182: #052 Classic

A rose...
a classic thank-you gift to Kayla's family for rescuing a neighbor.

The more complex story is that a neighbor a few houses away went out on her second-story deck and the door closed behind her and locked. The deck has no stairs so she was stranded. She saw Kayla outside playing and tried to get her to ask her Mommy or Daddy to come out and talk to her but Kayla just finished the pre-kindergarten "safety town" classes and one of the lessons is "don't talk to strangers". Kayla took this very seriously and wouldn't talk to the lady. Her Daddy finally came out in the yard and the woman hailed him and got him to bring a ladder and rescue her. She gave them some roses as a thank-you.

I took several pictures and liked this angle the best. It was shot as landscape, but I cropped it to portrait. Otherwise it's pretty much out of camera.

Oops! I meant to schedule this for tomorrow.

181: #056 Clouds

I see a circus elephant in the sky. What do you see?

and I think the 2 people in the picture below are looking up with open mouths at the circus parade...

Can't see the faces?
Look here

180: #043 Celestial Bodies

Well, I was turning off the lights and headed for bed when I looked outside and saw the moon in a clear sky. Naturally I grabbed my cameras and gave it one more try to capture a decent moon shot. This was taken hand-held with my Panasonic at full zoom in manual mode -- raw. I set the XSi up on the tripod and took a couple of shots, but this one actually turned out better. Still not great, but better. And I cropped it a little but not a whole lot, either.

Shutter speed: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 4.2
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Spot
ISO: 100
Focal length: 82.8mm
Focal length: 504mm (in 35mm film)

Maybe some day I'll get it right with the XSi, but for now here's my Monday blog.

179: #179 Magical or Mystical

Sometimes my mind is taken over by the aliens --
the photoshopping aliens that is...

178: #059 Colored Glass

My daughter loves bright primary colors!

I had to take out the glare from the sliding glass doors with photoshop. This would probably have been better if I used a light box, but I haven't tried that yet.

177: #110 Free

St. John's wort
Free photoshop action called "reflections" from http://www.panosfx.com/index.php

176: #130 Grin

Brother and sister grins.
Kayla is really sprouting up.
But Gregory will probably always be taller standing up than his little sister.

How they have grown!
3-4 years ago:
She has always been his helper...

and his playmate...

and she managed to grow some hair, too!