Flowers and help naming a few!!!!

Hello Everyone,

I've been doing a lot of shooting in my yard lately. I am really enjoying trying to capture the flowers at different times of the day and in different types of light.

I planted some wild flower seeds and it seem like almost every day or so there is something new opening up.

I have a few that I'm not sure of what kind of flower they are. So if you know the names of the few I have below titled "Unknown", please drop me a line and let me know what they are!!!

Wendy

Bachelor Buttons

Pink Poppy

Bee Balm

Red and Yellow Poppies

"Unknown"

Blue Flax

Asiatic Lily - Orange Pixie

"Unknown"

"Unknown"

More Hummingbirds & Flowers

Hi Everyone,

I'm still not doing much in the way of Photo Shoots for others, so most of the images I am posting these days are either one's that I've taken in the past or one's that I've taken recently in my own little world.

My front yard happens to be a big part of my little world and these days it's just a buzz with hummingbirds and blooming flowers and it's become one of my favorite places to be and to take photos!!!

The hummingbirds have definitely discovered the feeders and I also have some Bee Balm plants (flowers), that hummingbirds love and one of them just bloomed in the last couple of days and I saw a hummer at it this morning . . . thanks mom for the Bee Balm!!!

I have one feeder hanging outside my living room window and one outside my office window, so even if I'm not outside I can still watch these little guys all the time!!

Here are a few I've taken in the last day or so.

These 2 hummers were fighting over this feeder all day long!!!

I had just watered my yard and flowers
and love the water drops it left on everything!!!

My Cowboy

I took this photo of my very loved Mustang, who's name is Cowboy, almost 2 years ago. Going through some older files I came across it again. It was a full body shot but I thought cropping it to just a head shot would be better and I'm very pleased with the cropped image.

I then went a step further and Digitally Painted the image and now I really love how it looks. I think Cowboy is such a handsome boy!!!

The photo was taken in the Fall of 2007 and that is why the background is so colorful and I think it really makes his dark bay coat stand out.

Here is the whole image and then below it is a close up so you will be able to see the brush stroke details.

I really enjoy doing Digital Paintings on images, it's can be very time consuming, but it relaxes me and lets me get even more creative with my work.

I hope you enjoy this one.

Wendy

Hummingbirds

Hi Everyone,

Well the hummingbirds have finally started coming to my feeders!!! I was beginning to worry and just about the time I was about to give up on them, there they were!! At first it was just one, then later another one came and by some of the below photos you can tell that they didn't want to share!!

I took the images below on two different days, some in the morning and back lite one's I took just as the the sun was going down.

In case you can't tell in the photos, these are of 2 different kinds of hummingbirds. I looked them up online but right now I can't remember their names, but one set of them have these beautiful green feathers on their backs and the others are just kind of a tanish and nothing fancy.

I'm surprised they are still coming around because I've had to move the feeders a couple of times because the first one was on a shepard's hook in my flower bed, but I found my cat laying in waiting and he must have actually jumped up at the feeder because I found it on the ground!! Now I have them hanging from my gutters where there are no other obstacles around for Trouble, that's my cat, to be able to launch off of.

Ok, I'll include a couple of photos I took of Trouble the other day too. He's such a ham and so photogenic and I love him so much that I can't seem to get enough photos of him!!

Wendy

This last one reminds me of an Angel descending to earth!!

And last but not least . . . here is Trouble

Image Galleries About to Expire

Hi Everyone,

Just want to put out a quick reminder that a couple of Image Galleries and the ability to order from them, are going to Expire soon!!!!

The following galleries will Expire on July 15, 2009.

Ride the West 2009

Jessica & Kenny

Once a gallery expires there is a 20.00, non refundable fee to make the galleries available again. This 20.00 fee will be credited toward any prints you order. If you do not order prints, the fee is not refunded.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Wendy

Baby Deer

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to my dog, Hank, who knows whenever there is another animal or critter of any kind on or near our property, I was able to get the below photos!!!

Because of wood fence panels against a 6 ft tall chain link fence and lots of bushes, this little baby was not able to see me, but I was able to finally see it!! It was laying down when I first spotted it and then it got up and walked a few feet, looked around and then laid back down again . . . waiting for his momma to return.

I was very excited to be able to get these photos and I hope you enjoy seeing them.

I hope you all have a fun and safe 4th of July!!

Wendy