Spring got me a few great shots of flowers and trees and, of course, my weekly Keeley. And even a food shot, too. My favorite is easy. I love the series I took of people at our Thursday night Travel Club meeting. It’s the yearbooker in me. I just love shooting people…with my camera ?.
Here are my weekly photos from my current 365 project for those of you who are not following along every day. I have a few more people in my shots this week, which makes me happy. As an old yearbook photographer (for more than 50 years), I much prefer to shoot photos of people, especially the four I captured tonight. By the way, that’s my favorite—one of my favorite girls.
Remember, don’t forget: if you click on the first shot, you can scroll through using your arrow keys or by swiping. Also, while you are looking at the individual photos, click the small i at the bottom of the page to read the full caption and see my photographic metadata.
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- Last week, I took a food shot of a fish stew I made. I enjoy cooking fish. When I returned to cooking after Kathleen and I got married, fish was not part of my repertoire. However, since then, I have discovered that not only do I love cooking fish, but I also love eating it. I have eight fish recipes that I rotate on Monday nights, and this is one of my favorites: One-Pan Roasted Fish with Cherry Tomatoes. It’s delicious. Send me a note, and I will share the recipe with you. It’s one of the easiest fish dishes I know. You can expect another food shot tomorrow, as we have guests coming in from out of town, which means more cooking.
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- Way back on January 1st, when I started this 365 project, I took a photo of Welcome Lake. I also mentioned in the caption that I would return here every season to take another photo from the same exact spot. So, my first one was on January 1. Today is the second, and as you can see, spring is definitely here. Unless you live in Washington state, in which case, April 1 is just Mother Nature and the calendar fooling you.
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- I love me some layers. We have guests with us for a couple of days, and we took them on a tour of Trilogy. Bonnie wanted to see the best view in Trilogy, and this is it. It looks out to the foothills of the Cascades. With the weather we had today, it provided me with some great layers as I passed each set of foothills with my lens.
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- And even more. We are a talkative bunch
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- More discussion.
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- Two other friends who are officers in our garden club talking about their meeting next Monday.
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- A good friend who travels even more than we do.
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- A discussion outside the doors.
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- Prior to the meeting, we display impressive travel photos while people are chatting. That is what she is observing.
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- Tonight was the April meeting of our Trilogy Travel Club. The Travel Club is the largest here at Trilogy. When I learned that, I realized we had moved to the right place, and I joined immediately. That was two years ago. Now, I am the president, and we meet once a month to either discuss an upcoming trip or hear a report on someone else’s trip. I wasn’t doing the main presentation tonight, so I took my camera along to capture some of the club members before the presentation on Kenya started. When I processed the photos later, I couldn’t pick a favorite, so here are my favorites. I love photographing people. It’s a kind of street photography, but indoors.
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- Spring has arrived. These two trees, especially the one on the right, are perfect examples of that. There are so many trees blossoming that people with allergies are intentionally staying indoors. That’s sad, but it has left more of this incredible beauty, not far from our house, available to those of us without allergies. ?
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- This is Kari’s Bog. It’s about a three-block walk from our house to the trail that leads to the overlook where I took this photo. The Kari’s Bog Trail runs alongside Trilogy property for a good distance, and about halfway between our house and the end of the trails is this overlook. In the winter, you can see more of the water, but by July, it will be mostly covered in lily pads and other flora, making it look more bog-like.
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- It’s time for your weekly Keeley. This time, I’m using my 50mm for a close-up while she sleeps. Naturally, I woke her up, and she gave me the stink eye. But in case I haven’t mentioned it, she is truly the most awesome dog in the world. Throughout our lives, Kathleen and I have owned at least 10 dogs between us, and we’ve decided that Keeley is the best.
Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can’t obtain it, the more we want it. —Alison Jackson
Enjoyed your photos as always. The blooming Spring trees, and the reflections in the second. You live in a very scenic area!
Take care and enjoy birthday celebrations with Jenna and Josh!