Bekah Grace Photography

They Complete My Life

2011-02-02T14:17:00.000-08:00

Pictures of my best friends. ♥

(oh should I mention they were taken and edited by me? :)

J.C.F.♥

J.F.C.♥

(ohmygoshh I just realized they have almost the same initials!!)

R.A.N.♥

J.F.C.♥

R.A.N.♥

AND I DO NOT KNOW WHY ITS SIDEWAYS!

So yeah. Bye guys.♥

(sorry for using ♥s so obsessively) (:♥

hi?

2010-10-25T09:00:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Remember me? Wow...I'm quite bad at this consistent blogging stuff. (: But I'll try to start up again...I'll leave you with this. Which wasn't taken by me. But it's of me? Oh well. It's just something quick that I whipped up to inspire me to delve into photography again. Who knows, I might have already posted it. This is me and the love of my life. ♥

my gorgeous siblings

2010-06-24T06:27:00.000-07:00

Look at those blue eyes.

A Deep Breath

2010-06-08T07:16:00.000-07:00

Life has been so busy lately. My days are full of Orchestra, of violin, of running, of reading, of writing - relaxing things, beautiful things. But it's nice to take a deep breath and pause a moment - relax from the relaxation that can get so tiring.

My way of doing that? A puzzle. Me and Ab have been working on it steady - we almost have a 1000 piece puzzle finished in two days. Yeah, we rock.

I Love Action Shots

2010-05-20T07:24:00.000-07:00

Sitting at my little brother's soccer practice. Pete is number 6 (a.k.a the blonde one in the first piccie)

I love my camera. Period.

Glorious Rain

2010-05-11T10:26:00.000-07:00

It was pouring rain this morning. I could not resist. What photographer ever can?

I wasn't the only one out in the frigid weather, enjoying the rain. :-)

The birds were of course loving it as well. I don't know which one they liked better, the bird feeder or the worms.

Oh the beautiful rain. It makes the simplest flower a divine work of art.

I had wet lenses that I had to towel off afterwards, and frozen toes as I was wearing flipflops, and a runny nose as I had an open jacket, and curly hair that needs to be re-straightened as I had no hat.

But it was worth it.

Ohmiword

2010-05-04T16:01:00.000-07:00

So I got the thirty day free trial of Photoshop CS5. Look what I did. Each picture took less then a minute to edit. Look closely at the eyes. AH!!

Making Cookies

2010-05-04T08:52:00.000-07:00

Livvie

2010-04-26T12:21:00.000-07:00

She is one hilarious girl.

I Apologize...

2010-04-21T12:19:00.000-07:00

...for my lack of uploading pictures. Haha, you would think I would find time for this simple task...anywayserz. A couple of random pictures. Enjoy. ^_^

Without Trust, There Is Nothing

2010-04-07T11:58:00.000-07:00

Jordyn--my gorgeous friend :)

2010-04-03T07:59:00.000-07:00

Pictures of my beautiful friend Jordyn. :)

Snakes are beautiful...sometimes

2010-03-26T07:19:00.000-07:00

This was taken in Florida at a wild-life preserve.

For Dreamstar

2010-03-24T15:33:00.000-07:00

For Dreamstar: Count this as an entry, my dear. ;) (and sorry about not posting first--it completely flew out of my mind!)

For the rest of you, I'm entering a photography contest over at Dreamstar's blog HERE. Go enter, of course. ^_^

Not edited...ohhh that kills. It kills. But here you go... the un-edited versions.

Gorgeous Eyes

2010-03-15T13:11:00.000-07:00

I love taking pictures of eyes--they are so much fun to play around with. 　

First picture: Peter

Second picture: Josh
Third picture: Ab

I Love Misty Mornings

2010-03-04T12:57:00.000-08:00

Yes, usually you call this mist "fog"...but "foggy" is such an ugly word. It does not describe this morning at all. "Misty" is so much prettier, and almost manages to put into words the beautiful condensation. :)

Doesn't it just look like a scene out of a fairybook? And this is my backyard--I get to wake up to this every morning. How lucky am I?

