I love live music and the more intimate and simple the space and set up is the better. Saturday night we attended a house concert and BBQ that fit the bill for that. The rain is every present in our area right now, it’s a good thing not a bad thing, so the musicians had to set up in a small portable gazebo. Here is to keepin’ it simple.
After mowing the lawn today I got to use the new manual extension tubes on my Sony A300 I purchased from Amazon. Since I have 35mm film lenses that I use on the A300 I felt comfortable shooting in full manual mode with the extension tubes. What I wasn’t expecting is how soft and wide the edges are with my first choice of lens ( Minolta 50mm f 1:1.7 ). I think it will be a little sharper when I shot with just one extension ring on not all tree at once. I did not get to try that today as we had plans for early this evening. As I downloaded the pics tonight I found a picture I took but thought it would not come out at all. The light was wrong, the angle I had to shot it was wrong and most of the subject was not in an advantageous position for my to get a proper shot. I took it anyway. Now I am glad I did. Below is that shot and it all started when I rescued this little fellow from path of the blades of my mower earlier. I remembered I had moved this little one out-of-the-way of my mowing and really thought it would be gone but it was not. So I took this shot and did not have any idea what to expect but what I found was something extraordinary. Can anyone guess what it is? No prizes awarded I am afraid but this should be fun.
I was carrying my Powershot SX260HS with me tonight at a gathering of the towns folks @ a tavern in a garden. We were enjoying some live music, feel good food and a very pleasant and tempered August evening when the atmosphere turned temporal. There strolling through the garden was none other the General Custer. It seems the stories are true about his fondness towards this place and this town. Though his wife thought those of us who live here were backwards, Gen. Custer did seem to enjoy his walks about the place when was here. In that light I am pleased to have been able capture the time and place when Custer came to visit.
Rust to me is more than decay. It is new life given to old things for me to find the beauty laying within. Here is my take on WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture.
I love the little Spotted Jewelweed almost as much as Hummingbirds and Bumblebees. Almost. At this time of year they are blooming in spades on our place and the Hummingbirds and Bumblebees are busy feeding. Since I have been a little to busy and distracted to patiently seek out spots to photograph the birds and the bees here is one of a Spotted Jewelweed under its sun porch.
I have found several photo-editors online and I am test driving them on some of my hot rod pics. here is two for effect.
I was standing on the street Saturday just admiring the cars and then a sound cut clean through the noise of the crowd. It was a sound of mechanical heaven: The whine of a gear-driven massive hunk of precision honed metal parts breathing through the pipes of ready-for-battle hard stainless steel. As a want-to-be gear head I know this sound and I turned towards it. The thing a big block blown Willys Coupe! I made may way down the street this beast went down and to take several shots of it. As has been the case, at least with me, I ask if I could take some pictures and the owner said “sure”. I talked to him for a bit and he said he drove this from his home forty-miles away without one hiccup.No trailer-queen here folks. Now that’s cool! As others gathered around I headed out to check out more cars and realized later I did not ask him what year it was. I am thinking the mid-nineteen-thirties. None the less here is one willy sweet ride.
Daffodil Hill Photography 