120: #189 Moving

The Akron Zoo has a jellyfish exhibit.
This was shot at 1.3 sec and not recognizable as a jellyfish
but I like the abstract swirl of the image.

The one below had a 1 second exposure and you can see that it's jellyfish.

I did it again! I meant to post this for tomorrow!

119: #293 Solitary

The park where I shot this doesn't have fields of trillium -- just single solitary flowers every now and then.

118: #005 Abandoned

Usually when a gas station closes around here it's torn down.
And usually there's a new business that's built on the site.
This one has been an empty shell for a long time.

Oops, I meant to schedule this for tomorrow morning.

117: #296 Song Lyrics

Anybody remember the Alan Parsons Project?

Just fiddling around with cloud pictures in Photoshop...
and Kayla's eye.

116: #185 Minimalism

Bare sunlit branches in a cloudless blue sky.

115: #132 Growing

From the shade of the towpath trail on a sunny, breezy day
a view of new shoots beginning to grow in the canal.

114: #157 In My Neighborhood

All kinds of critters in my neighborhood -- I live in a National Park!

113: #209 On the Water

Pretty bird in the canal on the way to the marsh.
I like how the camera captured the sparkle of a drop of water on his beak.

112: #332 Tools of the Trade

I had the air conditioner serviced this morning.
It needed a new "capacitor" -- I think that's what he called it...

111: #014 Artificial

Not a real bug on my window screen...but you knew that didn't you!

109: #150 Holes

Chocolate donut holes with powdered sugar.

Yaaayyy! I caught up! 110 posts on the 110th day of 2009!

108: #151 Home Is Where the Heart Is

"Hi Honey! I'm home!"
But he didn't bring dinner...

107: #037 Building

Bringing a twig for building their nest.

106: #173 Living the Green Life

A neighbor about a mile away is "living the green life"

105: #035 Bridges

I was using my 75-300 lens and couldn't get the whole footbridge in one shot, so this is a Photoshopped panorama.

I'm almost caught up!

104: #261 Risky

This could have been "boys will be boys". They ran off on their own, off the trail and down a steep slope to the creek below. Their mothers were standing at the top of the embankment shouting at them to stay out of the creek and come back up RIGHT NOW.

Faces blurred for privacy.

Camouflage explained

Am I the only one who spotted him?

102: #213 Orange

What're YOU looking at shorty? Haven't you ever seen a white goose with an orange broken toe before?

101: #321 The Good Old Days

I didn't try it to see if it's a working pump, but it's a display by the Towpath Trail.

I remember that my great-aunt's farmhouse had a pump like this. Close to the pump they had a spring bubbling out of the ground with a small shed over it. That was where they kept perishables like milk from their cows and the butter they churned. And in the good old days the air was so clear there that you could see a million more stars at night than you saw in the city.

Cropped and vignetted in LR2.

100: #004 A Pair of...

A pair of swallows at the marsh. They fly so fast that I can't catch them in flight, but they were resting and posing for me this morning.

Cropped and vignetted in LR2.

099: Free #06 Camouflage

A hunter in the woods? His camouflage is perfect! You'd think he was a tree stump.

098: #024 Bent

I considered using another freebie and calling it "ruffled"

097: #274 Selective Focus

The little tulip in the middle is peeking out at me.

096: Free #05 Fragrant

The sweet scent of hyacinth

095: #235 Places of Worship

I've fallen behind! I'll be trying to catch up this week.

094: #019 Backlighting

Easter lilies - backlit by the sunshine coming through the window early this morning.

093: #281 Show Us Your Bokeh

Focus on the daffodils -- the other flowers blurred.

092: #045 Chair

Gregory's wheelchair.
He likes to play the bat-the-balloon game, too...

091: #319 The Games We Play

Kids, God bless 'em, usually love simple games like batting a balloon back and forth.
But when the balloon got stepped on it popped and scared Kayla half to death!

090: #351 Warnings

New sign at the marsh.
I'm running out of steam here. Somebody feed me, please...

089: #223 Pair

Original shot

Playing with filters (sketch>bas relief) and layers' blend modes.
Tutorial by Deborah -- elements village -- creative #73

088: #286 Skeletal

On the wall at the podiatrist's office.

087: #299 Sport

Hurdles -- I guess I could have used "jumping..." for this shot.
It was a bright sunny windy day!
Faces blurred for privacy.

086: #007 Accessories

Hair bows and sunglasses