Category: Things I Find Cool

One Fine and Rusty Ford Truck

It has been an eventful stretch in The Brides and my life. I started the kitchen/dining room remodel a week ago. Today I got my answer on how we can remove and shore up a wall separating the dining room from the living room. In doing so I got two recruits to help do it. Bonus! Also this two days ago The Bride got accepted to the Nursing program at our local college! Now how to pay for it all and finish the remodel and the list goes on but I am excited to see how it is worked out.

Over the next few weeks I hope to get the remodel done and finish up a few outside projects before the weather gets to cold to do so. In that time I will be digging up snaps from the-way-back-file to share along with any new ones I can get. Till then enjoy one fine and rusty Ford truck!

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Down Time

I took about an hour or so of this amazing day for a little down time. I have a Olympus SP-350 I bought online for around $7-8 plus shipping. It was an amazing camera in its day and I  have tried to get the most out of it on macro for a while now. As an everyday shooter it is very nice but I have had trouble using the macro since the camera has zero anti-vibration capabilities, well that I can find anyway. And since there was not manual, well I just took off free of such clutter….and knowledge to do as I please with the little bugger! So here are three macro I took today using it. I set up a lawn chair, with my outside cat Butterfly as my helper and went about waiting on that perfect shot……since that didn’t happen you get these instead ;).

For reference as to how small the Wood Aster flower is I used a AA battery to give you a visual reference as to these size. I did this for two reasons: One is to show you how small some pollinators are and two if I can get a good shot of the Bumblebees and the red wasps that feed on them as well. Cool stuff!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy Number II

Being busy (spell-check is not spell-correct and let me say “busty” instead of busy, which is not at all where I was headed with this post .Now where was I? Oh, yes) with what was supposed to be the finally part of a multiple-phase home project. That changed after I opened up the proverbially can-of-worms today. Tomorrow hopefully will find me finishing up and getting to the next stage. So I had no new snaps but did have The Boy’s help today and wanted to share his loveliness with you all.  So here is The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge:Dreamy Number II

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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An Old Cat’s Kitten Through A New Lens

Meet Dainty Dot , the now around Fifteen-year old kitten of Momma Cat. In my post An Old Cat Through An Old Lens I used a vintage SLR lens in the capture mated to a modern DSLR. In this shot I used a kit lens on a modern DSLR to capture the beauty of this wonderful offspring of a great Queen called Momma Cat. So I present an old cat’s kitten through a new lens.

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WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime

I have tried other challenges and they really were of something I was comfortable with but nighttime shots? Well that is another thing all together. As a novice I am glad of one thing: Nighttime shots challenge ever skill level and this challenge I can see others entries and learn my place in the light. So here are my entries in the WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime

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