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“Action Figures”
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When I think of action figures quite a few come to mind I grew up with.  All of them are subjects of movies today.  Batman, Superman, Spiderman, the Hulk and others are included.  As I am a big kid at heart and love hero types and most action figures seem to be hero types, I have a lot of movies of the action figure hero in action.  I think I like Batman the best.  I don’t own the Hulk but have a Sean Connery movie, “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” that reminds me of him.

 

I am a doll collecter.  Action figures aren’t what I usually collect but I do have Spiderman placed here with a few movies with action figure story lines.  I bought the doll / action figures from a dealer at a market, after seeing the first of the Spiderman series. 

 

 

Most of my action photos come from live action I get to see going to school sports practices specifically for photos.  This football practice was taken a couple of years ago at our high school practice field and have you ever seen so many legs in a pile?

 

 

and a newer one taken in October, girls soccer. 

 

 

All nice looking, active young people in the photos and you can tell she is freezing in this one as she is keeping her hands up in her jacket.  Taken in Virginia over our Christmas visit, this photo is quietly active.  I spotted them as we drove so I grabbed the shot.  I have seen young people use scooters and skate boards for racy sports activities we didn’t begin to think of when I was there age.   Most young people now feel very much at home on wildly racing scooters or skate boards and more.  I love seeing it over and above kids locked into nothing but computer activities.

 

I enjoyed this challenge and hope I hit on something of interest.

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The current challenge is: 
“the Christmas Season through New Years”
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My part 4 “Christmas in Virginia Beach, Virginia.”
Dec. 23 – Jan. 1, 2010

 

We traveled to Virginia late on the 22nd.  Travel to and from was uneventful as roads were clear though snow was piled alongside for nearly 500 plus miles nearly to Richmond.  This year temperatures were very cold so the snow remained and was clearly visible on our return, allowing us to see just how much snow had fallen before we started out. 

 

We are now home a little more than a week.  Remembering details of our visit, it was really nice.  We ate in and we ate out and food was not only plentiful but delicious.  We had good visits, played a few games, watched movies and did some site seeing.  After deleting a lot of bad photos nearly 6 gigs of images remains and my computer graphics card is giving up the ghost.  Computer use and decision making for photo use is now hindered with colored lines running horrizontally and vertically on my monitor.  Things are looking up, a new computer and monitor are on the way.

 

My final content for this challenge is photos that include family.  A bit of text for each and my images are smaller for loading, click them to view larger.

 

 

1-This was the first year Halie had to work during our stay.  At her encouragement, I got up early to visit a little before she left for her day.  The normal is breakfast with Mitch with a nice view of the birds and squirrels in the yard.  Breakfast happens after four legged friends are fed but they feel the change of the Christmas pace so are staying nearby.  

 

 

2- Mitch, our favorite son-in-law is a terrific cook.  This is a meal he spent a lot of time preparing and everything he fixed is not in the photo.  I would call him the chief cook.  He is waiting for me to finish photo shooting the food so we can get on with eating.

 

 

3-  Mitch also keep the fires burning and as cold as the Christmas weather is this year, the fireplace felt terrific.  The dogs usually discover a spot to sleep in front of it.  

 

 

4- We did a lot of sight seeing and photo taking.  I enjoy taking photos of Halie taking photos and the above is Halie, Eden and Mitch.  Though you can’t see it here, this photo was taken in a beautiful Oriental Park.

 

 

5- A distant view of Halie waiting for us beside the front of the Pagoda which is the main attraction in the park.  There is a restaurant inside also but it was closed when we were there.

 

 

6- Chick’s, a favorite Oyster Bar Halie and Mitch love to share with us.  We always visit the dock after the meal for photos.  Eden is always favorite subject matter for her mom and the two of them are favorite subject matter for me so one from the dock at Chick’s.   

 

 

7- My hubby John, playing with one of Mitch’s Christmas puzzles.  Apple sits on his lap as any lap is a favorite spot and John doesn’t mind.

 

 

8- The pets are pampered but the cat is resting where we want to rest so a talk before removing it.  Rusty is tempermental but he can be removed without much of a fuss by lifting and dumping with covers if need be. 

 

 

9- This is Ralphie in our bed on another occassion.  He is shy but sweet and smiles a lot.  It took him a couple of visits before he stuck around for photos and it took me that long to tell the two cats apart.  He is my favorite, of Halie’s cats, to take photos of. 

