DailyPhotos > popular today > November 27, 2009 - "Last Train This Week"

This will conclude my series on the Galveston Railroad Museum photos.  More photos from the shoot are in the following gallery

http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Travel/Texas/Galveston-Train-Museum/10350835_8gDBj/1/716196805_F3DkA

(note - updated with more exposed version at 1330 CST)


From  http://www.galvestonrrmuseum.com/grrmsh3_063.htm
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Dining and Observation Car #125 - Nickel Plate Road #125, a heavyweight dining and observation car, was built in 1930 by Pullman. It has a full kitchen occupying 30' at one end of the car and a dining area with seating for 30 (6 four person tables and 3 two person tables). .....

The Galveston Railroad Museum purchased this car from the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway in 1978. The body is painted blue and lettering is yellow.
DailyPhotos > popular today > With the holiday season officially here, I know I'll be craving the simplicity and peacefulness of mornings like this one. Happy Holidays!
I put up a new gallery of water droplet shots....a fun, little side trip if you're interested~ http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Nature/Droplets/10446731_aXYPa#724631876_APjFy
DailyPhotos > popular today > 11/27/09 - Bathing Tufted Titmouse
Before dinner yesterday, I put my camera on the tripod and used the self timer to take a picture of the family at the dinner table.  Despite being quite sick and not really able to taste what I was cooking, dinner turned out fine, and we enjoyed the meal with my dad.  After dinner, while I was cleaning up, a tufted titmouse went into the birdbath out my kitchen sink window and started to bathe himself.  With great luck, the camera was still on the tripod, so I moved it into position quick.  As it turns out, 3 separate tufted titmouses came to bathe one right after the other, and I got good pics of the second 2 in various stages of bathing.  

I have cropped this to show more detail and slightly bumped up the colors/contrast.  Many more of these birds some with water splashing about can be found here:
http://fotomom.smugmug.com/Nature/November-2009/10198920_oRbHf#724679932_XfKVX

Sick or not, I'm off to shop!  It was touch and go, and I may not last long, but I'm headed out!

Thanks for your comment on our turkey day portrait.  The boys are always excited to be in my POTD.  I had intended to try to reshoot an even better shot, but after 5 days of clouds, I gave up and went with the one I'd already taken.

HAGD,
Maryann
DailyPhotos > popular today > 26.11.09 - See The Light

Another Lincoln Cathedral shot, but I've not done this angle for a long time and this is the first time I've done it at night. This is a difficult shot to do at night. The Cathedral is a long way away, and the camera is always trying to expose for the dark sky. You have to under expose the shot or the Cathedral will be blown out completely. I was shooting across a sports field, and the lights in the foreground are considerably closer than the Cathedral. I had the camera wedged in between the spikes on top of a high metal fence, and it was very cold and windy. Apart from that it was a piece of cake :)
DailyPhotos > popular today > lovely thanksgiving surprise
11/27/09

i couldn't believe my neighbors bush was blooming this late, despite that its been relatively warm for this time of year. sure did cheer me up to see. hope this cheers your day too. i had a wonderful time at dinner with sis, b-i-l, and the bosses. thanks to all for the wonderful thanksgiving wishes. there's a guest daily by the middle boss and a new pic by the little boss (links below). i'm up early to go off to fight armageddon, i mean black friday at the mall ;-) . only the second time ever in my life. the first was as a favor for my uncle and this one is for fam too. kinda looking forward to it actually. after being down for quite a while a little hurlyburly sounds like just what the doctor ordered. i can always nap on the bus on the way home :-)

middle boss's pic:
http://dedmanshootn.smugmug.com/Other/todays-picture/9928530_scuBa#725008284_94aku

little boss's pics:
http://dedmanshootn.smugmug.com/Guest-gallery/little-bosss-current-daily/10169097_hpKbr#725008268_cmJZF

to see previous dailies click here:
http://dedmanshootn.smugmug.com/Other/the-daily-picture/
DailyPhotos > popular today > Day 86 (November 21, 2009) - Float on little Stephen. Float on.

*note - and so ends Photoshop week. I'm so behind in my dailies, because each one of these is so time consuming. Expect something different next week. So tempted to just do a ton of "lazy" shots to catch up. We'll see!
DailyPhotos > popular today > "Bonfire"
Day 269, Friday, November 27

While the big kids played cards, watched football and hung out in the kitchen....
,,,the little kids enjoyed the Annual Bonfire.

The night was cooling off quickly..... so as the fire died down... we keep moving our chair forward.

Norm

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DailyPhotos > popular today > Meet Biscuit!!

Biscuit was a visitor at my sisters house today! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving...just hope you all didn't eat way too much like I did!! Will catch up with everyone soon.
DailyPhotos > popular today > I've learned how to make videos and so I took lots and lots of photos today (more than usual, if you can believe that) and plan on putting together a fun Thanksgiving Day video.    So..... how to decide which one of those many, many photos to use as my daily?  Michael eating some pumpkin pie was my choice!  (November 26, 2009)

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."
   ~~ Erma Bombeck
November 27, 2009 - "Last Train This Week"

This will conclude my series on the Galveston Railroad Museum photos. More photos from the shoot are in the following gallery
http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Travel/Texas/Galveston-Train-Museum/10350835_8gDBj/1/716196805_F3DkA

(note - updated with more exposed version at 1330 CST)


From http://www.galvestonrrmuseum.com/grrmsh3_063.htm
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Dining and Observation Car #125 - Nickel Plate Road #125, a heavyweight dining and observation car, was built in 1930 by Pullman. It has a full kitchen occupying 30' at one end of the car and a dining area with seating for 30 (6 four person tables and 3 two person tables). .....

The Galveston Railroad Museum purchased this car from the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway in 1978. The body is painted blue and lettering is yellow.
 > November 27, 2009 - "Last Train This Week"

This will conclude my series on the Galveston Railroad Museum photos.  More photos from the shoot are in the following gallery

http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Travel/Texas/Galveston-Train-Museum/10350835_8gDBj/1/716196805_F3DkA

(note - updated with more exposed version at 1330 CST)


From  http://www.galvestonrrmuseum.com/grrmsh3_063.htm
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Dining and Observation Car #125 - Nickel Plate Road #125, a heavyweight dining and observation car, was built in 1930 by Pullman. It has a full kitchen occupying 30' at one end of the car and a dining area with seating for 30 (6 four person tables and 3 two person tables). .....

The Galveston Railroad Museum purchased this car from the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway in 1978. The body is painted blue and lettering is yellow.
November 27, 2009 - "Last Train This Week"

This will conclude my series on the Galveston Railroad Museum photos. More photos from the shoot are in the following gallery
http://dakotacowboy.smugmug.com/Travel/Texas/Galveston-Train-Museum/10350835_8gDBj/1/716196805_F3DkA

(note - updated with more exposed version at 1330 CST)


From http://www.galvestonrrmuseum.com/grrmsh3_063.htm
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Dining and Observation Car #125 - Nickel Plate Road #125, a heavyweight dining and observation car, was built in 1930 by Pullman. It has a full kitchen occupying 30' at one end of the car and a dining area with seating for 30 (6 four person tables and 3 two person tables). .....

The Galveston Railroad Museum purchased this car from the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway in 1978. The body is painted blue and lettering is yellow.
Photo by: dakotacowboy • see photo in gallery

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