The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange

I am taking the easy route for today’s post and simply reblogging my post-a-day site’s post.

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In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?.”

Today I am taking this challenge as part of my post-a-day site. As I was pondering what to shoot I took look around the lab, better known to others as their study, and I found my subjects. We have a surprising amount of orange in our work/play space.

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First is the simple toy I had as a child known as Jacob’s Ladder. Most children today would find this toy to be too low tech.

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I found orange on my chewing gum pack. really never noticed it consciously till this challenge.

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Next is a plate The Bride had left on her desk after she ate here sandwich as she studied. I laid it atop of her orange school notebook.

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Lastly is CD of one of my favorite singers Eric Peters. I was introduced to him…

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An Icicle and A Drop To Be

Today I wanted to do some macro of the icicles and water droplets that are hanging off the front roof. I had used my iPod on a few and posted one on Instagram but wanted to use my extension tubes on some. Since yesterdays experience I know I will need a tripod. After checking out the situation I decided there was no safe way to do that quickly and moved to plan B. I broke out the PowerShot S3 and went at it.The end result: Water dropping on to the lens cover and rolling down inside the housing. Not good but after I dried it out I had an idea, and yes you should be afraid, and here is where it gets brilliant  weird. I take an old magnifying glass I have, put the small high magnification spot over the lense. This should allow me to still shot in macro mode but I would not have to be as close to the subject, therefor missing the droplets. Nuff words….here is the shot.

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Past Holding The Present

After being stuck in our home since early yesterday evening something had to give. I broke out the extension tubes, an old Minolta film lense, the A300 and went in search of a few good macro this afternoon. I picked water droplets: Too hard to focus properly but I will try again because I think I can figure that one out. Barb wire barbs: Could not get my back to cooperate with me bending over in the cold temps. I will also try those again in the Spring, all though there will not be snow on them, which was what I was trying to capture. Snow on dead vegetation: Had a little luck with that and non-snow covered dead vegetation. The challenge here was once again the wind. So out of the dozen or so shots I learned a bit and have new goals. Till the next time enjoy this little flower skeleton with snow on it. I thought the wind blew it out of frame but apparently I got this before it did.

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My 20th Wedding Anniversary Present

Between the rain-to sleet-to ice and now snow I have nothing new to post. So here is today’s post from my post-a-day site.

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Around this time last year I got my 20th wedding Anniversary present from The Bride. Now our Anniversary was in the December past but with Pops death and all that comes with it we didn’t feel like celebrating too much. Not that it isn’t a big deal, it is, but it was a period of personal transition as well as a time of dealing with the grief for the both of us. My Pops loved my wife and knew her long before I did. Truth is I think he liked her a little better than he did me. That is alright with my because he liked my a whole lot. In that light gifts meant nothing, just us being together was the real prize. A bit about the ring. It is silver with opal and was American Indian made. It just sung to me with its simple beauty.

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Cool Old Bike As Digital Art

A few days back I posted a very cool old bike. As I worked on my taxes the last couple days I escaped to art as a way to decompress. This rendering of that bike is the result. Not sure if this is a result of my civil duty or simple artistic expression but any of you who are psych majors feel free to weigh in.

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Fooling With Light

Last night I was trying to reflect light onto my cat Butterfly’s face, not for fun, but so I could get a few shots of her lovely face. Well let say this I was trying to get her to look up at me and let the light fall naturally upon her but cooperation is not in a cats nature. Since that is the way she rolls I grabbed my windshield sun-deflector and used it to get some light on her face. Thankfully she would look at the deflector and follow it. With one hand a little busy trying to steady the camera and the other light-wrangling the cat here are the results.

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