A door on a church – caught my eye as things in the sun tend to do. Ohhhhhhh… bright. shiny.

to?

I have a strict – or so I thought – no watering policy about my yard. If the grass needs watering, the skies will provide. Also, this policy cuts down on my mowing.

I violated that policy for the first time in years. We haven’t had rain here in so long… and the yard be derned, but my chipping area is drying out! This shall not stand. So I watered the yard, a bit. Golf – chipping – practice must prevail, right? Maybe?

chip

ISO 100 .3 @ f5
55mm

Out the window, from my office.

brick

Sweetcorn, fresh from the farm, with dinner tonight.

yum

Another barn? Yup. I like them. And I can’t wait for the fresh produce stand they’ll have out by the road very soon now.

Creek Valley

I was firing up the grill tonight when I spotted this guy near the gutters. The sun was down so I knew I needed a tripod. The flash was just too much (ain’t posting the misfires…) and I got this using a long exposure combined with a little light coming from behind the camera. He never moved, and there was no wind, else I’d’a not gotten him.

The biggest struggle was getting the focus right. I finally went in the house, got a flashlight, and held it on him while I focused – had to be manual as the auto was going everywhere.

web

ISO 100;  30 seconds @ f/6.3
250mm

I’m still learning with these barn photos. So many possibilities with light around the structure, open field – am thinking perhaps a night photo might be fun here too.

again

ISO 400 at 1/250  f/9
55mm

In our digital lab we just can’t have enough ways to connect equipment. 1/4″, 1/8″, XLR, USB, Firewire, S/PDIF, gigabit cat-5e, Firewire 800, SCSI in all the flavors…. and of course the proprietary cables too. Keeping up with the daggum cables is a part-time job, so we finally built a pegboard wall and have hung them all, by category.

connect

A labyrinth down the trail.

in the garden

Now that I know this barn is here I want to keep playing.

reaper