Our Favorite Photographs
What is the Favorite Photograph you have taken?
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What is the Favorite Photograph you have taken?
Share with Andre Rieu Fans & Friends
*send your favorite photo to: Sally@AndreRieuFans.com
Please put Fav Foto in the subject line
Katie_Bumble Bee Pink
This is a picture taken with my old Canon T-90 with a very powerful macro lens. These lenses are usually used to photograph things like postage stamps and the like but I used it on this guy so as not to rile him. Didn't work, though, as I ended up getting profoundly stung for my troubles!
I have always wanted to take photos where you can see the closest of detail. What I do take are snap shots. I guess this is another thing to add to my To Do in the Future list. I love photos like these
This is beautiful Katie. Sorry you had to get stung for your effort. Hugs
This has to be one of my favorites. I waited a long time to make that all important eye contact with Andre. He was looking right at me when I snapped this photo, May 16, 2007
Love and thanks,
Jeanine Ann
I love Rene and his trumpet in the background.
Andre is giving you the 'look'.
Sally, this is the first time I noticed Rene in the background, I swear.
Strange Jeanine Ann, because as I look at this picture right now I could swear he's looking at ME!
Yes Shirley, that is the second reason I took the photo - now he can be looking at everyone! Hugs
Here's the other photo taken with that remarkable Canon lens - even picked up the dew drops on the blossom!
Katie McCourt
Nice shots (both of them) Katie. Those old mechanical film cameras and macro lenses can work wonders.
I love this blush pink with dew. Such a delicate spirit.
I love this one too. Delicate is the right word. Wish I could china paint, I'd paint this beauty.
Exquisite and good detail. Love the color.
This is my favorite photograph, taken December 2006 in Sacramento. Notice Rieu 1 in back of us. Marilyn Bas
I don't know what I would do if I saw Rieu 1 following me. I certainly could not concentrate on my driving.
Uau...this photo is so interesting...andre rieu bus!...if I were you, I probably run into the bus to see him!!
kisses
Jeanine Ann, you must have had butterflies in your stomache, haaaaaaaaaa!
Yes Inge even my butterflies had butterflies!
Super photographers !!!!! All pictures are super!
Couple of thoughts:
1. Are you all like me where what is my favorite this week, may not be my favorite next week?
2. Wish I could find the photo my oldest daughter took when she was 2 years old. She wanted to take pictures, so I bought her a disposable camera, told her to stand "Real Still" and showed her the button to press. Her first photo was of Grandpa.
She stood still. The photo was very clear. It was a perfect photo of Grandpa's Knees.
This is one of my favorite pictures, Jutta skating at the CANADIAN NATIONAL. Her short program on music from P.Tchaikovsky, "Swan Lake" Inge
Inge, this is a beautiful moment of a beautiful girl. No wonder it is one of your favorites.
Jutta looks so graceful.
Inge - Figure skating...such a graceful and beautiful sport (not really a sport at all, but an art) and your daughter is wonderful in this photo. How proud you must be!
GRACE AND BEAUTY...........
Oh WOW I LOVE figure skating. This is just beautiful. Thank you
A beautiful monarch butterfly visiting my garden last summer...
Lorraine
Lorraine, this made me wonder...do butterflies think of beauty as humans do?... Did this butterfly look at the mound of brilliant flowers and get excited saying "Gorgeous!" I'd like to think it did.
Lorraine, beauty follows beauty in logical progression...the beautiful person who planted them was followed by the beautiful flowers, which, in turn, were followed by the beautiful butterfly! Once saw an entire garden covered in Monarchs - what an incredible sight. And the fact that this one let you get so close..........
Sally and Katie, thank you for the kindest words! I'm hoping to catch some beautiful butterflies this summer...i like the way my container plants turned out and would love to be able to discover that the Butterflies, as you say Sally, approve also!
Katie, would have loved to have seen that garden that was covered with butterflies...how beautiful. Creation is so magnificently designed...truly Awesome! L
The beauty of the flowers,even a butterfly couldn't resist.
Lorraine - this is just gorgeous. I love butterflies. Thank you
Fabulous purple color and with the butterfly - terrific picture - Wow !
