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This is a photo I took yesterday in photo class that I absolutely love and just wanted to share with you guys :)

Hope you like it!

Jasper Photo Shoot

Hi everybody!
Alright, I have some pictures that I actually just took outside with my mom of our dog Jasper. There is a bakery in the village where I live called A Barker's Dozen and it makes gourmet dog treats. They also have a pet photography studio. Here is a link to their Facebook page and Website so go take a look :).
http://www.facebook.com/BarkersDozen
http://www.abarkersdozen.com/
They sell "party collars" and we have two for jasper. One party and one for Christmas so we took some pictures of him wearing them and we are going to put them on their Facebook page. I though I would show you guys a few and you can also look to see what other things they sell on their website.

I'm sorry this one is side ways but this is Jasper
in his party collar.

This is his Christmas collar.

This is also his Christmas collar.

Thanks for reading and I'll have more to write about soon :)

Bye!

Wall Decor

Just a little update.

• I have been super busy and fall went by so fast that I didn't get to take as many pictures and I wanted to and now its the not very attractive season in between fall and winter so there isn't a lot for me to photograph with colors of anything. It just rains all the time and its dark and grayish.
• I just ordered and received a tone of prints to cover my bed room wall with.
• I got a chance a couple weeks ago to go to a photo studio and watch and actual photo shoot. I got a taste of what it would be like if I opened my own studio some day.
• I am working on learning more about photo shop in school and at home so hopefully I will be able to do some pretty cool things with photos eventually. 
• I have found a tone of photography ideas on pintrest.com ( If you have never been on it or heard of it, I definitely recommend it. A little bit of an addiction will eventually occur towards it but I think you'll be okay.) I just have to wait for the weather to clear up then hopefully get caught up on my photography.

Bye:)

Graffiti

I went to the Public Market where I live about a week or so ago and took what I think are some really cool pictures of the art on the walls by the streets. I don't think its regular graffiti, we are pretty sure that someone was hired to do it because it looks so good and is organized and signed nicely. I definitely have a new love for the down town art and will go out and find some more. 

Here is just a few to look at and the rest are on my Flickr.

This one is interesting because if you go look on my Flickr you might be able

to see that it is part of pattern of a flying bird down the road and around a girl then it keeps going.

There is a drawing of each stage that the bird is in when flying. Things like wings up then in the middle then down the up in the middle and down and it shows the different angles it is it. It is really interesting to walk along and see. 

I will try and find more for everyone to see :)

Thanks!

Bye

A bug?

So I was out doing some chores for my dad yesterday and I found this plant that I was about to pull out but when I looked a little closer there were what looked like hundreds of little yellow bugs on it. They weren't moving but they had I think four black leg things and I asked my dad but he didn't know what they were either. 

So I am asking you guys if you know what they are!

I found then on more than one plant which is not very cool because they don't

look very friendly. If I figure it out I will let you guys know but if you figure it out

please let me know!

thank you :)

Bye!

It's been much to long...

It has been so so so long since I last posted. I feel really sad about that. I have had no time to take any pictures with school, work, painting classes, and family. I am going to the Public Market this weekend so I will get some pictures there and I have the weekend open so I will definitely get out and take some more. I will have them up as soon as I can after that. I hope things will lighten up soon so I have more time to take pictures because I love fall so much I think some really amazing photos come out of it. I have some cool places this fall to go to to take pictures but I think I am going to wait till the colors change a little more. So I will have some really neat photos a little later in the season.
Not much to write about today but I will soon!
Bye !

A Stroll Through the Woods

Hi everybody,

Saying that makes me feel like I am addressing tons and tons of people even though I am pretty sure I'm not, but I hope one day I will be so I'll keep saying it anyway (  to remind myself I'll get there eventually ). 

So! Today I went for a walk in the woods, I'm guessing in the morning because there was a lot of time left in the day after but I don't know what time exactly I went. My dog Jasper came with me and we were gone for around two hours. We started our walk on the trail my family made in the woods that we call the "walking trail" that is for anybody who feels like going for a walk in the woods. So we started on the trail but very soon in we took a turn and went over a hill and just kept walking to see what we could find. Yes we have been back there before but there is always something new plus we have not been to the cottage in two weeks. We went on our walk originally to go find some treasures in the woods. Treasures being animal bones and such. Those are the types of things we find at the cottage :)

I brought my camera with me. Of Course! 

I took some pictures that I am in love with so I thought I would share them with you

Here we go!...

I would not say that this is my favorite picture but 

I took it today and I am in love with it. It is looking down

the neck of a glass bottle I found in the woods at the little 

world that is growing inside of it.

This is the skull of I am guessing a fox. I have even done 

some Google-ing with my mom to compare it with other

animals and the only other things it would be is a wolf but

we are thinking it is a little small for that. This is one of the 

things I brought back to the cottage after our walk :).