Look at the trees off to the left--you can barely see them, the mist was that thick! And if you can believe it--there are houses back there, that are completely enveloped in the mist.

Popcorn and VeggieTales

2010-03-02T09:19:00.000-08:00

We got a VeggieTales movie, and ate it with popcorn.

My younger brother said to me, exasparated, "Stop taking pictures and finish making the popcorn otherwise I'm gonna start the movie without you!" Just shows how much I take pictures--literally, I have about fifty photos of just this popcorn. ;)

Watching the movie. ;)

My Food Obsessions

2010-03-01T12:53:00.000-08:00

My food obsession is granola (my mom makes the best granola in the world--it is so addicting)...

...and Skippy's peanut butter.

My parents buy the organic kind of peanut butter, but one day they accidently grabbed Skippy's instead. I was so happy--the only good kind of peanut butter is the kind that has the corn syrup in it. Unfortunately, Skippy's is gone now (you can see it was almost finished). Hello, oh-so-bland organic. Goodbye, stomach-aches that were a result of eating Skippy's out of the jar (which happened quite often).

Our View

2010-03-01T08:40:00.000-08:00

The gorgeous view that we have.

My Beautiful Sister

2010-02-27T11:34:00.000-08:00

Abby. Is. Gorgeous. (not to mention hilarious)

She's not all smiles--take a look at this face!

You gotta love it. :)

Footprints In The Snow

2010-02-26T11:59:00.000-08:00

Fresh Bread

2010-02-24T14:48:00.000-08:00

I love it when my mom cooks--she is amazing in the kitchen. :)

Cake And Ice-Cream--There's Nothing Better

2010-02-21T12:30:00.000-08:00

My family is going off sugar this whole year--but we get to eat cake/ice-cream on birthdays. In this case, my daddy's birthday.

And then the lit candles--ohhhh they were so pretty.

Yes, I am experimenting with my watermarks. ;)

They were so pretty--we turned the lights out and everything.

Oh I love birthdays. And not just because of the cake. It was awesome because my whole family just had hours to hang out--that's all we did. Just relaxed--and it was amazing. :)

A Daily Reminder

2010-02-19T09:14:00.000-08:00

This is a shelf on my desk--"Glorify Him in everything" is a nice reminder to dedicate my time and thoughts and actions to him.

Best Friends Forever

2010-02-18T09:45:00.000-08:00

Jumping For Joy...

2010-02-18T09:41:00.000-08:00

...or because your older sister told you to. ;)

My Beautiful Camera

2010-02-16T12:03:00.000-08:00

Wow...the transition between a dinky digital camera that took pictures like this..
.

...to a $700 D-SLR Nikon camera which takes pictures like this...

...and like this...

...well...there are no words for such a change. No words.

Well It's Official

2010-02-15T08:26:00.001-08:00

Tonight I am going to go to Costco and buy my Nikon D3000. Pictures will be updated a lot more regularly. :)

Married These Twenty-One Years

2010-02-04T11:44:00.000-08:00

Taken with my mom's Nikon Coolpix.

Granola and Multi-Tasking

2010-01-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

A few days ago, my mom, my sister and I were making granola. Correction: my mom and my sister were making granola and I was taking pictures. ;)

And yes, we were multi-tasking, making lentils as well as granola. ;)

The finished product. Delicious.

