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Definitely not my finest work. Quite shaky, but the subject is so cute it helps redeem me just a tiny bit. I was overrun with work and tired this day, and I only took six pictures, and three of them were of this little girl, and this was the best. Kind of pathetic, that, but there are some days where that’s all I’ve got in me.
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A little shaky this morning. This was before daylight savings kicked in, and we had a few mornings that looked more like night.
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What happens when Tom and the kitchen meet: acorn squash, butter, apricot preserves. I’m no gourmet by any means, but I can occasionally pull off something other than a microwave burrito. These are also good if you sub brown sugar for the apricot preserves.
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Another night that wiped me out. I was doing so much other work that I almost forgot to even shoot anything. This one was barely remembered before I went to bed.
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I was so exhausted Monday that I only took three pictures all day, and two of them were of this right here. I went up to mom and dad’s to say hello. Ended up hanging out with dad and we talked about some wood for some rolling ball sculpture projects I have going on (okay, they’ll be going on sometime kind of soon…I hope). So we went through his scraps and found some nice stuff. Should look when it’s done. For now, well, it’s just pieces of wood, I guess. I just couldn’t make anything else happen tonight, went home and almost immediately went to bed.
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Finally got some sun today! Had to go out and shoot the leaves again. Gotta take advantage of the sun in fall. I know this subject is getting a lot of coverage from me, but in another week or so there won’t be any leaves on the trees, and then all I can show is mud and rain. Bah!
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Actually, really it’s looking toward my side yard, but yanno, there’s no song with that lyric. I’m working with what I got at the moment.
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It rained this week and brought a lot of the leaves to the ground. Now my yard looks like it’s blanketed with oranges and reds and browns and yellows. It really looks kind of magical when it’s like this. Makes it nice to pull up in the driveway. This is definitely one of the highest highlights of living in the Midwest. Simply beautiful, even on a cloudy day like today.
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I LOVE THESE COLORS! This is not the greatest picture I’ve ever composed, but I love the color and texture in this sunrise! I had to put it up!
I was on my way to work this morning, and as I turned the corner to head west I caught a view of the sky that I couldn’t see on my block. It was simply amazing! I stopped for a second and thought, “Man, I’m running late. I gotta get going.” I drove down the street a block, stopped at the stop sign, looked in the rearview mirror, and went, “I HAVE to shoot that!”
There was no one behind me, so I put it in park, jumped out, flipped the camera on, and squeezed off two quick shots. One was blurry, as I used slow shutter speed and wiggled it, but this one came out. The clouds were just amazing. Unbelievable! I wish I could have stood there for another 120 seconds, because two minutes later at another light I looked in the mirror, and the whole sky had gone brilliant gold. It was just one of those moments when everything looks beautiful.
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Number five in the series of installments, and look how close we are to being finished! I have just a few minutes left to put in on one of them, and then we’ll be done! Per Melissa, I’m thinking on ideas involving circles for the next one. I didn’t own the color black until we were halfway through these, and tonight Jem decided that she was going to add tons of black around the squiggly things. Personally, I think that was brilliant, really made the colors jump off the page!