I've done a lot of photography for magazines(before most of them closed up when covid hit), but I was working with my husband and he covered diesel truck shows, tech, and more, writing the articles to go with our pictures... so that was a lot of standing on a drag hot strip or in mud at a sled pull :)... I don't think I have pics of these in my phone or this old computer, but I know my husband has them, and I'll put a couple up when I can. But it's just trucks :)

Everything below is just for pleasure :) There is SO much beauty out there :) I really like having my own reference photo's to draw or paint. And we get some amazing, to me anyway, skies here in TN... hopefully still great in NC... I can't get enough of the sky, ocean or flowers... lots more too, but, you get the picture. We've done weddings of course, though I din't like putting up pics of other people, and they aren't what we love to do so :)

So, nothing special at all... just some I like... I have a ton, for an anniversary gift I asked for my own large hard-drive to keep ALL my clouds and flowers :) yup, too many... but the clouds are always changing, so when you see a gorgeous sky, it's hard to stop getting pictures as it moves. I am also always thinking of the amazing colors within and thinking which colors i'd use to paint it, whether in watercolor or acrylics...

I had to get pictures of this sweet little mushroom fairy land in our forest right outside :)

the next one below, is the inside of a rose I was given in a bouqet of different flowers after different surguries. I like to take oic when fresh, but they get even more character as they wind down and dry. For this rose, it was fakking apart as I took pics, that's when I saw the inside and fell in love with these colorful little tentecles :) obviously this is where it make more seeds, i mean, I'm assuming. But I had no idea this is what they looked like in there... odd, I know, but I just love them :)

Below... Driving from SoCal (original home) out to TN straight through when my husband was going to be in the Baja 1,000 for the first time as a navigator...

Back yard (TN) at sunrise after a big storm...

I'm not sure why, but the pic below is one I love!! Not due to any skill on my part, the sunset has that covered, but I also liked the shadows made by the truck filling station...

Jade Tobin

just soaking it all in :)

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