My adorable "great-niece" visiting wearing the two dollar hat and pocketbook we purchased out in Montauk, she had it on the entire visit...so cute!
Lorraine
A little grown up lady!
Lorraine, this is so sweet! Thanks
Going Into Treatment
Coming Out of Treatment
Been Thru The Gate
Hi Shirley - I love these photos! There is quite a lot of this sort of statuary in Boston and it all looks so "real" - especially the colored statue of the pretty lady! Seriously, there's a similar style of art in Boston done of the late Mayor of Boston, that looks so realistic that I've actually seen kids walk up and talk to it. BTW, you look exactly as I imagined you......................
This is my favorite of the photos you sent. Seeing you walk through that gate and having you with us is the best of all.
When you said favorite photos i wasn't sure because I have so many favorites, but most are on slides and regular pictures & since my scanner went kaput I can't send those. So I chose the photos most meaningful to me, and the ones I knew for sure I had taken with my camera.But the message in these pictures is one of HOPE.We all have had experiences in life, that without hope, we might not have fared so well.I've lost many good friends, many who didn't get all the way through the gate. I've never gotten an answer to "Lord, why me"? So each day I can only be thankful for that day and the trivial things in life do not matter so much anymore. BTW, you all take such beautiful shots. I need to practice more.
Your pictures are wonderful, thay do speak for themself! You look good! Kati
Shirley, I love this! No wonder you thought Andre was looking at you
Himalayan blue poppies in my garden -Al Girard
Wow...would I love to have these in my garden! They are incredibly beautiful. These are certainly unique, where on earth did you get these Al? Poppies are one of my favorite flowers, along with about 40 million other flowers. I'm hopeless.
I've had several of them for a few years now. They're perennials, so every year at this time I have the beautiful blue blossoms. I bought them at a local garden center.
I love this color of blue. Delicate and Bright at the same time.
Beautiful Al, never saw this color. I love them. Thank you
Al, these Himilayan Blue Poppies are gorgeous! Would love to have some of them in my garden. I've never seen them for sale before. Does one have to order them from a catalogue. Also, your photo of the garden in the rain is so exquisite. I can't wait til it rains...I'm going to try to do something like that. But the colors of the flowers and the composition in general of that photo is one beautiful image!L
When the weather gets bad, a lot of people put their cameras away.
When the weather gets bad, I get my camera out and take photos. This is a shot of my garden in the rain.
Al Girard
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Nice rain! It looks like a soaker. You have a very beautiful garden Al, I'm sure that after that rain, it's clean
Al, this is one of the most spectacular photos I've ever seen!! What a gorgeous garden you have...my thumbs (both of them) are true blue when it comes to getting anything to grow and I'm in awe of people like you and Lorraine who can do it with such wonderful flair.......................
I want to sit in the garden right after the rain stops. Put on the rubber suit and sit there. Ahhh, I can smell the fresh air from here.
I love this one!
Al, what a beautiful garden especially in the rain. Never thought of this. Those flowers just love it, the pansies are smiling! Thanks
The pictures you have all taken are just wonderful. They have meaning and beauty and it's great that you have shared them. I love seeing what you have.
Inge, Jutta is a beautiful person and I love seeing her ice skating, my favorite sport. Lorraine, I love the butterfy and the beautiful flowers, also, your great-niece is so cute! Who wouldn't like to look in their rear-view mirror and see Rieu 1 following behind you? I doubt that I could keep driving in a straight line either. Seeing Andre looking right at you, would be incredibly exciting, Jeanine Ann, I don't know how you could keep from getting a blurry picture...you have more composure than I would have had at that moment. I'd be lucky to be able to hold onto the camera, let alone take the picture! The bee on the rose is wonderful, and the peony is beautiful...don't you just love flowers with water drops on them? So refreshing. And Shirley, your picture certainly tugs at the heart...I think I'm a sentimental fool...things like this just really get to me.
I have some "favorite" pictures that I love very much and tomorrow I will get them out and see what I can do to share them with you. Unfortunately when I took some of these pictures I didn't even know what "digital" meant, so I will have to work on them.
