I didn’t need a $10,000 lens, or a camera that shoots 5 frames per second. I didn’t shoot 20 frames leading up to this moment. One shot, I followed the action and anticipated the catch. I got one of my favorite sports shots so far.
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The Colts Austin Collie catches the one and only touchdown of the night against the Baltimore Ravens.
Not that I think I’m great, just the opposite actually, I think I am pretty mediocre most of the time. I’m just saying to all those who want to shoot great shots, it doesn’t take tons of money. It just takes patience and knowledge of what you are shooting.
I am too excited about going to the Colts game tomorrow to post anything of great use here. I am trying to get all the things that I would normally do on a Saturday done today. So on that note I leave you with a slightly out of focus photo of a dirty rubber snake with no tail. I call it “A Slightly Out of Focus Photo of a Dirty Rubber Snake With No Tail.”
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P.S. Please pray for the people of Haiti!
If so, how much do you think this tree hates me?
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Becky has sets of these for summer and winter. The summer kids are wearing shorts and bathing suits and the winter kids are wearing, well, winter apparel.
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This is the most amazing African Violet ever! It has sat on the kitchen windowsill for over 3 years, that in and of itself is amazing considering neither Becky nor I can keep even an air fern alive. This thing just keeps going and going. There have been periods where we forgot to water it and it would be pretty much dried up, I would water it and in a few days it would be good as new. Seriously, I am now scared of it!
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As long as it never says feed me Seymour.
Went to Lowes today to pick up some storage containers when I noticed the retention pond out back was full of geese. Upon investigation I discovered that some of them were frozen into the ice. The ice is thin and the birds are mean so helping them is out of the question. They didn’t seem to bothered by the situation anyway.
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Not the greatest photo but it was cold so I wasn’t trying too hard either.
This is a traditional Indiana New Years Day meal, corned beef and cabbage.
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Christmas is over and it’s just about time to ring in the new year. A new year and a new start. Hopefully a more prosperous year for all. As I read through my posts for the past year it occurred to me that I have become quite boring. Not really much I can do about that but try harder in the new year.
I have been on new medication for my depression for over a month now and as always I still see no improvement. The waiting is what always gets me in the end.
I received money for Christmas which was a welcome thing. I used it to buy a smaller camera to carry with me. My other point and shoot was too big to fit in a pocket so I had to carry it around in a small bag so it didn’t get used as much as it should have. This new one is slim enough to fit in a pocket and fires up pretty quick. Whether it will spur me to take more shots outside of my regular photo work remains to be seen. Time will tell.
It is not one of my regular brands of camera but it has so far really surprised me with it’s build and picture quality. It takes gigantic photos so they have to be sized down and compressed quite a bit or they would take forever to load on the site.
Here is one of the first I took of some heart shaped balloons(you’ll have to trust me on that since you can’t tell in the photo) trapped in a tree, I call it Love Lost:
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