A work in progress! Hi! My name is Melinda. I am happily married to the love of my life and we have a daughter who is in college. I live in Southern California and I am an amateur photographer. My husband bought me my Kodak P880 for Christmas in 2006. I looked at it and thought I'd never figure it out! I've only taken regular every day snapshots and never looked through the lens in a "creative" way. Then in March 2007 someone introduced me to Renderosity.  In May, I became brave and decided to upload my first photo... I haven't been able to put my camera down since! LOL. I still have a lot to learn, but I sure am having fun doing it. I have come a long way though. This time last year, I couldn't even put a photo on the computer! Now I have started to research DSLR cameras ... Who knows what the future brings! Update: I now have that DSLR :) Was the best Christmas (2008) gift!   I did the research and picked it out and Santa put it under the tree. It's a Canon Rebel Xsi .
May 9, 2014
I have a new DSLR, the Canon 7OD. A gift from my husband for Mother's Day. So much to explore!
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Comments (11)
Faemike55
Very nice photo and wonderful to hear from you again
kenmo
Topnotch work....
0rest4wicked
Very southwest I thought looking at the thumb nail. ;) Done with the holiday shopping, It's the 3 weeks the kids get off that I'll be trying to survive...lol
Chipka
Those sages or whatever those plants are must be the dividing line: between Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona...okay, maybe not, but it's a fun story anyway. I really like this image. The colors are lush and so incredibly WARM. I can do with warmth today...heck, I'll enjoy it for the rest of winter, though I know that warmth is just a distant dream now. But anyway, enough about me and my winter woes. I really like the composition of this shot, and I wonder if those plants growing in a line are also marking an underground waterway or sorts? I love the variety of life in this picture: so many different plants, so many shapes, so many forms, so many cacti that belong to at least two species (?) but I could be wrong, since I don't know diddly-squat about green things with roots and/or flowers. I also love the whole sense of visual excitement and the pronounced sense of environment and scale. Yeah, as you can see, I kinda like this. I like this a lot!
CaressingTheDark
Beautiful desert scene
PSDuck
I love this picture! It brings back memories of hiking all over Pima and Cochise counties when I was a kid.
thecytron
A very good color photo!
LovelyPoetess
Lovely reminder of when I visited the area too, thanks for the memory! : )
flora-crassella
a wonderful landscape! Great photo!!!!
goodoleboy
So, that's where you've been and what you've been doing! I was wondering what had happened to you, and was just about ready to give up hope of ever seeing your work and comments anymore when you popped up with this magnificent photo, full of excellent clarity, color, contrast and texture! Hope to see you around again, Melinda.
Richardphotos
beautiful scenery