Thanks for sharing your pictures. Take care everyone.
Gosh, I am far behind, but what beautiful pictures, every one a story behind, love the one going through the gate and the butterfly on the flowers and the one in the rain and the sweet little lady, I have favorite pictures and some that are good shots, there is a difference and I did not know which one to send. Figure skating was more than 2O years of my life, I took once a picture from Jutta doing a split jump in the air over the ice, I was proud to catch her like that, she was only lO, when I find it, I will post it.
Inge, it sounds like a photo from your heart. If you find it, we'd love to see it.
Plan great photos
To help you win that great prize!
Plan great photos
Today's smart cameras are no substitute for basic techniques. Here are plenty of tips for shooting better photographs
Steve Makris, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Saturday, June 30, 2007
Your eye still rules in photography today.
It doesn't matter if you spent thousands for the best professional digital camera or 10 bucks for a basic disposable film camera.
It all comes down to when and how you take the photo that matters.
Even today's smartest cameras won't tell you when to take that great picture.
Good photography means being ready to shoot and open to new ideas.
Compared to film, with digital cameras you can take a lot more pictures.
But that can be a disadvantage if you don't take the time to plan your photo.
Here are a few tips on getting better photos with any camera.
TRAVEL
- Check pictures in brochures and online sites of places you plan to visit.
- Blog sites often have helpful information from other travellers. Search your destination on Google and include words like great pictures or photo.
- When there, scout out sites to re-visit at different times of the day. A sunrise, noon or evening photo of the same scene can be dramatically different.
- When returning to your hotel, walk the other side of the road or take a different path.
- Review your digital pictures when resting.
- Make conversation with other travelling photographers.
- Shoot anything -- objects of interest, road and store signs.
Years later they can bring back fond memories.
AT HOME
- Have a camera handy and ready 24/7.
- It's hard to photograph teens; get them their own camera, even a one-time-use.
- Group photography doesn't have to be boring.
Shoot from higher up or from a low angle, and get some folks closer to your camera.
Think 3D.
ANY TIME BASICS
- Look at other's photos online and in photo magazines.
- Camera makers often have helpful online hints on photography, such as:
- Practise, practise, practise ... digital film is free!
- Look at a picture in the mirror, or flip it on your PC screen ... it gives you a new critical perspective.
- Digital memory is dirt cheap. It's better to leave the photo quality setting on high than have a small, unusable picture.
For the price of a five-roll film pack you can buy half a gigabyte of memory, enough to take twice the number of photos ... forever. Don't rely on one huge memory card, instead use more, smaller ones.
- Experiment with light. Switch points of view or turn flash on and off.
- Place subject on side of photo, leaving lot's of room for the background to show.
Most cameras let you lock the focus by keeping the shutter button pressed half way.
- If you like the photo you just took, snap a few more frames.
- Steady your shot.
Don't jerk the camera downward when you shoot.
Support the camera with your left hand from the bottom, not the sides.
TRICKY PHOTOS
Digital cameras come with several or dozens of scene modes, each with automatic settings to technically get the best exposure.
Even pros take advantage of firework settings, long nighttime exposure with flash, shooting active children, museum settings, white sandy beach scenes and more.
Otherwise, its best to take several frames at different settings, at least with and without flash.
MOST COMMON MISTAKES
- Aiming the camera at someone's head, leaving lots of sky above and no feet below is a no no.
Compose carefully and keep heads on upper part of your camera viewfinder.
- Positioning folks far away from the camera to get "all of them" in the photo.
Get them to move closer and just shoot from the waist up, still keeping the same background scene.
GOOD CAMERAS MATTER
- Fujifilm's new 8.3-megapixel F40fd, $350, can track multiple faces in a group picture and properly expose.
It can even quickly zoom in to each face after, lest someone blinked. It excels at shooting in natural light and includes a unique two quick-frame mode, taking one frame in natural light and the other with flash -- nice.
- Kodak's Easyshare eight-megapixel V803, $230, has more than 20 automatic scene settings to make sure tricky photos turn out.
Its Perfect Touch Technology fixes photos and let's you crop them before you print at home or a photo lab.
