Beautiful and Blue

There's something about spring flowers.  Just something very special.

Brunnera (Siberian bugloss).

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Christine

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The Millenium Carillon

May 3.

Although I had been to the Millenium Carillon last year with Jacob's college music class, I got to go again this year with Danny's music class.  How fun!

The Riverwalk in Naperville is truly a beautiful place to wander around!

The view from partway up.

One of the carillon bells.

Looking west along the river.

Our guide played the carillon for us.

The view from the top.

Tree on the lawn below.

A misty, dreamy landscape.

Downtown Naperville.

 Sts. Peter & Paul Church.

Martin Mitchell Museum at Naper Settlement.

The smaller bells.

Riverwalk and the (empty) Centennial Beach.

Last year, some Canada geese obligingly let me take their photo.  This year, it was a squirrel.  It absolutely did not care that I kept getting closer and closer, finally about three feet away.  It was concentrating on its dinner.

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Christine

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Spring Wedding

I am not a wedding photographer.

I always make sure I say that when I post wedding pictures.  Having said that, however, I do love event photography--capturing the various things all happening around me.  Whether I'm a participant who happens to have brought her camera, or the actual event photographer, I have fun either way!  Enjoy these few images from a recent wedding we attended.

FYI--All these images were taken using my "kit" lens, a 17-85mm telephoto.  It's a very basic Canon lens, but still produces nice images.  A lower F-stop and a sharper image and this would be my go-to lens for practically everything.  But of course, that would cost me, and so I continue to use this lens.  :)

There's something about little girls at weddings--they're all dressed up and are beaming with prettiness and excitement.

Some of the adults had to make sure the bubbles worked before the couple exited the church.  :)

It was so hard to capture the happy couple with all those bubbles floating everywhere!

Okay--I seriously got lucky.  I almost deleted the below image right from the camera, without even downloading.  I thought it was ruined.  I'm so glad I didn't.  I think it's just cool that I captured Rosalinda's face in that bubble!

This last photo was pretty contrast-y, but really lent itself well to a black and white image.  I love how it turned out.

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Christine

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April Flowers

April.  That is how far behind I am in posting.  Ah, well.  Life happened--lots of big things which I will be sharing as the days and the posts flow on.  For now, enjoy some of my April flowers.  They don't look like this anymore.

April 22

Columbine.

Coral bells -- heuchera "marmalade."

Scilla -- these little flowers are stunningly beautiful.

I love this one -- daffodils mean spring!!

A few days passed...

April 27

It's amazing what changes in just a few days!

I spent some serious time enjoying the scilla through my macro lens.  They are simply beautiful, and there's nothing like seeing them in all their glory and detail!

Happy late spring!


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Christine

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