This is a baby pink fungi that is growing on a log that I

thought looked so cute I had to take a picture.

I tried to get a good picture but I didn't expect it to

come out as good as I think it looks.

These are little baby fungi that are growing on a log, and

there were actually a lot of the all down the length of the log. 

A picture of that is on my Flickr, but I also did a close up

and I am really glad I did because I think the

detail is amazing! You can see all the little I'm

 going to say hairs but I am not sure what they are.

These are some of my favorite from today but the rest of them are on my Flickr so go take a look 

if you liked these. The link is at the top of the page.

I didn't finish writing this today oops! So all of

this actually happened yesterday.

Thanks for reading :)

BYE

Editing

I don't usually edit my photos because what I like best is the natural beauty of the things I take pictures of. The detail that goes with them or the environment they are in and colors and things. But I did find some pictures that I didn't like that much but I wished looked good so I decided that I would try some editing. I think they turned out great! 

My mom and I stopped an area with a lot of trains and train tracks but I am not sure what it was. If they were being fixed or cleaned or build. 

These are a daisy that I applied the 1960'6 edit by 10's until it was as high as it could go then put the all together

This is some sap on the pole that holds up our flags at my cottage that looked pretty plain when I took it but the detail was so cool I didn't want to not be able to use it

Thanks for reading :)

My Flickr

I haven't mentioned it yet but I have a Flickr account with a lot of my photographs on there but I do have some new ones to update it with which I will be doing as soon as I can. This weekend I work a lot so on my breaks during rotation I know I will be blogging a lot and organizing my photos and things. I'm a lifeguard by the way. Is anybody else? Do you like it? Tell me a little about it if you feel like and we can compare. Its fun to do that kinda stuff sometimes. But anyway yes I have a Flickr and I have a lot of my photos on it and they are all together and nice so I think you should take a look if you have some time. Who knows maybe you'll find something you like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/itswhatyousea/sets/
Thank you for reading!
Please come back
Bye

Clothes Line

Alright! Its been about a week since I went to the Clothes Line festival and I know I am way overdue for putting up the photos but I have been so insanely busy this week.
I had an amazing time there with my mom. It was really hot so we had to buy me a T-shirt that is pink and says " You mow girl" and it has a picture of a lady mowing the law in her work clothes. I also got a picture from Ted Tatarzyn that I think is fantastic. I learned all about how he took the picture and the trip he was on when he took it and other trips hes been on and I just had to get this photo. My mom helped me pay for it and it was definitely worth it. I know I will be getting more of his pictures in the future but for now how about you go look at them.
http://www.tatarzynphotography.com/
I also got another photo I like a lot . It is black and white and its a close up on people holding hands but I don't have a website for who I got it from. Sorry.

Okay here are some pictures I took to show you the size and crowds at the festival.

Lines for food were at least a 20 minute wait for some probably longer

The drink lines weren't as long

That's about it for pictures and I know it doesn't look like much but if you know what it is and there's a way you could get to it next year or even if you just want to message me and I can tell you where it is and other details but privately that would be great too. It is really fun and if you don't buy anything its still a good experience.

Thank you for reading!

Bye

Sorry!

Hi everybody!
I'm so so so sorry its taken me this long to put up the pictures from the festival. I have had a super crazy week with school starting and I had to change my schedule around and I also had work and homework and photography club started and everything. I've been super busy but I promise I will be blogging from now on at least once a week but I hope more because I think its fun to look around and read people's blogs when I'm bored sometimes. So I hope I have some things you guys will find interesting enough to keep coming back for more. I have a list of thing I need to blog about so I'll try to get those all up soon because I know I'm very behind. I also realize that for awhile my blog hasn't been able to be viewed by anyone but last night my sister Caitlin actually fixed it for me so I spent all night making it look the way it does so I hope everybody likes it. I have also been recently informed that I do have some typing errors. I type fast and don't always pay attention or go back and read to make sure everything is spelled the right way like their and there. I'll work on that.
  Sorry again for all the issues that have been going on but I'm about to spend quite awhile blogging so I'll get everything up that has been going on lately for you guys to see.
Thanks for reading this it really means a lot to me :)

Bye

Off to the festival!

