Left the city for the country again...

Tractor 2

Old and Rusty
Row of em
Rake

Goin' up the country....

This one got inside one of the tents.  This poor thing was holding on for dear life, because of the wind.  We left the camp and came back to find...   someone not happy to see us.

Bonus shots:  1 & 2

I won't be back until Monday or Tuesday.  Man this is going to be along time without this site!!  I need to numbers for a support group.  I will have fun!  We are going to the NASCAR race.  So I will have some interesting pics when I get back.  But until then here is....not one for the road...but 4!
Slow moving
Not happy to get his pic taken
Not much action here Had to throw in awww factor

This is a memorial of a soldier from our town that was killed in Iraq. The memorial is beautiful. The  bronzed reminder.  Says it all courage and Loyalty.  

I actually have some light lavender irises in bloom.   Finally!

This is a bonus shot.  I saw this today.  There is no way to make this up.  They were walking down the street wrapped in  plastic wrap.

And last but not least from  yesterday

Purely for the awwwww... factor.
Contrast
DOF
Air-head
Falling to pieces
Coming in for a landing

Wheel
Step right up
Peek-a-boo
Waiting
DOF
The line up
Wearing my shades
Look at those legs

leftover from the auction.
Oil cans
Scales B&W
Step right up
Have a seat B&W

Usually I like natural light better ... but I'll let you choose.Niagara Falls

My favorite type of natural light is window lighting. I use it often, especially for portraiture, and it works well for still life photography as well. Window light has a unique quality, one that is soft, diffuse, directional, and creates local contrast. Since I had no human subjects, I used some of my favorite things to shoot. I love food and cooking and I play guitar (my other passion). Anyway here are a few of the images I took.

Still Life 1

Grace and Beauty
 Encore
 Ovation

OK and for my three favorite images:

White Flowers
 Chrome Lilly
 Lift Off

Reflecting B&W
Looking through B&W
Thinking chair B&W
Vines B&W
Old Paint  B&W
Sitting Alone B&W (my favorite)

*New shots done with natural light.

Lil Brother

Son Fishing

Farm

*My favorite natural light shots from the archives.

At the game

Self

We are putting up with 10 or so days of rain. Had a little break  yesterday and went to the woods walking and enjoying the weather while it lasted.
Here are my entries for natural light:
1  2 3 4
Now for a few critters....
a b c
Thought I felt something staring at me looked around and there WAS  and it had a Friend.
Lets all get together at my PAD
Have a great weekend everyone!

After The Rain Stoped The Color And Light Came Out. Captured Today From My Front Yard    After The Rain

  Here are some natural light pics I took the other morning after taking Barb to work. It was a foggy, rainy, morning and I was down in the back and couldn't get out of the car easily and I didn't want to be caught in the road walking like Tim Conway's old man character!  So I stayed in the car to take these.
Foggy Road 1
Foggy Raod 2
Fog Lifting

  These I took outside this morning.  The closest thing I have to a flower, besides dandelions, is the buds and flowers on some briars along the fence row.  I keep them cut back cause they eat you up on the mower but keep enough to get some blackberries each year.  I went out this morning with Barb when she left cause sometimes deer bed down under the trees in the back yard but they weren't there this morning so I took some shots so it wouldn't be a waste of time and went back inside to get some breakfast.  Didn't get the deer so I stuck in some turkeys from last year, I was painting looked out the window, looked like someone dropped something by the mailbox. It was a turkey scout, he must have seen it was ok cause the whole herd came out of the grass and cut thru the yard.
Bud
Water On Leaf
Good To the Last Drop
Trespassers not great pics but you can see what we see out back frequently
Leave Quietly

  I took this a few days ago my Aunt wanted to know what it is.  It's not a great shot it was evening and I didn't have the tripod... Barb had all my stuff in the car when we left Roadhouse but I grabbed the camera to take with me.  It should be good enough to identify, if someone knows what it is.
Unknown Flower

As always, comments and criticisms are welcome and met with disbelief.

Sun Drenched Tulips
Sun Drenched Tulips

I have loved photography as long as I can remember. When I was a kid I would go through old photo books and wonder who took that picture and when and why and where and so on...
In 2002 I got my first digital camera...a Fugifilm Finepix 2.1 megapixel.... That moment was so exciting...from those very first photos I was hooked to finding different things to take pictures of sunsets, trees,  flowers,  clouds and on and on. I found that I liked to take weird and unusual closeup shots too. Forever addicted to photography and limited by such a small megapixel I will soon be moving up to a much more advanced camera and getting to have some more firsts but also letting go of a camera that captured some great shots of my daughter my son and of  natures simple beauty!!!

Always look around you, wherever you are there are things of Beauty and Light to be seen.

Beauty and Light can give you hope and lightness for a sorrowed heart.
                AAE

Sunset Palms1
Sunset Palms2
Sunset Palms3
Flowers in the Sun

The first bloom of the season of my Angel's Trumpet.
Some
 purple flowers next to the deck...
some  red ones by the fence...
..and some light on the leaves

Hope ya all enjoy them.
Have'nt been feeling too well for a while, so I havent posted in some time. Just gimme time...

TURBO

just messing around with a dust  brush outside. it started to rain, so i went back inside.