SmugMug > popular > Other > 8/7/06

Speaking of getting a life,I take a brick with the longest lens combo and go after small flying creatures.
I call this "Luxury Liner"
SmugMug > popular > Other > July 14, 2008

ME!

Here's a HUGE salute to each of you who turns out wonderful  SP's over and over.  That's so much harder to do than it looks, and I'm asking -- BEGGING for your advice and suggestions!
(not that I plan to make the SP thing a regular event, but it is a skill I need to improve)

I had my lights and backdrop set up, and was waiting for people to come in for headshots, so I decided to play around a bit. First because autofocus would have picked up on the backdrop, I put a big cardboard sign on my stool and focused manually on that.  Then I used my timer and ran around to try and put my face in the right place.  It would have been comical to watch,  and when someone walked in I jumped up and said I was "playing with my lights."  That part was kind of embarrassing, but not too much.  I don't get embarrassed like I used to.  

This is a pretty serious crop because I was about out of the frame anyway.  There was nothing more to leave in at the top left, and I've become a fan of very tight headshots. 

I've never considered myself very photogenic and now have decided that I probably don't wear enough makeup, but I kind of liked this one because I look happy and not too goofy.  

Ran it through several different filters before I picked this one with a friendly glamor/faded effect.  It is what it is -- and that's my Picture of the Day and I'm a stickin' to it.
SmugMug > popular > Other > small but mighty pollinator
06/01/08

i don't have an actual macro lens so this is just hand-held with my 18-55mm. i just couldn't believe how much pollen this tiny, the flower is a 3/4" buttercup for scale, wasp/bee had managed to accumulate on itself. i think it was actually having trouble taking flight because i was able to try 5 or 6 shots before i went back into work. the bosses youngest daughter and i were out getting her a 'roly-poly' bug (which i grew up calling potato bugs) for a pet and as i've said before...i do carry my camera almost everywhere.
dita requested to see some of brianna's, miss geniality in my dailies, drawings so here are a few (super-stressed mommies are like the nice man pointing a gun at you, do everything they tell you) plus one of my fav fun pics of her
http://dedmanshootn.smugmug.com/gallery/5068319_s9mE7/1/261677419_RcJdN#304989482_mEpTQ
SmugMug > popular > Other > bright rhodie stack
05/12/08

walked past this rhododendron on the way to the mother's day party at my step-moms and couldn't resist stopping to shoot it. i'm back home so will hopefully be catching up on what beautiful and interesting pics i've missed over the week-end
SmugMug > popular > Other > Daily Photos >  IMG_9063
SmugMug > popular > Other > does she love her doggie or what-
SmugMug > popular > Other > mimi and nate-

happy mother's day all!-

'I'd walk a million miles for one of your smiles....'
SmugMug > popular > Other > one of my sisters and my mother-

the reason I kept this shot is because my mother almost invariably closes her eyes when someone is taking her photograph-
SmugMug > popular > Other > ready for the prom-
8/7/06

Speaking of getting a life,I take a brick with the longest lens combo and go after small flying creatures.
I call this "Luxury Liner"
 > 8/7/06

Speaking of getting a life,I take a brick with the longest lens combo and go after small flying creatures.
I call this "Luxury Liner"
8/7/06

Speaking of getting a life,I take a brick with the longest lens combo and go after small flying creatures.
I call this "Luxury Liner"
Photo by: John Mueller · see photo in gallery

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