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!