My cat Uno is such a ham in front of the camera....... macro kitty 

So just an update on the puppies....All are doing good.  They got their tails docked friday and their dew claws removed.  That was a first for me.  Poor thangs!  But had to be done!  There are sooo many coco is a really busy mom so I have  bottle fed the smaller ones once a day.  When they get done they have the cutest  milk mustache.  

Always check the faucet before washing the dishes  near squish 

And never leave the top to the bird seed container open  trapped ( I set him free in the cornfiled :  )

No advice here, just a beautiful bird  Red Bellied Woodpeck 

Have a great Tuesday!

Sorry, the last submission really wasn't macro. It was CloseUp.

So I hauled the camera back out, switched it to macro for some of the household items, and voila! MACRO!

Great art? Maybe.

Macro? Yup.

 macro 

 rye pretzels 

 wine corks 

Some more extension tube shots... Not sure if these are better or worse than yesterday.  I'll try and reshoot the flowers with some artificial light.  I was using very limited natural light coming through the window on a cloudy day.  I wanted to close down for more DOF on some of these (more so on yesterday's post), but even at ISO 800 and at f4 and f2.8 I never had a shutterspeed above 1/30".  I did find out yesterday that you guys didn't have any qualms over most of the compositions, just DOF.  Let me know if these are the same or if I should try something different altogether with these carnations.

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Thanks for looking, thanks for commenting and have a great day!

Something to smile about, my  Mellow Yellow ( macro)  gift  from my neighbor

and my  New hat      from my son thomas in New York..

We had some snow last weekend up the mountain, so I ventured upward. The traffic was horrendous because a group of guys with a whole bunch of little 4-cylinder street racing cars with really loud mufflers decided it would be great fun to go up there and make a horrible mess of the traffic. They apparently thought it was funny, until somebody higher up got hurt and an ambulance needed to get up there, and couldn't. Shortly after that, they all decided to go back down the mountain. It was so bad that the mountain road had to be closed down at the bottom for a couple of hours while they unsnarled the mess. It was also really nice of those guys to share the thunderous roar of their mufflers so that no one would have to hear those pesky birds, or the really annoying whisper of the wind through the trees. I considered positioning a nice big boulder so that it was just teetering over the road waiting for just a little too much noise... ;-)

Anyway, this is Thimble Peak with Mount Lemmon behind it. We like to keep our snow up high where it belongs.

This was shot at the Seven Cataracts overlook. I was going for the zig-zag thing. The cataracts are a series of waterfalls across the canyon. They were running with snow runoff, but I didn't get a shot I liked.

Because of the traffic snafu, I only got as far up as Windy Point at about 7000 feet, but I managed to find this scene there. The people over on the left were included to give it a sense of scale - really big, or else really small people.

What's left of an old motel on Route 66  old 66 9   old 66 10 

what's left of an old gas station on Route 66 old 66 11   old 66 12 

....just no pj shots. ;-) Saturday morning at 8 everyone was still fast asleep-like always!  The sun was out after what seems like forever. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to go find my Kingfisher and the Hawk at their usual hangouts.  So through a jacket on over my pj's and drover over to their spots.  The hawk was not there but did see this  egret preening him/her self.  I then drove over looking for Mr. Kingfisher and found he had just caught breakfast (it's a crayfish).  After beating the cr@p out of it and devouring it, he flew into the water, dipping his head in to clean off his beak, then flew up to the lines to pose for me.  Sunday the clouds returned and I have not seen the sun since...like so many other people.

Thanks for looking. Have a great evening.

Janet and I went out to the car to go to church on Sunday, and found my Chevy Malibu LE vandalized.

I couldnt figure out what the heck this was..... egg maybe? Old egg?

I walked around to the side of the house and found that it was egged. The 2nd story got it even worse. I turned around in disgust and found something in my heather bush that shouldnt have been there....

Okay.. I was cheesed.

Statisticly, this would be the job of a teenager. Matthew is nice as everything, so I have no idea which one of his friends. might have done it, or even if they did. Im just so glad they didn't egg the car. We were the only car targeted, so I assume it was someone who knew where I lived.

Luckyly, the cheese was easy to wash off and no harm was done to the car.

It's just stupid......

Last week we had a lovely sunny day that melted almost all of our snow. I called my daughter out to model for me and at first she couldn't believe what I was asking her to do. But trust me, she got the hang of it.

 pink    hello    kitty   rainboots  

She had a blast!

I haven't been shooting much lately but I was replacing some components for a TV and the supplier of the parts wanted some step-by-step photos for their tutorials.  So while I was at it I shot this macro of some components.  (This is straight out of the camera.)

Thanks for the challenge.

Just some more bird feeder pics through my kitchen window. I have a new bird feeder tray to hang from my post. good for the Cardinal and the chickadee's. the street cats can't get to them while they feed. ;)

Chick-a-dee   My Treat_1

 Happy Mr Red  

and this little guy just hangs out in this tree most of the day he is  Im too cute_1   for your camera. ;)

Enjoy and have a great day. ;)

A few macro/extension tube shots from the weekend.  I'm kinda in a funk, so if these um... suck, just let me know.  Thanks for looking and have a great Monday everyone!

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Well, I am still in India. I have another 5 weeks before I head home for a couple of weeks and then back here again. A week ago my wife met up with me in Delhi. Lots of photos to show. Below is a little more on the humorous side. You might have seen something like them on the web before. Highlighting how India is the call center of the world. These are from Old Delhi.

 Wiring in India.

 Electricians at work.

Must be Union .

I hear they will work for  bananas .

Disclaimer: I am not making fun of Union Electricians. I appreciate the great work that they do.

This is one of my favouite people photo's in Scotland. This little Scottish Lass was so full of energy and fun that it was almost impossible to get her to sit still long enough to get a photo of her with no blur. 

This is the first challenge I've entered.

I have a certain opinion when it comes to these two Biscuits.

Being a guitarist, I'm never without a  Plectrum

The full length figurine is about the height of a bic biro Guilt (pun intended) 

In depth plant analysis Open Wide.

Graphic representation on porcelain tea service of an  'Art'ichoke 

My first attempt with a new 30mm macro lens I got for my birthday (I also received an AARP membership kit so guess my age!).  Somthing else you can guess is just what the heck is this?

 shadowed knobs