Photo 52 Project - Week 8 (Autumn) & Week 9 (Favorite Disney Picture)

I guess I should be a little stricter about keeping these weeks in a row.  LOL!  I'm still just getting started with Photoshop Elements.  I haven't been using my DLSR much in the last two months, but I have plenty of pictures from previous excursions to choose from.  Right before Halloween, I went on a bus trip to Sleepy Hollow and toured the cemetery.   Our tour guide was great, and I took tons of pictures.  I would love to go back again, because there's just so much to see!  We also saw The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, which was really cool.  If you ever have an opportunity to do either one, I highly recommend them.

I took this first picture at a park by my mom's house.  There's a nice pond to walk around, in addition to everything else.  I took my DSLR with me when we went for a walk.  I love the fall foliage and took this picture looking up into one of the trees.  I tweaked the color a bit

in Photoshop, and I think it came out pretty cool.

One day I hope to be able to take my DSLR on a Disney trip, but I didn't this time around.  My Canon PowerShot is light and easy to fit in a smallish purse, plus it has an awesome zoom on it.  When we went in 2010, I took quite a few great closeups of the Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom.

On the trip we took in November, I didn't feel like I took as many pictures, but I took over 1,200!  I couldn't believe it.  I had about 300 of my favorites printed to put in photo albums.  This picture is my favorite Cinderella Castle picture.  We had a nice spot on the Hub in front of the castle.  It wasn't the best spot for taking pictures of the fireworks, but we did get to see the Celebrate the Magic show really well.  We had a nice view of the fireworks as well, but if I was really serious about taking pictures, I would have chosen a spot further back.  Anyway, timing is

everything, and I think this one came out really nice.  The castle looks so pretty with the Dream Lights, too.   I'll try to post a few more pictures of my Disney trip when I can.  I'd like to post a few pictures of the Sleepy Hollow trip as well.

Shelburne Farms

I finally found the box of photos that I've been looking for. It didn't have everything I thought was in there, but it did hold a few things that I wanted. The pictures I'm going to post today are from a trip to Vermont four years ago. I always wanted to go there in the fall, and it was so beautiful there. I'd love to go back.

One of the places we went was Shelburne Museum, which was founded in 1947 by Electra Havemeyer Webb. Mrs. Webb had 18th and 19th century buildings moved to the land from New England and New York to house the collections that are displayed there.

The first picture (up top) is just something I took on the grounds. The next picture (to the left) is a lighthouse that was relocated from Lake Champlain. I thought it was so odd to have it just standing in the middle of nowhere like it was. To the left of the lighthouse is the Ticonderoga, which is a steamboat that used to operate on Lake Champlain until the early 1950s. We approached from the other side of the steamboat, which is an even stranger sight standing in the middle of the grass on the grounds.

I would love to go back up there soon. Maybe next year. I don't know if we'd go back in the fall, but I'd like it if we did. This is my favorite time of year. I just wish that the weather had been better this year, because I'd really like to get out there and take some pictures. On the bright side, I'm almost done with my baby blanket. Just eight more inches to go before I can put the border on. I'll take more pictures of it once it's done.