I draw you the shape of a heart

For as long as I can remember, the shape of a heart has held significance to me and my family. It's been on curtains, aprons, quilts, hot pads, pot holders, tablecloths, wooden tables and chairs, old wooden doors, and many other places in my childhood memories.

Lucky was the person who got to open the NEW jar of peanut butter. Like a fresh canvas, the person with the jar got to carve a heart into the smooth surface with the table knife (sometimes including a few initials, too, lol). It was never a matter of WHAT you would draw in the small circle canvas, it was always a heart. I don't even think any of us knew where it started, but it was what we did and it was special.

Sometimes when creating unique and fun photos, I find myself placing a heart shape in the photo somewhere, and it just completes it for me.

 

Below are some fun heart-shape themed photos I found and thought I'd share.

Enjoy!

 

My first sighting of the Northern Lights, aka Aurora Borealis, was through the lens of my camera.

I was new to night photography, and it was my first time in Alaska. That night I went out with a photographer and his wife (see: www.ronnmurraryphoto.com) and learned all about the aurora and photographing the northern lights, it was awesome! But that morning, I'll never forget because it was my first glimpse of the lights. They were green, and soft, and hung just over the horizon as the dawn broke across the eastern sky. I used my flashlight to create the picture of the heart (above). Although it's a hard picture to see, it remains special because of the memories it carries. <3 

 

(This photo was taken with my phone's camera.

It's a picture of a real cow's markings)

 

 

Below you'll find a small series I created by cutting out the shape of a heart on paper and placing it between my camera's lens and the image I was taking a picture of. I didn't do any post-editing to create these lovely photos, which to me makes them so much more beautiful!

(Maybe it's not smart to share my 'secrets' of how I created these photos, but, well, who cares! Lol!)

 

That's all for now! <3