Ive been working on this VW Ghia for 6 years and just got it back from the body shop.  Heres the old Ghiab4 heres nowghia back ghia front . Heres a pic of one of our new Pug puppies we have for salePugs for sale

We live in such a beautiful place, only an hour and a half from our house is the begining of the Gospel Hump Wilderness. Together with two other Wildernesses it makes up the largest wilderness area in the US.  I had never actually ventured out into until a couple of weeks ago , cause I was lazy and if you couldn't drive there I wouldn't go.  My wife and I have been on a health kick this summer and together have lost 100 pounds, so we decided to go hiking.  Im sure glad we did. Its an easy three mile hike down the mountain to the lake, the hard part is climbing the entire way back.  Anyway, these are some pics that I love from it.  The tree one won 2nd place at the fair last week.a different lake, Moores Lake , Tree

I had this idea 2 years ago but didn't do it until the other day. I'm sure glad I did! They were taken in a canola field at sunset.1 ,2 ,3 ,4

Ive also done some glamour shots of my wife and a self portrait.

I built a light table and was experimenting with some fruit.  What do you think?
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I thought I might be able to do a better job if I shot the Cemetery at dusk instead of afternoon, because of the lighting. So I planned to go out there this evening, then it got cloudy, but it gives the pictures a whole different feel, which maybe is more appropriate for a cemetery.  I also found the old flour mill that is the only remnant building of the town.  I thought the cemetery was it but finally found this about a mile away.  I've also included a panoramic veiw of Whitebird.
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 Denver flour mill
Whitebird Panorama

I went out looking for Elk yesterday, scaled the side of a mountain and then didn't find any. A guy told me he had seen some there, but I had no such luck.  I did find a flower that was cool and a waterfall.  Today I went to Denver Idaho, which is no more. Once it was a promising pioneer town, but now all that remains is the cemetery. Kinda symbolic I think.
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I went to the Jet Boat races today on the wicked rapids of the Salmon River here in Idaho. It was rainy but the pics were worth it.  I also included some strangers who were watching, some from under the bridge.

Trolls under bridge

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The River almost won this one
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Here's some more pics of my kids and niece and nephew.  I was taking them for an assignment for school.  I really like the effect of the backlighting in the outside ones.  I also wonder if I should make the one where my son is being a Photographer into a painting or something.

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I captured these reflections around my restaurant today.
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and this last one to mess with your eyes.menu's

I had an Assignment to do a location portrait, showing the subjects personality by the location and the things around them.  So I picked on my wife again and took this portrait of her in her scrapbook room.  Scrappy Then I softened it in photoshop, I liked it but she says her skin is pale in this one.  My dog also uses her scrapbook room, she likes to lay in front of the south facing sliding door to do some sunbathing, but she gets  mad when you interupt her  Reading time.

I've been on vacation so I just found out about the competition today.  After much thought I decided to post this for the competition.Portrait on the ferry

Here's a couple of pics from vacation also:
Rambo and my son

 Balboa Island

My son was rather excited at his birthday party. It makes me remember that it used to be a good deal more exciting for me than than it is now.!!!!!!

I was also acting like a child in this series:  1    
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When I was young, I was bitten by the Motorcycle bug.  Young Me  After 30 years, this is what the infection led to. Waiting for the snow to melt

I also have a project in my garage.....

1967 Karmann Ghia   Thats what it looks like now.  Hopefully after, it will look like  this  only better, because Im not very good at photo shop yet.

If anyone wants to play with that photo and make it look nicer, I would love to see what the experts can do!

I don't know about you guys, but I get really sick of the media only showing bad news and homicide bombers on the news.  I heard of this site on xm radio: http://www.defendamerica.mil
it's news from the dept. of defense and I found a page that has slideshows from military photographers:http://www.defendamerica.mil/specials/CombatCamera.html

There are some awesome pics in there.
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I've been busy and haven't posted forever.  
Here's what I've been up to:

Bug Race

Trip to Canada
4th of July

I remodeled the outside of my house
Bought my wife a present

went to the river

Took pictures of a freind

Im glad to be back now!!