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I’m just an amateur photographer who has always taken a lot of photos over the years. I currently have a CANON EOS REBEL T2i however the photos on this website have been taken over the course of many years and I believe some of them are from my iPhone, some from my Canon point & shoot and some were taken on my old original Canon 35mm (if the quality looks a bit sketchy…it’s probably from the old cameras).

I’ve always wanted to build my own web site and I recently decided to start a blog.  I originally planned on writing a blog about my daily life with all sorts of useful information in it.  While looking into the WordPress software, I started messing around and thought, why not get my feet wet building a site with all the photographs I have taken over the years?

So here goes…this is a photographic journal of some of my favorite “artistic” photos that I have taken over the years (hence the name ‘Fave Snaps‘).  “Artistic” in the sense that something moved me when I saw the scene and just had to capture it.

Just decided it was time to do something with at least a few of these photos.  Starting off with some of my favorite shots that I have taken over the years.  Maybe I will just be done with this site when I finish cataloging all these photos from the past, but hopefully I will add to this journal as life goes on and I continue shooting. I do know I will be taking more photos. Hopefully I’ll get some good ones.

I do hope to start on the blog I originally planned, so stay tuned! If I do, I will link to it here.

Above is a picture of me…..not anything special but it is hard to even find one of me! I am rarely in front of the camera…always seem to be the one behind it. Also hard to find one where I look good, have makeup on, my hair isn’t a mess and most importantly where I don’t look fat. Also hard to find one that is just of me, and not a group shot.  And it helps if the person taking the photo can manage to take one where it’s not blurry, my eyes aren’t closed, etc. When this picture was taken I was in Napa Valley at the Far Niente Winery.  Beautiful piece of property and there are a bunch of photos from Far Niente and from Napa cataloged here.  Hope you enjoy looking at the photos!

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LIGHTING TAKES ME BACK

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Norwell MAAnother one of my favorite things to photograph is light; or should I say, how light hits and illuminates places and things.  Light is something that can take me back; back in my mind; I’ll look at the way the light is in the trees and it will remind me of a very specific memory.  This has happened to me numerous times.  One day a few years ago, the lighting in the trees brought me back to a memory of going to a birthday party as a little girl.  I can picture myself wearing a pretty dress and those ankle socks with lace. I can clearly picture the house where the party was, although I have no idea where it was, or whose home it was.  I can still picture the house and the memory, and it was years ago that I was reminded of it. Another time while traveling in Europe during my college years, I turned a corner and looked in the sky and had this strong feeling that I had been there before; yet it was my first time to Europe.  Perhaps a past life?  Not sure I believe in past lives so maybe the lighting just reminded me of a memory that I couldn’t quite call up.

Talking about memories makes me think of something else I always wonder about.  When I read a novel, I have a picture in my mind of each location or room that is discussed in the book.  I don’t consciously think of these while reading but they just pop into my head and I have to concentrate to figure out exactly what the image is.  Where do these visual concoctions come from?  Sometimes I don’t know where the room/location is, yet it is clearly vivid when I read the book.  Does that happen to anyone else?