It’s been awhile since I’ve last posted but since then so much has happened and changed in my life. But do not worry I’ve been taking pictures and collecting things to post eventually. So yay! I should start back to posting shortly and may decide to change a few things around here and see how I like it. For now I have a changed logo that I only so-so like… Don’t be surprised if it change again.

I just wanted to say I’m around and all is well.

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Tags: Ali Brauda, hatius, אליסון בראודה

When I was at the Jacksonville Zoo last week I was walking around and as I neared the river I noticed quite a few birds sitting perched up on poles so of course I had go go over there and start talking pictures.  Shortly after I did it… it started to drizzle rain and it had became overcast so that didn’t stop me from taking pictures.  I did managed to get a pretty good picture in my opinion of a Laughing Gull.  Because the sky was already so grey I decided on black & white would be perfect for it so that’s what I went with.  I am quite pleased with the photo and how it turned out.

Posted in Ali, Animals, Cameras, Jacksonville, Photography
Tags: ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Bird, Bird on a Pole, Birds, Black & White, Black and White, Flickr, Florida, Gull, Gulls, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Zoo, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Laughing Gull, Laughing Gull Bird, Laughing Gull Sea Bird, Photography, Pole, sketchedoutahley, Zoo, אליסון בראודה

I’ve gone and decided to start a group on deviantART and did not realize how hard it wold be to get Jewish Artist to join or to even find any Jewish Artist to start with… So, hopefully some of my friends are reading this and could pass it along to come check out the group, join it, add some work, and lets have some fun!  I know there is more than 2 of us out there.  :)   Oh and so people know I am rather excited about this if you couldn’t tell because I am writing a blog post about it.  :)

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Tags: #Jewish-Photographers, ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, deviantART, Jewish, Photographers, Photography, sketchedoutahley, אליסון בראודה

I was out in Mayport, Florida taking pictures of the sunset and whatever else I could around me and happened to catch these two seagulls flying up above and it came out to be such a beautiful picture.  I had to do no editing whatsoever to this picture it came straight out of the camera this way.  I posted the original on deviantART yesterday so I decided I’d post it here.  I’d like to get a lot more of my work shown off and I do sometimes like writing about it.  :)

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Tags: ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Bird, Birds, Canon, Canon Rebel, Canon Rebel XSi, Flickr, Florida, Golden Sky, Mayport, Mayport Village, Photography, Seagull, Seagulls, sketchedoutahley, Sunset, אליסון בראודה

I decided to post the picture what I’ve dubbed the Lonely bench to deviantART because I’ve always found it to be a bit ironic… It’s a old cemetery called Huguenot Cemetery in St. Augustine, Florida that lets visits in about once a month.  There hasn’t been a burial there probably in more than 50 years or more years.  There is this one bench that sits in the cemetery and it’s rather new but it say WELCOME on it and it’s sits between these very old graves.  To me that’s I dunno I don’t want to say funny and I am not sure if ironic is the right word because it’s not like anyone  goes there to sit because they keep the cemetery locked up.  So, I felt the need to photograph it and after doing so getting home viewing the orignal it was a plain photo I felt black & white did it a lot of justice and helped convey what I thought I was seeing.

Posted in Ali, Cameras, Cemeteries, Photography
Tags: ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Bench, Black & White, Black and White, Canon, Canon Rebel, Canon Rebel XSi, Cemetery, Flickr, Florida, Huguenot Cemetery, Old Cemetery, Photography, Saint Augustine, sketchedoutahley, St. Augustine, The lonely bench, אליסון בראודה

I was going back through some of my pictures to post on deviantART and I found my picture of a Great Western Egret that I took towards sunset that I just love.   I’ve decided to posted it here.  Bird watching generally isn’t my thing but this is one gorgeous shot if you ask me and well worth the wait in being patient.

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Tags: ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Amelia Island, Bird, Birds, Canon, Canon Rebel, Canon Rebel XSi, Egret, Fernandina, Fernandina Beach, Flickr, Florida, Great Western Egret, Photography, sketchedoutahley, Sunset, White Egret, אליסון בראודה

Before the tulip pictures got lost in my sea of pictures I figured I’d do one of the full bunch of tulips that Ethan had gotten me.  I love the way this came out and they are so beautiful!!  I especially love the processing I did on this using Lightroom and I squared it off for a better effect.   The sad thing is they are starting to die off because I have no clue how to keep tulips a live.

“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”  ~ Indian Proverb

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Tags: "Red Flower", ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Ethan, Ethan Brauda, Flickr, Flower, Flowers, Photography, Red Flowers, Red Tulip, Red Tulips, sketchedoutahley, Tulip, Tulips, אליסון בראודה

I went to the Zoo yesterday in hopes of finding some pretty flowers to take pictures of.  I went to their Japanese gardens area in hopes of finding beautiful blooming Cherry Blossom trees but I did not.  There was a few with blooms on it.  But I did find some Japanese Magnolias and this is the best picture in my opinion that came out.  I will be sorting out and picking out some more pictures but this one I had to post right away because it’s the prettiest.  I think the edited I did with it in Lightroom made it come out just that much better.

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”  ~ Claude Monet

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Tags: ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Flickr, Florida, Flower, Flowers, Jacksonville Zoo, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Japanese Flower, Japanese Magnolia, Magnolia, Photography, Pink Flower, Pink Flowers, sketchedoutahley, Tree, Zoo, אליסון בראודה

My son Ethan bought me the most beautiful set of tulips they were red and stunning the day before Valentines day.  We don’t celebrate Valentines day but that didn’t matter to him he wanted to get me something pretty and something to take pictures of.  He’s such a little sweetie!  I did what he wanted me to do… I took lots of pictures of them and this is one of the first ones I took and processed with lightroom.

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”  ~ Voltaire

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Tags: "Red Flower", ahley, Ali Brauda, Alison Brauda, Ethan, Ethan Brauda, Flickr, Flower, Flowers, Photography, Red Flowers, Red Tulip, Red Tulips, sketchedoutahley, Tulip, אליסון בראודה