 

 

10- Rusty on the other hand has scowling private thoughts that may include “I hope the intruders leave soon so things can get back to normal” and similar.

 

 

11-  Granddaughters have lots of emotions you like to catch in photos.  Eden has grown up and is now in her first year of university in Maryland and loving it.  Seeing her on our visits is always a gift so I’ll close my Christmas/New Year entry with her.    

 

We did visit Times Square on New Years via the television.  We munched on special foods and drank plum wine while I took photos of the screen feeling like I was plenty close enough to the count down activities. 

 

I have a lot of photos from our trip I’ll put up for you in future challenges.  Thanks always for your comments on them.  Have a super week and enjoy taking your photos.

 

 

 

…MERRY CHRISTMAS XANGA…

 

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..PART 3..
…Christmas in Downtown Cincinnati…

After our failed attempt to capture Christmas while candy shopping in Cincinnati, we made a special trip to town in the late evening of December 15 for Photos.  We drove familiar roads from Loveland into Montgomery then to Reading in hopes of catching the stained glass window of the church I attended as a child, lit with the lights from inside the church.  Once again a failed attempt so back to the interstate I-75 to continue our drive into Cincinnati.  The evening was a joy filled experience with so much beauty, shining reminders of Christmas but it included a bit of sadness at the same time.

 

1- For the most part, the streets in downtown Cincinnati are directed as one way streets so there is always some confusion driving there.  I’ve never memorized into my mind the map of streets (my mom knew them all) so always have to hunt and peck my way around.  I can get anyplace, just not in a straight bee line.  There are a lot of walkways over the streets taking shoppers from one store to another but what street we are on in the above moment is a mystery unless I decide to go back to town and make sense of the corner buildings in photos.

 

 

2-Fountain Square is the center of town.  It is home to the Tyler Davidson Fountain which was dedicated to the city in 1871.  Read HERE at Wikipedia for more information.  You see in the above photo, the square lit for Christmas.  The annual tree lighting was the day after Thanksgiving on the 27th of November and hundreds of people witnessed the event of the sixty foot tree with its 20,000 lights and a five foot star at its top, joyously lit for the season.  Read  more on the event and see a video with the excitement HERE.  There have been, in the past, ice rinks kept on the Winter time square but I did not notice anyone skating while we drove so I don’t know if it’s done anymore.  *** AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO myself, there is a large ice rink behind the fountain in use by lots of fun loving, energetic people who are enjoying the Christmas festivities on the square, unseen from the cars driving by.  We who are trapped inside cars for photo taking miss a lot but thanking the Cincinnati Newscasters for a fun update on the square.

 

3-  In this photo you see the fountain caressed with the soft lights of Christmas.  Its very top is darker in the image so not easily seen in the photo.  I wasn’t sure I had sucessfully taken any pictures of the fountain as in the car when it’s dark and we are in moving traffic I miss a lot of shots I’d like to take.  I got lucky and discovered this one among my photos taken that evening.

 

 

4-  This is Garfield / Piatt Park and another Wikipedia link for you, HERE.  It doesn’t show off well in my photo but it’s a lovely little spot providing some green in the city.  I am not sure but think the arbor lights may be lit evenings, year round, not just Christmas.

 

 

5-  Macy’s is fairly new to Cincinnati and I’ve never shopped there.  The building shows itself off with lots of windows and the colors are perfect, surely planned for Christmas.

 

 

6-  This is the sad part of this entry, the John Shillito building.  It was, when I was small, the place to shop in Cincinnati.  The windows you see are quite large (a large car could be parked easily in any of them) and they completely surround the building, or did.  My mother brought us here to see Santa and to see the displays that filled these windows at Christmas.  I can recall freezing while standing and watching but it’s a really good memory.  Those window displays were the best I’ve ever seen in window animation.  Everything from Lionel trains to rocking horses and dolls and teddy bears plus everything a child could want in any toy to expensive clothing filled the store windows.  I realize cities change but the loss of Shillito seems to me to be a bit of history gone.  The store changed hands going from Shillito’s to Aires to Lazarus and ??? and I’m not really sure of the sequence as I couldn’t keep up with the changes.  The building is now called Shillito Lofts and I believe it is, or will be, city dweller apartments of a more expensive nature.  The apartments will be a plus for renters as it is near the center of town and sits only a stones throw from fine restaurants, the Riverfront and baseball and football and the art and natural history museums the Cincinnati Symphony and Opera and Ballet and the Findley Market which is also historic to Cincinnati so one more link for you HERE.

