"Tempted to just walk right in" - Daily Photo - 05/23/13

The front of yesterday's barn, DeKalb, Illinois.
Spider with cross
Wright 1909 Military Flyer. The U.S. Army paid $30,000 for these and designated them "SignalCorps Airplane No. 1'.... Engine was four cylinder wright of 30.6 HP Max speed 42 mph, max endurance 1 hr.
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, Nacogoches TX

Well this is pretty much the oppesite of a glamour shoot!  We had a very strong storm pass through Texas yesterday and as far as I know we were lucky that there weren’t any major incidents.  We were planning for the storm all day and it ended up not hitting us too hard.  I was standing in the carport, watching a wave of rain come through and it hit me that I needed to practice my rain shots in case it’s ever raining on a wedding day.  So I set up a couple of speedlites on stands, just as I would at a wedding, and begged Nini to go out and pose in the rain.  The only catch was that we could only find one umbrella!  And I needed it to prevent my lens from getting drops all over it!  So Nini had to actually pose in the rain.  She was not happy about it, but her attitude fit perfectly with the lighting I created.

I processed this photo in Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6.  In CS6 I used a batch of actions that I recently purchased from www.florabellacollection.com

I was really impressed by the actions and have learned a lot about photoshop by going through and dissecting their actions and seeing all kinds of new tricks I never knew how to do before.  Exciting!

Trivia question: Where’d I get the title for this post?  Don’t google it!

Critiques are always welcome.

Daily photo: May 22, 2013, taken May 21, 2013
5.21.2013. One TALL Palm! 
Thank you all so much for your comments on the sculpture, I sure wasn't expecting the turn out. Thank you so much.

Also, here's the link to the globe when it's not in the sun:) http://billiejean.smugmug.com/photos/i-9SPbB2W/0/M/i-9SPbB2W-M.jpg
Wanted: dead or alive! (best seen at large size)

Happy Mother's Day to all!

Spot prawn (Pandalus platyceros) season opened a couple of days ago in British Columbia, and yesterday was the spot prawn festival in Vancouver.  The chefs from the famous Vancouver restaurants come down to the docks to buy right from the boats and during the festival they also give spot prawn cooking demonstrations. (These are large prawns managed strictly as a sustainable fishery).  I went down to catch the boat coming in with the fresh catch of the day (left).  They were so fresh they were jumping out of the bowl as I tried to photograph them.  I cooked them in olive oil (first cold press oil from Arica, Chile), with fresh garlic, asparagus and parsley  from my garden, quickly photographed them again, and then washed them down with a Chilean Central Coast Viognier.  Yum!

For a spot prawn portrait, and to see the spot prawns practicing their 'shrimp ring' routine, see here http://goo.gl/IkuLP
5.21.2013. 

Thanks for stopping by:)
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May 22.  "Bananas For Sale."
"Tempted to just walk right in" - Daily Photo - 05/23/13

The front of yesterday's barn, DeKalb, Illinois.
"Tempted to just walk right in" - Daily Photo - 05/23/13

The front of yesterday's barn, DeKalb, Illinois.
"Tempted to just walk right in" - Daily Photo - 05/23/13

The front of yesterday's barn, DeKalb, Illinois.
See photo in original gallery.

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