Through The Viewfinder Photography

My friend Bonnie Mieth, from http://bonniemieth.blogspot.com/  (Daily Cupcake) recently posted a series of photos on the 365 Project site ... done in a style called TTV Photography (which stands for "Through The Viewfinder").   I fell so in love with her photos that I bid on and won the following vintage camera from ebay so that I could try my hand at the same thing ....

Then my husband Gary made this contraption to keep the light from falling on the viewfinder

And then we began experimenting ....

hanging basket on my front porch

little angel statue in my garden

vintage bride and groom caketopper

black-eyed susan vine in my back garden

1950 Ford in Atlantic, Virginia

old gas pump in Pocomoke, Maryland

same 1950 Ford ... but Gary likes this shot so I thought I would include it

To read more about TTV photography, you can just Google it .... this is one of the first sites that shows up on Google

http://danigirl.ca/blog/2009/10/08/what-the-heck-is-ttv-photography-anyway-and-why-would-you-bother/

Many thanks to Bonnie for introducing me to this fun type of photography, and many thanks to my husband for all his hard work in making the contraption and for spending so much time learning how to get the Nikon to focus so I could actually take some pictures.

 If you think you get some stares while taking photos with a regular camera, just wait until you go out in public with one of these ..... (smiles)

By the way, Bonnie is having her first-ever Blog Giveway on her beautiful Daily Cupcake blog ... so go pay her a visit and sign up.

I'm planning to host my own first-ever Giveway soon ... and hope to make it a monthly thing ... so stay tuned.

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Country Roses

Yesterday, for the first time in a very long time, I made a visit to The Country House, the largest country store on the East Coast ... and almost in my back yard.    There was a sign on the door stating that no photography was allowed inside ... so I spent most of my time outside amongst the beautiful roses.  

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Earth's Ruins

"The world breaks everyone ... and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

Hemingway

Coventry Parish Ruins are the remnants of a historic Episcopal church located at Rehobeth, Somerset County, Maryland. It consists of a two-story seven-bay by three-bay Flemish bond brick church erected between 1785 and 1788. The ruin has been reduced to three primary walls since the south wall rises only a foot above ground level, except for one single-story pier. At the time of its construction it was the largest Episcopal church on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

I stood in one of the windows and loved the contrast between the old brick walls and the view of the blue sky .....

"So many, many things are Mystery."

"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

(Robert Browning)

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The One Who Calls Me Mother

Mark Allen Robinson ..... born July 22, 1973

And then they grow up .....

October 5, 2009 .... celebrating my birthday

One of the things I love about Mark is his creativity ... the following two pictures were created by him last Winter ... I edited them just a bit to give an aged look.  What could be better than "one" of Mark?    Two!

And what could be better than "two"?  Five!

This past September, Mark married his Beautiful Shine

Thank you, Cole, for making Mark's heart Shine brighter than it ever has before ....

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987

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