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This gallery is a melange of my photographic styles as well as a look into my daily life. I try to capture something new every day or else to find something that fits the day. It's a great excuse to carry my camera with me more often than not, and it allows me to stop and take those pictures that need to be taken.

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Shelly > August 13, 2008 Sunrise "Unless you believe, you will not understand." Saint Augustine, (354 AD - 430 AD)
Shelly > August 12, 2008 Tactile Planning (and yes . . . a desperation shot. I've sort of slacked off in the dailies area lately) A few people like me still carry old-style paper calenders around. The contacts, however, have mostly migrated to electronic media.
Shelly > August 9, 2008 Secrets on the Playground These best friends are about to be split apart for a while as one heads off to college and the other stays for her senior year in high school. We went back to their elementary school, and this spider web was the only piece of playground equipment that even existed when they went to school there. Because we spent a couple of hours at three different locations it is way too hard to select just one photo, and I haven't even begun to process the batch. I've got some others that I MUST finish first . . . but you'll probably see another shot or two of these gals. Love those mischevious smiles. Thanks girls -- for a very fun morning.
Shelly > August 7, 2008 Light source And that's a nice reflection on you.
Shelly > August 6, 2008 Had to pop in to the school this morning wearing my volunteer hat to get a couple of pictures. I just love these blue benches, and they're rarely empty during the school year so I couldn't resist grabbing an image or two. Summer Band started today. These kids march from 8:00 to noon then they have sectionals from 1:30 to 3:30 and return to march again from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Doesn't matter that temp is usually in the upper 90's with high humidity -- and they're marching on an asphalt parking lot. Cross country has been running most of the summer -- multiple miles in HHHH (high heat and humidity) and these are only the activities I have direct and current involvement with. I have no clue what the other teams are doing, but can bet that they are not at home sitting on the couch. There is SO MUCH already going on behind the scenes for our awesome active and involved students, and school doesn't even start this year until August 25. Whatever anyone else says, I truly believe that our future is in very capable and well-disciplined hands. And regarding the "other kids" the ones sitting in front of the video games: "The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum." -- Menander, Greek comic dramatist (342 BC - 292 BC)
Shelly > August 4, 2008 "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." -- Robert Benchley, US actor, author, & humorist (1889 - 1945)
Shelly > July 31, 2008 Hungry Eyes Only a minor adjustment with levels. Otherwise straight out of camera. "I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." -- Bill Hoest, Cartoonist (The Lockhorns) 1926-1988
Shelly > July 30, 2008 School Buses in Summer Just playing with selective color and building a border. "No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to." -- Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist - For Better or Worse
Shelly > July 29, 2008 Them's some BIG little dawgs! I know which breeds are fearsome, and have always been just a bit uncomfortable around the tiny ones. Give me a big dog any day. These guys, however, turned out to be pretty friendly. I loved how the door could open over their heads and they'd never even have to move. "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." -- Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy) 1922 - 2000
Shelly > July 27, 2008 The Church Has Left The Building If a visitor had tried to go to our church on July 27, they might have been surprised to see that we had no service and no Sunday School. Instead, they would have found a group of volunteers assembling walls for Habitat for Humanity and loading them onto a flatbed truck. The other members had scattered to about 44 different sites in the community where they participated in a huge variety of service projects. It was our chance to cover our community in prayer and to serve as Jesus with skin on. Mike and I had the privilege of traveling to about eight of the different sites to help record activities. It was so hard to choose a single image for the day. While this is not an artistic shot but more of a snapshot, it shows a little bit of one project along with the fruits of the Spirit -- love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self control. My prayer is that these fruits will root deeply and flourish throughout the area. For a tiny peek at some of the work, here's a link to our other images from the day: http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/5555611_DfYBZ#340362983_Rw2ZS
Shelly > July 26, 2008 Taps Today we laid a hero to rest. Uncle Raymond was my grandmother’s baby brother and he was 94 years old. This may have been the only funeral ever to include both military honors at the cemetery, and a whoopee cushion salute at the reception. Uncle Raymond was a WWII veteran who provided distinguished service as a Flight Officer and a Glider Pilot. He served in Germany during Operation Varsity, landing his glider behind enemy lines during the largest single-day airborne operation of the War. Most of the glider pilots did not survive their missions. He was the recipient of the Air Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, and the Bronze Star. He built his home with his own two hands. He raised countless dogs and a bit of wildlife as well as two outstanding sons. He loved his wife, kids, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and he taught us all how to live for the day. He took in countless troubled teen and preteen boys, giving them guidance and leadership. His vegetable garden was the standard by which all others are measured. He hunted, fished, photographed and filmed. He was the chief of the volunteer fire department and I can’t think of anything that he didn’t do and do well. Most of all though, Uncle Raymond will be remembered as an outstanding storyteller and the king of practical jokes. The jokes and tricks he played on family, friends, and strangers could fill an entire book. Some were extremely elaborate while others were just silly, so it was only fitting that one of his granddaughters passed out whoopee cushions at the reception and asked everyone to blow them up and sit on them together. I believe I can still hear him chuckling over that sendoff. If there was ever a great man, it was Uncle Raymond and we will miss him – but the world is truly a better place because he walked and worked in it for such a long time. . . . All is well . . . . safely rest . . . God is nigh!
Shelly > July 25, 2008 T-G-I-F! It's been a hard week. Brannigan's teaching us how to cope with stress.
Shelly > July 20, 2008 Bull Market in the Galleria Actually this pic is from Saturday, the 19th, but if Smugmug can skip a day or two, so can I. This bull sculpture, created entirely from Red Bull cans, reminded me immediately of Alex's Bull Market shot from New York: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/3752956_jdnMo#295448191_sGnCA People were lining up for pictures with the bull. I've never seen so many camera phones in action in one place in my life. Again, I used the little point n shoot and then a little bit of pp work for effects. We rarely go the the Galleria but it was a good mind diversion, and the air condition works well. There's certainly no indication of a lagging economy there.
Shelly > July 19, 2008 Ceviche -- The perfect lunch for a hot summer day. The un-progressing kitchen remodel (See May 30 http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/4550624_LCxaW#304104538_jZZPo ) and some other issues have made me very grumpy. Thankfully Mike takes very good "care" of me and knows how to get me out of the funk. We went downtown to see the new Discovery Green park and to the Galleria to see an exhibit of sculptures built from Red Bull cans. It was all free except for the gas to get there and the parking downtown. AAAARRRGH I'm never going to get used to having to PAY someone just to leave my car for a little while. Naturally we had to stop for lunch, and here it is. We recently picked up a tiny little Nikon Cool-Pix point and shoot for the occasions when the 40D's would be forbidden or too big to haul around, and that's what I'm using here. It's different, and I'm totally out of my element using it. Isn't that funny? It's supposed to be simple, but now I'd rather dicker with my settings.
Shelly > July 17, 2008 I had a photography instructor once tell me that dragonflies were an easy subject to capture. She is a very accomplished nature photographer, but on that one topic she was dead wrong. Still, I finally got one, so maybe number two will be a bit easier.
August 13, 2008

Sunrise

"Unless you believe, you will not understand."
Saint Augustine, (354 AD - 430 AD)
Shelly > August 13, 2008 Sunrise "Unless you believe, you will not understand." Saint Augustine, (354 AD - 430 AD)
August 13, 2008

Sunrise

"Unless you believe, you will not understand."
Saint Augustine, (354 AD - 430 AD)
Camera: Canon (Canon Eos 40d) |
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original size: 3600px x 2400px |
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