Tom Grove's Not Quite 365 2014 Photo a Day Thingy

[Roy1961]

Thanks Roy... It's a challenge to find more interesting things to shoot.

Wait until you get a few months in, some days I think I am taking pics of the same Hawk

 

[Tom Grove]

Wait until you get a few months in, some days I think I am taking pics of the same Hawk

Haha. I guess I'll be spending part of my weekends driving and scouting locations to hit during the week.

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 11...

Due to lack of seating and overall poor event planning, we left a very disappointing Indian pow-wow, but not before getting a few photos.

Traditional hoop dancers.





Squaw in ceremonial dress.

 

[sonicbuffalo_RIP]

Nice colors Tom!

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 12...

Discovered some local skydivers...









and an ominous warning...

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 13...

 

[Roy1961]

nice shooting Tom, Perris skydive??

 

[Tom Grove]

nice shooting Tom, Perris skydive??

Yes it is! I just stumbled upon it as I was driving Sunday afternoon. Have you been there before?

 

[Roy1961]

Yes it is! I just stumbled upon it as I was driving Sunday afternoon. Have you been there before?

Yes and the one at Lake Elsinore, you will see the hot air balloons later in the year take off from there

 

[Tom Grove]

Yes and the one at Lake Elsinore, you will see the hot air balloons later in the year take off from there

I definitely want to get hot air balloons one day!

 

[sonicbuffalo_RIP]

nice images, Tom!

 

[Tom Grove]

nice images, Tom!

Thank you very much!

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 14...

At the park... Not overly impressive subjects, but these are my 1st acceptable attempts at bracketed shots that were HDR processed.

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 15...

My son's reflection in a puddle out side of pool...



and my wife as well, different puddle...



and a lamp (no reflection)...



Added an additional HDR rendering of my son Anthony's reflection in the puddle...

 

[Roy1961]

nice job Tom, maybe i will try one of these on Sunday?

 

[Tom Grove]

nice job Tom, maybe i will try one of these on Sunday?

That would be great!

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 16...

Looking through the floor of the apparatus...





Sunset through a tree...

 

[Roy1961]

was it tough to get your focus point there Tom?

 

[Tom Grove]

was it tough to get your focus point there Tom?

Through the holes it was a nightmare in AF. So what I did was I used AF on another unobstructed subject and switched to MF, then took the shot of Anthony. That worked much better.

 

[Tom Grove]

Day 17...







Peek-a-boo...