52/52 - Week 52! I made it through a whole year with this project. I took pictures of two of my nieces this week, so here is one from that photo session. They were sporting their favorite NFL team jersies. I'm working from a laptop this week, so this is SOOC.
47/52 - We've still got a little fall color hanging around, but it's not going to last much longer.
Reedy Creek Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.
41/52 - Most of the trees are still green, but the color is beginning to come along at Reedy Creek Park.
36/52 - Stopped by St. Paul Presbyterian again to try to come up with some decent pictures of it. It's a beautiful little church that I drive by all the time.
31/52 - A trail that leads to the water's edge at Reedy Creek Park here in Charlotte. I've spent many days and hours taking pictures in this park and most times I visit I see something new.
26/52 - It was a good weekend for the pool. I was the only one there for a little while, which was nice. I'm at the half-way point for this photo project. Just 26 weeks to go.
21/52 - New growth on a North Carolina farm. Lots of farms here in the Piedmont.
16/52 - Hosta
11/52 - Looking out the kitchen window of an old clubhouse on a friend's family property in South Carolina. Lots of old things to photograph on their land.
8/52 - An old rusted car on a friend's property in South Carolina.
51/52 - A busy week and not much time for photography, so this was taken here at home. I applied a vintage effect to it with Color Efex Pro.
45/52 - I took portraits of a friend this week. I've got a few of the pictures done and will be working on the rest this week. Hopefully, she'll be happy with them.
40/52 - I've photographed this bridge many times, but I think this is the first time with the 50mm lens I'm using for this project. This was taken yesterday, 9/29/12, at Boone Fork on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The leaves seem to be turning earlier this year to me. I don't remember seeing this much color in September before.
35/52 - The dogwoods and other similar sized trees are beginning to change to their fall colors. It's early for that, so my guess is it's due to stress from the warmer than normal summer we've had. Either way it signals that fall is on the way. Can't wait!
30/52 - I took pictures of a friends new baby granddaughter this weekend. She's so sweet!
25/52 - This didn't turn out quite how I had imagined, but it still works. I wanted to make a summery type image with these flowers and the blue sky. The official first day of summer is this week.
20/52 - Saw these marigolds at Home Depot and thought they looked so nice that I needed to take a picture of them. I really liked the color combination.
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10/52 - A gravel road out in rural North Carolina. Used the Midnight filter in Nik Color Efex Pro while processing this image.
7/52 - A cup of hot chocolate for this cold winter day.
50/52 - Really? I'll be sticking with my artificial tree, thank you. And it already has lights on it. (These sure do smell good though.)
46/52 - Music through the years.
39/52 - It's apple picking time. On at least one of my trips to the mountains this time of year I stop and get some fresh picked apples. They're the best. It's hard to eat the store bought apples after having these.
34/52 - One of my favorite things of summer is the Farmer's Market. Not only are the fruit and vegetables the best, but they also make great subjects to photograph. :)
29/52 Yep, another church picture this week. I had planned to photograph this church at sunset, but a storm rolled in and provided some really nice cloud cover. I had hoped to capture some of the lightning, but wasn't able to. I didn't get to make too many photos before the rain began, so I'll have to revisit this church on another day.
24/52 - Stopped by a church nearby where my ancestors attended more than 150 years ago. Since the last time I was there they've added plaques and Confedrate flags to the graves of those who fought during the war. This is the headstone of a family member in one of the branches of our family tree. His birthday is two days after mine - different years of course.
19/52 - Azaleas in bloom at the gardens at UNCC.
14/52 - Sparks Lane in Cades Cove in the Smoky Mountains. I was trying for something a little different than the typical shot of Sparks Lane and this is one of a few that I came up with. I'll need to put my thinking cap on to come up with some more ideas for the next time I visit.
3/52 - Leaves frozen in the bird bath in my yard. I'm sure the birds would appreciate it if I cleaned it out.
6/52 - At the pond at Reed Creek Park.
49/52 - December morning here in the Carolinas. This is off a country road just a couple miles from home.
Reedy Creek Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.
43/52 - The fall color is coming along pretty nicely here in town - more and more trees with nice color. This was taken at the park I always go to for pictures - Reedy Creek Park. There was a lady fishing while I was there taking pictures, so that added to the scene. I thought it was funny that while I was taking a picture of her fishing a fish popped up to the surface of the water right in front of me causing the water to ripple.
38/52 - This isn't the image I had intended to use this week, but it will have to do. The memory card that had the image I planned to use decided to die on me somewhere between the county fair and home. I'll have to wait until next year to try to get the shot again. This is Providence United Methodist Church here in Charlotte. Another great little country church that is surrounded by the every-growing city.
33/52 Some of Charlotte's historic areas have some really nice homes and landscapes. I need to spend more more time in those areas taking pictures. This one was taken along Kings Street here in town.
28/52 I decided to stop by another local church to take pictures this week. There are so many old churches in this area that I could create an entire project of church pictures and still not cover all of them. Something to think about.
23/52 - Yesterday was a windy and sometimes cloudy day on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but it's still always nice being there.
18/52 - Every year we have Robins build a nest in one of the trees in the yard. This year they decided to build the nest in a Carolina Jasmine vine that my neighbor grows along their split-rail fence. The nest is about three and a half feet off the ground and the mama Robin seems pretty stressed guarding it since there is a lot of activity from other birds in this area. I hope these little guys make it.
13/52 - The tulips are in full bloom at Memorial Gardens in Concord. With the warm weather, though, they're not lasting long.
4/52 - Reedy Creek Park in Charlotte, NC.
48/52 - The leaves have pretty much fallen off all the trees around here. It's looking like winter. Now, we just need some snow.
42/52 - Julian Price Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. This was taken at eye level from the trail I was hiking as I was heading back to my car.
37/52 - Was at Johnson C. Smith University to take pictures and was delighted by the inscriptions on the buildings pointing to God. You just don't see this kind of architecture and inscriptions on new buildings anymore.
32/52 - Made a quick trip to Freedom Park this week and captured this shot. I like low light, low contrast images and the 50mm lens is great for these type of images.
27/52 - The small church by my house. It's such a nice looking church and I really need to stop and photograph it more often. This was taken yesterday in the 100+ degree weather. Sweat was dripping off me, but I was having a good time and didn't notice how much I was sweating until I was finished taking pictures.
22/52 - I went to a few cemeteries today to photograph American flags placed on the graves of veterans for the Memorial Holiday. Sadly, I found very few. At one cemetery I saw just one and the cemetery in this shot had just three. I wish I had taken some flags with me to place on the graves of the forgotten. I wasn't too happy with the color version of this shot, so I added a texture to it and converted it to black & white.
17/52 - Spent a little time taking pictures down at the railroad tracks. I think this one turned out to be the best of the bunch.
12/52 - Spring arrived early this year and the dogwoods are already in bloom.
9/52 - Spring is just around the corner. Soon these leaves will be replaced by new green ones.