All within walking distance
Had a wildlife and wild life weekend last weekend…
Tag: Photography
Weekly Photo Challenge: One
Pictures of O-N-E:
As I see it today
From last weekend:
Good morning-night
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines
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)….
As I see it today
Tried out this morning, the new lens I got yesterday…it works really well.
- This ain’t no “catch n’ release”, it’s “toss n’ keep”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Old
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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Light
Sunny outlook
When you guys tire of my “front yard” sunrise pictures, let me know…
From this morning at Willow Grove Park, Lewisville Lake
My Best Shot(s) of 2010
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.
The Last Good Morning…
…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.
Totally lunar
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”
Good Morning Tuesday
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.
Streaking
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
Not your backyard fireworks
Lake Dallas, Texas Fireworks Show – a 4th of July celebration on July 3rd.
Waiting for that just-right picture
These guys are way good…I need to meet them sometime soon!
Laurence Parent, photographer
Spring time
A Dandy Thanks
Holy Henbit, I had no idea today was Weed Appreciation Day!
Thanks to high school chum Ivan for enlightening me through his Facebook status. Odd fate thing has my knees “soiled” as I’ve been photographing Spring in Texas the past week or so, and today I was hunched over and 4″ from a dandelion (prior to knowing it was such a celebratory garden holiday). Continue reading “A Dandy Thanks”
Toulon
A rediscovered photo in my 2009-365 collection captures the Toulon grain elevator in Kansas over Thanksgiving weekend last year. A common sight in Kansas are grain elevators, this Toulon elevator is about two miles from Dad’s house. The layered colors in the stockpile were a definite bonus. An ever so faint half moon can be seen in the top left quad of the photo – the photos gods were gracious to me this day.
Those were the Days my friend…
…I thought they’d never end.
And they haven’t!
Just when I think my patience is well self-managed and my eye for photography is on the right track, a link or email gets sent that reaches out and smacks me in the nose saying ‘you have a long way to go buck-a-roo’. So much is the case with Michael Paul Smith, an artist in his own right with a knack for drawing gasps, making heads shake, and causing rapid eye blinking in amazement (maybe a little bit of disbelief as well). Continue reading “Those were the Days my friend…”
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