Tag Archives: photographs

O is for Outdoors

April 17, 2014 R. Parrish 12 Comments

This year I’m participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge again. I thought it might be fun to share some of my photography instead of always my words. They say a picture is worth–well, you know what they say 😉

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

O is for Outdoors. Because I had to narrow it down more than that if I was going to keep this blog post from becoming ridiculous, O is actually for Outdoors on Hornby Island.

My mother and father-in-law live on Hornby Island and we go there to visit them when we can. These photographs are from our trip in 2011.

This is one of my favourite pics, um, evar. There was actually a little unintentional smudge on my polarizing filter, but I didn’t clean it off right away because that meant that by turning it just so I could totally direct where the flares would fall in my photograph:

I don’t think I arranged the flare in this one, but I don’t remember LOL It’s super simple, but I like it 🙂

I made this photograph by stitching several exposures together:

And this took while we were on a twilight hike. I really like the soft, muted tones:

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M is for Magpie

April 15, 2014 R. Parrish 20 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

M is for Magpie

Magpies are one of my favourite kinds of birds. Unfortunately, they never seem to want to co operate when I try to take their pictures, so I don’t have nearly as many shots of them as I’d like. Here are the few I do have… even if a couple are a bit cheaty 😉

This flouffy dude was hanging out on a tree by my back door. I had to shoot this through the window because I knew as soon as I opened the squeaky screen door he’d fly away. After I took this shot I tried to open the door to get a better one, but as I’d known he would, he flew away 🙂

I’ve seen this graffiti in a few places around Edmonton. This one was on the side of a dumpster outside the High Level Diner

According to its title, I took this one in October 2010. Seriously? How does time keep moving faster and faster?

Finally, I did not do this embroidery (alas), I only took a photo of it:

A to Z Challenge, Pictures

L is for LoL

April 14, 2014 R. Parrish 14 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

L is for LoL

I took this picture when we were in Nova Scotia for a family vacation. To some people this probably seems completely normal, but to me it was so paradoxical as to be ludicrous. In case you can’t see it, it says ‘McLobster is Back’. Because, of course it is LOL:

I misplaced my iPod a while back. Spent the whole day looking for it off and on. That night when I went to bed I discovered it right where I’d left it — on my pillow. The note, however, hadn’t been there in the morning 🙂

And lastly, this… because apparently I’m really still twelve at heart:

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K is for Kitties

April 12, 2014 R. Parrish 10 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

K is for Kitties

I know I posted some pictures of a couple of my cats back on the first of the month but I was kinda stuck for what to make K stand for, so kitties it is! In order to keep you from being totally bored, however, this post will be pretty Indiana-centric (since Absinthe was on A and I’m pretty sure Eowyn was on E… so… yeah. It’s only fair ;))

I was working (on the first drafts of some poems, I think) when I stepped away for a moment and this is what I came back to. The kitties are never far when I’m working on my bed (which is how I do most first drafts) but I do try to discourage them from being ON my books. Not pictured in this photo is my dog Tre, who was at my feet.

And this is Indiana. He’s probably the most photogenic of our kitties:

And I really like the light in this one of him:

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J is for Jo

April 11, 2014 R. Parrish 18 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

J is for Jo. Jo is my husband and he may or may not appreciate me posting a whack of photos of him on my blog, so I’m going to keep it to just a couple. But c’mon, how could J be for anything else?

Jo is a biochemist who teaches at the University here. A while back I brought my camera to the student lab there to take some pictures of test tubes, centrifuges and other fun things. I also took this picture of him doing science-y things. I call it ‘Game Face’. Because.

I feel like this one is kinda self-explanatory 😉

This is one of my favourites. I took it at Thanksgiving a couple years ago. We’d gone back to southern Alberta (where I grew up) to visit my family.

