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Re: Post your Cemetary Shots! After looking at the photos I posted yesterday, I don't know why I didn't crop the one with all the flags at the front of the cemetery. I must have had a momentary brain burp. Anyway, here it is, cropped, and I think it looks better.

5-21-13: Out with the photography class again. It amazes me how high school students love the playground. Below are a few photos that I played around with. I had fun with enhancing B&W photos with a single color that was on the jungle gym. All photos were taken with my D3000, AF-S 18-55mm...

Re: Post your Cemetary Shots! More from the Bunn Hill Cemetery. Now that the ground is free of snow, I walked around and noticed that the most recent person to be buried there was in 1998. It is a very, very small cemetery. If you look very closely at the lower left corner of the...

Just try to get a red-winged blackbird in flight... Now find him. :) Yeah, he's that small, black blur in the middle of all that green.

5-20-13: Here goes... It's red-winged blackbird day. At least it's not geese. :) We have lots of red-winged blackbirds around here. I really like them. This guy was singing away for quite a while until his mate flew off. She came out of nowhere but I was able to get this in-flight...

Re: Post your Cemetary Shots! I took these back in mid-February, right after I got my D7000. This is the Bunn Hill Cemetery. It is an old cemetery that is not used any more. The last person buried there was in the 1940s. I plan on going back and taking more photos again now that the...

5-19-13: Okay, a change of pace today. No geese nor creepy arachnids. :) Today it is plants! Plants are your friends, and I have lots of plant pictures. We have several crab apple trees in the woods behind our house. Here are the flowers from one. In Bloom These little guys seem to...

5-18-13: Different pond, different geese. :) Both photos taken with D3000, AF-S 55-200mm non-VR zoom ISO 400 Aperture: f/8 Shutter: 1/400 & 1/250 respectively. The Gaggle Family Outing

Last night, just around dusk, I was outside playing with my Nikkor AF 85mm f/1.8 lens and shot the following 2 photos. The only post processing done is to convert from RAW to jpg. Both were shot with the following settings: Aperture: f/1.8 Shutter: 1/40, 1/100, respectively ISO: 800 Hand...

5-17-13: On the way home, I stopped at a pond that is down the road from me. There were two families of geese. You could tell that one set of gosslings was at least a week older than the other set. They were really rather cute. It gives me a chuckle that the owners of the pond have placed a...

Re: Bird in Flight Here are my latest BIF photos. On my way home, I stopped at a pond that is down the road from me. While watching the geese, I was able to get some BIF of a crow. I had to crop these photos a lot but I am pretty happy with them. At least they are not just a blur of...

We have a bunch of sparrows that have taken up residence in our rhododendron bush. They have been driving the cats nuts (which keeps them occupied for hours). So, this afternoon, I thought I'd try to get a photo of them. I definitely couldn't do it from outside, so I decided to try the cat's...

5-16-13: While out with the photography class, I got this one of part of the new playground that was put in for the elementary school kids. I like the B&W better than the color version because the color, itself, makes it look to busy. Up and Down This is the way I don't mind seeing...

5-15-13: Addendum... While I was out with the dog tonight for her last outing before bed, I noticed these very industrious arachnids on the window near the outside light. Both are labyrinthine orb weaver spiders. For you Trekkies out there, you may appreciate my spousal unit's comment...

5-15-13: After a crazy day at work, it was nice to get out into the sunshine. I saw this web on a post and rail fence and just loved the way the sunlight fell on it. Web Light Hanging by a Web

5-14-13: It is a dandelion day! They are all over my lawn. Many have gone to stage two or three. Here goes: So this is how they spread so fast! Busy Bee Dandelion, stage 2. Past Its Prime Dandelion, stage 3. Demise of the Dandelion And finally... Yes, we do have flamingos in...

5-13-13: Started out on a positive note taking photos. We have lots of ferns growing around here. Below is an example: Green on Green This spider web was on the outside of the window. I noticed it when I came home because of all the fluffy seed poofs that had coated it. I took this...

5-12-13: The rain has finally stopped and the sun came out. Haven't seen that for quite a number of days. I have no idea what either of the following two flowers/plants are. I do know that the white-flowered plant is a weed, or at least that's what some of my gardening friends have said...

5-11-13: Between the weather and my allergies wreaking havoc with me, my contribution today is a photo of a pair of socks I finished knitting on Thursday: Socks Just looked at this again and realize it is a hair too dark. Sorry about that.

5-10-13: Today was one of those days that I almost didn't get to take a photo. Anyway, here is a photo of a scarf that I started yestereday. I always make about a half dozen scarves every year as "just in case" gifts and ready birthday/holiday gifts. Scarf