I’ve been meaning to post these for a couple of weeks now. Last week I was working on some projects for someone so I can keep paying the bills! Yes, I know! Excuses, excuses!

I decided to change this category up a little bit. Instead of this being a weekly feature, I decided to just change the category title from “Photos of the Week” to “Photography.” Why? Well, for obvious reasons, I’m lazy and the weekly thing would probably never happen. Wishful thinking on my part! I have also been thinking that I need a space that I can use to show off some of my best work. I thought it would be silly to create another website because I already have too many! So, here it is. Hopefully, with any luck I won’t change this category again. Enough meta talk, on to the photos!

The photos from above are from our garden this year. We’re trying several different things. One of those being corn. Gorgeous, tasty, sweet corn!

It seems to be doing pretty well. I walked down there the other day and saw many ears of corn. I’m anxious to have fresh corn from the garden. I’d like to make some cream style corn with it. Would definitely be better than that stuff you get out of the store. I need to find my Great-Grandmother’s recipe for cream style corn and do a video.

The fourth photo (second row) is the start of one of the rows of green beans in our garden. We’ve already been enjoying the green beans. My sister has been canning them for the winter. They are SO good! The fifth photo is of the beets! How many of you like beets? I LOVE beets! At least I hope I do. It’s been a while since I have had them. A long while! The last time I had them was at my Grandmother’s house when we’d come in from school. The last photo is of the grapes growing on our grape vines. I am very anxious for these to ripen. I just hope most of them don’t fall off which is what happened last year.

Before I close up this post I want to link you to a blog entry I read earlier last week titled “8 Photography Myths Debunked.” I thought there was a lot of great advice in the article. My favorite being:

I Can’t Take a Good Photo Without X: X can be whatever you want. A flash? Use a flashlight. An SLR? Use a point and shoot. A tripod? Steady that hand by leaning on something. A camera? Well, yeah you would be right, there. Point is, there is always a way to take a good photo. Improvise and adapt. Learn to embrace it and you will find yourself taking more, better photos than you had imagined.

I am guilty of that, completely. I want a dSLR so badly! I know it will be a while before I’m able to afford one and all the accessories that I’d want for it (and need) from the start. I’ve always heard my entire life: “You can take a good photo with any camera.” I believe that, too. I honestly think a better camera just makes it easier for you to capture a photo. Although I believe a dSLR would improve my photography, I have to remind myself that I have gotten some great shots with the camera I’ve got and I want to show people that they can take great photos with any camera, too. Happy shooting!

I’ve been wanting to do a new feature on this blog for a couple of weeks now related to my photography. At first I thought I would join a photography challenge club and post my photo for the challenge each week. The first week went by and I didn’t take a photo of anything related to the theme. I decided that instead of trying to do that I would just post three of my favorite photos that I had taken each week. I take a ton of photos each week and thought that would force me to choose only the very best.

The first photo from above is of an adult Cicada. According to Wikipedia they emerge from the ground every 17 years. They are really thick around the house and every morning when I wake up it sounds like sirens outside because they are so loud. They don’t irritate me like they do some people.

The second photo is of a lily from my sister’s flower garden. I cut the flower and brought it home. Had it in front of a white jacket (one no one wears anymore) with two lamps to the side. One of these days I’m going to have a light tent so I can take better photos of flowers.

The third photo is of an abandoned kitten my sister found on the side of the road. She brought him home and he’s been here for a week or so. I don’t know if they have named him yet or not. He’s so cute, can fit in the palm of your hand!

The fourth photo above is another Iris from my sister’s flower garden. Photo taken in front of a piece of copy paper, two incandescent lights beside the flower. Color corrected and enhanced with The GIMP. I had to erase a lot of the background out of the photo because I couldn’t get the yellowing removed. Regular light bulbs suck for photography.

For the fifth photo I walked across the road and got some roses off my cousin’s rose bush. Hopefully he didn’t mind. I took the photo in front of a white jacket with two lamps on the side. I removed all the color except that of the petals of the rose.

The sixth photo I had picked a flower like this and didn’t realize there was another bloom on the stem until I had brought it into the house. I put the unopened bloom in some water and it opened while I was out of the office that night. I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it.

I hope you enjoyed my photos that I chose to post on the blog. I am a couple of weeks behind which is why I posted 6 photos instead of just 3. I plan on doing 3 per week. Like I said I think that will help limit me and help me to show off only the very best. If you’d like to see more of the photos that I have taken please visit my Flickr photostream. The latest. My sets.