Too many pictures to choose from for this week’s Photo Challenge. So guess what? I’ll just put a bunch up here. Sorry gang, the dreaded “family slide show” shall commence now. BTW, I made the pictures smaller to make it seem like you’re scrolling through them faster. Grab your popcorn and beer…please silence your cell phones during the show :)
I’m kind of partial to lines, whether they’re formal or natural (it’s what I’ve done with myself for the past 29 years)….
Tried out this morning, the new lens I got yesterday…it works really well.
This is a fun topic this week – thanks WordPress.com! I’ve got lots of “old” I could share.
My camera is always in search of that old setting regardless of the subject. It seeks out the “old” like a magnet to metal because “old” will have character and personality unlike what you get with something built of more youthful age (unfortunately that also goes for people sometimes).
Call me sentimental, or perhaps it was fate…maybe ironic, but this song came up in the play order from my iTunes while posting the pictures. Play it – I bet you even know the lyrics. Enjoy the music while you enjoy (hopefully) the photos.
When you guys tire of my “front yard” sunrise pictures, let me know…
From this morning at Willow Grove Park, Lewisville Lake
…back in mid-January. With the cool weather the last couple mornings I remembered this draft post I never completed.
Overnight, a heavy fog settled over the lake. The waters were calm. It was me and the ducks, gulls, and one grouchy egret. One ought to take a recording device of some kind and capture the squawking everyone makes at dawn’s first light.
A special picture shared. FD does not get to see her Grandpa often enough, but when she does she tries to make up for the long time in between hugs. Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Abundance
Went for a couple walks today…one this morning, then again this afternoon.
A week in bizarre review of random pictures….
Something’s up.
We get a warm day for a change, the snow and ice pretty much melts away, reportedly some silly football game is about to be played soon in God’s Stadium (with the roof window closed I might add – you know who is gonna be mmmmaaaadddd!).
What’s got all the birds around here frisky, singing, and carrying on today?
Maybe the Groundhog told them about the coming of an early spring.
1/4/2011 Lake Dallas Texas
Ya think he’s had his mailbox run over or baseball-batted a time or two? Continue reading “POW 1-27-2011”
I took a whole bunch of pictures…I’m talking a big ol’ bunch of pictures last year (and the year before had around 15,000 snapped for that matter).
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 19,000 pictures are stored on my computer (and backed up on two different portable hard drives) that have a 2010 date. So what the heck, I took took a stab at a Top 50 list. Let me know what you think.
I hope everyone had wonderful holidays with family and friends. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
12/17/2010: Tim’s backyard
Meet Madam Santa Mackie, the Queen of Scots – she’s really exercising a great deal of patience and tolerance of my “you’re so clever” photography right now
Happy 2010 to most everyone (just kidding…). It comes at a time on renewed enthusiasm and knowing the need to “finish” is most important…as was the teaching/sermon today Denton Bible Church (that will be a “Thump” post coming soon). So I wish you celebration, good times, and prosperity beyond the pocketbook. New Year. Continue reading “New Year, New Look, New Directions”
And here is the last sunset of the year… Continue reading Good Night 2010
Mackie and Zoey, the royal Scots of the house, were caught peering out the dining room window while soaking up a bit of early morning sunlight. I’m thinking they really do kind of like each other but are too proud to show it.
Continue reading “They Look, they see, they watch…something”
…of the year. 2010 ended with subtle sunrise so I went about capturing it’s sleepy awaking at a totally different spot this morning (a bit further away than usual…about 2.5 miles from the house).
The moonrise wasn’t too far ahead of the sunrise this morning. And the ducks were restless – we must have a change in the weather headed our way in north Texas.
It was a cool night and the moon was a center stage all night long. A lunar eclipse on the day of winter solstice – one that last happened in 1638. The next time it occurs on the solstice will be in 2094, according to NPR. BTW, the YouTube below is not mine.
I got the sunrise and moon set this morning…that in itself was kind of cool as I kept switching from the east, 180° to the west, and back and forth and back and forth, messing with different camera exposure settings. Whew, already tired…. Continue reading “Totally lunar”
December 17, 2010 sunrise and wildlife at Lewisville Lake…just a mile or so from the house.
Really, it wasn’t such a bad way to start the day. Even the morning weather man commented on what a particularly beautiful sunrise we had going on.
After 669 days, my obsessive picture-a-day streak came to an unexpected end yesterday. It was Halloween so I’m blaming trick or treat anxiety in not allowing me to push that shutter button. And it was this Halloween that I lost my craving to carve a pumpkin as well…and that is yet another notable streak broken in itself. Don’t know what got into me yesterday…shake it off Timster! So today I start my new photography streak…I welcome a new day, a new dawn, a new beginning, a new outlook, a new attitude, a new soap used in the morning shower, a new change of underwear, … Continue reading Streaking
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