Home Sweet Blue Moon Farm!
I like to think of the big sky here in the prairies.
Sometimes it's so clear and other days it's often colourful, casting magical hues.
I'd like to spend time to catch the true likeness of the coloured light,
so the effect can be felt through the photographs.
Looking back, we realize we've nearly forgotten some of our accomplishments as we maintain a steady forward lean. But it's important to review (especially our first year),
which we did in the round-about way of looking through our photos of the past year.
We recalled triumphs and discussed better methods and options for this year,
while cleaning up the files, choosing some to print and contemplating,
from an artistic photo snapping point of view, more than the memories, moments or subjects,
our favourite photos of 2016:
I do like to shoot somewhat macro with blur. Here are my favourite examples:
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| Against neutral patterns Georgi's green eyes really show up. |
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| This is probably my favourite, because the colours are bold and complimentary and frame Rori in just right. |
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Blur in the foreground as well as the background shows more depth, and here gives a sense of the location.
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| Same idea as above but not as effective at conjuring a setting. |
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The macro, the colours, and as in the photo of George a neutral yet subtly interesting background sets off the subject.
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The style and lens are really for portraits, but I tend to have more things to photograph than people,
so until people begin to let me practice taking their photo, and they become as cooperative as flowers,
I'll have to be satisfied with objects.
On that note, a couple of lovely models:
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| Farm Friends |
I'm delighted Christmas brought me up dates in speedy photo processing, and I'm keen to keep practicing and aiming for more good shots.
Farm goals include a time saving, somewhat automatic, watering system, planting our dream fruit
and perennial plot, painting out buildings and house trim, fence and pen repair,
and insulating our shop so we can get more accomplished in the long, cold season,
meanwhile our focus is to lean up our practices for simplicity and efficiency.
Have you ever read, "The Lean Farm", by Ben Hartman?
It's full of good ideas.
I have been debating over our bedroom since we moved in, and with a very Canadian addition at Christmas I now have the perfect direction in which to proceed.
Hopefully I'll be able to show some progress soon.
More on the homemade personal care products soon, too. Secretly it's kind of consuming me.
Once you have real soap and a human/earth friendly sanitizing solution,
you also suddenly need real moisturizer and shampoo and chap and laundry soap...
and the list goes on.
I have some willing testers lined up to help me perfect the products!
Now all I must do, is get making (the best part!).
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| Speaking of making, this was the most extravagant cake of 2016. Go Rosie! |
I'm proud of our progress - animals, sign, garden, barn, and commitment to some of the
drudgery and keeping up with the random, accidents, and unexpected.
Which brings me to the love of capturing candid moments:
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| George jumped off a post onto Jordan's shoulder, which triggered Rori's backward evacuation. |
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| Ying and Yang - a brief moment of unusual stillness. |
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| In the moment |
Apart from the love we grow on our farm (awww yuck!)
the animals are the next largest source of joy.
There's nothing like raising babies into delightful egglayers, a faithful, command obeying pooch (when food is involved), or just getting them past the first 5 days when it comes to kits.
Then there's always the special case, which for us is George.
Awfully curious... and cheeky, little fur cat that made it. What can I say? We love them all!
Which is your favourite photo?
