Shine Your Light
Uploaded: November 17, 2011 | Entered: August 01, 2017 02:33:41
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LITTLE SISTER THAT I ADORE:
BetterPhoto's Own, MARIA WARREN.
!!!SHINE YOUR LIGHT BABY!!!!
Maria Turned 20-Something Now.
(Oh To Be 26 Again! HeeHee...I divulged!)
TELL HER 26 ISN'T OLD PEOPLE!
She Doesn't Believe me!
(Back Me Up here!!!)
HAVE A GREAT YEAR SIS! (((HUGS!))) -Big Sister, Laura
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Johnston's Lake
Banff, Alberta Canada
It's Not Often We Get To Catch
Natural Sunbursts Like this,
But On This Day We Saw Several In The
Area And They Were Beautiful.
One Even Looked Green Like The
Mist of The Northern Lights.
I Will Attach More Images To This Thread Soon.
TV 1/1000, AP 2.8, White Balance Auto
Exif: F Number: 2.8, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/1000 seconds, Flash: did not fire, auto mode, FocalLength: 4.60 mm, Model: Canon PowerShot SD800 IS
Monnie Ryan November 17, 2011
26 is old? Heck, I'm closing on three times that and I'm sure not old! Happy birthday, Maria "baby!" ;-D Beautiful scene, Miss Laura! #1423876Laura E. Swan November 17, 2011
HEY! MONNIE-GIRL! You're young, too, BABY! We are as YOUNG as we FEEL and that really is the truth! I'd love to be 21 like you are! HA! I was going to say 19, but I know you love to sip on Fine Wine so I had to make you at least drinking age! HeeHee!Thanks for your fun visit to Maria's Birthday Dedication!
HUGS! -Laura :D #9814109
Laura E. Swan November 17, 2011
* * * #9814125Maria Warren November 17, 2011
thank you so much sis this is just sooooo beautiful you are the best sister ever :) glad we meet here and we have become really close :) maybe one day we can meet in person love you and I love this :)thank you all so much too for the words :) ok I will not say I am old anymore :) (((hugs))) to all :) #9814436
Jeff Robinson November 18, 2011
A Wonderful BD Card - Enjoy the Day Maria!! #9816556Tammy Espino November 18, 2011
I Would so love to be 26 again..LOL That's a baby !! Have a wonderful birthday, Maria!! A super card Laura loo loo :) #9816634Patti Coblentz November 18, 2011
Since 40 is considered the new young, you have a long way to go, Maria! Happy Birthday...I hope you enjoy your day :))Donna La Mattino Pagakis November 18, 2011
Such a beautiful image and dedication. Happy Birthday Maria!!! #9816690Ann Coates November 18, 2011
Sorry, I missed your birthday Maria. Happy birthday, gosh, it seems such a long time ago that I was 20 something. I hope you had a lovely day with your beautiful family. #9816696Merna L. Nobile November 18, 2011
Hi Maria: Smiles and laughter, joy and cheerStefania Barbier November 18, 2011
wonderful capture and BDAY present... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA!!! #9816794Kathleen K. Parker November 18, 2011
Happy Birthday, Maria!Ellen Hodges November 18, 2011
Verrrry Happy Birthday Blessings to you, Maria!!!! Hope that you have a wonderful birthday weekend to keep the fun going!!!!! #9816889Nancy L. Green November 18, 2011
Happy belated BD Maria!! GORGEOUS capture and series, VERY well done!! <>< #9817037Maria Warren November 18, 2011
thank you all sooooooo much you all have made my day with all your words :) (((hugs))) to all :) ♥♥♥♥ #9817072John Connolly November 18, 2011
Belated Birthday Greetings Maria!Kathy Coombs November 18, 2011
Aloha from Maui! Happy Birthday!!!! :) #9817085Kirsten Kiki Kjaer November 18, 2011
OMG!! I have never seen this before, SSSLala. What an amazing phenomenon. And what a beautiful image this is. You really captured that gorgeous color. I tried that many times but never succeeded in getting it just right - like this.Stephen Zacker November 18, 2011
Beautiful image and Birthday wish. HB Maria #9817632Karen Kessler November 18, 2011
Happy Birthday, Maria! What a lovely card Sis Lala created for you! (And 26 is YOUNG...wish I were that age again, but at least I'm stuck on being 29 for the rest of my life now!) #9817716Mary K. Robison November 18, 2011
Gorgeous mountain/lake captures, Pom ~ wonderful dedication photos and message!Jack Gaskin November 18, 2011
MARIA HAPPY HAPPY18 in my head the rest LETS SKIP THAT PICTURE !!!
HAPPY SHOOTING
JACK #9817867
Laura E. Swan November 18, 2011
Hi Everyone! I have REALLY ENJOYED your super comments and visit to Maria's 26th Birthday card!!!Thank You All So Much. (Big smile here!) Mare, I think you and John are right. These images were taken for a special reason. I captured something special. As Sister Kiki says, something most most people have never seen before. Something "eerie"....SOMETIHNG LOOKING FOR MARIA!!!! #9817883
Laura E. Swan November 18, 2011
Let's Just Be Thanksful "That Something" doesn't seem to know how to GPS! HA!!! #9817888
Laura E. Swan November 18, 2011
HeeHee...!#9817897
Graham Robards November 19, 2011
Hi there Maria, happy belated 26th birthday from one 26 year old to the other.I tell you Wot dear, you are going to love this year!
