After Work Runaround–4.19.19
After work I decided, since it was nice to hit up a few places and see how the water was flowing and what things I could snap pics of!
Sometimes even brown on brown makes for great photographs.
Posts tagged ‘doors’
05-02-2018
Fingers in the sky and abandon doors.
Perfection.
I’ve been doing these – “Take as many in five as you can” sessions lately, as I drive home.
Not much difference between the color (above) and the black and white (below)
Best of December
2015
Doors! Bridges! Deer Isle, where I’ve spent more of my PTA career than anywhere else!
2016
This youngling was crossing in front of my care one evening, I pulled over to snap a shot, whistled and she turned.
The one thing we have plenty of in Northern Maine = snow!
Oh my lovely sunflares, how I love thee
2017
Having spent the full year in the Mid-Coast area, I truly began to explore. Having been there for 9 weeks in full winter before was difficult to really see everything – but with a year to venture, I found I still didn’t see Everything!
With a new camera and lens, came learning it all over again. There are several creative settings on the t5i and I’m only just getting a good grasp on them.
Above is Moonrise and below is sunset the next day!
Oh Echo, this is the best pic of her I have gotten so far. She’s such a serious dog. And never really sits still. I love her “eyebrows”.
The below is my Christmas Eve Sunset up at Long Lake on my way to my brother’s place.
The below is in Bar Harbor – I was heading there every few days for work, I had pts there – this took me about 3 weeks to get JUST the right timing that the sun would be the “top” of the crate tree.
Best of February
This is the best of my February’s. It’s interesting to see what I was doing in Feb of each year. Sometimes there are no pictures from certain months, and sometimes to many to pick from!
2008
It was not often that Storm got onto the couch, usually when I wasn’t home!
2011
I had just gotten my “newer” lens. A wider angle that was used – but worked astonishingly well.
2016
In 2015 I began working as a traveling PTA with Alegiant Healthcare – and its taken me many different places. Colorado, Mass, all over Maine, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico. Which is where these were taken, at the White Sands in Alamogordo. The door handle is from the Ekland Hotel and Clayton, NM
2017
Maine! I spent a year in Deer Isle/MDI area.
4th of July–Stonington, ME
I got to spend the 4th of July working, and then taking pictures. Stonington had fun for the 4th – food on the docks, and fireworks… I met Shannon Stapleton, a photographer who works for Reuters on the dock. We talked photography and the Island.
This wonderful rainbow appears often over the water if its been foggy and clears or raining because of the way the sun catches the water crystals in the air.
The theme this year was: PIRATES!
I’ve been working on blur and focus – my new camera works different my old one – finding that balance has been interesting.
Light, shadows, colors and details.
I have a thing for doors. Like this one.
I have never taken pictures of fireworks before. So I googled. I do not have a trigger bulb release. I had to use a 2 second delay with means I had to time the shots out really well. Or, leave it to luck. I think it was 50/50
I played around with zooming in and out – the challenge in that is – focus.
Kasey’s House
Houses are far more than 4 walls and a few doors and a place to sleep. They are homes, they are safe and they are the place we always yearn for. I’ve known Kasey for six or more years, and I remember during the 1st year of our friendship, we happened by the farm house and she said, “And that’s the house that goes with our farm.”
It was one of those old homes with character and I thought it would have suited Kasey (and her family) just fine.
The house is now hers (and Andrew’s of course!). Make sure you check out the full albums 
Jules and I bought an old house, but one that has already been “fixed up” in many ways. I offered Kasey my Wednesday off to help out. She said “only if you can.” I consider Kasey family, so of course I could. I came armed with my camera.
I love doors. I have a small door that leads to the cubby under our stairs. I love doors. I love door handles too.
There is something about the dark, gleaming, wood doors and the old door handles with intricate designs.
Oh that little peep hole. The swirls and the black gleam of the knob, and when you turn the knob you hear the mechanisms shift and pop the door open, letting you thru.
Door Collection
I love light switches! I have this old, battered, turny light switch. I will never replace that light switch. Ever! Kasey has some lovely funky push button switches.
In most of the upstairs rooms, each wall has a pair of lights on the inside wall. Makes for a lovely perspective shot.
Each room is unique. Which, is a lot like every member of the family. Each member is unique and different, but part of a whole.
What do we do w/mason jars? We drink from them of course – and I take pictures of them.
The trim, and the swirls and lines and the shine. All part of how an old house will never be out of date, or never be worthy of redemption.
This is a sill that is at the head of the stairs, so when we are all tramping down the stairs like a herd of elephants, we miss these details. I love them.
This is the hinge of one of the closets. The detail and craftsmanship is always mind blowing.
Our staircase at home looked a lot like this, but not in as good shape. We opted to tear is down and put a build in book shelf instead. This is the view if you lay down and rest the camera on the floor
The house has this wicked, awesome place to sit and read. I want it. I may have to incorporate that into the extension we want to build in a few years.
These are just shots of things that are unique and different and wonderful. I bet I could walk thru the house a few more times and find different ways to take shots of things.
I HDR’ed a few photos to pull out some of the stunning details. It was worth the time to HDR and see what the camera saw that I had missed.
Janet Marie Photography 