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Day 170 - BLACK GOLD!!! No, really... it's the Black Gold Festival that's held every year in a nearby community. ;) My InFocus life group from church met here tonight for our "shoot it" night, and I got a few worth messing with. There will be several posts, but here are the first 3 from...

The new bloom on my straw flower is finally complete! For some reason, I keep hearing Brian Regan in my head, repeating over and over... "The big YELLOW one is the SUN!" LOL (if ya don't know who Brian Regan is, you should look him up and give him a listen!)

Here's some "portrait" testing using the same manual settings, just for comparison. OOC, uncropped. 1st, SB700 with stock diffuser, on target. Stock diffuser, bounced at an angle. Lightsphere, on target. Lightsphere, bounced at an angle. Best of the shots! NOW I'm seeing what the...

Day 169 - Lightsphere testing Ok, two subjects. 1st, my co-worker and "sister by another mister". NO, she's not actually my other sister by way of the milkman (I'm an only child, rofl) but we think so much alike we swear we were twins born in two different families. I coined the phrase off...

Heard a lot about these, local camera shop had them at the same price as any web based merchant, so decided I'd get one and mess around with it a bit. It looks a bit odd on top of the SB700, especially on camera, but a little minor testing (will upload those later, as I'm at work) showed...

Day 167 - Heartache It was my last evening with a very dear companion, as today she made her final visit to the vet. Not a great pic, as I was finding it a bit hard to focus, but this was her last night, curled up in her dog bed right next to my feet, like she always was, with a few edits to...

Day 166 - New Bloom! My Straw Flower came back with a new bloom! LOVE it!

Day 165 - What a hard day. That's all I'll say, but now, just before 11 p.m., I finally slowed down and got off a shot for the day. This is it, and it's all you get. Good night.

The "Honey Moon" - well, ok... the night after. Startin' to look a little rough around the edges already. ;) (Read into that whatever ya want, LOL)

Day 164 - Another long day, just finished planting part of my father's day present - a red cone flower! (have only seen the pink and yellow ones before, so it was a special treat!) It was full dark when we finished planting them, as well as re-potting a few other things, so this was with the...

...and Day 163 - nothing huge, picture wise, but it was a huge win for me! To fill in (briefly) a bit of back story, "The Hobbit" was the first book that ever grabbed me. COMPLETELY. and even after near 1,000 more reads, it's always had a special place in my heart and memories. I've searched...

Day 162 - Camp Life? So my son is at camp this week, and today they spent the day learning about Native American life, games, etc. Then tonight, they had a social dance. Not a Pow Wow (or Longhouse meeting, as these tribes celebrate it), but rather an informal social gathering where the night...

Day 161 Part 2 - ...and THEN it was MY turn! Who needs a ND filter? Just get your running water shots at night! ;) Got a clear shot to shoot this fountain with the glow of the downtown OKC nightlife in the background. The advantage of visiting on a Tuesday night is the fact that there are...

Ok, we're back in order now. Had a BLAST at Bricktown in OKC Tuesday night, and got a chance to do one of my favorite things. Long exposure night photos! Here's quite a bit of me dabbling - first, some candid shots as we wandered. We were on our way to the Coco Flow Chocolate Cafe (the...

Got the chance to go back and catch some night shots. It's interesting that the designer of the memorial wanted nearly everything to light up to signify that light would always shine through, even in the darkest of times. Hope these pics show that... Also, each of the chairs lights up...

The REAL Day 159 - (Previous Day 159 - tiger series - was edited to be day 160, which it really is. This SHOULD have been posted before, but I got distracted, so... Live with it! Thanks!) Busy day, dropping the boy off at camp, not a lot of time to shoot, but saw this driving by, so stopped...

Can I share a couple of baby pics? They're not avian...

Day 160 - ZOO day! (Just LOVE my zoo days!) (EDITED TO DAY 160, posted thinking I had posted the previous day's pic already, which I hadn't, so Day 159 will follow, LOL. JUST BEAR WITH ME, ok???) My stripes give me a natural camouflage, you can't see me!! Crap... he sees me. Maybe if I...

Shot a few today whilst out and about... :) These were TINY little blooms (as you can tell from the ants that are raiding the blooms). No idea what they are, but LOVE 'em! No idea what this is either, but love the "spiral". ...and one of my all time faves, the Indian Blanket flower!

Day 158 - Only In A Jeep... Found this cool "display" at the far end of a local car show, thought it was worth a snap. :)