It’s SO foggy this afternoon (Samsung NX 300 + NX 30mm f2 + some preset called “airy”)

I feel like these should qualify for the #shittycamerachallenge Taken with an Olympus fe-47 (with a big black blob obscuring part of the screen,) slapped some “film simulations” on them in Snapseed.

I’m gonna be sick

We made it out of the house today for the first time since we got the ice and snow last weekend. Mexican restaurant was #1 priority for us. 📸 Camp Snap + black and white filter installed

What I did once power was restored

From a couple of days ago (Canon M50 + 50mm f/1.8 EF lens)

Photos my niece sent from her university campus

It’s so cold (and I’ve attached the latest update from the power company.) We were able to have dinner because we plugged an electric griddle up to the generator and had eggs and such.

I left water running while I was next door at my sister’s house today, but my pipes still froze somehwere along the line 🎉🎉

It’s an ice storm up in here

I forgot to mention that my sister and I watched the Mr. Polaroid episode of American Experience. Has anyone else seen it? I learned a lot from it. www.imdb.com/title/tt3614...

Today marked three years since my mom passed away. I’m using her headphones (which she actually wore somewhat upside down so the top wouldn’t smush her hair 🤣) and I’m listening to recordings she made as a Gospel singer.

Inspired by @taylorbright.bsky.social’s Beetles thread, here’s one of my fave photos I’ve ever taken. 2009 Yashica D Fuji Velvia, expired in 1999, cross-processed

The university in Sydney where my niece was staying during her event didn’t serve meat to the visiting students because they said the uni staff aren’t allowed to use their company cards to buy meat 🤔

I was going through my Google Photos yesterday, and I found this 2016 picture of my mom that is SO delightful. It was quite underexposed, and apparently I never corrected that and posted the photo anywhere. I love that I ran across for the first time in nearly ten years.

Some Camp Snap camera photos from this week

Samsung NX300 + NX 30mm f/2 This was edited with one of the “film inspired” presets in Snapseed.

My niece arrived in Sydney yesterday (midafternoon Thursday our time, Friday morning Sydney time.) Within a few hours, she’d seen the opera house, taken a ride on a jet boat, and had a meal of kangaroo meat.

This morning’s fog 📸 Camp Snap, Kino filter, SOOC

New Year, same me

📸 Samsung NX300 + NX 30mm f/2

Happy New Year

My face when I had to pay full price for this chocolate orange rather than half price like all the other Christmas items, despite them only being sold at Christmas where I live. The cashier said they’re being carried over for Valentine’s Day. But my niece really wanted one, so 😟

After my photo session this morning, I met up with my family to have coffee up in Memphis 📸 Samsung NX300 + NX 30mm f/2 lens

I have a family photo shoot tomorrow. I normally would never schedule one at this time of day, but I’m having to do it at 10 AM. I’m nervous about the lighting at that hour 🫠

Normally, my family spends Christmas Eve at home, but we had to pick my niece up from university this year. We needed to have dinner out, and Waffle House was just about the only option open. Anyway, Merry Christmas to those who celebrate 📸 Samsung NX300, Samsung NX 30mm f/2

As much as I also don’t cold weather, these warmer temps are making it very difficult to feel in a Christmas mood

It’s not perfect, but I finally attempted a Korean/Japanese style cake for my Korean friends, because they do find American sweets TOO sweet. I felt like the cake part could have been better, but I really wanted to try this for them. It’s a chiffon style cake with freshly whipped cream.

Not doing so great at the moment because my Cocoa is missing. Last night I had a cake order to finish, so I asked my sis to come get Cocoa for a little bit. When my sis was leaving, there had been some deer near my house, and Cocoa bolted so hard that it caused her leash to slip from sis’s hand.

I told my sister we needed something from the M&S line that Target is carrying for the season. She brought this Scottish shortbread home. It takes lovely.

A pink vanilla birthday cake for our church’s youth pastor’s wife, commissioned by her mother-in-law

This app got age verification for my state this week, so I don’t have to log off of WiFi to use it anymore 🎉

I have a contribution to #caturday this week: the cat who lives on the patio of the Greek restaurant in my niece’s university town

I spent two days preparing ninety portions of desserts for a meeting at my church this week. I’m exhausted 🤣 Peanut butter pie, cinnamon cake with brown sugar icing, and chocolate cobbler

These are from 2013, and I sold the camera within a year, but I still miss my Bronica Etrsi and regret selling it.

Thanksgiving Eve in my small town Camp Snap camera A filter called “Boom boom”

Yesterday, we had our Thanksgiving with our brother and his family. I was mad at myself because I’d taken candids throughout the afternoon, and when it came time to do some group photos for my sister-in-law, my battery died and I hadn’t brought a back up. Canon M50 EF mount 40mm f/2.8

All I was able to muster to make for Thanksgiving was this small pumpkin cheesecake with a gingersnap crust.

In better news, my niece is home for the first time since August (thankfully, that’s not the last time we’d seen her, since she is only an hour away at university!)

I hope everyone here is having a better week than I am. Monday, my dog jumped on my sister’s dog, and I got bitten when I was trying to pull them apart. Monday night, a storm caused damage to something on my meter box, an the power company cut off my electricity until I get an electrician out.

Greetings from Sunday Amanda™️ 📸 Camp Snap

Foggy night Samsung NX300 Samsung NX 30mm f/2

Samsung NX300 + Samsung 30mm f/2 (And some preset in LR mobile)

Egyptian Wigs and Costumes In the church where I do childcare once a week. I think some of the costumes were labeled with names of various Israelites from Bible stories. 📸Camp Snap “Supra” filter

Checking in with you all to tell you how miserable the weather is today, nineteen days into November

My first “cupcake cake” - an anchor for a nautical themed baby shower (the baby is going to be a girl)

My niece has unexpectedly found out that she needs to go to AUSTRALIA with her esports team, b/c they need another female representative from her school to be there. She’s been on a plane before - when she was nine months old, and it was about a forty-five minute flight. So this is A LOT.

📸 Camp Snap + cross processed filter

Woke up to a proper foggy autumn morning on Saturday. (And then the sun came out and it was quite hot if you were out in it. Which I was 😆) 📸 Samsung Nx300 + Samsung 30mm f/2 lens

My younger brother is visiting from Montana, and we went to see my niece today. It was lovely.