celebration – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

July 4th Celebration

Good to be alive at sixty-five.

Happy Medicare card to me. I can get that free bus pass now.

My sister and I are in Columbus OH on the big birthday eve after our family gatherings and driving over 1700 miles.

Laura and James hosting a July 4th birthday celebration for me tomorrow.

Here’s a photo collage with some of my favorite things- my family, pignoli, fireworks, coffee ice cream, raspberries, Zeke’s coffee, reading books, teapots, knitting and sock monkeys. Oh yes, a few shots of me throughout the years.

July 3, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday, blogging, celebration, family, fireworks, Fourth of July, grandkids, holiday, ice cream, iice cream cone, July 4th birthday, photography, postaday, raspberries 21 Comments

A Good Match- Weekly Photo Challenge

The Weekly Photo Challenge- A Good Match

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from the wedding and anniversary archives

A valentine collage of some of the couples I’ve had the privilege to photograph on their special days, capturing them loving one another.

February 23, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wedding Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: a good match, celebration, couples, love, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, wedding, Wedding anniversary, wedding photo, weekly photo challenge 19 Comments

Baby to Thirteen! How fast time flies.

Happy thirteenth birthday dear granddaughter Anna Catherine.Here is your birthday blogpost.

You are a lovely young woman. You are the one who made us grandparents.

You are kind, thoughtful, responsible, generous and loving. (Just a few adjectives to describe your character)

What a happy day when you were born.

30190413046_fa01a356b7_o Sunday night October 9 (can you see that the chocolate cupcakes form a one and a three?)

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Here you are brand new with your grandmothers- Ruthie and Marlene. You gave us the name Froo Froo. So now we are Froo Froo Ruthie and Froo From Marlene to all the grandkids!

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And without the corny balloon birthday hat. 10-6-2016

I remember your 10-10-10 birthday post when you were so skilled at the Hula Hoop! You can watch on youtube

Eleven Years in a blink

Last year it was a Dozen Years of Love

Love,

your FF Ruthie

October 9, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Childhood, PhotographyTags: Anna Birthday, balloons, birthday, Birthday Party, celebration, cupcakes, family, granddaughter, grandmother, happy birthday, postaday, teen, teenager 12 Comments

Wedding Glow Sticks

When we got home Saturday night after a fun wedding reception, I saw the glow sticks still aglow.

You reflect on the celebration with dear friends, sharing the joy, the wonderful live music and delicious food.

Happy wedding Michelle snd Sean.

September 24, 2016September 24, 2016 by Ruth Categories: cake, PhotographyTags: caketopper, celebration, cookie table, flowers, friendship, Glow sticks, Heinz Chapel, iPhone photography, love, music, Pittsburgh Cookie Table, postaday, wedding cookies, wedding reception 11 Comments

Always a Great Day to Receive a Card

My colleague and friend gave me this card that’s she’s been saving for when she’d see me.

She’s had it for me for a year, for my retirement last June.

We gathered together for another colleague’s retirement Thursday evening.

I love that she gave it to me tonight and I’m reading the message on the little change purse.

Plus a nice gift card to spend at the bookstore. Wow! It’s a feel good message all around and never too late. Fun to receive.

Thanks Jen.

Dear photographer Ken Graves.

Great photo. Great card.

Hope you don’t mind my posting it.

And P.S.

Love to Jen for always making me laugh at work

August 11, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: celebration, colleague, coworker, friendship, greeting card, humor, Ken Graves, love, photography, postaday, retirement 14 Comments

David Lujan of Gallery Black Lagoon

People at Work Series.

From the April wedding in Austin, Texas.

David Lujan co-owner(with his wife) & curator of Black Lagoon: art+ yoga and artist. He tended the bar at the wedding celebration and made the little fairy chairs out of the champagne tops. He was sketching a tree house for his daughter, as I remember. I must carry a reporter’s notebook to write down the details.

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Available light portrait of David Lujan

The Fairy Chairs he created from the champagne bottle tops.

david the bartender

Black Lagoon Art + Yoga

June 9, 2016 by Ruth Categories: People at Work, PhotographyTags: art, art curator, art gallery, artist, Austin TX, bartending, Black Lagoon, celebration, champagne, family, photography, postaday, travel, wedding, yoga 7 Comments

Count the Places You See Numbers

Count the places you see numbers.

Numbers tell time

Reading Terminal Philadelphia

Numbers keep score

LazerKraze Columbus Ohio

Numbers on a bus, train, trolley or flight number

Numbers to phone

Numbers to remember

Numbers to celebrate

Numbers identify players and participants

Numbers for weight and price per item or pound

Numbers determine which lane you swim in and times determine which ribbon or medal you receive

Numbers from another time, WW2, a ration book

Numbers to play

Numbers found in odd places

June 5, 2016June 5, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: anniversary, birthday, celebration, clock, combination lock, DWI, marathon, numbers, Ohio State University Swimming, scales, scoreboard, sports, swimming, time, transportation, weekly photo challenge, weights and measures 15 Comments

Etna Memorial Day Ceremony 2016

I was invited to attend the Etna Memorial Day Ceremony at 7:30 AM today.

Mary Ellen’s mother’s home is on High Street in Etna next to this hillside cemetery. Her grandmother hostessed the party decades before. Our hostess today was Ruth Gubanic. She continues the tradition in memory of her brothers. She had three brothers who served: two in WWII and one in the Korean War. She honors all three on Memorial Day. Their names are Will, Eddie and Rayme.

All of the Veterans’ names will be added after the initial post because I don’t want to mess up spelling or misidentifying anyone…but I also know they are eager to see some of the photographs from today. I have created a separate Etna Memorial Day Parade album on Flickr and as soon as it is edited a bit, I will post that link as well.

It was an honor and a privilege to document the ceremony today.