Canon Beach.

These photos are about a year and a half old, but I thought I'd share them with you anyway. They were taken at Canon Beach down in Oregon.

The day at the Marsh

Today, I had this urge to take some pictures, but of what? I couldn't seem to find anything on our property that I haven't photographed already, but yes- I remembered our almost dried up pond, I thought to myself hmm. what could there be to photograph down there? Just a bunch of mucky-sticky mud, insects and frogs, but to my surprise this pond had all sorts of interesting things to photograph; dragonflies, insects, snakes, nests, birds and of course the mud! So, after spending 25 minutes down there I came back up to the house uploaded 114 pics. and here are a few that I took. Enjoy!

Birds

What a lovely trio!
American Goldfinches

A Sparrow

The dried up Pond

A Red-Winged Blackbird's nest.

American Goldfinches.
Song Sparrow (maybe Lincoln, or fox- not certain)
The dried up Pond

Ladybug, snake and umm.. interesting specimens from our pond.

Dragonflies

 

Photography Quotes

“ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt

 “ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

“ You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

“ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

This mornings sun
Light


A frog - I almost stepped on him last night, I took this photo in the dark...

I took these photos last night just before dark.

Fall

I know today is the very first day of Fall, but here in Lyman Washington it feels like the first day of Summer! As of this moment it is about 82 degrees. It's interesting because this past few days hasn't been particularly that warm. Anyways, I didn't really have a chance to take any photos today, but here is a poem to brighten this beautiful day.

Ode To Autumn -

by John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Black-Capped Chickadee

The following photos are all Black-Capped Chickadees.  The very last photo looks as if he, or maybe she is sick, but I think it is more along the lines that it doesn't have very great posture. :)

I especially love the pink in these first two photos.

In this one I like how the shadows are reflecting on the mountain.

I really like how the sun was shinning on the top of the trees(note: the leaves are starting to turn yellow because Fall is right around the corner.)

The Apple Orchard

The Apple Orchard

   As I came around the bend I started approaching the apple orchard. On the floor below, the crunching of the leaves were as loud as the crackling fire place. The pleasing odor the ripe apples gave and the long waving grasses that touched my dress as I walked by reminded me of a time long ago, when I was young. The birds were chirping moving to and fro amongst the stripped branches of the undergrowth, while the hummingbirds were busily sucking away at a nearby wild currant bush, the bees were occupied pollinating the lovely scented deep yellow flowers that were along the path of the orchard. Away from the orchard I could see the sparkling water flowing south through the creek down to the elbow below and the trickling sound it made was like rain pouring down on a gutter spout. After I stood there for a few minutes listening to all the melodic sounds near me, I finally continued down the path to this rather jagged apple tree. Within reach I picked a ruby colored apple. The taste in my mouth was delightful, never had I tried such an appetizing piece of fruit that this rough looking tree had produced. My day was complete.

-Kaylie Brown

For composition I had to write a paragraph from an event or a place. I had to describe what everything was like around me...

Friendship

  Friendship

 

  A friend is someone whom you can depend on. They will

always be there for you when times are tough. A friend is

likened to you as a bee is to a flower – one that will always

be near.  You may tell all your thoughts and secrets to your

friend and know that they will be kept.  Friendship seems to

be the one gift that keeps on giving. There are some friends

that quickly come and go in your life, but there are others

that will stay.

By: Kaylie Brown