Potato bug

These Slinky's always reminded me of potato bugs. This is my daughters 2nd round at the marvelous invention. That was the trouble with these when I was a kid as well. Once they get tangled, they are not good for anything, not even a door stop.

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f11~~1/180~~iso200~~28mm onboard flash with umbrella camera right.

Flower week

I Created a tutorial for my teachers on this shot. A sharp mask in CS4 but can be done in all the photoshop versions. PS elements, not so much :( Again it rained like crazy today and got out and took a few shots on the back deck. Here was the shot I chose. Tim it is a quicktime so you should be able to view it on your mac. Do you have bootcamp on your machines?

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f6.3~~1/40~~ISO200~~300mm tamron 28-300

Late rain

Showers and wind in the late afternoon, and early evening today. I stepped outside for a quick shot of our flowers. We just can't get a string of nice weather this spring. We get back to back days but then the wind and rain hits. A strange 6 month weather pattern in the Pacific Northwest this winter/spring season.

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f5.6~~1/15~~ISO400~~135mm

Wanna play some futball

Wanted to find a basketball but my garage is a bit cluttered right now so I grabbed my Hardy Nickerson signed football that I have stored in my den. My older brother gave this to me as a gift about 10 years ago. It has never been thrown or kicked, it just sits lonely in my den next to my signed batting helmet (picture for another day) In fact I am not sure if it's ever been photographed. I used my 540 speed light with my home made snoot. Here is my video of how I made my home made snoot and would love feedback on the tutorial and how I could improve it. Enjoy and have a great Cinco De Mayo tomorrow.

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f16~~1/80~~ISO400~~28mm

For Sale RADEON 1650 PRO

Anyone need a great video card. Fast, Diamond Viper 512MB GDDR2 RAM
Dual-Link DVI-I + Dual-Link DVI-I S-Video + HDTV CrossFire Support. I am asking 50 dollars for this prime card. I had fun taking the shot and have posted it on Craigslist for 55. Anyone that reads this post can have it for 50.00 and I might go as low as 45.00.

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f22~~1/60~~iso400~~28mm off camera flash left, foam core fill light camera right.

Ballet

This dress is a bit small for my daughter. She wore it for Santa Baby. If you have 3 min. it is well worth the watch. She is the first one on stage and the one that blows the kiss at the end. And here is the encore. If you look closely you will see the theme of her bathroom is Ballet.

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f4~~1/125~~ISO 800~~23mm

Co-Workers

Well, since I don't work on the weekends I figured I would get it taken today and go ahead and post. I really enjoy the people I work with and here are three of my IT folks. Shot (from left to right) Cindy, (she runs the show) Jack, (a wealth of reference) and Kevin ( Captain Video). They are burning a DVD of a golden apple winner in our school district. It took some work around but they were able to get the footage they needed.

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f4~~1/15~~ISO200~~11mm