A Year in Review

The past month has been a flurry of events and activity, leaving little time to work on my personal projects. Now that the holidays are over I have been able to find a little down time to sit and reflect on the past year. It's been full of the usual ups and downs as well as new opportunities, loses, quiet moments and adventures. At the beginning of 2016 I had resolved to take more time to focus on my personal photography. Looking back through this year's collection of images I believe I followed through on my goal. Below you will find a look back at my photo adventures through the year. Some of these images you may have seen already and others you'll be seeing for the first time. I'm hoping next year will bring many more photo adventures. I think my goal for next year will be to focus more on the post production, my editing, retouching and creative effects. And of course I'll still trying to find time alone with myself and my camera.

Enjoy! And Happy New Year!

 Wind chill had the temperature in the negatives when I was out this day

 I found something so striking about those clumps of purple flowers

 I had so much fun this day even though it was pouring!

 I just loved how the tulip petals fell all around my tea cup

 Love finding this little yellow leaf on this monochromatic background

 The gardens at Harkness in full bloom

 Discovering Maine, I think it's my new muse

 Maine rubbing it in my face how beautiful it is

 Belfast at sunset

 Strawberry moon over Belfast harbor

One Farm Four Seasons

Another year is about to wrap up. I can hardly believe December is here. It feels like just yesterday that I set out to begin this photo series. It was mid January and bitter cold. The wind chill brought the temperature down to about negative 7 that day. I truly understood what "being cold to the bone" really felt like. Even when I got home, wrapped myself in a blanket and drank a steamy cup of tea I still felt cold. 

This tree was especially fun to capture throughout the seasons. Winter was taken after one of the only snows we had that year (I think we had about 3 snow days in total). Summer's image was taken right after a monstrous thunder storm. You know the type, they always happen on hot steamy days, they come raging in and less then an hour later it's like it never happened. Autumn was a bit harder, I had to wait until the foliage and the light was just right which resulted in me visiting the spot multiple times. 

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