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Do what you can where you are with what you've got.
Theodore Roosevelt
Flag Counter started April 3, 2008
Flag Counter started April 3, 2008
Thu 2 Sep 2010
First, the sunrise was glorious! |
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Then, we could see the thunderheads building mid-afternoon for the storms that came later. |
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The lightening started up and there was still some daylight leftover, so I ran out to try and catch some lightening. I didn’t take time to set up the tripod, so couldn’t hold it perfect. I did get this shot with the twin bolts. |
And this one has a little bolt to the far left. I just held down the shutter for continuous shooting hoping I might accidentally catch a lightening bolt. |
This was the oddest shot! This is an untouched photo, not manipulated in photoshop! Mike and Beth, my pro photog friends, said I must have accidentally touched the zoom while doing my continuous shots along with the handheld low-light shot complications. |
This one doesn’t have the degree of fade/rotation of the previous, but it’s pretty cool anyway. |
Fri 27 Aug 2010
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This morning I took some photos of the barn just before we started on the renovation! It’s a GREAT old barn, and we are going to put red tin on it over the old, faded, shrunken oak siding boards. |
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Right: "artsy" photo of the east side of the barn. I didn’t notice until I looked at the photo there was a little lizard sunning himself on the left side of this photo! |
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 Here’s Andy, Jeff and Richard putting nailers up on the south side of the barn. |
 And here they are working on the north side of the barn. They finished this side by the end of the day. |
Thu 26 Aug 2010
Tonight the moon and Jupiter had a close encounter a little past midnight, and I stayed up until midnight trying to get a good photo. First of all, they insinuated it would look like two moons. Well, "they" were exaggerating a lot! More than a lot! It looked like the moon and a big star! But, it was fun. Click here for more information.
 11:10 pm ; no zoom, slower shutter so you can see the trees. |
 11:46 pm; Jupiter at the bottom of the photo, zoomed in. |
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11:47 pm; zoomed all the way out so you can see the relationship. Jupiter not easily visible on this smaller image, but click on it to see the larger one and you can see Jupiter just below the moon. Doesn’t really look much closer than it did at 11:10 does it? |
Thu 19 Aug 2010
I take Aspirin for the headache caused by the Zyrtec I take for the hayfever I got from Relenza for the uneasy stomach from the Ritalin I take for the short attention span caused by the Scopederm TX I take for the motion sickness I got from the Lomotil I take for the diarrhea caused by the Zenikal for the uncontrolled weight gain from the Paxil I take for the anxiety from Zocor I take for my high cholesterol because exercise, a good diet, and regular chiropractic care are just too much trouble!
[I don't really take these drugs, but I know of people who do take drug after drug to counter the effects of other drugs, which are mostly unnecessary! Think about it people!]
Wed 18 Aug 2010
Richard and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary with two days of fishing at Bennett Spring. I caught more fish than usual, and Richard had some of his best fishing ever! We had a room with a mini-kitchen and cooked a major feast of fresh fish! Life is great!
 Richard catching a fish! |
 I tried some different settings for this watershot and then tinkered with it in Photoshop. |
Thu 12 Aug 2010
Yesterday I finally figured out how to take a series of photos at a certain interval that I determine, so I took a series of thunderheads and then put them together into a flash movie and even wrote an original haiku to go with it!
Mon 2 Aug 2010
 I received my FIRST first place award for a printed photo at the fair with this kaleidoscope image! |
 And, I received a second place for this one! |
In past years I’ve received three first place awards for contests where you take photos on the first day of the fair and email them in for a contest at that fair. However, I’ve never received a first place for one of the photos I printed and matted for exhibit at the fair!!
Tue 27 Jul 2010
Below are the photos I entered in the fair this year. The fair starts Friday, so I’ll know the results soon after that.
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Sat 24 Jul 2010
Richard and I went on the 3rd Annual (2nd for us!) World Wide Photo walk today! What fun to visit with great local photographers and get to see some areas of Springfield I hadn’t seen before. Here’s some of the photographers taking portraits of our model, Anna, with our intrepid walk leader, Mike, holding the reflector getting some good light on her!
 We started near the old Springfield jail. Here’s reflections of other photographers in the jail window. |
 This was an empty office space below the parking garage near the jail. |
 I took these photos of the flower plantings on the square. |
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 Our model, the lovely Anna! |
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 (above) The Japanese Beetles are really bad this year, and here’s some of the leaves they have mostly ate in a corner near the square. (right) Richard taking a picture of me taking a picture of him taking a picture of me taking . . . . |
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Wed 14 Jul 2010
Here’s your chance to vote on my photos for the other Categories I’m entered in! Again, 1 means icky and 5 means great!
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