Brooklyn Blossoms - Desktop Images

Over the weekend, and before our record breaking rainfall of 5+ inches in one day, I set out to capture as many spring flowers as possible while enjoying the Cherry Blossom Festival at Brooklyn's Botanical Gardens.  The delicacy of spring blooms, especially on trees, are often a fragile and fleeting encounter, easily washed away by a day of spring rains.  In fact there weren't many cherry blossoms open yet, but plenty other flowers were in full bloom.  What better way to freshen up your desktop for spring that to add a little bit of nature and color to your computer screen?  Feel free to grab one of these images for your own workspace!

Recycle Your Wedding Flowers - Green Ideas

A couple years ago I met a local florist, Belle Feuille Floral Design, who recycles the big beautiful floral arrangements left over from events like weddings, funerals, and church services, turning them into floral gifts for hospice, hospital, and cancer patients.  What a beautiful way to spread the love and make an investment in gorgeous flowers go even further!  A quick search on the web reveals that she's not the only florist who utilizes a team of volunteers to help spread the love- so as you're meeting with florists for your wedding day- ask if they will recycle the flowers or if they know of a local program that will pick up your flowers after the event for donation.  If your florist doesn't offer a program like this, ask your family members if they know of a retirement home or hospital that accepts floral donations, and if members of your family would be willing to help deliver the flowers after the wedding.

July Desktop Images

Every month I change my desktop image to a photograph I've recently taken and I thought it would be fun to share these images in my blog so that you can download them for your desktop as well! Every month I'll try to post a new image that is suitable for displaying at desktop size and resolution. Click on an image to download a copy for your desktop.



This month the theme is pollen. I was out hunting for flowers in my "backyard", which is actually the campus of Indiana State University when I came across a few flowers that were perfect for my pollen hunt! I wanted to see just how much detail I could get out of my new macro filter/lens!! This close-up filter is great because it attaches to my 50mm or my 85mm for extreme close ups - when you download the images, you'll see what I mean! Crrrazy detail and super shallow depth of field!



I love sitting out in the park under the stars and watching fireworks and now that I'm in Indiana - which feels like the fireworks capital of the midwest- I get to enjoy even more fireworks displays! So, in honor of Independence Day, here's one of my favorites from two years ago that I got really lucky with! I can't wait to see what Terre Haute has to offer!

April Desktop Images

Every month I change my desktop image to a photograph I've recently taken and I thought it would be fun to share these images in my blog so that you can download them for your desktop as well! Every month I'll try to post a new image that is suitable for displaying at desktop size and resolution. Click on an image to download a copy for your desktop.



The image above is the weird one I was thinking of last month that I wanted to post. This was taken on assigment for the Foundation Workshop (click the link to view my collection and many of the other amazing collections from the workshop.) So... the story behind the image is that I decided to follow dad around at work the second day to view their lives from a different perspective. He's a programming guy and as you can imagine, there are only so many exciting pictures you can take of someone sitting at a computer in a cubicle. To keep challenging myself, I started looking around the cubicleland for anything that I could entertain myself with. I chuckled so hard when I saw this image in front of me. Do you get my sense of humor?



My bedroom has an exotic feel to it and the image above was created specifically to decorate my bedroom. ;-) Right now it's only a framed 8x10, but eventually I want this to be a HUGE canvas.

March Desktop Images

Every month I change my desktop image to a photograph I've recently taken and I thought it would be fun to share these images in my blog so that you can download them for your desktop as well! Every month I'll try to post a new image that is suitable for displaying at desktop size and resolution. Click on an image to download a copy for your desktop.



I love weird images. The image above was shot for the band, Stampead, who is currently touring across the country. Unfortunately this shot probably won't be used in any of their promotional materials, and will most likely not make the cut for any other purposes, but I love it for the pure novelty of it. ;-) I'll write more about them later- but you should definitely check to see if they'll be in a city near you. These guys have a great Indie Folk Rock sound not to be ignored.



I was going to post another one of my favorite weird images, but I think I'll save it for April... just to keep things fresh. ;-)