FOR THE LOVE OF.....

...the snow. She loves it. She is a January baby. She lives for the winter months. The snow that she digs her nose in. The rabbit tracks easily found.The chance to run outside when shovelling is required. The friendly towel drying when she returns inside.

She will always be a January baby. My January baby.

(I don't take black and white photos straight in the camera. I always post process for it. You can post process color to black and white. Can't post process black and white to color.)

SLIPPING BY

Time has a crazy way of slipping by, doesn’t it? Another year gone. Another year of age being tacked on. Another chapter of life closed. Another door opened with another opportunity to make yet another list of wants and hopes and goals…with the major hope being that this year a few more will be checked off.

Time has a crazy way of slipping by, doesn’t it?

I have a list. Realistically, I have more than one list. A personal, every day life list. A personal, photography list. The every day list filled with ‘really need to dos’. The photography list filled with ‘really WANT to dos’.

A short term list.
A month to month list.
A this year list.
A bucket list.

I didn’t make resolutions last year.
I didn’t ‘not meet’ a goal on that list and although that should feel good…I feel I need to have that list in order to keep sight of everything that gets lost in the ‘responsibility world’ that surrounds me and drags me down on a regular basis. Before you know it, I was repeating that phrase ‘Life is what happens when you are making other plans’. Many days…I hate that phrase.

Time has a crazy way of slipping by, doesn’t it?

I start this year, probably as I do every year…with high hopes. Goals. Wants. Desires. All mixed in with anxiety, questions, confusion. Maybe I need to mix it up a bit and let the anxiety, questions and confusion be mixed up for once amidst the Goals, Wants and Desires.

Time to take those lists, grab them by the tail, and run with it!!!

Happy New Year to all!!!!

Devotion

Total devotion.

Forgiving.

BFF

Door greeter.

Always there for me...no. matter. what.

Furried Friends

Pets. You've got to love 'em!!!

Face it...they are part of the family. They are kids...or in some families...they are boss.

Thank you to all of you who have allowed me to photograph these special members of your family.

BFF Model

So....I introduced myself....now I must introduce the best model a photographer could possibly ever have...my GR...Lexi.

I just couldn't ask for a more patient, forgiving model. She has given me copyright release to every picture I take of her...allows me to post it and share it....wherever I want. She expects....no pay....just a meal or two here and there, a roof over her head, some non-stop continuous petting, a bath, pedicure and refreshed 'do' (hairbrushing) on a regular basis. Oh yeah.....and a warm bed to sleep in, a ham bone to chew on, a visit to grandma's and a regular walk...regardless of the temperatures outside. I...entertain all of these requests...in a reasonable fashion...as far as I'm concerned. And although it isn't always as she wishes....she puts up..With me...and my photographic requirements of her.

...every event

Every Holiday

Every season

during workouts

or naps

She supports me...and many days....saves me...from...life itself!!!