Only My Favorite Place In The World

I think the appropriate title for this blog would not be "Bailey Thompson's A Photo A Week"

I truly find it amazing how I planned to spend so much time practicing photography this summer, and I never really got the chance. Summer flew by quicker than I would have liked, and I barely had free time.

I have some photos from when my family went to Wasaga Beach (My FAVORITE place in the world) for the week.

It's official; nothing beats a Wasaga Beach set

This is from a different day

I absolutely love this picture!
Here's the story; I was sitting at the beach writing when I spotted the view. Naturally, I dropped my stuff, sprinted to the cottage to grab my camera to find that it wasn't the same anymore. So I returned my camera to the cottage and resumed writing, only to look up and find an even more beautiful view. Simply said, I didn't take my camera back after that.

Wasaga Beach is MAGICAL, I tell you, MAGICAL.

Sunset from, I think, the first day, BEAUTIFUL - like a rainbow

Finally, just because I'm a proud daughter....

Sand sculptures by my father, Chris.

What possibly could you need a sandal for?

A foot of course.

Disco Balls in Nature - Set 2

In my backyard waterfall... I liked the bubbles!

Again, in the waterfall.

I liked the way the water continued falling as the ball began to drop.

At the top of the waterfall before it fell (I guess this is a little out of order!)

All of the Trilliums died... Already... So I decided to put a disco ball in what was left over.

In a tree...

I will NEVER do this again... Maybe

I blinded myself for this picture. What I didn't realize... Is that even though you're looking through the lense, you're still staring directly at the sun and possibly even worse. So... I took a whole bunch of these pictures... trying to get the sun right. I took the camera down... I could barely see out of my right eye!!! I was like "uh oh!"

So in other words, I wouldn't suggest doing this at home.

But my gosh, I LOVE the Sun... It's so pretty.

Tree leaf - I actually love this one!

I thought this was kind of an interesting shot. What do you think?

Just another "through the trees" shot to add to my collection. As you've noticed, throughout adding pics to this blog, I've taken a bunch of pictures through this tree and you can see just how the forest has matured overtime.

Maple leaf :)

April Flowers Bring May Showers... WHAT?!

It's May 1st... and I've already found a Trillium. In fact, dozens and dozens of them. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, or a bad thing. But for the beauty of it, we'll just say it's a good thing. Beautiful!

I liked this tree - I thought it was kind of unusual.

This one is kinda unique too, eh?! A little early for flowers. I took this in April. It should be "April Showers bring May flowers". But this April, we had very little rain, and tons of flowers and growing. Today is the first of May and I believe this was our first real rain. So, what is it this year? April Flowers Bring May Showers? That's just not right!

Mr. Sun - Don't Try This At Home

Creepy Storm

It was almost instant, that this random wind storm (no rain/thunder, just wind) blew in!

The clouds looked kinda mean, the trees blew like crazy...

To the point that even one fell down.


Just a little glimpse of the creepy storm that came and went pretty quickly.

Taken with Canon... today. No editing.

So Typical, It Was Beautiful

Uh oh!

Well... These things happen and I kind of forgot to upload any pictures in the last two days (oops!)

When I saw this sunset, it really looked more like a gorgeous rainbow embracing the entire sky. The problem was, it was dark out. If I put my flash on, it turned it even darker. When I turned my flash off, there was no flash to freeze the frame, so it looked blurred. But... Somehow I think it looks kind of neat. The colour of the sky is overwelming - it sure was a beautiful night!

The picture says it all - I thought it was gorgeous!

Both taken using my Canon XSI. No editing.

Just a little dark and gloomy

I thought this one looked a little neat. Kinda typical, but interesting. It has a dark feel to it, and the clouds make it feel stormy and sad. But overall, I think it's a nice photo. I espeically like how you're looking up at the trees at an interesting angle. This was taken TODAY! No photo editing! :)

This is to make up for the two days I have missed....

This photo was taken on January 1/2010. I noticed a slit in the trees and decided what a great photo it could make; kind of opening up into the huge forest. I had quite the difficulty focusing on the background rather than what was in front of the camera! No editing was done to this photo.

With this one, I decided to continue the theme with the exact same trees. This time, you'll noticed that the snow is gone and the sky is a little bluer. No editing was done to this photo either. Photo taken Mar 18, 2010

I am thinking I will continue with the trees for each type of season and then in between; I think it turned out nice.