Lots of new photos!
I have so many new photos to share with everyone 
Last weekend Jacob and I took a trip to Lakeview, Oregon to visit family and get some time in at the annual Lake County Fair and Roundup. Very exciting! On the way there, we stopped and took several pictures and I got a couple great shots! These were both taken in Lake County, Oregon around the Summer Lake area of Alkali Lake. The dust you see is the Alkali blowing around. It is quite the amazing site and it was a beautiful day. Here are a couple shots below:
This weekend, Jacob and I went to Washington Park in Portland. What an amazing park it is! The Oregon zoo, International Rose Garden, Japanese Garden and many other exciting sites are there. We went to the Japanese Garden, and the Rose garden during our visit. The Japanese Garden made the one in Lithia Park in Ashland look very small. It was an amazing site to see, and there was a lot of beautiful things to look at. The rose garden was my favorite part of the day…what a stunning site it is!! There were so many roses to look at, it smelled so wonderful, and I wanted to stay there all day! I have lots of pictures below, and more on the way from the rose garden as I go through them. Here are a couple photos from the rose garden:
I started my online photography class last week as well. It is in the fundamentals of digital photography. Each week over eight weeks I get a lesson. Then I need to take four shots showing examples of the weeks lesson, and the instructor will give me feedback on what I did right and wrong. My first week I learned about exposure (shutter speed), and depth of field. I had to play with the different shutter speeds and f-stops (aperture) depending on what I wanted to accomplish. My assignment was to take four photos. One showing an extensive depth of field (where there is great depth and everything is in focus), and one showing a shallow depth of field (where the subject is in focus but everything else is blurred). I also had to take a photo using a long exposure with a moving object to show blur, and a shot with a moving object at a fast shutter speed to capture a sharp object. Below are my four pictures I submitted for my assignment:
Extensive depth of field (taken at the Portland, Oregon Japanese Gardens):
Shallow depth of field (taken at the Portland, Oregon International Rose Garden):
Slow shutter speed (taken at the Portland, Oregon Japanese Gardens):
Anyway - I hope you all enjoy my new photos. Please do leave feedback/comments, and let me know what you think! I have found a cool online community that will allow me to sell my prints in different formats such as a canvas, or a greeting card, at a pretty affordable price. I am also going to research and find a place where my prints can be ordered as just a picture (4×6, 5×7 etc.) so there will be several different options. When I get all my pictures uploaded and everything in order, I will update everyone on how they can purchase my prints. My goal this week is to get that done, so hopefully within the next week I will have one or two places where you can go to order my prints. I appreciate so much all the time that is taken to look at my photographs, and all the WONDERFUL feedback I have gotten on my website. Please pass it along to anyone you know that might enjoy it, and remember to keep checking back Thank you for all your support…and I’ll talk to you all soon!
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