Hi, I'm a mom with two grown kids, I have always taken pictures, and have gone through many cameras. For Christmas in 2010 my husband gave me a beautiful Canon Rebel T2i. Starting that night, all my photos are taken by this lovely DSLR camera.

Before that date on my photostream, there are hundreds of photos taken with my beloved old point and shoot, which which I recorded 8 years of life.

I mostly take shots of flowers I grew myself or wildflowers, butterflies, scenery. Flickr has influenced me to try other subjects, though!

(Update 2018 I have become interested in taking landscape type photos at a very beautiful, elegant cemetery here in Cincinnati Ohio. So there will be a lot of photos from there. My husband and I go there together with our cameras.)

(Update 2023 I have become interested in taking photos with good light or good composition, and running them through the Deep Dream Generator site. It is my current fun thing to do.)

I am also somewhat of an artist and paint scenery for community theater, or make props. Pics of those are on my photostream because in theatre, your work gets thrown out or painted over during the next show... and I need a portfolio to show people who might want me to paint for them. Sorry for all those stage scenery pictures!

I have really learned to enjoy editing my photos. Flickr has taught me the advantages of improving a shot. I used to rather stubbornly stick to the original lighting, contrast, and color, but I am have become a total fan of processing.

Lately I have even tried textures, or combining photos... wow! (Edit: as of 2013 I have discovered Topaz Simplify and Topaz Adjust and Topaz Clean. These programs have really influenced my work. You will see many more heavily edited photos from me now.)

I'm getting old enough to be a lot slower getting up off the ground after a flower shot!

I live in the house I grew up in. That's why it figures in many of my earlier pictures.... those shots are for my brothers and sisters to see.

If I make you my contact, I will comment on many of the photos you upload. However, only the last five uploaded photos appear in my contact stream... so if you upload like 20 photos in one day, I will only be looking at the last five of them! Don't expect me to comment on lots of photos each day. (Update 2024: Now that ALL your uploaded photos for the day appear in Flickrs new way of showing friends' photos.... if you upload tons of photos, I will look at most of them, but only comment on a few.)

Thanks to all my Flickr friends and my thanks to all of you who have made me a contact and who comment on my photos! If you comment on my photos on a regular basis, I will probably end up making you a contact in return, and comment on yours, too!

If I have made you my contact and comment on your photos all the time, but you do not return the favor, and comment on mine, I will, eventually, remove you as my contact.

I am giving you all my daughter's email address here, so that if I disappear off Flickr for an alarming amount of time, you can email her to find out what happened, if you wish. I lost one friend a year ago... he disappeared off Flickr and I never did find out why. I don't want to put my dear Flickr friends through that. So, my daughter's email is: inannaodin@gmail.com. Her name is Mattie Smith... whoops, now it is Mrs. Martha (or Matt) Cliffe. She got married!)

The one thing I wish for in my life is a chance to travel a bit more.

The extent of my travels in my lifetime:

visited 19 states (38%)Create your own visited map of The United States or Like this? try: Facebook test