Even serious digital SLR cameras are packed with features to help beginners. The 10-megapixel Olympus E-510, $999, is unique, featuring full-screen preview to help you compose your photo and mechanical anti-shake technology that literally follows your movements, keeping the photo sharp. It's ample scene selection enables beginners to get good photos from the first snap.
CAMERA PHONES
Most cellphones with cameras take poor quality pictures, worse than Polaroids. New two- and-three-megapixel models are better, but the odds of getting anything better than a web-quality photo are against you.
- Shoot full frame, getting close to your subject. Look for models that feature "flash" light for dark scenes.
- Camera phones with zoom shoot progressively worse quality photos as you zoom in. Keep camera at a wide view and walk closer to the subject.
- Use the highest quality picture settings the phone allows.
- Photos you send to other phones or e-mail are downsized to even lower quality. To keep the original photo quality of better camera phones, e-mail them as an attachment (your cellphone bill might jump) or copy them to your PC on your return.
smakris@thejournal.canwest.com
© The Edmonton Journal 2007
WOW WOW AND WOW! Can I copy and paste? That's great information.
Thank you Al and thanks to the Edmonton Journal too. All of this is good advice (which I need a lot of for any photos I take).
Thanks Al, I needed this!
Thanks Al, I did go online to the Journal and printed out the article.
Ribbit
Wendy Keighley
Oh how pretty! Love this photo. Thanks
Thats a great shot.
What an incredible picture. Where was it taken? Great job !
American Bittern
Wendy Keighley
This is a wonderful show of nature's protection. I wonder how many people would have walked by, never seeing this beautiful creature sharing space with us?
"Manheim" Dog of a Lifetime.
11.23.1993 - 5.21.2007
Wendy Keighley
Oh what a sweetie pie. Wish he was mine. Great shot! Thanks
Thank you for the reply, I wish with all my heart he were still mine, but we had to let him leave this earthly life. We was The Dog of a Lifetime, he did so much for so many.
I am sure Mannheim and Havoc will always be with you in your heart.
I am so sorry Wendy, I didn't realize he was no longer with you. You will certainly see him again. Hugs
Wendy my most heartfelt sympathies to you. Waiting to be reunited with our beloved pet is one of the most difficult things we go through. Thank you for being Manheim's Mommy.
Manheim is so sweet, I just want to hug him.
I always believe we are selected by our Fur Babies. There is a connection only they and we share.
I have a photo of Muffin very much like this one of Manheim. She is looking up at me with love soft eyes.
Sally
Manheim..........the first time our eyes met in daylight, something passed between us. He was the third dog I had raised for Canine Companions for Independence. He arrived from California in the middle of the night. he was raised to be a Service Dog, but as his hips were not good he was released from the program and we kept him. He was the ultimate dog, we did a little of everything, he did a TV program on Flyball that he loved but was physically unable to do in competition. He spent most of his life doing school dog safety presentations, and careers days, he loved that. He did his last one about a month before he died.
Now we are raising pup # 10 Glory the German Shepherd. Once you are a puppy raiser you can never turn back. You have to continue, it is a part of your life.
An old experienced Border Collie trainer and handler once told me that they are a part of your soul. I lost Manheim and his younger (unrelated) 'brother' Havoc who worked as a registered Therapy Dog with me at work helping troubled teens three weeks earlier, so it has been very hard on us. But we have our Labrador 'Maude' who also works as a therapy dog with me, and Glory.
We just have to enjoy every minute of our precious pets, they are just on loan to us for a short while.
Oh goodness it is Saturday night, I did not intend this to be a gloomy message.
Just look around and find your pets and give them a big hug from 'Manheim' and 'Havoc' while you are at it, do the same with your family too!
I hope your weekend is good,
Wendy
Cocoa, Florida
Wendy, It is clear that Manheim was the Dog of a Lifetime! I'm so sorry that you lost him in May. I often think about the day I will not have my Piccolo (Peekie). You are right, we have to enjoy and appreciate every minute that we do have them so that will remain alive in our hearts forever without any regret. Thank you for sharing your wonderful photographs. Your heart touched all of ours! And like Katie so wisely said, Manheim is still doing much for many people through you and your sharing of your precious Dog! Love, L
Yes, Sally, I agree with you that one of the most difficult things we go through is waiting to be reunited with our beloved "special" pet.
