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Flowers, Photography

Just Some Snapshots #8.1

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I hope you all are well and I pray for our young souls going into combat for our sakes.

In addition to investing time into reading WWII history books, my snapshot side of me still beckons.

“EXPLORE” is a featured group on the photo website flickr.com.  Out of the close to 2,000,000 photo uploads daily, about 500 are selected for “EXPLORE” by the website for “interestingness”.  Some of my photos have been fortunate enough to be “interesting”, 19 in total.

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The last four are below; hope they are “interesting” to you.  Clicking on the images will take you to the actual photograph.  🙂

This is called “painting with light”.  You leave the shutter open then use a flashlight to illuminate the subject.
Tried Painting with Light - EXPLORED 9/11/2014

A Lantana
Lantana - EXPLORED Sept. 7, 2014

A blue Balloon flower
Blue - EXPLORED Sept. 6, 2014

An Amarcrinum Lily X taken at Descanso Gardens
Amarcrinum Lily X - EXPLORED Aug. 25, 2014

A summary as of today of my photographs selected for “Explore” on flickr:

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Airmen, Marines, soldiers and sailors – be safe.

Flowers, Photography

Just Some Snapshots 7

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Take My Hand, Take My Whole Life Too
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I’m Being Swallowed Up
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Nature’s Donut Shop
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Am I Bedazzling?
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Playing around with special effects. Meh.

 

Flowers, Photography

Just Some Snapshots 6

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Flowers, Photography

Just Some Snapshots 5

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Wardrobe Malfunction. It was selected for “In Explore” today, May 5th.

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Just thought this was different.
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There’s a bazillion buds on this plant…whatever it is!
Photography

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Small Subjects

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Some submissions in response to “Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Small Subjects”.

While not as artistic or as interpretive as Cee’s, they ARE small…  LOL

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America, Children, Cigar, Family, Friends, Kids, Photography, School, Uncategorized

A Smoldering Butt

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Just thought that was a catchy title…albeit a bit misleading like our media.  Just a tad misleading…’cuz the butt’s the other end.

I guess the news guys are finally rubbing off on me after all.

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But as I watched my kids and their friends play in the front, I felt like playing around with my new, fancy-schmancy Canon point and shoot – specifically hand held close-ups of the business end of a nice cigar.

It was amazing that an inexpensive camera such as this could take such equally amazing (yuk to some!) close-ups:

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I did switch to my standard Canon DSLR to snap these fun snapshots of my kids.  Little Brooke likes the distortion that erupts with this Canon 10-22mm lens…although a certain pro photographer buddy of mine will likely BBQ me over a slow but hot flame for using it.

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