Photo Friday: Old

I've posted a version of this before, but when I saw this week's Photo Friday topic this came to mind:

Photo Friday: Relaxation

Relax, originally uploaded by TNEmily.

Is there nothing more relaxing than laying under a fan running at high speed on a hot summer day?

This cute little cord pull has helped me relax a few times while visiting our inlaws. With summer coming - and a likely Memorial Day weekend trip there in our near future - I think I will be pulling this chain soon.

Photo Friday: The Country

Being in the Nashville area, when I think of "the country", two things can come to mind: country, the genre, and "the country", as in rural farmland and landscapes. I went with the latter for my Photo Friday entry:

Cow on the Hill stood out to me during our Easter Weekend photography excursion, so there you have her folks.

I'm also posting a second for this theme, because I can. This is a photo that would have remained ignored had I not received the email for today's Photo Friday. As I was viewing some older photos taken with my Sony, I came across this and found it very appropriate for the theme. A little cropping and a little more tweaking and here you go:

Photo Friday - Textured

My entry for this week's Photo Friday. As mentioned previously, I have been playing around with my camera settings, and seeing what aperture can do. This is a hat my mother-in-law made for Tucker. I thought the textures were neat and took a few shots.

I am starting to add the watermarks (I think that's the right term) to my images. It's not that I think "oh, I am such a great photographer that someone's going to pirate my image", but I keep hearing about this happening to folks, and I want to be proactive.

I actually had time to play around with this one as both boys, by some small miracle, are napping at the same time!

Photo Friday: Self Portait

For last Friday's Photo Friday Challenge:

Photo Friday: Sky

Rural Middle Tennessee. Yes, the focus is soft.

Clouds.

A park at Old Hickory Lake, Hendersonville, Tennessee. It was a beautiful day as it transformed into evening.

Photo Friday: Golden

A and I have been married almost four years. I don't do yellow gold really - that's white gold, folks. I used flash on this - took some photos without the flash, but actually liked the effect here - it sparkles, just like gold and a diamond should:
Oh, and that's one of my piano books in the background - it was originally my mom's, so this piano book has seen a lot of use! It's my favorite piano book though, so I plan on Jack and Deuce to get some use out of it too - I'd love for 3 (or more) generations of our family to use this book.