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I is for Ice and Frost

April 10, 2014 R. Parrish 22 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

I is for Ice and Frost

Isn’t it weird how some words sound ‘wrong’ when they follow one another in the wrong order? To my ear ‘frost and ice’ sounds fine, but ‘ice and frost’ is off somehow. Still, it has to be Ice and Frost to fit the alphabet theme, so there you go 😉 I would have made today’s theme ‘Ice and Snow’ (which sound right) but I’m kinda planning on making S stand for Snow… so there’s that…

I took this one in my yard at some point… Great description, right? Even better I’ve titled it ‘Branchy’

I took this picture from a bridge looking down at the North Saskatchewan river as it was just beginning to freeze up. I don’t usually love abstract-y photographs, but this one I’m a fan of 😉

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H is for HDR

April 9, 2014 R. Parrish 15 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

H is for HDR

I don’t do as much HDR as I’d like (my cameras don’t autobracket so I have to use a tripod to do it “right”) but I do enjoy playing with HDR when I can 🙂

This was the first HDR photograph I created that I liked and it’s still a favourite. The subject is a ‘blooming tea’. It took me a long time to find a composition I liked and by that time the tea had been steeping so long it was really dark, so I actually emptied it out and re-filled the cup with cold water LOL I love the fact that if you look closely at this picture you can totally see my entire kitchen in reflection 😉

I love the fact that this is a black and white photograph which is (accurately) entitled ‘Blue Bottles’. Because :-p

I took this photograph when I was on a writing retreat at Strawberry Creek Lodge. The experience was amazing and I think the photograph is magical:

Pretty, no? 🙂

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G is for Glowsticks

April 8, 2014 R. Parrish 16 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

G is for Glowsticks

I used glowsticks and long exposures to make the pictures below. It was a trial and error process that created a lot of failed photographs but it was a lot of fun where Jo and I got to play in the dark with glowsticks 🙂

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F is for Flowers

April 7, 2014 R. Parrish 16 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

F is for flowers:

I took this one at the legislative grounds a couple years ago… I think.

For a while I was taking A LOT of daisy flowers because that year my garden was pretty much all daisies LOL This one was a zoomy long exposure I took at night. Just to see what would happen.

I was struck early in the morning by the idea for this shot and actually got out of bed, took it, then went back to bed LOL I don’t do mornings.

And I’m adding this photo of crab apple flowers just for good measure 😉

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E is for Eyes

April 5, 2014 R. Parrish 13 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

E is for Eyes… with a bonus elephant eye 😉

We went to the zoo a couple years ago and I left depressed for the animals… but with a few good photos. Like this one of Lucy:

Also, Jo bought me a macro lens for Mother’s Day a while back… I had fun playing with it, as you can see in these two similar shots:

and

This is Eowyn. She’s one of our kitties — the one who always freaking blinks when I try to take her picture, which makes this much more than ‘just another cat photo’:

Lastly we have Mr. Bogle, who lives at the Birds of Prey Centre in southern Alberta:

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D is for Danica

April 4, 2014 R. Parrish 10 Comments

I will try to keep these blog posts short and sweet, while still offering a little bit of insight into each photograph, just for fun.

If you’re interested in learning more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge you can check out these links:

~ What Is The Blogging from A to Z Challenge? ~ Participants ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2013): All About Niteblade ~ My Blogging from A to Z Challenge (2012): Unthemed ~

D is for Danica. Because of course it is 🙂

Dani modeled for me out in the snow one warm wintery afternoon. This shot was both of our favourites from the day:

The conversation preceding this photograph went like this:

Me: Dani, I like the light in your room right now, how about you roll over so I can take your picture.
Dani: *rolls over*
Me: *takes picture* Thank you
Dani: You’re welcome. I’m going to go back to half-sleeping now.

Finally, I snapped this one in a parking lot when we were on vacation in Nova Scotia in 2012. It turned out to be one of my favourite shots from the whole trip:

(I let Dani choose which pictures I was going to share here, so she wouldn’t be too embarrassed 😉 )

Rhonda Parrish

Tag Archives: photographs

O is for Outdoors

M is for Magpie

L is for LoL

K is for Kitties

J is for Jo

I is for Ice and Frost

H is for HDR

G is for Glowsticks

F is for Flowers

E is for Eyes

D is for Danica

I write, I edit and I take a lot of naps.