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Kinda too bad the fire and the spaceship are not a bit closer together! This scene was what i saw on my way home from work during yesterday's short but dismal afternoon trip. i have shot this fence so many times, but always hope for something new as i pass by....seasonally it has it’s share of wreaths, pumpkins and fund raiser bows...but the stretch between Christmas and Easter is quite void of decoration. understandable with spring being notoriously rainy here.
i was quite bemused to see the spaceship and the smoke and fire of a controlled burn (perhaps the unsold christmas trees??) on the farm. The spaceship is all metal with an opening so kids could climb inside. It used to be in the back yard of a local home....presumably a home with kids.....altho i never saw any there! When the home was sold, the spaceship disappeared. i figured the owners must have loved it dearly and taken it with them...but the following Halloween, it appeared as part of the landscape of the hayride decorations on the way to the fields to pick pumpkins at the local farm. It has not moved from it’s perch on the hill since then.....OR........... maybe it is just the landing spot, when it returns from it’s travels in the dead of night! Note to self.....watch for crop circles in the spring hay fields! ;) HFF!

HAPPY...HAPPY...H A P P Y Friday!!! Let loose, it’s the weekend!!! Time to Rock and Roll!!! R

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Day 4 KK Beyond Layers One Word

I did and posted 2 different looks for the soft dreamy focus of our “One Word” homework! i think they both work...to different degrees....but both chosen words apply to me. I love to travel....thus the other title on the second one....and i am constantly reaching to better myself, which feeds my confidence in me and makes me happy. I love to learn and never plan to stop reaching and growing to be the best i can be.

Happy Faux Friday Evening! :)

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Day 4 KK Beyond Layers ONE Word

Trying a little soft focus sweetness on the little bean of my life! I think perhaps she has a wee bit of her Mmmmm-ma’s wanderlust gene!!

I did 2 different approaches to this Day 4 challenge. Posted the other as well. A more traditional soft focus look...

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Not the most interesting picture in the world, but this fellow came swooping in and landed on the stretch of lawn beside my pond as i was getting out of my car after work yesterday. The herons that usually visit the pond are never very brave. They tend to fly off at the distant sight of a human, or the sound of a car approaching down our gravel lane. This one must have been hungry! i took the casual approach.....left everything in the car except my camera, and walked from the car up the walk as tho i were just going inside.....but then kept walking past the door, and slowly down the front walk to the driveway just beyond where he stood. he did not move, so i reeled off some shots and kept advancing...very casually toward him. He saw me, but never made an effort to fly off...just walked slowly in the direction of my spring house, along the rock wall separating the lawn from the pond below. I paused now and then to look in the pond as tho i was really interested in THAT and not him....what made me think i could fool him, i have no idea....probably those rose colored glasses i wear!
He inched closer to the spring house, but watched the pond for fish. i watched him watch the pond and inched forward. He hopped up onto this rock, and lifted up his leg and tucked it...balancing on one skinny little twig of a leg and watched the pond with alternating glances toward me! FEARLESS! he allowed me a bunch of shots, before finally noticing that he could not go any further away from me....and me being ever curious, continued to advance....ever so slowly. He finally glanced at the wall to his left, and back at me. I am sure the whole while muttering that he would get no dinner if this crazy woman would not back off and leave him alone... he did a little hop and beautiful little glide to the opposite side of the pond. I do hope he was rewarded for his patience with me....besides, it was time to go in and make dinner anyway!!

HAPPY FAUX FRIDAY!!! :D

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While i was tidying up my office and rearranging things, i decided to take a closer look at my little vintage camera collection that i started about 8 mos. ago. i have a friend that loves to poke around flea markets and garage sales for things for her business. She is UBER talented and SO very fun! I LOVE going trekking with her to find treasures! i managed to find the cutest little camera....a vintage 50’s or maybe very early 60’s Baby Brownie with a little leather braided strap! i was in love! i love small objects of interest like this! The woman that was selling it said it was her’s as a youngster. She had taken a table at the flea market and had cleaned up her closets and was getting rid of stuff she would never use. We discussed the camera for a bit and i asked if her price was firm. It was only marked $15.00 and it was SO very cute! She told me that since i was interested in photography, and she had a feeling it was getting a good home, she would give it to me for $12. So began my interest in vintage cameras.
A few months later, a friend mentioned that her husband was in the process of cleaning out his dad’s house to ready it for sale. He had found a camera there and told her to ask me if i had any interest....It was a Zeiss Contaflex, top of the model line for it’s time, in beautiful condition with a ratty leather case. After some research, it appeared that they are selling for about 10.00 on ebay...this one being in fabulous condition i asked if they would take 15 for it. They did....add to that my mom’s old Brownie Box Camera....i think from the late 40’s, another Baby Brownie, a 1950’s Brownie Box camera, a 1960 something Polaroid and this little Eastman Kodak “vest pocket camera”....which i am really not sure of the age and i have enough to display in my office on my bookcase!
THIS one is called the Kodak Vest Pocket camera....it is quite flat when folded up and snapped shut....but when you open it the little leather bellows thing slides out on rails! My husband had picked it up at a garage sale for me last fall, and i had not opened it....mainly because i had no idea it opened like this! Last night i unhooked what looked like a little latch on the end, and the entire back side of the camera came off. it had little scooped out sections at each end for the roll of film. Strange....the front had just what appeared to be a black leather insert with a hole in it. i tried looking through the hole......nothing. i turned it over and over in my hand looking for a shutter button or some clue. That is when i noticed that the front cover looked like it had very tiny hinges inset in it and a very tiny clip....so i got a little knife and used that to help pry open the cover. There inside was pure magic!! all squished up into the body was the little leather bellows thingy ...lens....shutter....settings.....eyepiece.....i was mesmerized and fascinated.......and SO excited!! i love this little thing! i wonder if it works! the little leather bellows thingy is a bit dry but in really great shape.....the little shutter handles click and one of them almost emits the sound of a timer. The settings for your shots are on the bottom just below the lens...., the right part which slides, reads Dull, Gray, Clear and Brilliant!!! It slides around to the left and shows numbers that match up with the words Dull, Gray, Clear, and Brilliant.....i imagine those to be shutter speeds and ISO...but really do not know.
Today i took it out on the rocks by the pond...mainly because i am really smitten with it and it was a beautiful day for a bokeh shot with one of my new toys!! It had to pose today tho...until i can get my hands on some film that might fit and i can try it, just for kicks and giggles!

HAPPY BOKEH WEDNESDAY!!