First official Day of Spring 2012~

I can not say it enough, I LOVE Spring! This morning in celebration of the first official day of Spring I decided to multi task and combine my morning workout with my love of nature photography. I packed up my camera bag and put on my workout clothes; ready to hit the trails along the Tellico Lake to see what I could see, and hopefully in between trail blazing and calorie burning sneak in some nature shots.

The morning nature action at the lake did not disappoint, as I walked down the trail I was greeted by hundreds of grasshoppers, small crickets, and moths with each step I took. The birds were chirping so loud it seemed as if they were also celebrating the first official day of Spring. The lake was low tide exposing vibrant reddish orange clay mosaiced with drift wood and river rocks. As I got in to the woods I was greeted by a bumble bee buzzing in my right ear, I watched where the bumble bee was flying too and he flew directly to a tree with freshly bloomed white flowers occupied with many bees collecting pollen.

My favorite shot of the day was a very unexpected shot, I was down on the bank of the lake taking pictures of drift wood and a splashing noise in the water caught my attention so I slowly moved closer to the splashing noise and pointed my camera, moments later a fish popped right up next to the water bird I was focusing on which I had thought made the noise. Sometimes the most fun shots are the ones that just happen organically.

the fish that was making the splashing noise



birds nest



seedlings

XXX Morgan Shea

I hope that you enjoyed nature on the first day of Spring.

Monday 3/19

This morning I drove out to the end of my road to get a few shots of the freshly bloomed cherry blossoms and on my way back I was greeted by a family of deer. I tried to get my camera out in time but I just missed them.

I decided to walk through the woods and try and find the deer, I did not find them however I did find a fuzzy little spider pictured bottom right hiding in the white flowers.



New blooms




Life in a bottle




water droplets




good morning sun


Happy Monday! I hope all of you have a Fabulous week. This week in honor of Spring I hope that everyone plants flowers, fruits, or veggies.

                                                   xxx Morgan Shea

Morning in he woods

Spent the first part of this beautiful Sunday morning wandering through my yard and the woods taking photos of new blooms. I am so intrigued with the magical way of mother nature and how she goes from being leafless and cold to SPRING, green, new blossoms, and warm sun kisses on your face in the blink of an eye.

I enjoy watching my son play in the yard and search for bugs, this morning he found a rollie pollie and a quartz crystal. He came with me to explore in the woods and pointed out interesting subjects that he thought I should take pictures of. The best memories can be made in your front yard.

Cheers to Spring time and making memories with your family in the front yard!

Let's Network yo!!!!~

Keep in touch!

xxx Morgan Shea

Animal LOVE

This morning I realized that Spring time is absolutely infectious, even my fur babies are extra frisky and are begging to go outside more then ever. I even let my kitty Joey go out and explore the back yard and enjoy a beautiful Spring time morning. Joey had a blast listening to all of the birds chirping, his little ears were all perked up and his tail swishing in excitement. Joey enjoyed lapping up the dew that was left on the patio slab from the night he also feasted on some of the fresh grown cat grass and licked the  morning dew off of the grass in the yard.

Achilles and Goji just had a blast playing Dog tag in the yard, at least I think that is the game they play. When they were finished with their morning play session in the yard they sat at the back door starring in with big puppy dog eyes while Joey meowed extra loud to alert me that his dog brothers were ready to come back in the house.
                                                             Joey

                                                       Goji

                                                 Achillies




A Day on The Tellico

It was a beautiful Tuesday morning on the Tellico. This morning the weather was very unique so I just knew the lighting would be fun to work with. The air was dense the fog was rolling off of the water and kissed by a light layer of sprinkling rain falling form the sky. The sun was dancing with the thunderstorm grey clouds and the Smokey mountains trying to peek out, throwing golden fire rays down as they reflected off of the gentle ripples of the water.

The sprinkling rain stopped and the clouds began to separate allowing the golden sun rays to shine down through a small opening in the grey thunderstorm clouds giving me the opportunity to capture the beautiful golden reflection of the suns rays for about 5 minutes before the clouds became thick and grey and hid the sun again and the lake turned to hues of deep cobalt blues to smokey greys without even a hint of the beautiful golden fire rays that had moments before danced with the gentle ripples of the lake.

 As the sky turned grey and I had no good lighting to shoot I sat and watched as a few fishermen launched their bass fishing boats from an old boat ramp in to the lake. Each man was near 70 plus years old and wore a road map of wrinkles on his face, one man walked very slowly with a cane but was able to back his Chevy truck and boat trailer down and up the dock with ease and tie off his boat before returning his truck and boat trailer to the parking lot.

 Each man one by one got in to his bass boat with a smile and aura of happiness. Maybe it is the serenity of nature and being out for a day of fishing, the thought of catching the BIG one, feeling the warmth of the golden sun on the skin; I am not quite sure what each mans smile represented but I did realize that the boat ramp was a very special slab of concrete and metal. The boat ramp allowed the men to launch and tie up their boats, exchange a good morning hello and a few fishing stories before turning on the engine and heading out for a day on the Tellico.

A day on the Tellico

                                                     Peeking out

                                                        Reflections

                                               Golden Sun Rays

                                                   The boat ramp

Monday is here! The start of a brand new week! This week I will play catch up on my house cleaning and gardening. This week I am also going to do a little wild moss hunting in the woods to have moss for an upcoming art project.

I will be joining the gym this week! Very excited but not as excited for the lactic acid build up and super sore muscles in my future. Spring time is a beautiful time of year a time to celebrate new beginnings, What are your new beginnings going to be?

Spread smiles and LOVE XXX