Music and Words

2010-01-12T17:50:00.000-08:00

During violin, I took out my old digital camera and began snapping some pictures of my violin, music book, and my typewriter on the floor. The dinky digital still has a few more good pictures in it yet. ;)

About Bekah Grace Photography

2010-01-11T09:56:00.000-08:00

Bekah Grace Photography is a blog I started because I wanted a place to share my photos. (My main blog is here.) For a long time, I regarded my camera as un-important, and photography as a nuisance. I never really took interest in it until a few months ago, when I took my camera and a couple of friends, and just experimented outside. Even though my camera was a dinky digital one that I had owned for a few years, it took relatively good pictures (granted that I edited the Brightness-Contrast slightly on Gimp). I was shocked at the pleasure I experienced in pressing that shuttle button and capturing moments. It was then that I started researching cameras--realizing that my digital wasn't the best--and found the Nikon D40x. I immediately decided that I wanted to buy it. But with help from my dad, I did extensive research, and realized the Nikon D3000 was much better for only a few more hundred dollars. I decided that this was the one I wanted to buy. I bought it, and it takes incredible pictures. I am very content with it. Now that I had a decent camera, I wanted a seperate place where I could share my pictures, so I created this blog. :)

About Me

2010-01-11T09:46:00.000-08:00

I Am fairly tall, with blonde hair and grayish-green eyes (some of my friends have thought they were blue; occasionally they will be bright green or cloudy gray [depends on what color my shirt is], but mainly a mash between those two colors).
I Write all the time. My favorite genre is fantasy, as my extensive imagination dislikes boundaries, and fantasy is the only genre that allows anything—no matter how wild and crazy—to happen. One of my best friends who read my writing immediately dubbed me “Bloodthirsty Bekah,” and I am not surprised by the nickname. The perfect story for me is one in which every character dies. ^^

I Doodle like crazy. Any and every blank margin is completely covered with random sketches by the time I’m done with it. I am not particularly fantastic at drawing, so my drawings are merely doodles, nothing more. I doodle stick figures, flowers, castles, trees, ice-cream cones, shapes, hearts, cats...very random things, whatever happens to be on my mind at the moment.

Quotations cover my bedroom walls, my door, and my desk. I am a complete quotations junkie. I would love to be able to cite quotations as liberally as Mrs. Who does in A Wrinkle In Time, although I do think my family and friends would be annoyed by me after a while.

I Do Not read books, I consume them. I go through on average about four-five books a week, if not more, though this depends mainly on the length and reading level of the book. My favorite authors are Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, P. W. Catanese, Wayne Thomas Batson, Lois Lowry, Shannon Hale, Christopher Paolini, J. K. Rowling, and Suzanne Collins (I probably forgot a million ^^), along with some of my friends’ writing (I have very talented friends ^^). When reading some authors--mainly Tolkien, Lois Lowry and J. K. Rowling--I read some passages out loud, just to savor the feel of the words on my tongue.

I Play the violin and the piano, though I mainly do the latter for fun. I love the violin; music is a way I can express myself. I play songs that reflect what I am feeling at the time. I have always wanted to play the guitar, but a cut tendon on my left hand makes it difficult to do so.

Nothing Is More Beautiful than the sound of a shuttle button capturing a moment forever. I own a Nikon D3000 and I love it to death. It takes incredible pictures, and is perfect for the aspiring amateur--I don't even know if I can be dubbed the title amateur. I just got into photography a few months ago, and I already love it. Capturing beauty is one of my life's main goals--whether by words or by photos.

Crazy is my middle name (not really, it’s actually Grace). I start laughing hysterically at the most inopportune times (as in prayer, sermons, dentist appointments, quiet time, etc.), and sometimes at very stupid things. I love to laugh (and also do it way too easily); the world can always use a bit more laughter. I get into—as my friends so affectionately put it—"weird Bekah moods" about three times per day. To find proof of my insaneness and (occasional) immatureness, just read my blog.

I Strive to be everything and anything that God has planned for me; wherever he wants me to go, I will go. However, I want to be an author (whether or not that means getting published) and a photographer (perhaps only a hobby). I use a Nikon D3000 and love it.

Thank You for visiting my blog. I hope you enjoy the glimpse into my personality. Feel free to follow (who doesn’t love followers?), comment, subscribe, and please come again! ^^