Through Tam's Eyes

On Monday, I posted this photo over at G+.  Yesterday, I was notified that it was selected as a TOP Photo on this site.  I am so honored and super excited!  It is the 5th time I have been featured there.

As I stated in my post over there, I have been asked by several people to show how I take my floral shots.  So, I had my husband take video of me taking some shots this weekend.  I still haven’t looked at it, so I am not sure how it came out.  If it came out well, then I am going to upload it over there on G+.

I took this photo to purposefully show the graininess that a black and white film would show.  I wanted it to have that vintage feel of black and white film, whether it was a photograph or an old reel movie. I am really happy with how this particular one turned out.

I haven’t been over here very much recently.  I am over at G+ now (you can follow me here), but I will be updating and overhauling this website completely.  I want to be able to have a gallery here as well as a shopping cart and of course, my blog.  So I imagine that in the next month, there will be some serious changes here.  I am really excited about them and I will be setting other goals, including some photography-coffee-table-style books, for this next year.

This will be the start of something really fantastic for me, I hope. 

There is this site called EtsyLush.  Basically, it is a site that “finds the very best of Etsy so you don’t have to. (Submit your Etsy listings for Free)”.  This is taken from their twitter page.  So I have submitted a couple of photos here and there, but nothing has ever been chosen.  Until today.

My black and white lightning picture is now being featured on the first page of their landscape photography sub-site and is currently on the second page of their main site!  HOORAY!

My pic:

I am quite proud of this!  Anyone can submit to the site – so if you want to submit my photography to the site, just register at Etsy Lush and fill in the blanks.  And if you do, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Texture, texture, texture.  When I shoot cacti, that is what I think of.  The smooth paddles of the prickly pear, interspersed with spines that are long and hard to very fine and hair-like; the lines of the saguaro spines on ridges; even the many fine spines of the cholla.  They each show a different texture but if you aren’t careful, you will get poked when you go in close for a macro shot.

These two pictures are of the same barrel cactus, just with different angles.  What do you think?