Positively Peden Photography

This Week’s Theme: Green

Today was a blast! First off, today’s Green picture is of a little froggy I found on the gate at Mrs. Boone’s house today. Since I have been naming just about every creature I’ve taken a picture of, I named him Kermy. I also got another picture of a bigger version of him later on, and just assumed that it was his mom, so I named her Hermy. Lol. There’s quite a few pictures I posted in my August Gallery from today, so go check them all out. I really need to research what all these flowers and plants are called so I can properly name them in the titles… I’m sick of naming things “Pink Flower” or “Yellow Flower”. And you can see some type of plant that I just named “Pretty Stuff” because I had no clue what it was called, but I love it. It’s all around the water around here, and I just think it’s so pretty. And I was lucky enough that when we first got there this morning, there was dew all over everything, so there’s some great pics of flowers with dew all on the petals. Anyways, if anyone knows what any of these plants are called, PLEASE let me know… =)

I was going to desaturate everything but the green in the frog, but there wasn’t really a lot of other color in the picture, so I left it the way it was.

This Week’s Theme: Flowers

Today’s flowers are from one of the Yucca bushes in our driveway. I never knew that they bloom on the top of the Yucca. I just thought a Yucca was the prickly things. I have more pictures of these flowers and the plant they grow on top of in my gallery. I think they make quite a statement – such pretty flowers growing on such prickly (and painful) plants. I actually poked my thumb trying to get a close pic of these flowers, and it was bleeding. So I hope you guys like them. Lol. I think this picture was definitely the best of the bunch. It even has a little bokeh effect in the background. =)

This Week’s Theme: Flowers

So these aren’t exactly flowers, but I thought they looked cool. I thought they were blueberries, and I was really close to eating one, but Brent told me not to. Then I asked his mom’s boyfriend if he knew what they were and he said they call them Snake Berries or something like that, and they’re not fatally poisonous, but they’ll make you sick. So I’m glad I didn’t eat them. Haha. But I thought this was a nice shot. The stem is a really pretty color pink.

This Week’s Theme: Flowers

Today’s flowers are Black-Eyed Susan and Anise. When Brent’s mom brought these home, she told us to take one of the seeds off the end of the Anise and eat it. I did this, and it tasted just like black licorice. So good. She said the lady that gave them to her makes Italian cookies out of them for Christmas. I’ve tried the cookies before, but I never knew that the plant used to make them tasted so much like them. Anyways, I love the Black-Eyed Susan because its’ petals come down from the middle instead of up.

This Week’s Theme: Flowers

I’m really not sure what kind of flower this is, but it’s pretty strange looking. That’s what I love about it. I like finding strange, out of the ordinary flowers. I think those are the best to take pictures of – rather than just taking a picture of the same old, same old. So if anyone knows what kind of flower this is, let me know. =)

This Week’s Theme: Flowers

Burt came back today! So I took a few more pictures of him. He was on the same flowers too. Hehe. I dunno if it was really Burt, but it looked like him because he has a little bald spot on his back. Hehe. Anyways, Brent’s mom was working for a lady today that has a lot of flowers in her yard, so she picked a bunch of them and made a little bouquet. I took a picture of one of the flowers today, and I figured since there’s plenty of flowers in there I’ll take a pic of one a day for my theme this week since it’s raining all week.

Brent and I took a walk around the neighborhood today to take some pictures. We live on a street with some people that like to keep to themselves, so we tried to stay out of peoples’ yards as much as possible so we wouldn’t get into any trouble. I got some nice shots of random stuff around here, and I’m pretty happy with them. I finally got my close-up of a Formosa flower. I love the strange-ness of them. They’re not like normal flowers, but are still pretty in their own way. I couldn’t decide which of the pictures I took today were the best, so I had Brent pick one for this post. He liked the daisy picture, and so did I. I love how it focused on the front three flowers and the others in the background kinda went blurry. I love taking pictures of flowers. They’re so pretty that you don’t really need to be a great photographer to get a good shot of them. It was way too hot to walk too far, so we just went a few blocks from the house. It was only 80 degrees, but it felt like about 150. I can’t wait until summer is over. Fall has the potential for the best pictures anyway. =)