Challenge 2~ Hidden Treasure

Challenge 2 sent me to my cellar to make art out of trash. I love puttering around in thrift stores and am always seeing potential photos.
My cellar surprised me.


My husband is a bike enthusiast and we have many bikes in various stages of repair.

I'm not sure if I got these just the way I wanted but I'm loving the color.

Hockey skates

Clay pots

This is my personal favorite.

Here are some "Art from trash" shots from my library...challenge 2 was right up my alley.

A window display in Westport Ireland

Window display in Glouchester MA

Portland Maine

Outside display at a junk store in Exeter NH

Exeter, NH

Flower district, NYC

Shooting Challenge #1

I'm amusing myself with an on line photography course.
Challenge #1  Walk Around Your Subject and create 10 different images.
Digital cameras beg you to this and something I've noticed is that I generally
like the first shot I take best.

I chose the Friendship, a reconstruction of a 171-foot three-masted Salem East Indiaman built in 1797

First shot taken and this says it all for me. I would have loved to get on board and explore the ship more closely but it wasn't open.

I LOVE OCTOBER~2013

"I'm so glad that I live in a world where there are Octobers." Anne Shirley

I was planning on doing a picture a day for October but I'm just not that organized. I shot a bunch and here are some of my favorites.

October 2 was warm enough to take a swim at Rye Beach NH.

I have no idea what these amazing berries are called, love how they transform from green to dark purple. 10/3/13

Cranes Beach 10/4/13

marsh grass, so lovely

This fellow is a month early, he looks worried.

October 5....This was a "stop the car" shot!

October 8  Minuteman Bikeway,  Bedford MA

leaves and reflections, Minuteman Bikeway

October 14 sunset

October 16, Foggy morning hike in the Middlesex Fells

October 17 my backyard...Cosmos with bee

Bittersweet, beautiful, invasive and poisonous.

I love these Asters, great color and they bloom in mid October.

Lucky rocks, folklore says if you find a rock with a stripe around it, you will return to the place again.
I always pick one up just to make sure.

October 18 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord MA
tools

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Davis Thoreau are also buried here.

New England stonewall

I'm guessing this is a Linden Tree. Love the light and how it's catching the neighboring pine needles as they drop.

#nofilters!

October 19  Gloucester MA

October 21 Horn Pond, Woburn, MA.
purple!

Blue Heron

October 27

Oak leaves have so much character and strength.

October29

October 31 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!