PINK - NAPLES FLORIDA PHOTOGRAPHER

I thought I'd share some images that I grabbed of a few flowers today. There is nothing more beautiful than my two favorite colors magenta/fuchsia and turquoise. I don't have any turquoise to share but there is plenty of pink laced up in these photos. No matter what it is in life...magenta/pink just makes it all better. Wouldn't you agree?

I broke out the macro lens again today and shot with it in order to capture the depth and detail of these flowers.

The colors were just so vibrant and so incredibly "Spring-esh." I added a slight haze in the post processing of the images and I love how it gave them a pink summer wash for some added character.

No matter what type of flower, they are always even more beautiful when examined up close - via a macro. Bring on the color and those details... :)

xoxo, Angie

WORDFUL WEDNESDAY

"What the catepillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." ~Richard Bach

"The catepillar does all of the work but it is the butterfly who gets all of the publicity." ~Attributed to George Carlin

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies."

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

SLEEPING ON THE JOB

IMAGE INFO: Location-Bonita Beach Florida, Camera-Nikon D300, Aperture Priority Mode, 1/2000, f/5.6, ISO 200

GROWTH

IMAGE INFO: Location-Naples Florida Zoo, Camera-Nikon D300, Program mode, 1/200, f/4, ISO 200

"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone." ~John Maxwell

IMAGE INFO: Location-Naples Florida Zoo, Camera-Nikon D300, Program Mode, 1/320, f/9, ISO 200

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ~Abraham Lincoln"

IMAGE INFO: Location-Naples, Florida Zoo, Camera-Nikon D300, Progam mode, 1/250, f/11, ISO 200

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. ~Henry Ward Beecher"

IMAGE INFO: Camera-Nikon D300, Aperture Priority Mode, 1/2500, f/5.6, ISO 200

"It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea---whether it is to sail or to watch it---we are going back from whence we came." ~John F. Kennedy

IMAGE INFO: Camera - Nikon D300, Aperture priority mode, 1/3200, f/5.3, ISO 200

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IMAGE INFO: Camera-Nikon D300, Aperture priority mode, 1/2500, f/5.6, ISO 200

"One cannot collect all of the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only few, and they are more beautiful if they are few." ~Ann Morrow Lindbergh IMAGE INFO: Camera-Nikon D300, Aperture priority mode, 1/4000, f/5.3, ISO 200

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." ~St. Basil

IMAGE INFO: Camera-Nikon D300, Aperture priority mode, 1/60, f/9, ISO 200

Whatchu' talkin' bout' Willis?

TO FLY IS TO HAVE PERFECT FAITH

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."

~Sir James Matthew Barrie

Image info: Camera-Nikon D300, Aperture Priority Mode, 1/250, f/9, ISO 200

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THE BEACH

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Cousteau

Just here relishing in the fact that my toes will be sugared with all of the above in less than 48 hours as well as excited that we will once again spend Christmas by the sea this year.

Much love, Angie

Image details: Camera-Nikon D300, Manual mode, 1/15, f/29, ISO 800

No real significance to this shot other than simple beauty. I pass this barn near our home each day and admire how the family that lives here has taken their decorations all the way from their front door out to their horse barn. The image itself strikes me as something you'd see on the front of a Christmas card. A backdrop so basic and monotone yet so stunning all in the same aspect. As much as I detest snow here in Indiana during the winter months, it's captures like this one that remind me why I'm so proud to be a "Hoosier." I love the fact that Indiana and scenery like this one is where my heart is. I love that I can call the midwest my "home" - winter snowfalls and all. Much love this Christmas season, Angie

SPOOKED

"SPOOKED..."