 

 

7-  This is the business district of Loveland, the little city my husband and I call home.  Most buildings aren’t more than two stories so it isn’t as grand a spot to show off for Christmas as is Cincinnati or larger cities but it has a nice historic feel and a quiet countenance I appreciate.  There are nice little shops and the bicycle trail and a canoe livery in the historic district.  Festivals are held in the parks and the parks are very nice.  There is a lot to be said about smaller towns and villages.  I could never have been a big city girl.  Merry Christmas Loveland.

 

Christmas entries Part 1 HERE

Christmas entries Part 2 HERE

Have a beautiful Christmas Xanga

 

 

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PART 2
A Quest for Christmas Photos

After Thanksgiving, our plan of attack included a trip to at least one of two candy stores.  We opted for Minges in downtown Cincinnati in hopes we would get good photos of Christmas decorations in town.  The candy purchase went well but lit displays weren’t.  I took lots of photos of the city but Christmas lighting necessitated a night time return trip.  We decided a photographic foray into the wilds of Loveland to photograph favorite homes and anything else concerning Christmas would be good.  Remembering my photos are taken for the most part from a moving car I hope they don’t appear to poorly on your monitor.

 

Beginning with one of the Christmas Tree lots in the area we see a blow up Frosty waving in hopes of bringing in business.

 

Frosty did his job well as trees appeared, loaded on tops of cars headed to various homes for the decorating activity.  This particular tree was threatning to fly off the top so we followed a while just in case he got into trouble with a run away tree.

I love a Gazebo and the Loveland Historic Society always decorates inside and out to brighten their buildings for the Christmas season.

This home sits next to a park we enjoy.  It always takes my eye and I have a lot of photos of it in all weather conditions.  Decorated with green wreaths with red bows it makes a wonderful display that really sets it off with a look of the old South .

This is a wonderful big home my mother always wished she could buy.  It’s been sold several times in the years we have lived in Loveland and I’ve never gone into it to see what it’s like inside.  That’s a bit disappointing when I think about it.  For Christmas it is always wrapped with greens and hung with wreaths.  It’s a beauty of an older home with a wonderful porch that wraps around most of the house and the telltale signs indicate there are children living there now who enjoy it.

This light display is actually in Reading where I grew up.  The beautiful blues in the lights caught my eye along with the rest including the angel heralding in the birth of the Christ Child.

Either an old fire house or a school house and it sits either on or next to the King’s Island property.  I would love to have this building for myself.  It actually is not decorated, I applied the wreaths and ornaments to the tree with Paint Shop Pro.  It and its wonderful evergreen tree needed some Christmas.

There are Nativities in many places, especially in church yards.  Our little town like others has removed the Nativity scene from the city/government lot where it used to sit .  Loveland’s Creche now sits across from the Loveland city buildings in the old train station.  This particular Nativity in my photo sits in the bank lot in Reading. 

A familiar scene to me, the night drive into Loveland, down the hill and towards our home approximately 3 miles distant.  The flying car and reindeer with Santa are actually a changing display at a home about a mile forward.  I decided to remove thm from their actual position with Paint Shop Pro and fly them into the night at the entrance to Loveland.

I have many more photos for Christmas.  I’ll add another entry with scenes from downtown Cincinnati including Fountain Square with it’s Christmas lights.  I’ll continue to seperate photos into halfway organized entries as they happen.

See my Christmas entry part 3 HERE.

See my Christmas entry part 1 HERE.

Have a great week and Merry Christmas to all.

 

 

 

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this week, for Nov. 27 – Dec. 03, 2009
“the Christmas Season through New Years PART 1″
suggested by PhotoGraphics

Our Christmas season always begins withThanksgiving. Each year on the fourth Thursday of November we celebrate the survival of ancestors who traveled dangerous waters, for months at a time, to achieve freedom to worship as they chose.  The day might include different patterns of thanks in different households but it usually ends with a table spread with a bounty of foods.  The food is often a picture worth taking as it can include food items we see only in times of celebration.  Thanksgiving is most definitely the beginning of our Christmas season.  Sometimes John and I celebrate by ourselves.  We don’t cook as much but we cook as festive.  Most of the time we wend our way to Rockford, Illinois to be with my sister Bunny.  In going there, a bit of Christmas finds it’s way to and from in the form of packages carried either way.  We are blessed with a loving family.  It’s small but enough and each visit becomes more important as the years hurry by.  So, as our Christmas begins with Thanksgiving, my posted photos take you, in installments, on the drives that are a part of our Christmas adventure for the Weekly Photo Challenge, this year 2009.

