Seeing Beautiful in random things
Seeing Beautiful in random things
Once again, it’s my favorite monthly blog hop, See Beautiful. One of the many things I have learned being married to an artist, is looking at everything in a different way, finding the beautiful in random things. When Al and I first started dating, we would spend a lot of time hiking, or camping. He was always picking up pine cones, or dragonflies, leaves, and flowers. Plus he always looks at the landscape differently. The shapes, the interaction of the colors. I used to think he was nuts. LOL But thankfully,this has rubbed off on me and I apply it to my photography. I try to find different things to photograph, not just another landscape or wild animal that has been photographed a 1000 times. I have no idea what kind of tree is outside my RV right now, but it’s leaves are just starting to change and fall on the ground. I have picked up some of the most unusual leaves I have ever found.
We are parked in my mother in laws driveway until can we can head south, and the funny thing is, she is starting to notice leaves and point them out to me.
This is an unusual oak leaf I found the other day. I have never seen one with colors like this.
Last week on one of my walks, I stopped to photograph this chickadee. They never sit still for more than one second, so they are hard to get decent images of.
Doing his acrobat stunts.
I had no idea he was going to fly the second I pressed the shutter, I wish I had got his head too. Although, I like the way he looks like he is flying out of the photo.
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Happy Friday, and Happy See Beautiful. Be sure to link up with the blog hop.
What fantastic photos. I love the bird flying out of the picture.
Lovely images today…really beautiful. Have a fabulous Friday.
Best wishes Molly
Interesting oak leaf, I’ve never seen one like that. And, the little chickadee is so cute!
fasinating photos today Mary. I am temped to order them all in note cards. I finally sent one of the beautiful notecards you made with a array of fall leaves on it to a relative who had surgery. It was hard to part with.
Great photos – thanks for sharing. I have zero artistic skill, but my brother was an architect and I would have the same experience with him – he just looked at the world differently – all about space and form and function, angles & shapes…so different than how I look at the world.
What a good day for us to focus on beauty :-) We need a little practice appreciating snow banks this early in the year!
If your MIL is pointing out leaves, seeing beauty must be contagious.
I once pointed out a beautiful, six foot long piece of driftwood by the lake shore. Mike loved it so much he brought it home. After a business trip, I found he had used it as a hanger for an embroidered wall tapestry. I guess everyone has a little bit of artist inside.
love the patterns in the leaves. :)
The photo of the headless bird is quite striking even if it was not a planned shot.
GORGEOUS PHOTOS OF THE LEAVES…ALMOST LIKE THE HAVE MESSAGES ON THEM WITH ALL THE SHAPES.
THE LAST ONE OF THE CHICKADEE IN FLIGHT IS FANTASTIC
HUGS MADI AND MOM
Gorgeous leaves. I’ve never seen leaves like those either!
All I can say is WOW! Those leaf pictures are exquisite, and the birds, well, so gorgeous!!
Terry
from Matildasjourney.com
I loved every single photograph you shared. They are indeed all beautiful! The leaves look like our pear tree leaves. We have several trees in our front and back yard here in the Appalachian mountains of southwest Virginia and they are giving us their late gorgeous color too. Thank you for sharing. And I adore the chickadee in flight…amazing and worthy of being framed!
Love, Pixel & Mommy Jenny
Beauties come in many identities.
One of them is you.
Mom says as humans age, silly things become important things, time starts speeding up and lots of weird stuff happens. Great photos and usually we have no clue what kind of leaves and we don’t care either as long as they are pretty.
Those are some spectacular leaves, and I love the chickadee photos. The colors are so bright and happy, and his wing looks so delicate. Very beautiful!
Great patterns in the leaves – I think its a bit of a myth that you have to travel great distances or to famous places to find beauty – its all around if you care to look.
Cheers – Stewart M – Melbourne
Wow! These are very cool leaves Mary!! The one of the little bird is amazing! Happy Seeing Beautiful!!
Those first leaves are especially amazing. Are you still taking photos with your Samsung Galaxy?
Mostly no. I bought a Nikon 7100 that I am loving. I use my Galaxy 5 if that’s all I have at the moment.
I just got a new camera. It should come today. It’s a Nikon 1 S2 – one of those compact DSLRs. I have a D80 full-size DSLR but it’s so big and heavy to take hiking with us. I am hoping that the new camera will be a happy medium. I think my Samsung Galaxy takes great pictures but it doesn’t have the flexibility that a DSLR has. I have been busy with school so I am barely keeping my blog alive but improving photo quality is one of the things on my to-do list after I graduate in April.
I love the chickadee in flight, but of course they are all gorgeous. You definitely have an eye for beauty.