Inspiration for your day!

Inspiration for your day....


When you wake-up and everything seems like it's going wrong. Your coffee spills all over your clean clothes. You have to go change and that makes you late for work. Then your boss yells at you for not doing your job good enough. When your car runs out of gas and your stranded on the side of the road and you look down in your purse and realize your cell phone is sitting at home on the charger. 


You are driving along and you peer up into the sky and you see THIS. This amazing light sneaking through the dark clouds and you realize life throws you hard times, BUT once in a while you see the sun rays through those dark clouds and you change your perspective on things that get you down. Life is filled with these special moments and if you go along everyday concentrating on all the bad things you will miss an opportunity to see the light. There is ALWAYS light.


Learn to be an Optimist. 

Art for sale

"Bench" print in a beautiful black wood frame with white mat. 8X10 ~ $60.00

"Vineyard at Mission Hill Winery" print. 8X10 ~ $60.00

"Vineyard View of Lake Okanagan" 8X10 ~$60.00

Opportunities are everywhere!

Last Saturday we went out driving. It was a beautiful fall day in Kelowna. We were on our way to the SPCA with our newly adopted puppy to show her off and see if they could tell us what she looked like as a breed as we were still unsure and she just will NOT stop growing!!

I try to bring my camera everywhere with me and on this particular day I did. So, I have been wanting to do some "vintage" family pictures for this year. Right across the street was an old ford pick-up. I thought PERFECT! So, we stopped and snapped a few family pictures right on the spot. They turned out awesome for not planning or preparing. That seems to be the perfect way to do things. Life happens when your busy making plans....is how it goes...or something to that effect. haha

So, here's the finished product with my finishing touches added.

Mr. Squirrel

Mr. Squirrel in the apple tree teases my dogs to come and chase him. They can't climb a tree so he just sits there and relaxes on the branch in the sun.

A Beautiful Fall morning

On my walk this morning I took some pictures. I'm surrounded by beauty!

A day on the board...

My husband and I went out on our long boards yesterday. I'm gaining more confidence on hills while enjoying a casual ride. Long boarding is so much fun. It reminds me of catching a wave in Maui. The feeling of the wind through your hair as you glide along feels like being free. It's not just a way to get from one place to the next but it's a way to relax and get outside and enjoy your free time.

Here are a few pictures my husband took of me on my long board. I was just being goofy on my board and he got some fantastic shots....I think I may just have landed an assistant!

Hot Machines

I absolutely love cars. Old muscle cars. The way they sound when they are coming up the street and you have to turn and look. I love to guess what I'm hearing by the sound of the engine. The curves in a car, the paint, the engine! I am a car enthusiast. The cars that are in the Okanagan are amazing.

Of course, anyone that knows me knows I love Mustangs. I drive a '90 GT convertible. It's pretty much stock, for now. My dream is to race it on the quarter mile one day. When I start modifying it I will be sure to post the progress. For now here are a few cars I saw at the Canada Day show, my car of course and my husbands bikes.

The good luck ladybug

Ladybugs are for good luck. I found one in my kitchen this morning and took some portraits of her. I curiously arranged her on different items and took some snapshots. This was WAY to much fun for a Wednesday and a little bit funny. It was strange to me just how much fun I was having by myself, all alone in my kitchen with this ladybug. I was feeling a bit sentimental when I woke-up and feeling like it was going to be a great day, then I saw her! It was my first day all alone in the house. A DAY. Just to do WHATEVER....Nice to have those once in a while.

My husband saw one today too...must mean good luck!

Anyways...here she is.

This is a good thing for me to see at the end of summer. The days are getting shorter. The Sun is not always out. I can always think of my lil lady bug in the window sill.

Terah ~

Quails Gate Winery

I've been living in the Okanagan now for 3 years. I've driven past this Winery many many times but never went to it. Finally I took my daughter (an aspiring photographer) who is 7 and we checked it out.

Quails Gate Winery is so beautiful. It's a place we will definitely return to. I'll have to go back to do a tasting. Just to walk around the grounds though was a lot of fun and the scenery is breathtaking.

Here are some pictures of the grounds that I took. Enjoy!

Terah - Allteraim Photography

I love my macro lens!

I have wanted a micro lens for such a long time and now i have one and its so much fun to use. It opens up a whole new world to the way things look. I imagine this is what the world looks like to a bug perhaps. You can see the little bits of pollen.

All my prints can be purchased. Custom sizes and framed. Contact me.

Terah
©Allteraim Photography

June Bug

Part of living in this beautiful warm climate in British Columbia is seeing the Giant BUGS that I've never seen before being a girl from Alberta.

The other day my daughter was talking about wanting to catch a bug in her bug catcher. I was uninterested as I don't really like bugs. What Adult does really? They are hairy and ugly. The very next day we found this June Beetle. It's actually really cool. We were out in our backyard and heard this hissing noise. Actually our dog Roxy found the June beetle and had it surrounded. We quickly snatched it up into the bug box so we could examine it.

Here's what it looks like:

Finding this bug was so cool. Then we decided to do some research on this beetle to find out more. What a cool little summer project.

 

Here is a spider that we found. Can you see her face??

This is a caterpillar....I didn't know they had fangs.

Westside Daze Fair

Here are a few Photographs I took at the Westside Daze Fair on Canada Day.