 

1-  There is a feeling in the look of the skies, the temperatures, and the surroundings when it’s time for Thanksgiving.  Our Thanksgiving drives to Rockford are always drippy with rain and dark with clouds just as it should be.  Every Thanksgiving drive I take photos of the same type of atmosphere. 

 

2-  It’s the middle of the day and the homes in farming areas are dark.  Chores are never ending and the look is as if no one is home. 

 

3- Trees are bare, grass is golden and field corn is waiting for harvest for Winter feed storage.

 

4- Dark catches up with us even though we had a fairly early start.  We left at 10 in the morning, making few stops.  This photo was taken at 5:00 p.m. Illinois time.  It’s the first time I caught a night light on the Wind Farm.

 

5-  A view of Thanksgiving / Christmas in Loves Park, the area Bunny calls home.  A lot of Christmas lights are sparkling happily on our arrival. 

 

6- The only photo of the snow that was on the ground on Thanksgiving morning (the white patches on the deck).  Most had melted before I was awake and moving.  After some photos, my job for the day is to make the dressing for our meal.  I made it, we took it, to Bunny’s son’s home where we gathered for the Thanksgiving feast, and it was eaten along with Turkey, Ham, Sweet Potatoes, Scalloped Potatoes, Mashed Potatoes, Turkey Gravy, other veggie dishes, a couple of Cranberry desserts, pies, cakes, and drinks.  And I’m faltering here trying to remember it all.  I can only say it was more than enough and I’m glad I didn’t have to do the clean up.

 

7-  Already Monday and after a day of travel to get here, 4 days of visiting and doing the fun things sisters do, we head home making a favorite stop at the Wind Farm in DeKalb.  It’s a gorgeous day with blue skies.  I love this place with it’s high rise blades moving with the winds.  I find them to be a God sent revival of natural and clean power.

 

8-  I visit a group of trees along the road at the wind farm.  Hedge Apples are a part of my growing up.  Anywhere you find them growing you know there were, once upon a time, hedgerows made up of them to keep livestock in.  The green balls are heavy, sticky, not edible except for bugs and supposedly they keep spiders out of your house if you put a few of them in rooms.

 

9-  Not snowballs but just as round and every bit the size of a large one made up for snowball fights.  If a hedgeapple falls from the tree and happens to hit you on the head it could surely knock you out.

 

10-  Back home on the 30th of November we work at recuperating a few days.  We get a dusting of snow on the 6th and the 10th of December.  Rockford gets over a foot of snow a few days later and we get lots of wind but no snow.  I’m hoping the dustings we did get are a sign, maybe snow for Christmas?  Our plans are to visit Halie for Christmas in Virginia.  It’s always beautiful there but usually not a lot of snow.  Who knows, stranger things have happened and I’ll post something for each week of our Christmas to let you follow our fun and excitement!

See Part 2 of my Christmas photos HERE.

Have a wonderful week.  …MERRY CHRISTMAS…

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

 

 

 

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this week, Nov. 20 – Nov. 26, 2009
“Projects in the Works”
suggested by PhotoGraphics

There was a time I always had projects in the works.  Now things don’t move as fast physically but my mind is always at work.  At this time of year I try to be ahead of things getting holiday projects finished.  Some of my projects include early purchase of gifts and planning ahead for trips.  One creative project I try to manage for holidays are digital desktop wallpapers for friends and cards for printing to send to snail mail recipients.

This past weekend we drove to my sister’s home in Columbus, Ohio.  I took photos of farms as we drove because I like farm photos and they work for Thanksgiving images.  Most farms don’t sit close to the expressway so I play with light settings and shutter speeds to take images from a distance.  Looking from a side window in the car makes everything appear to be zooming by which it actually is at about 70 mph.  I set my shutter speed from 1000 to 1600 to stop blur and open up extra light to replace the loss of light from the fast shutter.   If a photo I like has problems I edit in Paint Shop Pro. 

Some of my Photos

1-  The shutter speed for this image was 1/1000 moving sideways past it.

