Project 365 - 2011 AxeMan

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AxeMan - Rick S.

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Day 194

Don’t forget to check out our Nikonites Baseball Hats. They look good on yourself, the dog, the cat, even your favorite cow lawn ornament. Get one today :p

Got my tree limb cut down and cut into pieces today in my brief waking hours. At least now it off the tree and not endangering anyone around it. Tomorrow I’ll finish stacking the big pieces for firewood and haul the limbs to the street for pick up. I’m off for the next two days so I’ll have a chance to get to the desktop PC too. Almost forgot to do a 365 today, so I called in “Old Bessie” for a model
 
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fotojack

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Damn! I gotta get me one of those hats! I just can't afford the darn shipping! :( There's gotta be a way! grrrrr!

Hey Rick.....creative shot, bud. :) Need a hand mooooo ving all those limbs to the curb? ;)
 
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AxeMan - Rick S.

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Night 195
Day 179 revisited at night.

For the next 3 days were going to have APBA power boat races on a local lake just 5 minutes from the house. Hoping to catch some “fish” out of water again this year. Shot the event last year right before I joined this board with my 200mm lens, a year later and a lot wiser with a 300mm zoom I’m really excited to go do it again. On Saturday I’m going to take a little time away from the powerboats to shoot another car show, and this time it’s in our town. Chris is going to try to come with me but has not decided if she is going to shoot or not. Still not moving too well, but wants in on the action.
 
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AxeMan - Rick S.

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Annual Regatta returns to town

ROCHELLE — Rochelle’s Lake Sule will hear and feel the scream of stock and modified racing engines when the Illinois Championships return to town.

Outboard racing teams from across the Midwest will arrive on Friday for practice and fine tuning day and prepare for a rigorous two days of racing on Saturday and Sunday. Based on early feedback, a large turnout of boats is expected at the race.

All the drivers want to win at Rochelle and will push their boats to the limit to do so.

For the second year, there will be a “Drivers School” on Friday, July 15 from 2-5 p.m. The public will have an opportunity to learn how to drive the same boats that the professionals race!

This year’s race will feature hydroplane and runabout style boats so small that there is no place to sit!

All drivers must kneel or lay in the 8- to 11-foot-long boats that speed from 35 m.p.h. in the novice classes to over 80 m.p.h. in the open exhaust modified classes!

“Lake Sule is the perfect place for our kind of racing,” said Tad Olson of Marine Racing Club. “It’s small enough to give my 14-year-old son, Carter, a smooth ride on fast water, and yet big enough where the faster boats can really get up to speed. The other unique thing about Lake Sule is that you are so close to the action. It’s one of the few places we race where spectators can see all the action without binoculars. It’s very exciting.”

<Taken from the Rochelle News Leader>

Since it was practice and fine tuning day I thought I do a little of my own before the race. Going to move closer to the turn 4 on Saturday to get closer to the action coming out of the corner so I don’t have to rely on the zoom so much.
 
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KWJams

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Cool shots :cool: Just watch your back ground when you pick a spot to shoot from. Last weekend I took a bunch of picture at a motorcycle race and never noticed the bright blue porta-potty way off in the background until much later. :(
 
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Carolina Photo Guy

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Very good Pete! You only missed it by one year. 1936 Packard 100 Touring Coupe – Queen Trunk
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When I was a growing boy, I was the poster child for "Car Nut!"

I gotta tell ya tho, I think when he restored it, I'm betting that he was told the wrong year when he bought the hood ornament. I don't usually get that kind of stuff wrong.

'Course, I am getting on in years.
 
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jengajoh

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I was thinking the same thing. I take mine with me grocery shopping sometimes but I am too chicken to take it out of my bag for fear of strange looks... which I get anyway so I don't know why I am worried.
 
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AxeMan - Rick S.

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I take my camera almost everywhere I go when I have not shot my 365 for the day. The Eye Doctor was thought out. I wanted to capture the chair and the equipment in the darkened room. Use my 35 f1.8 no flash, did it in one shot, did not want to hold doc up. He was very cool about it and found it amazing that I had such a wide aperture in that lens.
 
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Day 200
Ole!

You know when it's hot when the lawn ornaments are trying to beat the heat.

To hot out to go look for a photo today, so I called on my favorite hat model again. :D
 
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