SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > Hibiscus-Rosa-Sinensis-2006-07-04-3001

I was at the Zoo using a new lens [Canon EF 100-400mm 1:4.5-5.6 L IS USM].  A few flowers were around and this particular one had the sun from the rear emphasizing the translucent qualities of the flower.  The lens was rather long and the shortened depth of field really put the background out of focus.  I think the complementary colors really work well together.
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > 11-22-06

No Swimming . . . . indeed!


Gray, rainy day.  The last few days have been gray, moody pictures too.  Not really reflective of my mood.
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > 09-03-08

Some people have criticized my photos as being somewhat "Mickey Mouse"

And now you know why ;-)



(He's a gift to my grandson from my wife's friend - I have no idea where to put him - He's about 5' tall - send him to daughter's house, I guess)
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > 2008.06.23 (Mon) -  Today started out quietly.  I got up early, the sky was red from all the fires that were started by Saturday's storm.  I walked down to the docks and grabbed this shot of the sun rising.  After gabbing some more shots, I headed back to start the coffee. 

We packed up camp, hugged Tom, Virginia, Crystal, and George and then headed back home.  Well, back to work for me tomorrow, I had a great time on our vacation.  I'll be posting more photos from the trip later.

Thanks to everyone who came up, it was great seeing you all and we look forward to next time!More photos from today!

Until tomorrow,

Darron
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > portrait of my best friend.  

thanks for planning and executing a lovely trip for us all.  you are an artist true in so many things (especially planning and packing).  thanks for your hard work and patience.  and for listening to the 'wiggles' cd over and over and over.
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > went to boulder for a picnic with tamara and some friends.  afterward we headed to boulder's pearl street mall for some coffee and ice cream for the kids.  out of 150 picture taken-this one is my absolute favorite.  i love the blur of the background and the busy pedestrian mall on a beautiful colorado day.  i love the telling connection between tam and her daughter.  these two aren't too tough to photograph, they are almost always happy and smiling!
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > 2008.08.24 (Sun) - Nice day, we started our day with an excellent worship service!  The music was great, as usual.  We had a guest speaker who was visiting from Captial Christian Center, his message was very uplifiting.  After service we all went to breakfast together, then home and hung out watching TV and, well, I did catch a brief nap.  

I took off for a Sunday night fellowship and then returned home and grabbed Robin and B to go grab a daily photo.  I've passed this theater several times recently and it looks so nice all lit up so I decided to run out with the camera and grab a quick shot.  We didn't spend much time there, Robin and I wanted to get a 5k walk in before bed time so this is the best I have to post today.

The walk was good, just over an hour was not too bad...  Thanks all for your comments on yesterdays photo!  And thanks for the links to the small worlds info.  I'm gonna give this a try very soon!

Until tomorrow,

Darron
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > 2008.07.06 (Sun) - Lazy day, skipped church this morning for a small mens book study, picked up B and Bri after their youth services.  Robin was working so I took them to lunch at, where else, Taco Bell.  After that we ran to Fry's to pick up some network  and HDMI cables and returned home to hook up more equipment.   B & Bri started a movie, I fell asleep.  After we got up we hung out a while and then I took them both out to Cool River Pizza for dinner.  Then we ran out to Folsom to see Robin.  We did some grocery shopping and then headed home.  After Robin got off we all watched a movie together.  The movie was good (The Other Boleyn Daughter) but of course we knew how it was going to end.  The cinematography was excellent, really looked good on the new HDTV.

After dropping Bri off at home I came home and needed to grab a shot.  We have a small wooden box that we store the remotes in, it was polished and looked good in the room light so I grabbed this shot using my new bean bag "tripod" to steady the camera.

Goodnight,

-Darron
SmugMug > popular > Portfolio > 2008.07.18 (Fri) - Biked in today, I wrapped up the Process Flows and Use Cases that were due by the end of day Monday.  I got called up for jury duty and have to report at 9AM Monday so all my deliverables had to be completed today.  The ride home was hot and I worked a bit late so I took Sunrise Blvd all the way home.... Bad idea, I may have saved 10 minutes but it would have been safer to take my usual route.

Got home, showered, changed, and took Brandon out to dinner.  We went and checked on the "Beaver Tree".  It is still standing and while we were there we got to see some of the beavers swimming in the wetlands that they have created, it was pretty neat.  

We returned home and Brandon hopped on X-Box live and I started reading a new book I picked up.  It is a book on C# business objects.  The guys at work have decided that we are going to use CSLA for our business object archictecture so I am going to need to get familiar with it fairly quickly.  A couple of chapters in and I realized I needed to grab my daily photo so I opted for this self portrait.

Until tomorrow,

Darron
portrait of my best friend.

thanks for planning and executing a lovely trip for us all. you are an artist true in so many things (especially planning and packing). thanks for your hard work and patience. and for listening to the 'wiggles' cd over and over and over.
 > portrait of my best friend.  

thanks for planning and executing a lovely trip for us all.  you are an artist true in so many things (especially planning and packing).  thanks for your hard work and patience.  and for listening to the 'wiggles' cd over and over and over.
portrait of my best friend.

thanks for planning and executing a lovely trip for us all. you are an artist true in so many things (especially planning and packing). thanks for your hard work and patience. and for listening to the 'wiggles' cd over and over and over.
Photo by: graffs · see photo in gallery

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