Category: Things I Find Cool

The Sunshine Award

I was going to post a picture of the last Honeysuckle on our place but I needed to honor a commitment an accept The Sun Shine Award. I was nominated by  Rise and Shine. Thank you very much for the nod and visiting my place. If you want to see a beautiful Honeysuckle go visit Gary Schollmier at his place. Till the next time: Peace.

Rules:

1. Copy and paste the award logo to your post.

2. Answer the eight questions.

3. Nominate 10 other people.

Questions:

1. What is your favorite Christmas/festive movie?

A Christmas Story

2. What is your favorite flower?

Daffodils

3. What is your favorite non-alcoholic beverage?

Coffee

4. What is your passion?

Really, just one? Drumming

5. What is your favorite time of year?

Autumn

6. What is your favorite part of the day?

Any time after 10 o’clock AM

7. What is your favorite physical activity?

Jumping to conclussions

8. What is your favorite vacation?

The next one.

 

One For A Dear Friend

One thing about blogging I love is the friendships I have been blessed with here. Here is one for my dear friend at Snow Bird Press. And yes you should visit her place. It is a beautiful and wonder filled place where Art meets Haiku.

This is an untouched shot. I took it with my new toy an PowerShot SX260 HS.

Streets of Color

Today The Bride and I had the privilege to attend the street festival called Via Colori. Both the painters (and I) got a late start  on the day because of early morning rains but all is well that ends well. I am posting a few pics tonight and tomorrow on the blog a little something different for me. I was nominated for The Sunshine Award by Rise and Shine and will be posting it later in the day.  Till the next time: Enjoy!

As you can see there was a wide range of subjects on display. As in life variety adds many hues and colors to the canvas and palates of our lives!

Take The Shot

As a hack photographer I am blessed to have a supportive wife in this my photo blogging journey. I am blessed by those who follow, like and comment. I am blessed with having several cameras I can choose from. I am blessed at how wonderful my point and shots are. But all that means nothing if I did not follow through and do one thing: Take the shot.

The two following photos are examples of what I am talking about. One, the Rose, I took the photo in the full on midday sun. No filters were involved in the taking of this photo. I have been told midday sun is bad. Me? I went with my default setting: Take the shot.

The Thistle was taking early morning but almost facing the sun. I took it with my pops FujiFilm S700 he is loaning me. I wanted to catch the dew on the Thistle but knew my pops camera does macro only so-so. Once again I went with my default: Take the shot.

We can always wait for perfect equipment, the perfect weather, setting and such but life is oh, so very short so just take the shot.

Taken with my pop’s FujiFilm S700
Taken with my pops FujiFilm S700. Notice how  the dew looks like ringlets?

Something Slightly Askewed

As I was taken a few shots on my break today I had an “experience”. Follow the story in the photo captions below. An as always: Enjoy!

I took a close up of this Rose of Sharon with my pops FujiFilm S700. AS is my practice my face and camera were in the bush itself for this shot.
AS I was trying for a different angle I had problems focusing. What?
I peered through the view finder again and was greeted this. Since I take pictures naturally I tried to take a picture of my little hitchhiker. There unfortunately is no super-duper macro setting on my pop’s camera!
I put my little buddy back in the bush. Can you see what I see? Nice camouflage!
Butt the way I see it this post is nothing to sneeze at. I’ll be here through the weekend. Thank you, thank you very much!

A Few From An Overcast Day

Here are a few from this overcast Labor Day. Enjoy!

New, to me, type of yellow flower that is now growing on our place. I guess I need to goggle it and see but not now.
I love rusty old things, so every once in a while I will shot a few pics of this old cattle gate on our place. The rain makes it look as if the rusty is silently weeping.
We hung up hummingbird feeders this year for the first time. Today was the first real opportunity I had to take a crack at catching one with my camera. I like it but there is much work to be done and needed skills acquired to shot hummingbirds.

Two More No Less

I am on a little bit of a “shooting into the sun” journey right now. I do not believe it is in response to some inwardly morphing of my self awareness because I dive too deeply into the shallow well for that. It is something I find to be cool. Enjoy!

Not the end but a new beginning for a thistle.
A new sunflower I was introduced to but unfortunately forgot its name. I love that the colors are still vibrant even at the end of its life cycle.