Saturday, April 21, 2012

Scavenger Hunt Sunday {4•22•12}

Yellow


Oh how I love my tulips! Right now my flower beds are full of beautiful tulips. I have to say that the variegated ones are my favorite kind, though I do love our plain yellow and purple ones.

 Something That Makes You Smile


While I was out taking pictures of the tulips, a ladybug happened to land by me. So I invited him to crawl onto my hand. He crawled all over my hand and arm- so tickly and fun! Since I had my macro filter on, I used it to take this close-up of the little guy. Then I called to my boys and let them have the ladybug walk all over their hands. That made us all smile before our visitor flew away.

Ancient or Antique


I frequently pass a house nearby with a rather large piece of old machinery out front. Today when I stopped to take pictures, I found out it is a log planer that was used to take the bark off of logs. The planer was built by a Frank & Co. Machinery Makers company, which was making industrial machinery between 1872 and 1914. So this is definitely an antique!

 Splash

I have never really tried to capture the splash from a drop of water. So today I took my 9x13 Pyrex outside, filled it with water and hung a baggie of water over it. Then I used a pin to make a hole in the baggie and started shooting. I shot at least 200 pictures, but it was worth it to get this shot!

 In the Sun

Today it was warm enough for my kids to play outside in the sprinklers! They were having such a great time with their water rocket. My baby girl was not even afraid of the water rocket. She loved splashing in the water!


32 comments:

  1. WOW! These are all incredible! Where to start... LOVE yellow, both shots just pop, & slash is SO perfect, & (of course) your little sun bathing cutie!!

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  2. love the splash! got to try it myself :)

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  3. What an amazing way to capture splash. Great shot on that one! Also love the second shot of the tulip.

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  4. Fantastic shots! Love the tulip and ladybug! Splash is cool! Way to set that up!

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  5. Great pictures. Thanks for your help with macro. Splash is wonderful and both yellows are great. Thanks

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  6. Perfection on the ladybug. Great set.

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  7. Great splash picture - not sure my iPod Touch would have made such a great pic! Mmmm I wonder - it is a G4!!!!!!
    Seriously fabulous pictures
    Burnice

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  8. Love your antique and what a great splash picture. Great method to make the process easier:)

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  9. I love your ancient shots - so cool!! It was warm enough here this week for water play - insane that it's only April!

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  10. Great finds for the hunt - and I am so jealous of your splash. Long ago I tried the baggie with a hole technique with only so-so results. Now that I've got a macro, I truly must give it another go. Love all your shots. That yellow - wow!

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  11. These are all wonderful shots! I love your splash shot! I'm going to have to use that great idea and try it. Of course, I'll probably have dogs trying to drink out of it. :-) Your little girl looks like she's having so much fun in that sprinkler!

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  12. All of them so good and the splash shot is great! Suzy x

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  13. These are exceptionally beautiful! It's rainy here today so it was nice to see these bright colorful flowers. =) That water drop is amazing!

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  14. Love these! Love in the sun, she's a doll!

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  15. These are all great, but I'm drawn to your antique photos. I just love the texture of the rust!

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  16. Such great shots this week for the SHS. I can't believe how big your daughter is getting!

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  17. Honey Mommy, I love to see your pictures every week. Always amazing! LOVED splash, and the flowers too!

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  18. Gorgeous tulips! I also like how you photographed that log planer. Nice set of images!

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  19. Tulips are my favorite too! Beautiful shots of the tulip!

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  20. your pictures are beautiful. my favorite was splash!!

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  21. Wonderful series.
    I do love the Tulip shots - The varigated are my favorite too.
    Creative and Cool Splash shot.
    Ancient - Love the colors in this shot
    Favorite: In the Sun, She's a cutie pie!

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  22. What a great job this week....Really nice photos!!!! My eye is drawn to old rusty things, they always tell a story. If they could only talk...

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  23. Your baby girl can stand? Can she walk too? I can't believe that is in our near future!

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  24. Anything 100 years or older is an antique in my book. Love those shots, but your yellow and smile are just wonderful.

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  25. Great shots - love Makes Me Smile!

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  26. Your water drop shot is SOOOO Fantastic~ I need to try that! wonder how my snap and shoot will do with moving water! lol! all your pics are wonderful... but the drop is my fav!

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  27. ps my little girl loved sprinklers from 9 mo. to about age 2? and then this HUGE fear of water hit... until age 9... crazy! I have great sprinkler pics of her when she was a baby... =) weird!

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  28. Love your yellow very pretty

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  29. Your pictures are always worth the wait and this week was no different. LOVE LOVE LOVE the old piece of machinery and the tulips are fantabulous! Great set!

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  30. Such a beautiful set! you nailed them all!

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  31. Oh wow - beautiful set - I really love yellow and splash.

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