Another Day of Interesting Clouds

Though it did not rain on us today, we sure did have a wonderful week of rains and interesting cloud days. Today was wonderful and I had to take a few minutes to snap some of these shots. This is photographed with an iPhone and the Photosynth application. Then I app'ed it with Camera+ mostly for cropping purposes.

Pictures, Honey, Pictures

Ever wonder how I spent time? It is still behind a camera oftentimes, but now it's behind a camera at a bee yard a lot. I am very blessed that I enjoy working with Mark and I get to learn about bees while still doing one of my favorite hobbies - photography! Here we are doing a product photos shoot for our new website we are working on furiously. Hope to get it up and running this weekend but we needed some specific product shots of each type of honey we have. It's always a lot of fun to add props and especially nice when we get to include nature in our photographs. I had a lot of fun doing this one.

Lights, Camera, Honey!

Today was dreary pretty much most of the day but we got ourselves to the gym early, had a nice mid-morning snack and then got to work on photographing our company products in the light tent we just got. Developing and building a new company website takes a lot of work and we're still working on several components, one of which is product shots for the online store. That in itself has been a real learning process and challenge for both of us but we are happy to learn. Back to editing. :-) Hope y'all are having a good weekend. We are suppose to have a few great, gorgeous days next week! Yay!

Busy as a Bee

Here's where I spent most of this beautiful weekend so I thought I'd share it with you so you'd know why there aren't other photographs to share right now. We are super focused on our bee biz and that means getting lots of photos and some videos for a new website we are building. We are so excited about it but it does take a lot of our time getting all this going so for a while, that's what will consuming us. :) If you'd like to see the video I was shooting in this photograph, you can visit our GBR YouTube page.

Check out the bees below. They are carrying pollen into the hive like there's no tomorrow. Do people still say that? LOL, I do! Anyway, I LOVE to watch them doing this - the way they land, the little steps they take to get into the box, the way they sometimes flop over clumsily. So cute.

Family Project

Tribute to my parents continue! :-) This is my dad and he still has the same smile now that he did back then. What struck me in this shot is how much like my dad my oldest brother looks! Whoa. I'm over halfway done with the scanning project - woohoo! My deadline is coming fast so I'm glad I got over the hump.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Hot, humid, wonderful.

An Army of Our Lady of Guadalupe

I was so, so, so thrilled when I opened the mail after work today. My Lady of Guadalupe Army photo which I posted back in April 2007 was used in an issue of Faith & Form, the Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture. It was so cool to see it in print. It made my day. Thank you Judith! Cristina has also used the same photo on her Mexico Cooks! site.

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I was down after work due to all the mold in the air. It's a killer for me and mostly I just slept and was a lazy bum on the sofa. :) All better by this afternoon after Zyrtec, Aleve D and a nasal rinse. I'm sure those of you who are local know where I'm coming from on this.

I'm back!

See? I'm not the only one who loves to take pictures of food. :) This is my sister snapping a shot of the burger birthday cake we got for a triple birthday celebration -- mine and my two nieces. Our birthdays fall in May and June and this year, we decided to wait and celebrate together in FL. We had a blast and that cake was yummy!

And here's another photo of another photographer. That's my niece, trading photo snaps with me. We had a blast and though I missed blogging and checking out friends online, I have to admit something. Being without a cell tower and fast Internet was actually nice after the first day or two of withdrawal. We played and talked and read and just relaxed. And I only thought about work the first day or two. And only had 103 emails waiting for me today. Much better than I had expected so I consider it a great day for me. Back to the mill tomorrow and back to blogging.