I love taking pictures.  Sometimes I see things and think, “That would make a really great photo!”  The only problem is, I have a really hard time capturing the feeling of the 3D scene with a 2D image.  Still, it’s fun to try to be artistic.  Here’s a couple of my recent “inspired” moments:

I thought the shadow cast by our oak tree was a really neat graphic image.  Yeah, this picture could have been better if I’d taken the time to go outside instead of shooting it through the kitchen window, but when you have two small children, sometimes you take what you can get.

Here’s a different moment:

The bright sunlight glinting off of my ceramic bird in the dining room made me smile.  It seemed so cheerful.  Also, because of the height of the window, you couldn’t tell that there was a foot of snow on the ground outside, which made it even better, because then I could imagine that just beyond the window there was green grass growing and flowers starting to peek out of the ground.  Ahhhhh….