Author: westseventhfreelance

  •     Not long ago, one of our fellow bloggers, http://ohgodmywifeisgerman.com/, wrote about the baby boom he and his wife are noticing all around them. I am seeing it too, but through the lens. I am recruiting babies for “photo practice” and having a great time! There is an inevitable warm up period and then,…

  • I just liked these posts today…not all are part of the challenge, but they brought a smile, or gasp, due to the sheer beauty… http://urbanmosaicnyc.com/2013/09/20/city-skies-6/ Word http://follygirlsphotoworld.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/weekly-photo-challenge-from-lines-to-patterns/ Love the spider webs by Folly Girls Photo World…one of my favorite memories of my dad is a B&W photo he took of a dew covered web. Weekly…

  • Working with new found friend and mentor, Ceil, I hope to continue to improve my photography. Every Thursday I will post my weekly “assignment”! Today I was at The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory Gardens of Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, MN

  • “Inside”…indoors, ‘what’s inside the box?’, ‘what’s inside the little girl with blue fingernail polish’s head’, OR- (she’s thinking) ‘What’s inside that lady’s head and why is she on the floor with us?’ Pre-photo session for a good friend’s 70th birthday party. Her grandchildren are amazing!

  • On a cloudless August day, Richard W., 65, navigates his pontoon on the waters of Jennings Bay, Lake Minnetonka. Pulling a laminated map from beneath the pilot’s chair, he points out Dutch Lake, where he, and wife Carol, raised their two girls. Dick was definitively diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2009, but the couple, and…

  • The Twin Cities, and other places in Minnesota, enjoy a wealth of cultural diversity. It is my good fortune to work with several families on photo projects.

  • I wondered, as I wandered (hmmm…a song?!) what it would look like to crawl around in the corn fields. Nothing too dramatic, but it is what I was up to today… http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/unusual/

  • As some of you know, I have been a bit ‘under-the-weather’. Today I was determined to switch things up a bit and went on a meander.

  • Blogger, Alles Ist Gut/ Mrs. Spider and I seem to be on the same wave length today. While in the garden last night I met this lovely lady. She is a Black and Yellow Garden spider (Argiope aurantia)- apparently quite common!