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I had fun yesterday in the flower garden at school.  Maybe you could tell by the post yesterday.  I also find it so interesting how people love to find out what you are taking pictures of when they see you out with the camera.  One little preschool student who walked by even offered for me to take his picture.  These are the rest of the pictures that I chose from yesterday's fun.
Fancy Grass faded and Fancy Grass colored and Fancy Grass BW
More Fancy Grass and BW
Water Drop on Green and Cropped

Got outside today. So windy. Wind is not my friend, but it was very pretty outside.

dandelion
sky

a friend bought some wheat grass to feed his dogs and he decided to plant it and it is growing rapidly so we timmed it this is the resultDESCRIPTION_HERE DESCRIPTION_HERE DESCRIPTION_HERE DESCRIPTION_HERE

Howdy folks! On a roadtrip last weekend I came across some very tall grass. I found the image rather pleasing but was not happy with the upper right hand background so I fixed it with the clone tool as well as the healing brush. After that I tweaked the saturation just a touch and Voila. I like the softness of this image. Any comments are more then welcomed.
BTW folks I can't seem to set the tags for my shots. I click on the change button in my preview and nothing happens. Any advice?

To start my day, I stole my husband's stupid camera.  I was wrong...it was not a $120 camera...it was a $95 camera.  
Stolen Camera 1
Stolen Camera 2
Stolen Camera 3
Stolen Camera 4

Then I rounded out my day by stealing Chef's ideas.  
Grasshopper de la Chef
Skyrider de la Chef
Pony de la Chef

Watch your wallets and car keys...the day ain't over yet.

Anna and I took a bike ride this morning on the Luce Line. I captured some images and then worked with them a little in iPhoto to try different crops and B&W versions.

Here is the first uncropped version of grass against the sky. I tried a tighter crop of that one. Here is another vertical crop of that one. Here is another original and here is a tighter crop.

Here is a meadow in color and here it is in black and white. Here's another color shot of the meadow and here's that same shot in black and white. One last shot of the meadow in color and the black and white version.

I like to experiment with different things and appreciate the feedback I get from folks here. I was hoping to have the grass stand out more against the sky, but with minimal time in iPhoto this is what I got.

On Wednesday, I took my son to the beach of Lake Michigan.  He found all kinds of things to look at, like a piece of driftwood and a large bed of colorfull pebbles.  Daddy took some time to find some beach grass to shoot.

Well, there you have it. . . a Day at the Beach!

Enjoy

These are the Italian Alps, the Dolomites. They speak more German than Italian here, as the area used to be part of Austria.
the Schlern at dusk - again - once more - and then at dawn!
mountain meadow barn - fight the urge to yodel - a fence for what? - one more barn.
The rocks on the barn roofs are to melt the snow quicker.