POW 1-27-2011
1/4/2011 Lake Dallas Texas
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Tag: Photos
Music to the BL ears
http://ping.fm/p/sI46Z – Just because a cheap guitar gets covered in BL bottle caps, that does not warrant a $95 price tag. I’ll have a Sam Adams instead. Continue reading Music to the BL ears
Let it snow
We certainly don’t get this very often. Nor do we Texans like to drive in it. Tomorrow’s commute ought to be very interesting.
It started about 10:30 this morning as I was coming out of church…it lasted until 3:00. When it was all said and done, a measly 1″, maybe 1.5″ at the house is all we got.
But it still is “cool” to get the snow. It makes for great comic relief sometimes…other times a sticky snow does wonders for photographing a Post Oak.
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.
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…”
365-2009
Happy Belated New Year y’all!
So much – sometimes too much – going on, but then so much went on last year…that was documented.
One thing for 2009 for sure: I’m done! That is last year’s New Year’s resolution to take one picture a day is done. What fun I had and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. It brought me more familiar with photography, a decent and knowledgeable understanding of digital cameras (I now have 6 within arm’s reach at any time day or night), a better eye for detail, color, repeating forms, and a favorite…people. Continue reading “365-2009”
One of those days
Ever had one of those days, with camera in hand you come upon so many odd photo opps? That was how part of my morning was spent in Little Elm – so much to photograph. All taken within minutes of each other. BYW, the Buffalo and the shored-up building were pictures taken in the soon-to-be wealthy town of Prosper (a few miles up the road from Little Elm)
Pictures on a new blog page
Bloggers: I’ve upload pictures ONLY to my Flickr now. The “other” webblog proved to be somewhat burdensome and several of my daily readers advised me not to get too spread out…. ____________________________________________ As a persistence and creativity goal for 2009, I am starting a 365 project. 365 simply means at least one picture per day is to be chronicled. It can be a thoughtful (or lucky) snapshot, a composed picture, portrait, whatever the photo mode so dictates. Photos will be uploaded at least weekly – be sure to check out the pictures as we get through this year. A link is on … Continue reading Pictures on a new blog page
We Photowalked Saturday
OK gang, we missed all of you on Saturday. Remember? It was the National Photowalk Do-da Day. Not everyone forgot. OFNi Emily brought her kiddos to City Hall Park on Saturday morning. We talked, we walked, we took pictures. Had a grand time (at least I did). Courtney, Drake(ster), and Madison were the primary subjects of our focus, F-stops, and posings, although Larry the Lizard took center stage at one point. We used Emily’s camera most, learning it can be used for more than just snap shots. I hope she sends me pictures so I can post them here. Let’s … Continue reading We Photowalked Saturday
Photowalking
Recent blog surfing came across another go-to blog I have in the ol’ Feeds Favs – The Things I Do. I’ve picked up a few tricks from Dennis – guess I should thank him sometime soon. One of his recent posting talks about A Photowalk. Sounds like a good time and a grand idea…I checked his link and the 50 Dallas spots are booked. Hmmmm, 3 million people in Dallas-Fort Worth and all they have are 50 spots. I guess we could organize our own! Let’s see a show of camera flashes – who’s with me? Anybody? August 23rd is the … Continue reading Photowalking
New stuff – Point and Shoot, Grin and Bear
The new pictures in Flickr were taken at nephew Drake’s birthday party last Sunday. The kid turned 7 years old earlier in the week so I handed him my camera to get his first (I think) family photo session done at his own party. He’s a quick study as he picked up on a quick 10-second lesson on working a zoom lens. Credit to Drake is noted for his photos. A few more movie lines/quotes have been added to the page of the same name: Lonesome Dove, Chicken Run, The Sandlot, Lion King, and others. tm Continue reading New stuff – Point and Shoot, Grin and Bear
That New Picture in the Header
Giving credit where it’s due: FD Tiffany took the picture now in my Blog header with my FugiFilm FinePix S5700 camera in Maine last summer (that was pre-Canon Rebel XT). She ungracefully scaled a fence and traversed down to the rocky shoreline at Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse (scoll down on the web page – those are FD’s perch rocks in the picture) to take this sunset photo. The mosquitoes practically carried her out to sea. Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse is the only lighthouse on Mount Desert Island (Acadia National Park)
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