Wendy, I commend you for what you do! To be able to raise a dog for Canine Companions is just awesome. I look at the face of Manheim and see this incredibly sweet dog...how can we gauge the love a dog has for us? It's total and unconditional.
I could not do what you do Wendy, and although it's very commendable, I could not give up a dog, because I just fall in love with all of them.
I've had many dogs in my life, never have given any away, lost too many from old age or sicknesses...had one special little dog which I'm going to see again someday, she's waiting for me. I will always be amazed at the love a dog has for us. They are special animals that God has placed on Earth to make us happy, I believe.
What a sweet loving expression. What would we do without our pets. They add so much to our lives.
Wendy - Manheim is still doing much for many people! This morning I woke up feeling tired and a little blue but I looked into Manheim's eyes and saw love, peace and hope - and I fell in love right back! He's wonderful and you pay him such homage with your wonderful photo. My husband's family always had Border Collies - they are the kindest animals in the world.......
Oh Wendy, there's a life like quality to your pictues! Magnificent!!!
Thank you Shirley, I have been told 'I go for the eyes' and yes I do! That is the true expression that comes through.
Regards,
Wendy
What a great hint. I will try to remember that.
While we are on the subject of photography, and thank you Sally for expanding the list for this! I have spent quite a few years in school studying and loving photography. If anyone has any old pictures that are damaged or faded, if you would like to send them to me I will do my best to 'fix' then for you. I do work full time and have outside work obligations so it may take a little while. Let me know.
Wendy
Wendy, I've protected my pictures, and although most are probably ok, I was wondering if you take can take a photo and put it on a cd, or get me a negative, or make copies so that I can put them on my computer...am I saying this right? I just want to have access to some special pictures that were taken many years ago before digitals. Can you do that?
Hi Marlene,I am not really sure what you want to do? If you have photo's they can be scanned onto CD's quite easily. You may have a computer handy friend that can do that for you, if not most of the photo stores can do that. I am not sure about the drug store and 'something' Mart stores? It depends on their equipment, but it is easy to scan photographs onto CD's that you have computer access to. Let me know if you need more help. I am in Florida, if you can get me the pictures I can put them onto a CD for you. You can then show them on your computer as a slide show or however you want. If you get them on a CD I reccomend you copy them to another CD as a back up and also save them on your computer hard drive.
I hope this helps,
Wendy
Thanks Wendy, yes it does help. I'll try to find someone around here that can do that for me. When you know what you are doing, then things are easy, if not, like me...things can be more difficult.
WOW....JUST GOT IN FROM WORK...am totally exhausted...these photos you guys sent in are just blowing my mind....AL....I WANT THAT RAINY SHOT RIGHT IN MY LIVING ROOM!!!!! Shirley, wonderful, wonderful...Inge, Jutte is gorgeous! and graceful! and talented! wow! Wendy your photos are soooo beautiful. Katie ...well i've seen many of Katies photos and feel so privileged to have viewed them HER WORK IS AWESOME!!!!! Sally, what a gureat page...that truly was GUREAT... should anyone be checking spelling! Will elaborate later, falling apart at the moment...soooooo excited about all of your talents....wow this page made my evening....BEEEEEEUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIFFFFFULLLLL!
Wow, great pictures and talented photographers!
Wendy, you like animals and have a good eye for catching the right moment. Your story about Mannheim got tears in my eyes, you are soooo right, we have to enjoy every moment with our pets. My 3 cats are now the most photo objects I have, I used to have 5 cats, all rescued from the streets. We love them all, but is so hard to part with them.
God Lives On My Block
Sally age 4
One of my favorite photos, for the beauty it gives to my heart. I was but 4 years old when I found out God Lived On My Block. That is a mighty powerful bell in the steeple.
I love the story here. When we first moved to a new town my brother went exploring the new neighborhood. He came running into the house shouting, Granny, i've found us a new church & it's got the best name. It's called the "SCARED HEART"! Naturally it was the Sacred Heart.
