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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

24 Monday Mar 2014

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Reflections can bring back beautiful memories…and they can bring to mind sad realities.

I took this picture of our grandson, oldest son, and youngest daughter during the second week of August in 2001. It is one of my favorite photos, even though it was taken with an old film camera and does not have the same sharp quality I can now achieve with my new digital camera.

I have always enjoyed watching my family as they walk ahead of me. They are not as aware of my being there, and I am able to watch the ones I love as they really are and as they really interact with one another when they do not realize someone is looking. My husband and my children laugh at me because of the number of pictures I have of their backs…but I cherish these special pictures, each and every one of them.

When this particular picture was taken, our son’s family was vacationing with us in Washington, D.C. As noted above, this picture was taken just one month before the tragic events of 9-11. The kids look so at ease, so comfortable, so normal. We walked and walked that whole day, from one end of the city to the other. The whole family had such a great time on that trip. Nowhere in the farthest reaches of our imaginations did we anticipate what would happen in but a few short weeks. It was a moment of innocence I will never forget and will always reflect upon as a very special time… a time in the life of our family, a time in the history of our nation I will always miss and wish we could recapture. Reflections.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective

11 Tuesday Mar 2014

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While I am working on a bread recipe for my next blog on food and travel, I decided to submit this picture to the weekly Photo Challenge. I love taking pictures and this challenge offers me a chance to think more about my subject and how to capture it with my camera.

Recently my husband and I traveled to Bayfield, WI to see the ice caves at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. They were spectacular, and if you ever have the opportunity, this is a place you should visit.

I realized the moment I saw the cliff that it was unique in its formation. Even as I stood in front of it, I wondered if I was not really looking down into it! See what you think.

Does it seem that you are looking down into a pit?

Does it seem that you are looking down into a pit?

Now look at the picture before I cropped it. You can see by the way the icicles are hanging that the camera is looking up “at” the cliff rather than into a pit. I think one of the reasons this photo can be deceiving is the coloration of the innermost slab of rock…its color and its depth of color make all the difference.

A cliff at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

A cliff at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

I enjoyed taking this little side track from my usual topic to this photo challenge. Now back to working on a bread that says “Spring”…and oh, how we need it!