Has anyone ever been to the Clothes Line Festival??
If you know what it is and you've never been but you have the ability to get there then go! right now! It starts at 10 and its $5 to get in.
If you don't know what it is then how about I tell you a little bit about it?
It is basically an art festival but there is food and music and bands there too. All types of artists enter there work to be chosen to show their pieces in the festival. Photographers, sculptors, painters, potters, craft makers, clothing makers. Just about any type of artist there is. It is rows and rows of white tens with the artist and there work sitting there all day watching people walk by or stop and look at their work. They love to talk about there pieces , if you ask them a question some will talk forever to you about it and some will say one word but they all enjoy the nice people. The art that's there is abstract, modern, high tech, old or old looking. It is so interesting to go around and see what these people do for a passion. They create these items to show people and hope someone will like them enough to but some from them.
It is a really fun place to be so if you can go you should but it is just this weekend so hurry!It has a great atmosphere and is definitively an experience you want to have in life
My passion being photography makes this a great place because there are a wide variety pf photographers that shoot all different subjects. People, landscape, buildings, seasons. Anything you can think of just about. 
I am bringing my camera and later today or tomorrow I will put my pictures up to show you all what I saw and so you can see a little bit about what it is.
I hope everybody has a great day like I know I'm going to :)
Thank you for reading and come back soon to see the pictures!

A day in the life of Jasper at the cottage

I have an American Eskimo dog named Jasper. He is my favorite subject but hates getting his picture taken. We got him when he was very young and took him home to be part of our family. 

We always joke that he never got to read the Manuel about how to be a dog because he does some activities most dogs owners would never even think of having their dog do.

But he also does some normal ones too such as

swimming

running

and sleeping allll day

But when he's not doing those activities hes doing some not so normal ones like...

tubing 

gandalaing 

looking for giant mushrooms with mommy

surfing

and wearing jewelry

He doesn't know everything he should and should do as a dog but we love him anyways. Hes very feminine and I've only ever found one person who has a problem with it but we think hes the best dog in the whole world.

Hes been in agility classes and obedience when he was little so he is extremely well behaved. He was very easy to train and is still learning new thing today. he latest trick is kisses when you ask for them :)

Cottage Life

I have a Cottage in Canada and it is one of my most favorite places to go. I open my front door walk down the front porch stairs and I'm standing at the edge of the water. 

It.is.amazing

To go along with out cottage we get a magazine all about anything that has to do with cottages. Its called cottage life ( http://cottagelife.com/ ) and it does a photography contest every year. This year I and going to enter some of my photographs and hope for some good results.

The contest has four categories. Action!, landscape & nature, life at the cottage and photos by kids. You are aloud to enter as many photos as you want and into any category  you want. I've looked through my photos and found some I think are worth entering.

Raindrops on a spiderweb 

Flower

Dragonfly

My cousin and his dog Maggie

Me and my dog jasper :)

These are just a few but I have many more I am entering. I have been working all summer on making a collections of photos for entering and I am pretty excited about the ones I have so lets hope something good happens with them :)

Thanks for reading and keep checking in for new posts!

Just a little about my photography

I have been interested in photography for the past couple of years but I have never tried to take it farther than an interest. The camera I used to use was not a good one to take the kind of pictures I want to take and they weren't coming out good and so I gave up a little on that hobby. I took a photography class in school and that didn't go so well but at the end of last year I really wanted to take pictures again. I got a job and saved up my money for a couple of months and I finally got a good camera! I chose the COOLPIX P500 Nikon because it did everything I was looking for. I do not use it as a fun camera to take pictures with my friend, it's strictly for my photography and I love it. If anyone has any questions about the camera feel free to ask me about it and I will tell you as much as I can. The thing I love most about my photography or photography in general is the detail.  Most of my pictures are close ups with as much detail I can get while still being able to tell what the picture is.

This is clearly a flower but I thought the detail in the center of it was amazing, I couldn't not take the picture. I tend to take nature pictures and animals. I don't get the same enjoyment out of taking people pictures as I do the others, the detail isn't the same.

Most of my pictures are taken at my cottage in Canada because I spend a lot of time there and at home I always have something to do it seems like so I dont always have a lot of time to take pictures. But don't worry I'm going to make time.

School starts soon and its my junior year and I'm going to be taking another photography class and I also want to be in photo club so I can get more chances to take pictures. I am entering some of my pictures into a cottage life magazine photo contest and I hope to get good results but its fine if I don't.

I am planning on going to collage to major in photography but I also might try and to photojournalism or something like that so I can have the writing aspect of photography. My goal in life right now is to work for National Geographic some day then open my own studio. I'm starting my blog, twitter and Flickr all now so I can have a bit of a background in photography and my name out into the world a little before I try to achieve these goals.

I have two other blogs in my mind right now that I'm not sure ill get to writing today but they will be up soon so please come back and look for them!

Thanks for reading !

It's Just The Beginning

Hi Everybody,
My name is Ellie and I'm 15 and I've decided to start my photography career now. I have a Facebook,Twitter, Flickr, and About.me as well as my blog.They are all new except for Facebook so they aren't going to be that interesting right now but I'm going to work on them as much as I can to show everyone what I can do. I want  to use them to get my photography out into the world as much as I can and see what happens. I'm excited to get as much feedback and advice as I can so please don't be afraid to tell me the truth I wont be upset if it's not the nicest. I'll put links up to my other sites soon. 
Thank you for reading this and I hope you keep coming back to see whats new!