ON A HILL FAR AWAY

In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.

TREE STREAKS

A slow shutter speed combined with camera movement up or down gives a kind of streaky look. I'm sure it would work better during early morning or evening. A sunset or sunrise background would be nice. I'll definitely try this again.

WISDOM OF MEN

The weekly assignment at Digital Photography School was "Wisdom". Above is my entry.

Certainly, there are many ways to photographically interpret wisdom. The Bible is at the top of my list, but it being already well represented in the assignment forum, I decided to take my interpretation of wisdom from great inventions. This being a category that has quite a substantial number of things in it, I narrowed it down to what I had available in my workshop.

My method of "working on things" usually begins with finesse and precision, but sometimes gets replaced rather quickly by the "Brute Force and Duct Tape Method". Finesse and precision just takes too long.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALICE

Happy Sixteen to my Daughter!

THINKING BIG

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The tracks of the Central Rock Island and Pacific Railroad reached this town of Kellogg, Iowa in the spring of 1866. It continued it's Westward way, with the first train passing through Kellogg on July 1, 1867.

The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads were joined with a golden spike ceremony at Promontory Utah, on
May 10, 1869. The East coast of the United States was connected with the West coast.

Big ideas by some big thinkers.

PINKS

Just a few of the essential elements that make a girl pretty.

AMPLIFIERS

Amplifiers are sturdy, heavy and definitely cool! The term "Workhorse" comes to mind. If I could play guitar, I would have a killer amp.

ALICE AT NIGHT OF JAZZ

Annual High School "Night of Jazz", with a wonderful dinner and good jazz.

SHALLOW DEPTH OF FIELD

The current weekly assignment at Digital Photography School is "Shallow Depth of Field". It's been snowing out all day, so I decided to shoot something inside. The cats food bowl with the bag in the background seemed like it might be a decent shot. When I moved the bowl to set up the shot, it scraped the floor and the cats woke from their naps thinking, it's a new day and time for breakfast.

Junior (pictured) would not be deterred, so I took the shot with him in it and I kind of like it.

PARK SWING

When I was a kid, the seats on this swing were wood boards. We would slide out of them and fly through the air, always trying to best our previous mark, or better yet beat the other kid's marks.

Barely a stones throw away from the swings there was a lake where we fished. The lake was next to a river and across the river was the town dump, where we spent countless hours breaking any glass items we could find and shooting rats with BB guns. The good old slightly dangerous days.

DClone90

Just because I've got a new toy with my Nikon D90 doesn't mean I've given up tinkering with vintage and toy cameras. I've figured out a way to basically put a digital back on these cameras. Just use a piece of ground glass, attach it to the film plane and open the lens and take a picture of the glass with the digital camera.

I will perfect this with a tube later this Spring when it's warm enough to work comfortably in the garage. A black tube connecting the digital camera to the film camera will cut out stray light and should render an image faithful to what the lens (in this case a Diana Clone) projects to the film plane. It worked quite well in these first experiments.

Diana and Holga with digital backs and image stabilization, plus instant image gratification sounds like fun to me.

FARM COUNTRY

Nature's beauty, like blessings from God or answers to prayers are often hidden in plain sight.