Your Life As Art Photography by Pam
Artist & Intuitive | Pamela Zmija
I always find raindrops so fascinating. How water continuously flows, regardless of what obstacle is in front of it. I stood mesmerized by the rain falling over our hydrangea trees. Protected by our front porch, it was peaceful and mind bending watching the water flow from the sky and over nature.
Last weekend we had a lot of rain Saturday morning. Mother nature may have caused great disruption due to the volume of rain, it certainly can be beautiful!
Check out this great big rain drop on the end of a hydrangea leaf.
Flowers are a great reminder of how to handle life. I was in awe looking out as the rain pounded down from the sky. The delicate petal of the flower, after the hard rain, now with delicate rain drops covering it.
After a 2 week break from the Lens Artists crew, they are back and Ann-Christine has introduced this weeks theme – Adventure! Her water and ice photography in Greenland is incredibly beautiful!
I had to think on this topic, as our recent adventures I have blogged about. One of my most favourite adventures was the Disney Cruise we took in early 2019 with our kids! We went on the Western Caribbean Disney Cruise to Cozumel Mexico and Castaway Cay Bahamas.
This was our kids first time on an airplane and all of our first time on a cruise ship, so it was a very special trip for us!
Spot the kids in one of their favourite places on the top deck…
We were all in awe of the size of the boat!
Snorkeling with their dad on Disney’s island, Castaway Cay.
Marvel night at Sea was INCREDIBLE for the kids to experience. Where the screen is, there is a stage beneath there and our kids had the best view for the show!
Swimming in the pool, on the cruise ship, while watching Disney movies!
Heading to the ocean in Mexico!
Fireworks on the boat!
Thank you for checking out one of my most favourite adventures with my family ! It blows my mind how little they look here, kids grow alot in their teens ;)
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Last Sunday, I was up not long after the sunrise. My dog of course was happy to join me.
Im not sure what the shift was within me, as prior to this summer I would wake with anxiety, over nothing.
The weekend before when we were last up, we were up early so I got him ready and we went on a photo macro walk.
Last weekend, I really faced my anxiety. There was only 6 of us there but 2 dogs. So I didn’t want my dog to trigger my parents dog to allow everyone inside to sleep as long as they needed.
Rather than stay almost frozen in bed, waiting for others to get up first so I didn’t ‘bother’ anyone… I got up and got some of my favourite photos! The sun rising up over the trees and shining down on the lake.
This year, these transitions in life are reminders to lean in, sometimes hard, sometimes soft, sometimes so many unknowns. Lean into what you love and you will never get lost.
Ive recently done this. Lean in and trust hard, allow your passions to fill your heart and the worries will wash away!
Now that our kids are older, we take in the car show and main street festivities each year and haven’t been to the midway in a while. This year, began with a bang… of thunder, lightening and a LOT Of Rain!
Kudo’s to those who still got their vehicles out early and sought cover as the storm stirred up again! There was a decent crowd once the major rains quit. We had to run for cover a few times, but it truly represented the heart of a small town. This is our biggest event for our town and it happens once a year.
This year they had military vehicles and one was this jeep that they pulled out to the middle of main street and they completely took it apart and then put back together, in about 5 minutes! It was very cool to watch.
I was so happy to see the crowd that did come out when the major rains stopped. Even though we still had off and on rain, the street began to fill up. It was so nice to see! Many then gather at the legion, the weekend it self is like a reunion for people which is so fun!
I love lifestyle photography and this is one of my favourite weekends for the pure joy of capturing the fun and memories!
I was delighted to hear of the Saugeen Shores Tour of Gardens that was last weekend in Port Elgin and Southampton. The variety of flowers was astounding! I truly loved the tour and was so excited to bring a couple different lenses with me for both a wider angle and more close up macro shots!
It was a bright, warm Saturday morning when we headed into town! It was so bright out, it was challenging to see the screen on my camera, I am proud of my results!
Can you see it?
This home had a front yard that was truly one of a kind! It did not have grass, the front yard was a mixture of very low lying evergreen bushes along the road edge of the property, and then mixed among the rest was primarily lavender and thyme with some flowers scattered. It was SO unique and felt incredibly grounding to walk on the time barefoot!
The cutest greenhouse!
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Macro photography is a true passion of mine, its those little details that you may overlook and yet are absolutely incredible. They are also those little details that you may not even know are there, until you look at the photograph you took and you see… this!
I looked this up online and its apparently a Pearl Crescent Butterfly!