Big sister by only a few months.
~Pat
x #9818273
Nancyj E. Hovey November 19, 2011
Wow, a sunbeam of Birthday wishes to you Maria!!!Wonderful capture of this sunbeam and surrounding area, Laura. Especially for a beautiful birthday card!
WHAT A SUNBEAM CANDLE he heeee #9818538
Christine Lobsinger November 19, 2011
Happy Birthday Dear Maria... Many more beautiful SunBeams to you Too! A lovely card and birthday wishes SIS!Lorna Shutter November 19, 2011
BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!!! LOL! Sorry I'm late, Sis! What a beautiful and special capture for a beautiful and special young lady!!! Notice how I said "Young", Maria? That's because you are still young ... compared to us old fogies! Ha! Ha! ... except for those of us who remain in our late 20's!!! LOL! :DWell, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!! :)
Hope you had a great one!!!!! :) #9818708
Laura L. Gonzales November 19, 2011
Happy "late" birthday Maria! See what happens when u r in your 40 somethings! The memory they say is the first to go! Lol You have along way to go. Hope your day was a blast! Great capture Laura and a fantastic birthday dedication. WTG Laura;) #9818742Laura E. Swan November 19, 2011
EVERYONE!!! :))) I know Maria has been very happy to hear from you all and I bet she feels GREAT about 26 because of all of you!
I think she might be out getting her hair done today! Something with FLAIR!
(I'm serious! She has been talking about it on Facebook!) :))) !!!
What FUN!
Thanks again everybody!
-Laura :) #9819184
Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna November 19, 2011
AWESOME images, NL! Love them ALL! :-) kReynaldo D. Reyes November 19, 2011
Laura, you sure have been privileged to see this wonderful light in your captures, an ephipany perhaps and for Maria an awakening that 26 is just the start of life, still so young while a lot of us can only think young! Belated Happy Birthday! Keep enjoying life and pursuing your dreams. #9819718Wm Nosal November 21, 2011
Beautiful Shot, LauraHappy Belated BD Maria!
Laura, Laura! CRC Needs Your Help! #9823755
Shelly A. Van Camp November 22, 2011
Beautiful....Happy Birthday to your sister!! #9825735Lydia Williams November 23, 2011
Belated Happy 20th, Maria! I wish I knew at 20 what I know now at 70! YIKES!Laura E. Swan November 23, 2011
Hi Kitty, Rey, Wm, Shelly and Lydia!I see good wishes are still trickling in for our Sweet Maria!
HEY! WE HAVE A CANDY BAR HERE CALLED SWEET MARIE! :))) Or at least there used to be one?! :) !!!
Kitty, you're such a sweetie. In fact the NN, if you ask me! :) Thank you!
Rey, You are so right. We can only think of it...and so LETS! By all means! :)))Thanks! :)) !!
Wm, I gotta get at the external F: drive. Oh dear me. Where is that BUG image??? Lol... :)
Hi Shelly! Maria is my BP little Sister. The best little Sister a girl could have, too. Most of the BP ladies are around my age but not all of you. You are all my equal aged sisters!
Maria is clearly a youngin'...HeeHee...and I adore her.
LYDIA YOU ARE 70? Good heavens woman. We have never even talked about age and I just figured you were in your 30's or 40's. I just assumed. See? You are so totally YOUNG AT HEART! Go figure. And BTW I no longer see 70 as old. It truly is just another number. And you wear it so well, lady!
(((HUGS))) TO ALL OF MY BP FAMILY HERE! AND A BIG ONE FOR THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!
-Laura :D #9827308
Lydia Williams November 23, 2011
Hi Laura,JO ANN CLEVELAND November 27, 2011
Wowza! What a beauty Laura...I have nevee seen anything like that before..love it!jo ann c. #9833942
Terry Cervi November 27, 2011
A belated birthday wish to your sister Maria, Laura! Boy how I wish I was just 56 again, even that sounds good to me! LOL! What a beautiful birthday wish for your sister! #9834035Emile Abbott November 30, 2011
Beautiful capture of the sunbeam, excellent BD card and Happy Birthday Maria. #9839296Laura E. Swan November 30, 2011
Hi Lydia!!! So happy to hear that your tests came out great!!!! What a relief for you, I'm sure! And then to have been with your Family again, like that!? WOW! YES! YOU ARE BLESSED! :D And we are blessed to have you in OUR lives around here too!!! :)))*
Hi Jo Ann! We see amazing things up here in Canada. It's a big, wild, wonderful place! :))) Great to see you. I wonder what you have been up to in your creative and colorful gallery?? :) Will have to pop in and see you! :) Thanks for the visit!
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Hi Terry! Thank you LOTS for your fun and kind comments! You don't look a day over 40 something. :) Neat!
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Hi Emile! Thanks so much. Nice to see you!
HAPPY WINTER HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!
-Laura :D #9839537
Joanna Kovalcsik August 01, 2017
Nice with the light reflected in the lake, Laura... very pretty! #11626817Harvey A. Ravitch August 01, 2017
No matter what age, beautiful isBeautiful! Great light, Great Monthly Entry, & composition! #11626842Laura E. Swan August 03, 2017
Thank you Harvey. :) #11627578Laura E. Swan August 03, 2017
Thank you Joanna :D It was pretty eerie. #11627581Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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