I really admire this amazing collaboration of 10 women friends, who found each other through the Internet. I am moved by the way they share their lives and support each other to climb to new creative heights with their photography. I think you will find their site quite delightful.

Each month they choose a theme and invite photo submissions. Their theme this month is barns.

I can remember being drawn to photographing barns from a young age, often with my father and sister. I love the architecture, the texture, the colour and the settings of barns. Now that I live in a more rural area, there is no shortage of picturesque barns to satisfy my creative urges. This photo was taken near my home outside of Ottawa, Ontario. I was captivated by the colour of the barn, the windows and the light.

I applied a Flypaper Texture to give it the kind of magical feeling I imagined. If you like working with textures, you might want to give these a try. They’re amazing.

For Texture Tuesday with Kim Klassen.   Featuring Kim’s “Urban” texture.

Tea is nought but this:
First you heat the water,
Then you make the tea.
Then you drink it properly.
That is all you need to know.

Sen Rikyu, Zen Tea Master, 1522-1591

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

–Joe Hill

This is the latest in the Sparks of Grace postcard series. Sparks of Grace postcards are for sale for $1 each (plus postage) by contacting me. All proceeds go to the Almonte Palliative Care project.

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Some of my photographs are available for sale through Getty Images.  You can see more of my photographs on my website.

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Some of my photographs are available for sale through Getty Images. Sparks of Grace postcards are for sale for $1 each by contacting me. You can see more of my photographs on my website.

The moment one gives close attention to anything… it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

–Henry Miller

…Architecture is the flowering of geometry. 

–Emerson

More photos on my website at www.galey.ca

I wear my shadows where they’re harder to see, but they follow me everywhere.  I guess that should tell me I’m travelling toward light.

— Bruce Cockburn

At the National Gallery of Canada designed by Moishe Safdie

See more of my photos on my website www.galey.ca