been a beautiful re-introduction and also learning experience – for all of us. This photo was from the other night. An unexpected tiny part broke and finding a replacement meant waiting, calmly in trust that it would come together.
Even with making incredible attempts, ultimately it meant waiting until another racer arrived who had the exact o-ring, for them to get the car running… 3 min after the green flag dropped!
Although blurry, I love this photo I captured, my husband, son and our son’s good friends.
He wasn’t able to run the race, as their rule is if you do not take the green, you cannot start the race on a caution. It does make sense, but also sucks.
Sometimes life lessons in trust and patience, can come in interesting ways. Including some incredible creative inspiration. Funny how life can come full circle. When I was pregnant, I was at the track alot, including many years of our young children’s childhood.
Lens-Artists Challenge #414 | Harmony in Nature
This weeks challenge is introduced by Ann-Christine, she has revived a previous post from Tina’s challenge #44 – Harmony! She provides some beautiful examples of when she was in Greenland. Images of the sky, clouds, water and land, the rocks. All so harmonious!
Reading through Ann-Christine’s explanation I thought of the image I shared earlier today. One that is near and dear to my heart, a perfectly timed one that couldn’t have been perfectly timed, if not for divinity! You can see that image here.
Personally, harmony in photography for me, is finding that bridge, the connection of your life as art – to live and embrace. I asked google this question, of harmony and your life as art and was intrigued at the response.
“In traditional art theory, harmony is the agreement of individual parts to create a unified, pleasing whole. When applied to your specific brand, harmony takes on three distinct layers:
- The Art Layer: Visual Cohesion – How light, colour, geometry, and space interact. Colour & Tone. Composition.
- The Human Layer: Authenticity Meets Elegance – “Your Life As Art” implies elevating everyday moments without stripping them of their soul. Harmony here is the balance between truth and beauty. Order in Chaos. Capturing genuine emotion in a way that feels timeless and artful.
- The Client Experience Layer: Trust & Presence.
This layer does not currently apply to me, as I am not accepting clients. Trust and Presence are the backbone ultimately – in life and even in our hobbies. Our hobbies help define us and our ‘harmony’ within our life.
For me, going on a nature walk by myself with my camera is blissful harmony, for others they may find this absolutely boring and that’s ok! Harmony is the moment when real life meets fine art. Where genuine, authentic emotion, natural light and the moment lines up in a single frame. Rather than staging life into something artificial, finding the natural art, balance and poetic words that are already there.
Ann-Christine has encouraged us to share 7 images to demonstrate what Harmony is in our own photography!
This macro image of dew drops on the grass brings me the harmony feeling. The colours, the bokeh and layers within the image. Looking at it feels relaxing and harmonious to me. An image that could be in a massage studio.
The harmonious colours of nature, the way everything blends and fits together. Macro photography has an incredible ability to amplify the harmonious feeling.
Riding through the bush on the snowmobile trails in winter for me is tranquil, peaceful and harmonious! Especially with the beautiful blanket of snow on the tree branches.
A sunrise on the beach, will always give me a beautifully warm harmonious feeling. With the soft golden light, warm colour over the water and sand.
The various rocks in the sand on the beach are so unique, calming and have their own harmonious frequency.
As well as shells in the sand. This was taken with my macro lens and I love the detail in the tiny grains of sand, the various colours in the shells and the sand and the softness of the shell edges.
I hope you enjoyed my contribution to this weeks Lens-Artists Challenge – Harmony! This was fun to share some more of my favourite images, some from back in 2013! Photography, memories, truly are timeless!
Thank you Ann-Christine for a wonderful challenge!
A Childhood Fav | 2013
This photo is my cover photo on my Flickr account and I just love it! This was my life, our 2 kids and our dog when they were little. Our dog, Becker, they were his kids and he did everything and anything with them! Bonus, at our favourite family place that has, for approx 60 years, been the family gathering place where there could be 2 or 22! <3
When I say, Your Life As Art – this is exactly what I mean!
Wordless Wednesday | Clouds + Blue Sky
Lens-Artists Challenge #413 | Bridges
My favourite bridges, are the ones with water and nature beneath them!
This week Beth at Wandering Dawgs is inspiring us to share our favourite bridge photos! “The challenge is for you to show us your favorite bridge images. You can feature any kind of bridge: natural bridges, foot bridges, swinging bridges, highway bridges, stone bridges, railroad bridges, or any other kind of bridge you can think of.”
This bridge is down the road from us on a no winter maintenance road, this was in the spring of 2025 when the river was very full – normally the water flows neatly beneath the bridge, not under and all around! I honestly had a hard time standing on the bridge with the fast movement of the water.
The walking bridge in Holstein by the falls at the Park.
Technically, a culvert underneath and not what all may consider a bridge – however it has sides and its on a country rural road, so peaceful to travel on honestly ;)
I knew heading to my Spring folder was the one where I would find the images – spring is when I am longing for the flowers to be in bloom, so capturing the landscape is what keeps my camera busy! This bridge is just outside of Port Elgin. I love that they kept this old bridge and you can walk on it. So much character!
In contrast, the newer bridge – much less character!
The main bridge into Mount Forest on highway 6. I will have to pull out my fall album as well!
From highway 6 looking down the bridge. This image is from 2011 <3
The bridge on Highway 89 into Mount Forest, looking from Murphy Park.
An old bridge out in Southgate, I can visualize where it is, but cannot remember exactly ;) Nor could I purposely get myself there by myself!
From my fall album, standing in Murphy Park looking towards the bridge on Highway 89 into Mount Forest.
I hope you enjoyed some of my favourite bridges around me! I do have many more I could share, however I think I have more than reached the suggested limit! This was a fun challenge to go back through images!
If you would like to participate be sure to use the Lens-Artists tag ~ Enjoy!
