Another One

Story Me A Story

On the Coffeeshop Actions blog, I found this action that helps you create a story board. Lovely for people like me who KNOW how create their own story boards but frankly don't have the patience to do it. Here's one I put together real quick of the last photos I took of the boys. Love it!

Rain Drops Keep Fallin' On My Head

It was raining this morning when I got home from work. I've been waiting for a chance to take photos of rain drops on flowers, but it's been a relatively dry spring here in Eastern Oregon. So when it was lightly raining this morning, I jumped at the opportunity. And yes, I did a little trespassing to get photos of some beautiful tulips and daffodils. But don't worry, it's an abandoned property!









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I have a fear of portraiture. Maybe it's irrational, but the idea of taking photos that make up another family's memories scares the crap out of me...that probably stems from the fact that I have absolutely NO experience with shooting photos of anyone besides my own family. Oh, and the fact that I usually try to take said photos inside my house, with regular house lighting. Not exactly studio lighting.

But today went a long way towards making me feel better about my ability to take portraits. I'm in love with these photos of my boys, not to mention the boys' huge beautiful eyes. Maybe I need to be a little easier on myself, and give myself a chance to try more portraiture. Not saying that I want to make a living out of it, but I believe that I should try every type of photography because...well...it's fun!

I'd have to say that my absolute favorite one is the second to last photo, which is of Asher.

Memories Remembered

The photo is of my wedding bouquet (in the background), but more importantly, of Marla's corsage that she wore at Nathan and my wedding. Marla was my mom's best friend and a second mom to me. Only 7 months after our wedding, Marla lost her year and half long battle with ovarian cancer. The house we live in now is the one she left to us. I miss her so much, that over two years later it still hurts when I think of her, and I would give just about anything to see her hold our boys just once...she was a twin and I can only imagine how much she would love Levi and Asher.

I must say that my favorite part of this photo is how the background just kind of fades away and makes the corsage really stand out. I used Totally Rad Actions' "Super Fun Happy" action to give it the dreamy effect, and then PW's Quick Edge Burn action to pull the focus in to the middle.

Then there were these three photos. I had a very hard time deciding which to post to Mission24. The last two below are actually a different photo from the first photo below and very first photo at the top of the post. The more I like it, the more I really like the B&W just below here. But I also love the colors present when I didn't turn the photos B&W.

Tiny Purple Flowers

I took this photo ten days go, and just now got around to editing it. Sad, no? These tiny purple flowers are all over our yard to the side of our house, and yet I can't work up the energy to mind. Plus it doesn't hurt that they're really pretty, sprinkled in amongst our (mostly) green grass. Who said a yard had to be all green, anyway?


I had picked a tiny bouquet of flowers to put in the small vase pictured two posts ago, and I love how these flowers go with the doffodills that grow in the front of our house. The best part about all of these flowers? I never have to do any planting, they just come up on their own. Which means I can't kill them...because I have a black thumb.

And doggone it, they're just plain pretty.

More Fun With 50mm

I made No Bake Cookies today...by far the easiest, fastest cookies in the world to make. And I decided to bust out the camera and play some more. Mmm, cookies.


The best part about this photo? I didn't do ANY color editing what so ever. I cropped it a little bit to square it off and ran PW's Define & Sharpen action, but that's it. And the colors are as close to the real deal as you can possibly get.

Dear 50mm...

...where have you been my whole life?

Yes, it takes some getting use to, especially the whole being my own zoom since the lens doesn't possess a zoom. But holy moly is it fun to play with! I only played with it for about three minutes on one subject, but look at what I can do with it!

Now excuse me while I go play with my "oldest" son who just woke up from a nap and is luring me in with his adorable babbling. The boys are 7 months old today, which blows my mind.

Trip to Portland

In the midst of my 24 hour trip across the state and back for a job interview, I actually managed to grab a few seconds to take photos...I would have had more if I had taken my camera with me from my father in law's to the interview, as I had about 45 minutes to burn, but I forgot it. Bad Lindy! Anyway, here's one of the photos of that bunch.


When I was a little girl, there was a huge landslide in the Columbia Gorge, not far from the outskirts of Portland. A whole house was caught in the mud, and you can still see the top half of it through the trees and raspberry bushes that have grown up from the dirt moved by the slide. Unfortunately, it's on private property and hard to get to. This old truck, on the other hand, is just a few feet from the road (up an embankment that I pretended wasn't there) and was gradually being swallowed by the local vegetation. And I, of course, couldn't resist it's call.



I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.



Just one more, I promise!


Ok, now that you're sick of looking at old, broken down, vine infested trucks, how about a social commentary? If you are a staunch environmentalist who thinks "going green" is worth any price tag, please stop reading.


Did you know that it will take 30 years of whirring blades for each of these bad boys to pay themselves off? As in, it will take 30 years of creating electricity before the THOUSANDS of wind turbines that have been erected along the Columbia Gorge - effectively ruining the beautiful views - to start making a profit. Thirty years before I see any change in my electrical bill due to harnessing the wind. Sweet.

And now that I've made your head spin, how about making your eye twitch? I heartily apologize for this photo. Personally, it makes me want to find a corner somewhere and rock myself. And for some reason that makes me really like it. I don't know. I just don't know.


I wouldn't say this is my favorite batch of photos, but they'll do. I start getting antsy when I haven't posted new photos in more than three days. I'm afflicted, what can I say? It's a tough life I lead.

Here They Are!

I did it! I am triumphant! I actually managed to finish editing my photos from my little expedition around our 10,000 horse town! I'm not going to write any captions with explanations because, well, I don't feel like it. Some of these I'm in love with, some of them make me feel a bit ho-hum. But I'll post them all anyway.