New Books
Only one new book this week! I’ve been hearing some amazing things about this one. 🙂
Exquisite Captive by Heather Demetrios
Goodreads
Bee Photography
After a lot of cleaning and unpacking last week, Coding God and I took a break by sitting outside in the nice cool air. How was it so much hotter inside the apartment than outside??? Anyway, I noticed a couple bees flying near our flowers so I whipped out my camera and started snapping away! Those guys are so bloody hard to photograph. I took over 130 pictures and only about 10 of them were worth keeping.
On another note, Coding God and I bought an air conditioner, so that solves our hot apartment problems! YAY!
TV: Chasing Life
I’ve started watching a new TV show that I’ve been excited about for a few months now: Chasing Life. It’s about a 24 year old woman who finds out she has cancer. I was drawn to it because I loved the main character just from the previews! She looks so sweet and like someone I’d want to be friends with. I’ve watched two episodes so far and I’m loving it!
Wow that’s a really good shot 😀 I’ve never seen a bee that up close! I also got Exquisite Captive and I’m so excited to read it! The cover reminds me of the movie Aladdin for some reason.
Thank you! I like how catching a bee in that moment makes them look so.. still.
And Exquisite Captive isn’t too far off the story of Aladdin, so it makes sense that it reminds you of it! 😀
Wow, thos bee photos are beautiful. You can’t capture that every day.
Thank you! I love macro photography. 🙂
Hurray for air conditioner! Don’t know that series, I’ll check it out some time! 😀
You totally should! I think it sounds really good. 🙂
Great photos. That book looks really good. I’m going to go put it on my wish list.
Thank you! 🙂
Awesome photos! Bees and hummingbirds are so hard to get because they move so fast, so seriously nice work. Congrats on the air conditioner too – I can’t imagine not having one, but I do live in Texas. That show sounds interesting too – I may have to see if it’s on Netflix.
Oh gosh, hummingbirds are the worst! Plus they sneak up on you. At least even if the bees move around, they tend to stay in one spot (like a flower bed or whatever). So you have time to see them, run and grab your camera, and come back and you can expect them to still be in the area. But hummingbirds are like:
HAI LOOK AT ME GO
BAI
And disappear in 10 seconds.
Yay for your new air conditioner! I remember when I got my first window AC, and I was so excited about it. It was ridiculously hot in my apartment.
Lovely bee photos, too.
Thank goodness that you got an AC! I can’t stand being hot *shudders*
The pictures are beautiful! Well worth so many tries 🙂
OH MY GOODNESS, THE BEE PHOTOS! I’m slightly in love with bees to the point where I’ve been taking beekeeping classes (haha to the dismay of my bee-phobic boyfriend).
Wow that is so cool!!!
Ugh, Ashley, you’re so talented I can’t even. *O* Those pictures are pretty! They look like they should be in National Geographic or something. xD The only problem is that I’m frightened of any kind of insect (except maybe ants) so those pictures freaked me out a little, too. Still, love the colors and the focus.
Ehhh, it’s boiling hot EVERYWHERE. I live near the equator so it’s humid as well, and we hardly turn on the a/c because electricity is so expensive over here. T_T At least I know one of us won’t melt this season. 😉
Sorry for freaking you out! 😀
Bummer about the AC situation. 🙁
I love the bee pictures. They’re so clear and sharp. 🙂 The cover alone for Exquisite Captive makes me want to pick it up. I look forward to what you think about it.
Love your bee photos. You’re super talented, Ashley! I’m rather envious of all of your skills!
I’m going to have to check out Chasing Life, it sounds really great actually so thanks for mentioning it otherwise it would never have gotten on my radar!