Search Rouladen
Archive
- September 2015 (1)
- July 2015 (3)
- June 2015 (2)
- January 2015 (2)
- December 2014 (5)
- November 2014 (7)
- October 2014 (8)
- September 2014 (6)
- August 2014 (9)
- July 2014 (21)
- June 2014 (5)
Rouladen’s Top Posts
Blogroll
- Follow me on Pinterest Check out my Pinterest boards
- Polka Dot Cottage Lisa Clarke’s crafty blog
- Polymer Clay Daily Cynthia Tinapple features cool clay from a wide range of polymer artists
- Art Bead Scene Cool art beads, tutorials, and monthly challenges
- Luann Udell Luann Udell’s blog about polymer, jewelry, and life
- They're Making Me Blog My friend Deb’s writerly blog
- YA Sleuth My friend Fleur’s writerly blog
- Place for the Stolen My friend Jenny’s writerly blog
- Polymer Clay Tutor Cindy & Doug Lietz have a ton of excellent polymer tutorials and videos. Great resource.
What I’m Reading
Books I’ve Read
Tags
- ABS monthly challenge
- baking
- bamboo sculpture
- Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
- Colorado
- Colorado Renaissance Festival
- Colorado Springs
- contest
- Daily Post
- Daily Post Photo Challenge
- Denver Botanic Gardens
- Earrings
- experiment
- flowers
- food
- How-To
- jewelry
- lumix camera
- macro
- macro photography
- nature
- Photo Challenge Fridays
- photography
- photo walk
- polymer clay
- Pueblo
- sculpture
- silhouette
- Street Rods
- weekend
Tag Archives: macro
I’m ready for my closeup!
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Close Up.” A macro prompt? Fantastic! As we know, macro is my very favorite type of photography, so I’m really looking forward to seeing what everyone posts this week 🙂 For … Continue reading
Annual Denver Botanic Gardens Trip
This year, the Botanic Gardens are featuring sculptures by Deborah Butterfield as their art installation. The horses were interesting, but not my favorite. The Chihuly art last year was pretty spectacular, and the bamboo sculptures two years ago were also … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado, Denver, Gardening, Nature, Photography, Travel
Tagged botanic gardens, Colorado, deborah butterfield, Denver Botanic Gardens, flower macro, flower photography, flowers, macro, macro photography, nature, sculpture, weekend
2 Comments
Classics, Street Rods, and Lots and Lots of Headlights
On Saturday, we went to the National Street Rod Association show in Pueblo. Like last year, I had a grand time taking photos of the cars. Also like last year, 99.9% of my photos were of car bits rather than … Continue reading
Numbers & Letters: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
Cee’s latest & greatest Fun Foto Challenge is “Numbers and Letters.” As it happens, this challenge came at a perfect time. This past weekend was the National Street Rod Association show in Pueblo, and those classic cars provided some great … Continue reading
Manitou Springs Adventure
I love the adventure theme for this week’s photo challenge. There’s a lot of freedom to define what adventure means to you. This week, I’m deciding that adventure means exploration, and my camera is always a good companion for exploring. … Continue reading
Butterfly Pavilion
We recently went to the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado for the first time. Hands down, the coolest part was the Wings of the Tropics exhibit, which is an indoor rain forest filled with a variety of butterflies. As you … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado, Nature, Photography, Wildlife
Tagged butterflies, butterfly pavilion, CO, Colorado, insect photos, macro, weekend, westminster
2 Comments
Reach Out and Touch It
As a fan of macro, I love looking at the textures of objects, so this week’s photo challenge is right up my alley. Looking through my photos, I wanted to go back a bit to a couple of my earlier … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday: My First Macro
I splurged in college and got my first digital camera, a Panasonic Lumix. I was a broke student and, at the time, this camera was an incredible luxury. It was also worth every penny. The very best feature of the … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado, Nature, Photography
Tagged learning, lumix camera, macro, my first camera, nature, photography, throwback thursday
2 Comments
Trip to the Colorado Renaissance Festival
This weekend was our third annual trip to the Colorado Renaissance Festival and my first trip with my new camera. I had the best intentions to take lots of photos people in cool costumes, but the problem with taking photos … Continue reading
Posted in Colorado, Events, Photography
Tagged Colorado, Colorado Renaissance Festival, Larkspur, macro, photography
1 Comment
Street Rod Photo Shoot
This weekend was the National Street Rod Association’s show in Pueblo and since my husband likes old cars, we went to check it out. Growing up in Pueblo, I’d always seen all the cars around town during the annual event, but … Continue reading