Yikes!

I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted! This winter has been very busy, with munchkin turning a year older and running around the house. I don't have a lot of time now to do photography unfortunately. I've also ramped up my miniatures production so that has taken up a lot of time too.

I do have one more photo to share from the Icestorm of Winter 2009 here in Louisville.

It is of one of the Hawks out back on a frozen tree branch against the bluest sky! I really need to get that 100mm - 400 mm Zoom though!!

Ice and Snow

I really love snow. Thankfully, here in the Ohio Valley, we don't get enough snow to get sick of it. Usually our winters are fairly mild. This year we've gotten more snow than we have in the past couple of years. Unfortunately though, we got ice along with it this time and a lot of folks are without power around here.

Still the snow makes everything look more beautiful than it actually is, and it's that fantasy that I like a lot.

The last picture above has not been photoshopped in anyway other than to do levels. (contrast, brightness etc). There really was a bright cloud with the sun shining through it onto the tree in the sky. It was amazing and I was so lucky to have captured it!

Sorry!!

I'm so sorry that I've been so remiss in posting to the blog! January has been busy and the whole family has had colds. The light in winter isn't the greatest for getting photos either. Lots of grey days where I am.

Above are some images that I pulled off the camera this week. They are of Sunsets that occurred recently here in Kentucky. I'm very pleased with them albeit they are a tad cliche.

Enjoy! If you would like prints of any of my photos, please feel free to let me know. Not all of them are up on the smugmug page yet.

Happy New Year!

New years are always great aren't they? All about new beginnings, new hopes, etc.. Until of course about January 28th when you realize that the post holiday let down has begun and no one gets any holidays off until much later..hahahaha

I hope that this year I Get out of the house a LOT More, WITH the camera and that I become better at taking photos. I hope that you and your family have a wonderful new year and that all of your goals are accomplished :-)

December 19th, 2008 Series

On December 19th, we were lucky enough to have a warm front come through Louisville, Ky. (I'm endlessly fascinated by the weather here in Louisville) It actually got up to 70 degrees that day. These are photos taken in my back yard from relatively the same angle at different times throughout the day.

Quick Update

Happy Holidays to everyone!

I've been ill the past week so I haven't gotten anything tweaked to put up. I took a series of photos from the 19th when we had a warm front go through so there are some interesting pics from that that I'll have up maybe monday.

Thanks for reading the old bloggeroo.. I really am very grateful!

Subtle Beauty of Winter

I keep hoping that the sun will creep out or that the blue herons, ducks and other critters will creep into my yard, giving me a good photo op. No suck luck unfortunately. It's all been rain with a dab of snow here and there.

I keep hoping that I'll get some sort of spectactular, uplifting picture but unfortuantely in this cloudly light it's just not happening.

So today, while it's warm, it's still raining and the wind is kicking up really hard. I decided to embrace it though instead of fighting it. Above are some of the pictures that I've taken over the last week or so.

Weather like this makes me moody. I considered that if it emtionally talks to me, even while that emotion isn't happy, it will probably move other people and maybe folks will see what I see. Subtle and maybe a tad sad beauty in the middle of winter.

Winter Sunset

These were taken last Thursday, in my back yard. There was a weather front moving out creating the most beautiful colors..

Blue Heron

All last week we had company staying with us so I had to forego posting on ye olde blogs. This week though things are back to "normal".

We survived munchkin's birthday party and he seemed to have a great time with all
of the people who came to celebrate his birthday. I was really surprised how
well he handled all of the noise. Very little phases this kid.. I was
definitely "blessed" when I had this little guy.

I have been SOOO antsy and sorta bummed that I hadn't had time to get out and get any pictures. I wanted to go to Churchill Downs two saturdays ago but we had a "family emergency" that day and I was unable to go.

Luckily, this beautiful guy appeared in my back yard yesterday morning right after sun up. He was very kind in that he posed in the sun for me so that I could get some decent pictures.

I hope everyone has a happy mundey!

Baby "Gray" Jay

It's a very coold and "blustery" day today in Kentucky. We are getting some rare, early snow showers and it really looks "winter-y" outside. Everything is very gray, and the leaves are all off of the trees now. If the snow would accumulate a bit so that it blanketed everything, that would be ok but the snow isn't sticking. So it's just cold, and wet and icky..

Because of this, I went digging for pictures from the summer. I would much prefer to think about summer things than this cold day.

Above is a photo of a baby Gray Jay in the tree outside our home office window. I was sitting at the desk, pecking away at the keyboard when I noticed that the momma jay was making an awful ruckus in the tree. To this day I don't know why she was so upset but when I looked more closely to investigate, I saw that there was a young Gray Jay in the tree.

Of course I had to whip out the ole camera and get as many pictures as possible.. which is what I did. I didn't get very many good ones but the one above turned out pretty well.

I hope that the day in your neck of the woods is warmer and a bit sunnier than it is here..

As always, if you like any of the pictures you see and would like prints, you can find them at www.abounaderphoto.com or you can email me at heather@abounaderphoto.com and I'll find them for you.