 

2- I brought the image up to size and then cropped it to give me this.  I played with edges, enhanced color and sharpness in my photo editor.

 

3-  I added a thin line frame and greetings and my signature.  It will be a single fold card with a verse on the inside.  I have played with more folds in cards but am not happy with them.  I don’t have the expertise for neat folds when the paper is so fat between the folds.

 

4-This is the original image also taken at 1/1000 shutter speed.  It was far enough away I really couldn’t tell what was in the yard.  I never know what will appear so take the photo and ask questions later.

 

5-  The crop from image #4 and I was surprised to discover all the sheep.  I edged and played with color as it was a darker image.  I added the thin line frame, my greeting and my signature. 

 

6-  Taken in May of 2008, traveling and looking a bit to the side but forward from the passenger side window.  The shutter speed was much slower, 1/200 which works if you are not looking straight at the fields and trees seeing them flitting by in your eye piece.  I have edged the image with my photo editor Paint Shop Pro and enhanced color.  I see some reflection at the bottom I will edit out before I print it.

 

7-  This is an older photo.  I took it in may of 2005 with my Kodak DC4800.  This farm sits nearer the road and I took the photo looking forward and to the side as we drove.  The shutter speed is 1/333.  The photo is fresher and greener than most of our fields in Ohio at Thanksgiving but I like the picture and the whole world isn’t Autumn colors in November so it works. 

I’m not sure which of the above cards I will print but making cards is a lot more fun than buying them in the stores because they are your own photos.  I enjoy it and my projects give me something creative to do with photos that belong to me.  I imagine we all feel the same satisfaction when we have projects in the works using our own photos. 

Have a really super week.
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this week, Nov. 13, – Nov. 19, 2009
“The Moon”
suggested by Zeal4Living

Heavenly bodies are fascinating, “the Moon” every bit as much as the sun. Both are studied from scientific standpoints while tales have been passed to us from the Greeks, Native Americans, the Orient and ??? about Gods and powerful others related to the existence of both.  For the Photographer, the moon is of interest because it not only lights the night but can often be seen traveling the sky during the day.  I have some photos displayed for both. 

My Photos

 

1- This is one of a series of daytime moon photos I took in October of 2007, 6:30 p.m.  We spent a big portion of our day at a Pumpkin festival and we noticed the daytime moon when leaving.  This particular photo has been doctored.  It was taken with my kodak DC4800 and was very dark in the shadow area and the birds (which I didn’t see when taking the photo) did’t show up well.  I didn’t like the image as it was but am very happy with it now.  I think it gives off a feel of the harvest with the bit of a moon hanging above the fields.  I have seen some wonderful close up images of the moon and envy their bigness and clarity and the camera that took them, but for myself, I prefer the moon to be a part of a scene in a finished photo.  With the lighting improvements, in my mind this image has greatly improved and has a nice amount of interest.

 

2- A cemetery we were taking photos in.  We always find things of interest and the day got away from us.  This photo was taken in early evening light at 8:00 pm in May of 2008.  I brightened it up a little as it was so dark because of the dying day.  We didn’t expect the full moon, floating above us for photos. It was a nice surprise to end our day.

 

3- After 8:00 p.m. July 26, 2008 on the drive from Rockford, Illinois to Cincinnati.  The harvest moon was a really nice surprise looking huge when it first came up.

 

4- Cincinnati does not get hurricanes but September 14 of 2008 we got the unusual.  Hurricane winds normally die down as they travel north.  On this day we saw what was totally abnormal,  70 mile an hour winds off and on during the day.  Power was knocked out in the storm path, some was out for weeks.  As it was very hot, we spent the day on our porch watching trees sway farther than I had ever seen them.  We took photos and ate canned goods directly from tins to avoid opening refrigerators.  That night, I took photos like this one. 

 

5- This photo is October 12, 2008, taken at Lake Isabella.  I’m plugging in some of the particulars for it and the image below trying to sort out the extreme star around the moon.  I’m pretty positive the fault was letting in too much light which allowed for the moon glow.  I like the photos but would like more control than I have.  Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1.3, Av( Aperture Value ) 7.1, Metering Mode Evaluative Metering, Exposure Compensation +2, ISO Speed 800, Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Focal Length 28.0 mm, Flash Off.

