Category Archives: Photography

General, Photography

Northern Lights – craziness

I have chased the northern lights the last couple of years, I have gotten some cool pictures, but nothing matches up with what happened around here on 11/11/2025.

I was driving home and the sky to the west started to brighten and turn pink/red.

At first I thought something was on fire, but as it got larger and larger – I started screaming – screaming because it was crazy how bright it was.

I drove for 40 minutes to get home, I was calling my hubby to get out and look up – he has always wanted to see them with his naked eyes, not thru the camera and this was it.

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Digital, Photography

Photo Editing

I did some impromptu photo-shoots this week.  Totally random request as I was at a sound-bath event. 

So impromptu that I took the photos with my cell phone – now my cell phone is decades newer then my “big” camera, I am old school.

The added thing is that the perfectionist in me took over once I got the photos home. I haven’t done photo editing in Photoshop in quite awhile.

Have you ever worked with a photo that was taken using “Panoramic” setting on your camera, it’s a very weird image you end up with, lots and lots of angles you wouldn’t expect to normally see. Love the option, until you have to edit the photos.

Original Photo
After Photo

Photography

Photo’s on Display

So I have loved photography for too many years to count. This is one of the first times I have taken my photos and enlarged them onto canvas – let alone display them for someone to see.  2 of the 3 pictures were taken one evening as we did a cruise around the lake. It was all opportunity. The smaller picture was taken a few days before – there are 2 eagles sitting up in the tree. It’s a little hard to see, but it is such a great shot.

So I looked at what the price would be to blow these 3 up (well, really I started with the loon one first – then it was all down hill from there). I searched a couple of places – I’m a shopper, and very cheap, so it had to be exactly right before I took the dive.  The Loon picture is 18″x40″, I was planning on going bigger, but after getting it, it is perfect at this size. This was the largest size they offered.

These are hanging on the wall of the guest bedroom that opens up into the living room at the cabin. I do have other things in mind to hang with them but I loved these so much I had to put them up – start with these then see what else I can find to add to the wall.  The room is done in pine – both walls and ceiling and really needed something to break up the single tone – these really hit the spot. They are centered on the wall, over a full size bed. It appears that there is a large space above the pillows, but I placed them so that if someone was sitting in the bed, leaning against the wall, they wouldn’t knock them off the wall with their head. I was mostly thinking of the photo’s safety.

Here are the original photos – all taken with my Samsung Note 8 phone, while sitting on a pontoon: