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Bubbles In Blue

I extend my deep gratitude to this community of wonderful, talented 'Kindred Spirits' for your comments on my photos!  Thank you for taking that time and offering the compliments, encouragement and fun!
SmugMug > popular today > May 13, 2008 - Graffiti
SmugMug > popular today > May 14, 2008

Let your light shine.
SmugMug > popular today > There is a shot of a Japanese Hydrangea in the Bonus Tracks gallery, along with a few other shots from today.  I had never seen a Japanese Hydrangea before and photographed it because it was both unusual and pretty.  For some reason, I have found water lilies to be a great subject this spring.  The flowers and the plants look so prehistoric to me, very primitive.  The one today had a pretty purple flower and the others I had seen were either pink or white.  The bloom on this water lily seemed to glow, almost like it had an internal light source and was radiating.  If you are keeping score, this is not the first water lily to make my pick as the daily photo, it isn’t even the first one this month.  One of the hard things about selecting the daily photo on some days is that what has already been shot and posted to the daily gallery, especially in a given month, will often influence my choice.  If I had been choosing on variety, one of the other shots would have been the choice today.  But you know me, I live on the edge.  Yep, I am out there pushing the limits.  So against all odds, today’s daily photo is a water lily.  I would have tried to build some suspense but you would have already seen the image by now so the element of surprise was gone.  Or was it?  Look back, maybe the image has changed.  Nah, it’s still the water lily.

Once again, thanks so much for all of the comments and support from the group on my photographs.  It means a lot, especially because there is so much talent in this community.  Being around your galleries for the past several months has been a huge help to my photography.
SmugMug > popular today > F3 In Focus...05/13/2008

This shot wasn't taken today but this image was created today.

I'm back from Tulsa!
SmugMug > popular today > Day 195 - Dry Erase. This is the second idea I came up with yesterday.  I was having a hard time trying to figure out how to pull it off but decided to give it a go anyway.

The concept is what I wanted, but it is more subtle than I intended.  I may revisit this some day.
SmugMug > popular today > 5-13-08-- tuesday

"four steps to achievement;
plan purposefully,
prepare prayerfully,
proceed positively,
pursue persistently."

-- william a. ward
SmugMug > popular today > May 13:  Sunrise on the Bay
What a difference 24 hrs makes.  This is the other side of Post, on my way into the office.  I could see the sun just starting to come up so I darted into a parking lot near by and grabbed the camera & tripod and headed for the seawall.  The other side of the trees you see in the background is where I took yesterdays shot.  This is the sheltered channel where they race the hydroplanes in August.  Day was nice sun wise, just still cold and very windy.
EXIF:
Pro1 on tripod
1/640
f/3.5
ISO 50
-2/3 EV
85mm
Karina, this is what I was talking about in my note :)  I knew I had a sunrise just not how good till I got home.  That 1.5" screen on the Pro1 is tiny.  Thanks for the kind words.  
John
SmugMug > popular today > Here's my wonderful husband, or as he likes to be known:  the Senior Member of our Posse.  This is what happens when you spend too much time with the [grown] children.  (May 12, 2008)




"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
   ~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
May 13

Bubbles In Blue

I extend my deep gratitude to this community of wonderful, talented 'Kindred Spirits' for your comments on my photos! Thank you for taking that time and offering the compliments, encouragement and fun!
 > May 13

Bubbles In Blue

I extend my deep gratitude to this community of wonderful, talented 'Kindred Spirits' for your comments on my photos!  Thank you for taking that time and offering the compliments, encouragement and fun!
May 13

Bubbles In Blue

I extend my deep gratitude to this community of wonderful, talented 'Kindred Spirits' for your comments on my photos! Thank you for taking that time and offering the compliments, encouragement and fun!
Photo by: LadyKatesPhotography · see photo in gallery

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