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Up to now, this blog has been leaning more and more toward my growing interest in amateur photography, although it didn’t start out that way. My original intention when I started this blog was to highlight the down-home Ozarks lifestyle. And my photographs, however inexperienced and crude, do highlight that.
As I learn photography and become somewhat better at it (I still have LOTS to learn), I want to also highlight some of the bloggers who are really talented at their photography and for whom it is a passion. I have learned a great deal and a multitude of skills from these bloggers.
The photographs in this post are taken by Robin, whose blog is Breezes At Dawn. Robin recently moved to her home on the Eastern shore of Maryland with her husband, who she calls M, and lives on some acreage with a lake and a dock, plenty of flowers and foliage and a multitude of animals and insects.
Robin refers to her home as the Wabi Sabi Ranch, and it is fertile ground for many photographic opportunities, which she takes full advantage of. Robin has a good eye for picking out things that will make a picture beautiful, stunning, interesting, and/or just plain neat.
Robin is about to enter her first Fall and Winter seasons there at Wabi Sabi ranch, so it will be so interesting to see the photographs in her future blog posts during these upcoming seasons.
Last Fall and Winter Robin was at her former home she calls Breezy Acres. For those of you who would like look at Robin’s stunning pictures from there, her other blog is Life In the Bogs.
Robin also has a tutorial or two included in Life In the Bogs and Breezes At Dawn, which help us have a clue to a few of the ways she gets the fantastic results she does with her photographs.
A place to purchase some of Robin’s wonderful work can be found on her page at Redbubble Portfolio. These photographs would look wonderful adorning any home.
For now, Robin has given me permission to feature some of her work from her blog, so sit back, admire, and enjoy!
Check out Robin at Breezes At Dawn for your daily dose of inspiration, fun and loveliness. I’ll end this post to you wonderful bloggers with her own sign-off:
“Be good, be kind, be loving. Just be.” — Robin
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Mrs. City Boy 
Becky– I think “our Ozarks” are the most beautiful spot in the world!!!! 😉 hee hee
love your pictures– & thanks so much for sharing these other blogs– I’ll go check them out when I have more time!!!
The Ozarks is such a wonderful place to live, and I couldn’t agree with you more about that, Sonda! I love it here!
Thanks for your kind words, and these photos from Robin’s blog are just so gorgeous I had to share them! I do hope you enjoy her blogs when you are able to look them over — she definitely has a knack for capturing nature!
Are those my pictures??? I know they are, but it’s strange seeing them on your blog, almost as if I’m seeing them for the first time. Thank you so much, Becky, for featuring me. I feel honored (and I’m blushing a bit from being in the spotlight.
Your photos, by the way, are quite good and not crude at all. 🙂
Yes indeedy, they are yours! I am so honored and glad that you allowed me to show off your beautiful homestead and the photographs of your life. You deserve the spotlight, Robin, and I call my photographs crude because, compared to yours, they are, but I thank you so much for your kind words of encouragement!
Photography with a heart, a vision, a journey it hopes to share…and they are all beautiful my friend. Have a great week.
Thanks so much, I.T.! Yes, Robin does amazing work and shoots from the heart, for sure! I hope you, your wife and son have a fabulous week as well!
The day lilly is exceptional!
Isn’t it though?! It’s one of my favorites! Of course, it’s hard really to pick just one favorite from all the photos she’s posted over time on both blogs, they’re all so good!
I know I did like the butterfly too! I totally had to pause before I chose!
Lol, I know what you mean! Robin posts many pictures of foliage, flowers and insects, and I had a really rough time picking out photos for this post — there are just so many in both of her blogs to choose from!
Have a great week by the way! Hope your planning for LOTS of good things!
You too, Jasmine!
Way to go Becky just make me feel a little bit worse for the crap I am shooting now, just kidding, well I am shooting crap but its not your fault or my camera its mine. I went to her site and frankly was to embarrassed to push the like button. This girl s a step above what I call amateur.
Hi Bob. 🙂 Please don’t be embarrassed to comment or push a like button. I’m just a girl with a point and shoot camera that allows me some manual capabilities, and I’m far, far away from a professional. There is some amazing photography out there, and I’m not even close to what some of those photographers can do. Makes me feel like I’m shooting crap when I compare myself to them.
Oh No its you 🙂 Hi Robin, I have a simple point and shoot as well and have been messing with photography on and off for 30 years. I know the camera is not holding me back its the person behind the viewfinder and I have never used software to alter my photos. Now I have some free stuff Becky suggested that I use. I just have so much on my plate now I haven’t had time to mess with either. I was on Flicker for about three years so I know the quality of photography that is out there. I know you don’t shoot at a professional level but at the very least I would call it a very high amateur level based on what I have seen. So intimated or not I will follow your blog to learn because I like the way you show your settings under the pictures I looked at today anyway. Have a great day my new found friend !
Well, I will interject here with one thing — it IS partly the camera to a certain degree. I, too, have a point-and-shoot with manual capabilities like you both do, and I’ve noticed there are certain things our cameras just won’t do that other cameras with more features will. Yes, it’s also us, and trial-and-error and learning angles to shoot from and what to look for, etc., but there are just some things that our cameras are just not capable of. Only saying all that so nobody is too hard on themselves — over time we can always upgrade if we choose to, lol!
I can’t this move ended up costing me 1100 bucks all in all. About the cost of a good starter DSLR 🙂
I hear ya — that’s what I meant by “over time.” I will have to save up for awhile to afford an upgrade myself. Moving is so expensive, even if a person goes the poor man’s route and does it all themselves — we did ours from TX to here and it still cost a fortune!
I like the green glowing wave!
Doesn’t it look like it would feel so nice to just jump right in that, Frizz?! The color is just beautiful, and I want to go visit the ocean when I look at it! Robin has a lot of beach and seashore pictures in her blog, and they’re all wonderful!
Absolutely stunning!
She absolutely does fabulous work, I agree! Makes me want to move someplace out-of-town where I can take pictures any time and never have two the same, lol!