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Hiking in the Mountains - Part 3

The final grouping of the hiking photos, tomorrow I will have some exciting backyard fall foilage shots. I know you are shivering with anticipation.

Must always start out with man and his hiking dog, LaKeit
Moss on a rock
Now with the 3 series of water photos. Wasn't as happy with these, will need to look at my class notes on how to keep the exposure down when the shutter is open for a length of time and your apeture is at its lowest.

Fast shutter speed
Medium shutter speed
Slow shutter speed
On the...

Hiking in the Mountains - Part 2

More pictures from our hike up in the mountains a couple a weeks ago.

Man and his dog...on a hike
Reflection of trees in water, in hind-sight I think a better composition would have been 25% landscape behind water and 75% water vs. the 10/90 because I think it is hard to make out
Mighty hikers on bridge The next series is again me playing with the shutter speed, starting with a fast shutter speed to stop the action of the water and then steadily increased the shutter speed to blur or get a cloud ...

Hiking in the Mountains

A couple of weekends ago my husband and I took a late anniversary trip up to the folks and hiked down to the river. I am taking a photography class through CreativeTechs so I ventured out of the Auto mode for these shots (side note: if you are not familiar with CreativeTechs please check them out as they offer a lot of great online courses, and trust me, you can't beat the price). I took way more photos than I thought thus I will post them through out the week versus inundated my Mom with the...

Kitty Fix

What on earth are you looking at?!?

Oh, an owl.

Happy National Punctuation Day

What's today? Drum roll please...National Punctuation Day!! Dust off all your apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, commas, brackets, quotation marks and other fun-filled punctuations and get out and party hardy with them.

To find out more about this festive day, you can visit the National Punctuation Day website. Though I was disappointed when I found out it was meatloaf vs. a cake.

Birthday Boy Golfing

My husband and dad have the same birthday and decided to go and play around this year. Here are a few snapshots of the Birthday Boy Golf Outing at Fossil Trace Golf Course in Golden CO. A fun and sporty golf course, highly recommended for all your golfers out there. We all had a great time or should that be, we all had a ball ; ).

Black Orchid Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by Dave McKean

The artwork and the fact it was written by one of my favorite writers, Neil Gaiman, is what drew me to Black Orchid. I read the description:

After being viciously murdered, Susan is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, in order to avenge her own death. Now as this demigoddess attempts to reconcile her human memories and botanical origins, she must also untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to her murder.

Okay, I was hooked and the Black Orchid came hom

Weekly Kitty Fix

Perhaps one day when I can get a camera with a faster shutter speed, I will be able to get other pictures of them besides sleeping...or the ones with the blurred streak going across them.

A Little Weekly Kitty Fix

Hellboy 8: Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola

In volume 8, Hellboy: Darkness Calls, Hellboy is still on sabbatical, but that means anything but rest for our red dehorned hero. Hecate, the queen of the witches, is presumed destroyed and now they need a new leader. They offer to make Hellboy, King of the Witches, but for those who are familiar with Hellboy, we know what he told them they could do with that offer. Which just a piece of advice, not wise to turn down such job offers from witches.

Hellboy's rejection hurls him into the world of hi