DaydreamsArt.com – Idaho Commercial Photography by Cindy Singleton

It’s night. The dogs bark and run to the window alerting us of danger.  Jim follows and calls to me. I hurry to see, then dash for my camera. Jim was already on his way outdoors to handle the most dreaded part of poultry ownership – the culling of the flock. Now we both head out into the night.

Outdoors the sky is black, aside from the blinding flashes of light that are nearly constant. I start my count, but I don’t get past one-one thousand, for the sharp cracks of thunder are nearly instant. North, south, west, and straight overhead – the attack rages on from nearly every direction. The sound reminds one of our dogs of gunfire and we wonder what terrifying memories the thunder has recalled. She runs for cover as her masters, now armed with their weapons of choice, head out into the dangers of this night.

Amidst the horror of the thunder and the lightening, sounds of imperfect poultry screaming their last breath echo through the night. And I, with my camera mounted to a lightening rod tripod, perch on the front hill for a better view. The danger is real. Lightening is threatening from all about. In my mind the legend of Aunt Grace is quickly retold.  A soul’s warning of danger – as if I’d forgotten how her life was cut short by the strike of a lightening bolt. “But I must get the shot!” I argue in response, as I press the shutter open yet again for another chance at capturing those elusively ominous fingers of light in this huge sky of black. My skin crawls with the charge in the air. Finally, I grab my gear . . . and run.

(Originally written as an email for friends and family last week after photographing a lightening storm, and what was going through my mind as I did so. Since I am way behind on my blog, I thought I’d pick this easy addition to post just for fun )

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It was my first ever slide show made with some of my original digital art projects back in 2003, back when I did some serious playing with my photography in Photoshop. Daydreams Art was a brand new name and website then – thousands of pictures and many site revisions ago. This show’s been viewed so many times over the years and some sites still link to the downloadable EXE file still hosted on my server (for PC’s only). Feeling nostalgic recently, thinking about where I’ve been and where I’m going, I dug out the original and thought I’d share it here. So I invite you to take a break from reality, turn on your speakers, and enjoy some of my first Daydreams

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From our home to yours!

~ Cindy, Jim, Bandit, and Calamity Blue

And here’s one of my favorite Christmas time songs from the fun classic “ELF”:

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Just had to post this since the snow will soon be a memory, like a strange dream….. At least I now have proof it was real! And no, snow this time of year is not usual for these parts. Not even close. Now maybe we can get back to Autumn!

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Jim and I just got home from Yellowstone which is one of our favorite places on earth! The buffalo are kind of funny the way they block traffic. They seem to like following the yellow line while traffic backs up in both directions. It happened more than once this trip:) The one where the buffalo is looking right at me came right to the car, walked around it, then headed straight down the road. Old Faithful’s always a must have shot, even though it’s been taken a zillion times. We also saw lots of elk, bald eagles, and even a wolf through the binoculars (too far away for the lens I had on), but no moose or bears this time. Oh, well. Maybe next year:) Now I’m back to work!

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Yep, I’m finally on Facebook and surprise to me…it’s kinda fun! If you’d like to be Facebook friends so we can write on each other’s walls or even play a game of Scrabulous, click HERE to add me

I’ve also put some playlists together, one of some of my favorite love songs on this blog, and one of some favorites from various genres on my Facebook page. They’re set up to play in random order and I’ll be adding a lot more to both lists. You can even pop out the player so it’ll play in its own window! Then you can see more controls since I kind of squished it here and you can’t even see the whole list of songs I have on it. And, if you pop it out, you can keep listening even after you’re finished with my blog. So enjoy some feel good happy love songs!

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Here’s one of our adorable baby chicks wishing you a Happy Easter and hoping Spring is finally and really here!

I have been so busy wrapping up the new GenerateX site for photographers, and it’s just about ready! You can visit the splash page which gives a hint of how it will be. Stay tuned!

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I love this country I live in and also this wonderful community out in the middle of the potato and grain fields of Idaho. There is a family out here that puts on the most awesome fireworks display every 4th of July that beats anything I’ve ever seen in the cities. Great music, food, friends, a patriotic spirit, and spectacular fireworks! I took my camera gear along this year and had a lot of fun shooting the display in the crystal clear night sky.

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