I have not had much chance to get out and shoot, but thought I would work on my PS skills a little.  Thoughts?
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Well I posted the last photos from my Fuji S5100 the other day, and here is one of the first from my new Canon Xti.  I have a lot of learning to due, and it is still only the kit lense, but I don't think it is to bad so far.Peoria Skyline  

Well it has been a while, but I had a couple of photos that I wanted to see what others thought about.  They have both been through PS some.... well ok a lot, but they are the last ones that I have taken with the Fuji S5100, and I have just picked up my new Canon XTi.  Anyway, you all saw my first with the Fuji, so I thought it was fitting you get to see the last ones.  Both are the same photo, the first one Brandon 07 is of my nephew, and the second one is with his name added Brandon 07 with name.  Hope to see you all around more since I have something to get my intrest going again.  SeeYa!

 After reading the comments on my post yesterday, I reworked the photo of my niece.  I have fixed I See You Again   The 2nd one is of the same photo as yesterday, but with the red eye fixed.   I See You Again 2  This next one is of my nephew, who happens to be the twin brother of my niece.   Brother of I see you again  Any comments or suggestions are very welcome.

Have not been around for a while, and had a couple of shot that I thought I would upload real quick.  The first one is of downtown Peoria Illinois.  Peoria At Night  The 2nd one is of my niece that I took at a family members wedding.  Well I hope this finds everyone well, hope to be around a little more in the future. I See You  

Well I don't know if this qualifies for the same, but different or not, but here are 3 diffrent views of the same building.  Old Building At Night 2 Old Building At Night 3 Old building at night

This is a photo of my grand daughter that I took this past summer.  It is IMHO, the best one that I took this past year   Leyna

With all the cold weather around here, I thought that a shot from warmer times might be nice.  This is my grandaughter while she was having fun in her pool in our back yard last summer.  Summer Swim  

 Hello all.  I was at my nephews baseball game a few weeks ago, and got this photo.  It turned out pretty good, but me being me, I could'nt help messing with it.  This is what I came up with, at least this is the one that I came up with that I thought was worth uploading.  What do you think?Brandon on the hill.

 While on vacation had a chance to go white water rafting on the Reo Grand in New mexico.  This first photo was on the way to the rafting areaReo Grand.  The 2nd one is the same photo that I played with a little, the wife does not like it, what do you think?  Reo Grand edit.  The next shot is of our group as we were getting ready to head down river.  I was taken with a waterproof disposable  Group.  That is my wife (with the sunglasses), her cousin, my yougest son, and myself.  The next one was taken from the shore by another family member while we were going through some small rapids.  It was taken with a instant camera, so the quality is not the best, but it was still fun.  Rapids.

The family and I went to New Mexico last week for a family reunion and vacation, and we did a little site seeing.  We went and visited Bandelier National Park which is about 50 miles from Santa Fe.  Just before we got into the park you can see cliff from a distance.  After a little drive down into the canyon, you can see the  cliff a little closer.  As we walked up the trail you can start to see some of the cliff dwellings that were used in the 14th century. cliff dwellings.dwellings closer.  They did have a couple of areas that you could climb ladders and go inside some of the dwellings.  This is a photo of my neice, nephew and sister in law going up into one of them entering.  And one that my wife took of my youngest boy and I inside the dwelling in side. When we were walking to the next area, we passed some of the local plant life,cactus.  This is the 2nd area that we could go into.  It is 140ft above the canyon floor, it is an area that was used for religious needs, according to the information at the park.  We were told that a person had to climb up the face of the cliff using holes that were cut into the face.  They have since put in some stairs of sorts, and ladders to allow a person to climb. ladder.  After you get to the top, there is a large hole in the floor of the cave area that was used for the high priest to do whatever it was that he did cave area.  As you can see in the photo, there is an area to go down into the hole in the floor.  This is a view down the canyon from the cave area. view from above. After comming down from the cliff dwellings, you can find some very green areas in the canyon.  This is a foot bridge that crosses the creek in the bottoms   foot bridge.  Hope everyone likes these photos.  I have more from the trip, but I thought this was enough for now.  Tomarrow....white water rafting on the Reo Grand.  Until then...SeeYa!!

My 11 year old had a baseball game last night, and this is a shot that I took right at sundown time.  He was getting ready to bat, and was in deep thought.  Either that or he was praying!Aaron on deck

A friend of mine said that the photo that I uploaded did not have enough action to it, and did'nt show the emotion on Mr. Prior's face.  I decided that I would uplaod the two photos just prior (get it) to the first one up posted. So here they are!The Strech The Pitch

  Well I guess you all could be getting tired of my pictures of the area minor league team and there high dollar big league rehab visitors, but I have not much time with work to do anything, and I just make the time to go to the games here.  Anyway....we were luck to have another pitcher in our area on memorial day, and that would be Mark Prior.  We had pretty good seats, and I thought this photo was not to bad.  What do you think?Mark Prior

Hey everyone..  Been a while since I have been around.  I changed jobs and have been very busy.  Anyway, I went to a local minor league baseball game here in Peoria Illinois, and got to see Kerry Wood again, 2nd time in two years that he has been here on a rehab assignment.  Here is a photo that I took at the game.  There are 3 diffrent variations, let me know what you think
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