 

6-  Tv( Shutter Speed ) 0.6, Av( Aperture Value ) 4.0, Metering Mode Evaluative Metering, Exposure Compensation +2, ISO Speed 800, Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Focal Length 28.0 mm, Flash Off. Eventually I may be able to automatically know how to set things on the camera.  That would be so nice.  Practice is the key.

 

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this week, Nov. 06, – Nov. 12, 2009
“Hearts Desire”
suggested by StixAndStonz

A “Hearts Desire” can range from very personal, such as husband and children to totally material.  I have the necessities and the loves of my life but two things come to mind I can call “Heart’s Desire”. 

1- better health and

2- windows facing East and/or West (rather than North and South), in a large eat in kitchen and family room.  I grew up with sunsets as a part of my life.  My “heart’s desire” would be for those same sunset lit, evening views.  As I don’t have the home with East/West facing windows, some photos of sunsets, from evening drives when the sun is going to sleep for the night must be satisfactory to fulfill my “Heart’s Desire”.

 

My Photos

1- There is something to be said about sunsets, or photos taken of sunsets, on the road.  They are infinitely different, over and above what are seen, from the same views in windows at home.

 

2-  On the road scenes are ever changing when you view them traveling by car at upwards to 70 miles per hour. 

 

3-  If you are traveling in the opposite direction, you have to take everything in from a rear view mirror and save it to memory, your own and your digital card for posterity.

 

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this week, Oct. 30-Nov. 05, 2009
“Something Borrowed”
suggested by Living_Embers

Borrowed! our home belongs to the bank so I consider it borrowed.  But, what I’ll review or expose, with my photos, is the fact my husband and I are borrowed in the deepest sense of the word.

1-  This skinny little cat found us in July of 2008.  I thought it was a kitten about 6 or 7 months old.  The vet said his teeth said he was about 18 months or so old.  It’s still so hard to believe as he was really stringy.  In this photo, he wasn’t real comfortable as he still felt out of place not having wormed his way into our house, yet.

 

2-  This is the same cat nearly a year later to the month, on our roof which he has found how to get onto.  So far we have trimmed two bushes back to prevent his climbing to the roof but he still gets there and has us stumped as to how he does it.  I guess it’s time to take the bushes out completely.  I’ve wondered if he can climb the brick like SpiderCat. 

 

3- Having made the move into the house and taking us over as borrowed servants, this is the satisfied look of a very smart cat who eats and sleeps inside, knowing he can meow his way to the outside world about 20 times a day.  Smart he really is, he trained to knock on a hanging bunch of napkin rings to alert us he wants in and he rings bells hanging on the inside of the door to let us know he wants out.  We showed him how and why and he got it in about 1 showing.  All knocking and bell ringing are utilized at the same time as the MEOW.

 

4-  And here, the satisfied preening, with eyes closed, of a well fed cat who knows he has successfully manipulated his “Borrowed” family into hostages.

 

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this week, Oct. 23-Oct. 29, 2009
“From Dusk till Dawn”
suggested by LadyLioness1973

I had to study carefully, the pages I researched to define exactly what dusk, dawn and in between was really considered to look like.  I really didn’t know the exactness of the terms.  I finally got it, I think.  So, some photos with camera information on one image.

1-  I take a lot of night images.  This is obviously a westward drive.  Particulars are on the third image down.  They would be similar for all of my Dusk till Dawn photos.

 

2-  This is Lake Isabella.  John and I spend a fair amount of time there.  Our hours vary but nights are good for some lovely quiet images.

 

3-  Lake Isabella Dusk:  Silhouette, Tree

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Shooting Mode Shutter-Priority AE, Tv( Shutter Speed ) 0.3, Av( Aperture Value ) 3.5,

Metering Mode Evaluative Metering, Exposure Compensation +1 1/3, ISO Speed 800,
Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, Focal Length 28.0 mm, Image Size 3888×2592,
Image Quality Fine, Flash Off, White Balance Mode Auto, AF Mode One-Shot AF,
Picture Style User Defined 3(Landscape), Sharpness 7, Contrast 4, Saturation 4, Color tone 0,
Color Space sRGB, Noise Reduction Off, File Size 4930 KB,
Drive Mode Single-frame shooting, Owner’s Name RSBlain, Camera Body No. 1721128133

 

4-  This is the drive from Lake Isabella to our house.  This image is looking from the road to my right as we drive, homes lit on the hill above the river.

 

Thanks always for your comments and keep on taking those photos.