Dew on the Web on the Web

I cleaned up the photos from earlier today and cropped out the branch. Now there is an abstract looking photograph. I think it has a high "cool" factor and makes a cool desktop. 

Horse Pics Again

Here are some photographs from this afternoons picture session. I had fun, but the horses are a little past their prime picture taking period with their winter coats so formal shots were out. These are some more casual photos from a typical beautiful warm fall day though.


The brown one is an Arabian. He has a very regal look. The Paint is part quarterhorse and part Paint. Both were dirty and the hair wasn't 'picture perfect'. This picture is what I think of when I think of horses. If I get energetic I might try to photoshop out the fence.



Look at them running free in the pasture!


This is a very handsome Black Lab that Cindy's friend owns. What a great dog!



Cindy and her friend coming in from their morning rides. 

Dew Drops

Here is the pic I talked about earlier. It's nice enough, but I like the cooler temperature blue version a lot better. It's that whole artist thing!

Foggy Morning II

I went out for another shot at some foggy morning pictures. These were from the field where I took the last pics. The trees still didn't suit me, but these pics of dew on spider webs did. I'm fascinated with the unseen or unnoticed world around us, and here is a spider world that I haven't thought much about.

This is small portion of a field of many acres, all covered in these webs. That makes me think there must be millions of spiders in here...


I changed the color temperature on this and loved how the blue came out. I'll post an un-manipulated version in a few minutes.


This was the end of a soy bean stalk, about the size of a ping pong ball. I like how the world is upside down in the bigger droplets.

Natural Light Portraits

I took some pics today using natural light and no flash. These are the ones that came out best, especially considering that I didn't check all the settings on the camera first...


Bill looks much more serious here than he did about a half a second later as he broke into a big smile.


A nice smile and profile



Mary and Tim were messing around in the kitchen as Tim pointed out the significant difference in their heights. I like the B&W photo since Tim is always in the back of Mary's mind. 

Foggy shapes

Mary took a lot of delight in calling me early the other day to alert me to foggy conditions, per my request a while back. Here are some of the shots I got. Mostly they are about shapes, and not really what I had in mind. I think I need a foggy morning that is sunny..



 

More horse pics

These are the last of the pics. The mostly brown looking horse is named "Kingston" and the roane one is "Diamond"

Horse Pics

My wife's co-worker (Cindy) has a horse of her own and a few she boards. Cindy is more than a co-worker though, she took care of Kaitlyn and Tim when they were born. Anyways, Cindy asked Mary if I'd try taking some pics of her horse some time, so we went over today to take a look at the new barn and the horses, to see what I'm up against. I took some test shots... here are a few that I liked. Cindy's horse is Magic, the white horse with brown spots.

More Airshow Pics

I'm in Florida to pick up a car from my sister. The Naval Air Station is doing an airshow this weekend, which I had no idea of when I set the trip plans. So, I lucked out, 2 air shows in less than a month!



If I was forced to say who flew tighter, the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, I'd have to go with the Blue Angels, but it would be darn close! Get it???



They came across 4 abreast and the 2 outter pilots broke away, then the 2 inner pilots. Tight!



Cool propaganda pic! 

Jacksonville Air Show

I'm in Jacksonville Florida for the night picking up a car from my sister. The Navy is doing an Air Show here this weekend, which I had no idea of when we set the date to do the car thing. I got here today and my sister dumped tim and I off a the air show to be picked up later, after the Blue Angels show. They were awesome! I'd be hard pressed to say who had the better show, but if I had to, I'd say the Blue Angels might be flying a little closer than the Thunderbirds.... Either way, I'm sure I could do it too, being a former astronaut and all!


This one I got by accident, shooting the front one while he did his upside down thing on the main runway while his fellow airmen were looping around in the background.



Number 5 and 7 were both right side up as they approached the runway, 5 flipped over from slightly in front of 7, then 7 pulled up next to 5, all at ~250 mph or so, I guess, oh yeah, about 100 feet off the ground? Easy peasy!


Skyline shot



Thats looking pretty tight to me! 

Mary's a Freakin artist too

Here are some pics Mary took in the Grand Canyon with Tim's camera. The pic of all three of us was taken by the Chinese boat captain, while Driving us up the Colorado River. The Canyon is a multi-cultural experience. We met people from all over the globe there including at least Japan, China, India, the Netherlands, and Germany. A couple of the pics are of your's truly doing what he likes to do best, and of course there is Tim in the back seat of the van, as far away from the parents as possible, listening to his mp3 player.

 
 
 
  

Last 2 shots from Bombay Hook

These flowers were what I stopped to take a look at before I took all the bug pics. More than once I've stopped to look at one thing, and found something else that was at least as interesting as the original motivator.


These are the leafs (leaves???) I went all the way out to BH to take pics of. They're OK, and closer to what I was looking for yesterday.

More from the roadside

Roadside World

I went back out to Bombay Hook today to re-take some pics of the tree from yesterday that didn't work out the way I wanted. I'll post that picture next, but while I was out there I stopped beside the road and was looking at some flowers in the water. Anyways, I noticed some bugs, and got out my macro lens. I have always been fascinated by the secret worlds that surround us that we are barely aware of. Here are some of the inhabitants of one little non-descript roadside world, about 30 feet long.