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Day 71 - Wolf in sheep's clothing? Chatting about different PS techniques (layers and such) with a few folks today, an idea popped into my head that I wanted to try, so I gave it a shot. I'm not *THRILLED* with the result, but I came out with something barely "workable" and a bit of knowledge...

Day 70 - Breaking all the rules... Ok, so I've fallen in love with this idea of "abstract" for a while, so I was thinking... what about abstract selfies? Hrrrmmm - there are some odd possibilities. I figured a close-up majorly out of focus shot of the eyes would be cool, perhaps adding a...

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Day 69 - Duality Pic of the day or Monthly Challenge? The answer is... YES

Day 68 - part 3. Little cousin? On the way back home, I spotted another bird of prey on the edge of one of our large parks. Much smaller, and much easier to get a nice close-up! A red shouldered hawk... Hello there... You trying to sneak up on ME!? Alright buddy, that's TOO close...

Day 68 - Part 2. LR edits from my short jaunt into the "wilderness" after spotting the two previous pics. All have been heavily cropped from 300mm shots. As is usual with me, I probably took WAY too many pics because of the sheer beauty (and rarity) of the subject. :)

Day 68 - It all started when... I was on my way to church and spotted this: Of course, I didn't have time to stop, so these were actually the first two snaps after we attended church and had lunch with the friends that joined us, after which I drove home, picked up the camera, and headed...

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Day 67 (part 2) - Like I said, it's hard not to shoot when there are so many colorful displays! Here's a few of the soda bottle structure, which is lit up at night. It changes colors/patterns at random. Left a passing car in this one to show the scale.

Day 67 - Thirsty? Got a call from my daughter asking if we'd like to meet her for dinner at POPS, on Rt. 66. As she's out on her own and rather independent, we jumped at the chance! POPS is a Rt. 66 landmark, with a giant soda bottle (with straw) sculpture that stands 66 feet high and weighs...

Day 66 - just dabbling. Wanted to test and see how something like this would work, but I'll actually need a bigger mirror that this little handheld job.

Day 65 - Old haunt, new shots. Yes, I've posted pics shot from this location before, but came back to catch some "not quite night shots" and a bit of the hazy sunset. We've got a photography lifegroup at our church, so I invited them out tonight as well, so I kind of introduced some folks to...

Day 64 part 2 - the ALMOST series! Toward the end of my lunch time jaunt, the couple of geese near me started honking like they sometimes do when fighting over bread that people often feed them. This got the attention of a couple of other geese from across the pond, who came HUSTLING in for a...

Day 64 - A day of reflection. Yup, calmer winds, temps in the 40's and a new UV filter (from @weebee, linked here) to test out... that means the bald guy was headed to the local park to catch some more floating fowl with crazy hopes of catching some reflections as well. It was a very gray and...

Day 63 - Awww, c'mon, really!? Yup... BRRRRRR! (part 3) A quick shot down the street before I left for work, to see if I could catch the light and shadows on snow without missing the exposure on either. Ready for this stuff to be gone for a LONG while!!

Day 62 - BRRRRRR! (part 2) Puppy feet in the snow.

Day 61 - BRRRRRR! 1:57 p.m. and we just hit our projected high for the day. 15 degrees Fahrenheit, with a windchill of... 2. (for you metric folks, that's -9 Celsius, with a windchill of -16) I let the pups out the back door for a FAST tinkle break, and snapped this FAST pic of our back...

The hotspot was the result of only using my speedlight on camera, and I actually got a couple without the hotspot (or much less of one with my bald head right over the subject) as I cranked the flash 180 degrees to fire straight up with the diffuser instead. To be honest, though, searching...

Day 60 - Snappin' shots of the "shot". Yet another winter blast blowing through this evening, so I stayed inside to mess with some cream tone and black and white. This is what ya get. :)

Day 59 - I'm KEEPING my ear!! Took the wife to a "Paint 'n Sip" studio here in town for her BDay, and we were guided through reproducing a one-off of Van Gogh's Starry Night or some such... the painting action pics are of my wife, but the final result was my own work. Where it all starts...