Wow Sally, this picture sure does bring back memories for me. I was born in California and it will always be a part of my life, I guess. This picture sure brings back that "California-feel" for me. Isn't this a beautiful church? Yes, Sally, I do believe that God does live on your block!
I will never forget hearing that bell early one morning. I followed the sound, going through the back yard, through Billy's front yard and seeing the bell swinging. I knocked on the door and loud voice said it was open to come in. But I knew I could not just walk in. So I knocked again and a tall man in a black robe answered the door. I asked "Who is ringing the bell and who's house is this"? To which he opened his arms in a wide sweeping manner holding them stretched out and said "This is God's House".
That was the coolest thing I ever heard. God Lived On My Block
This is the coolest story I have ever heard!! Hugs
I found the picture of Jutta, this picture was taken with an old camera, I use it still, it is now over 4O years old, but has a good lens, but all is manual, no automatic on it. That is why it was so difficult to catch Jutta in flight, mostly she jumped right out of my picture, it would be easier now-a-days with a digital camera. She is lO years old, notice her tongue is sticking out, haaaaaaaaa! Inge
Jutta Flying
Great picture Inge! You took a very nice action photo with your old camera, wasn't blurry and you got her centered very nicely! This is such a nice picture.
Look at the Height on that jump! And the extension. Really impressive for a 10 year old!
Inge, this is an excellent action shot.
What a smart 4 year old and a lovely little church, Sally! We have been yesterday at a Golden Wedding Anniversary of my brother-in-law and his wife, the children told anecdotes from the age of 4 and one of them was , the oldest boy was sitting in the unfinished barn under the rafters and it started raining very strong, but he sat under a beam and did not get wet, he thought his father up in the clouds was protecting him, everything around him got wet.
Aren't children's ideas great. We have a friend whose little boy was very scared of thunder, so she told him it was only God bowling. one day, after a particularly loud clap of thunder her son said Momma, God must have got a strike!
My favorite picture is a picture of three days old "Cloud Nine", a happy colt foal. My daughter is the owner of mother Kacerma, who gave birth to the foal in May. My daughter has no children, so I feel Cloud Nine's granny. He is adorable!
Inge, I love these pictures!I love horses anyway, even though I've never owned one. Just look at the beauty of them. The proud look of nobility, intelligence.Oh my, I love these pictures!
What a beautiful horse Kacerma is! The colt is priceless, "Cloud Nine" is a cute name
Hi Inga. Wonderful horse pictures. I've never had a horse, but love to see pictures of them. They are marvelous animals. The colt is too cute.
Look at this little guy playing. Typical little boy he is filled with running and jumping around. Cloud Nine is just too cute.
These photos are just beautiful. I love these gentle creatures. How sweet they are. Thank you. Hugs
Kascerma and son are such beautiful animals! That colt is having the time of his life, running with his tail up and his head into the wind...what a darling little guy. Kacerma looks like she might have some Morgan horse in her - she's so proud. What wonderful confirmation! A fantastic shot!
Yes, Shirley, kids say the darnedest things, remember the Art Linkleder show (spelling????) - I can´t wait to see the picture from Cloud Nine, Ineke!
"Things turn out best for the people who
make the best out of the way things turn out.”
“Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn
marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have
never been pregnant.”
“I've learned it's always better to
have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.”
Art Linkletter quotes. He is still going strong
and an advocate for the ageing.
Inge,
I loved your story about Maastricht. How did you know Pierre and Suzan's house? Are you sure Andre bought that church?? We did not know that! Did n't you mix up the two watermills in Maastricht? The inside of the Bisschopsmill and the outside of the Lions Mill? At present there are two watermills left in Maastricht.
Love,
Ineke.
Ineke, those two horses are just the most beautiful animals, if I could afford a horse or the place to hold one, I would love to have one, they are smart, beautiful and graceful. You are very lucky!
What you write about the 2 mills??? You could be right, that I mix two together, haaaaaaaa! But the story about the church I still have the article from a paper in Germany. About the houses from Pierre and Marc, a lady that lives next to André with the little dog "Beauty" she told us that, an other friend from Germany who was already a few times in Maastricht, she told me too, that the long white house is Pierre´s, so I write what other people told me, but I think a neighbor of André knows who lives next to her, don´t you think so?
