Photography

This week’s Saturday Photohunt is light and it couldn’t be a more perfect theme for today!  The city has been covered in frost for days now and today the sun is shining brightly, a rare occurrence here in the winter.   I love it! This photo was taken this morning when Xander and I were out walking the dog.   It hasn’t …

It’s been a while since I participated in the weekly photo hunt.   There’s no real reason, I’ve just kept forgetting about it.   This week’s theme is small, so I figured this would be a good time to introduce someone. This is Phoenix, our Western Painted Turtle (Chrysemys Picta Belli).  We actually got him quite a while ago, but I’ve not …

Back in January I was itching to get a new camera, but I couldn’t decide what kind I wanted.   I decided at the time to hold off until I knew for sure, as it’s something that I’d be using for a few years.   So for the last 10 months I’ve been looking at reviews and narrowing it down to what …

This week’s photo hunter theme is TINY, which made me think of this. It’s a photo I took a few years ago when I was petsitting for a lady in Heemstede, she had a huge 1 year old Weimeraner and a ton of cats.  The dog had no training whatsoever and I left black and blue. This little kitten took …

This week’s photo hunter theme is shadow which was a difficult one but then I remember this photo from a few weekends ago when Xander and I drove up by Amsterdam to a reptile expo. The expo sort of sucked but I did manage to get some nice photos that day.  This was one of my favorite.  We were not …

This week’s photo hunt is colorful.  I chose this photo from a stand in the Rotterdam Market.  It is always really pretty with so many colorful things. Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

I haven’t been participating in the photo hunt lately but I knew I had the perfect pic for this week. This is the door of our apartment which is on the third floor.  That’s a lot of steps.  A lot of steps to carry groceries up.  A lot of steps to get the mail.  A lot of steps to chase …

This week’s theme is Salty and this image is the first that came to my head. It was my view from my towel at Hoek van Holland Strand (beach) here in the Netherlands.  I took the photo the summer before last as I laid baking in the sun (and boy did I bake! Ouch!) Just thinking about that salty sea …

Aside from the feeling of independence, meeting people and getting out of the house, the biggest perk of working again is making money.   My husband and I decided that when my first paycheck comes in that I should buy myself something I really want.  Something we wouldn’t put the money on out otherwise but can easily afford with the extra …

This week’s theme is Memory.  I went through a few different ideas before choosing a photo.  Good memory, bad memory, scary memory, funny memory… I ended up going with a memory that gives me all of those feelings. My wedding day.  The day I literally married my best friend and the love of my life all rolled into one. May 12, 2000, …

This week’s photo hunt is Lines.  I wasn’t sure at first what photo I was going to use but then I thought of this one.  Clotheslines. Here in the Netherlands we hang our clothes out off our balconies.  There are 2 metal bars sticking out from the outer corners of the balcony and you string clothesline across for hanging out …