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The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy

Today’s phase of the project went better than yesterday’s but still no time for new snaps. To wind down I was checking out the reader and found The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy. I took the following shot several months back with my Sony 300 and an old 50mm Minolta lens coupled to the body with an extension tube. Time, and The Bride getting laid off after her position was eliminated has cut into my getting-to-know-this-combo time. Her boss was really first class in the transition of it all and since she is trying to get into nursing school all is well, though kind of wild, and good. Sort of like this picture actually, all dream like and stuff.

One From Last October

I have a huge personal project going now and cannot take time for any new snaps for the next few days, weeks….. who knows! I only say this because yesterdays phase went six hours longer than anticipated due to my kind of life: Weird, wonderful and REALLY! So here is on from last October.

Last Night’s Night Light

A shot I took last night with my Canon Powershot SX260 HS using a power pole as a modified mono-pod.

Changing Of The Guard

From season to season there is always a changing of the guard in my neck of the woods. The wind and the air may feel different and subtle to some but the visual evidence is more compelling than anything.

Green and Red From The Day

Yesterday I had the pleasure of having my great-great niece dropped off so she could spend the night with The Bride and I. Since we had committed to watch her we had to take her with us to the viewing of one of our friends who died Wednesday. I know his parents better than I knew him really but I knew neither would care. As we stood in the viewing line we saw old and dear friends. Man there is something about weddings and funerals, right? After words we went out to eat and then home for what turned out to be a delightfully quite evening. This morning before she woke I went and tried to grab a few shots of the changing leaves. The sky was overcast and there was a grey tint to the early part of the day but the reds of the fallen leaves stood out again the surprisingly green grass. Like the little bundle of wonderful sleeping in her bed I found this to be a pleasant and wonderful thing. Here are two of those leaves in different setting but I hope like them as I do.

I took these with my Olympus SP-350 point and shot.

“I can only point the way, Grasshopper. You must walk the path yourself.–KF*” Master Po

Have you ever hit the proverbial wall and you just have no idea what to title a post? As you can tell from this posts title, me too. I got nothing else.

* From the original TV series “Kung Fu”

Finding Starts With Looking

My post last night was my artistic expression of how I felt about the challenges I have faced so far this week. To add to that weight was of the death of a friend of The Bride and I .Now I must confess I am an emotional dude who thinks a lot. Add on top of that I suffer with SAD and though I love Autumn for me it carries some unique challenges. Like being nice when I am tired and cranky. By the way my work is such I have full contact with the general-unfiltered public a lot. So today after running errands I went in search of something wondrous no matter how small. Here are some of my discoveries from our place. Remember finding starts with looking.