O Inge, that is very interesting. Yes, the neighbor must know for sure who is living next to her! What a great idea to rent a bicycle and to ride to the studios, which are outside the center of Maastricht.
Has everyone noticed that not one person put up a
photograph of money? Not one of war? Not one photograph of "the
world's most expensive......"?
Our favorites are things closest to our hearts, our
children, our pets, our health, the flowers we see in the early morning's light.
Nature's gifts.
AND ANDRE!
opppsss.. YES.. And Andre !
All the photos are beautiful. Inge, Kacerma and Cloud Nine together is a stellar photograph! Wendy, shooting for the eyes worked! Wonderful life to your photos. Interesting how everyone has a different technique. I am not a photographer but sure would love to become one! QUESTION...do any of you photographers know where one can take a photograph and have it put onto a larger size canvass (maybe 4' by 6'...)? I really want to have an ocean shot put onto canvass for my foyer. If anyone has any ideas please advise. More photos.....more photos...it is a way in which to really get to know more about all of you! L
Lorraine, you could try to get it printed by laser. I needed tiny crests for my miniature Viennese Choir boys for their sailor blouses, I took a picture from a program of one of their concerts and got it laser printed on a hanky from my husband and so I cut them out and glued them on the blouses. i hope that helps??
My Joy comes in 3s
Charles MacMurray
Grandsons
Matt, Greg & Michael
Charles, what Handsome Young Men! And smart too. Congratulations to Greg on his graduation. Yes, you can be proud. These are terrific young men who will make a difference in our world.
The world needs more young men like this. Thank you Charles for sharing.
Hi Charles, They are great looking young men. You must be very proud. Thanks for sharing. Hugs
Whaat a great looking trio. You must be very proud of them.
Dear Charles McMurray.
You can be very proud of your grandsons! I am packing for Maastricht and Vienna now. I'll write you when I'll be back home.
Ineke.
Hope you have a great trip and wonderful time.
Enjoy the music!
Dear Ineke, Have a beautiful and safe trip. Throw kisses to Andre for us.
Hugs
Here is the newest Car, with the newest License Plate!! This the closest I could come to CHARTREUSE! HAHAHA KATI
Welcome to the club! A Fancy car for the pretty lady! We have CA, NV, CO & UT. Who's Next?
Kati, Congratulations on your new car! They become just like members of the family, don't they? I much prefer your particular shade of "chartreuse", too. Enjoy it and don't run over any hikers, especially going up mountains!
I saw an auto plate on the interstate the other day - RIEULIZ - and was so taken with the thing that I forgot to see where it came from! But a unique spelling of the word "realise".
Katie, I love Your storie, I am always looking out for hikers, especially Mr. Bill! Thanks, for the complement about my Car, I have since a few months, just got the Plate Yesterday! Kati
Maybe, I should have it RIEUCAT ? Looks good, anything looks good, with Rieu on it! Right! Kati
Hi Katie, that is a beautiful car and I love the RIEUFAN plate!!! I would just drive and drive for the fun of it. Thanks for sharing. Hugs
I hope, I am turning heads! Kati
3 handsome guys, Charles, you can be proud of them!
Super new car and license, Kati!!!!!!
Way to go Kati! love Katie's remark about "running over hikers"!
I love it too Shirley, I have to look out for Bill! Kati
Thank you Inge for the information! Charles handsome men you have there. Kati congratulations on your beautiful new autmobile! Enjoy and drive safely...i'll send a photo to sally of our new "family member" as Katie so aptly refers to the mechanical members of our household. We finally did get the Dodge for my son! We love it...and he actually does also, no more thoughts of the "mustang sally"...hooray! i'll include a picture too of my own pride and joy...the boy himself...my one and only...love, L
Nice car Kati! Isn't it fun having a new car!? Love the plates, they have to be fun when you are driving down the road, something to make you happy!
Charles, very nice looking grandsons you have there! You must be very proud of them.
It was time to change off My old one, I hope I am turning heads! Kati