
Hazy Shade of Winter
Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me . . .
. . .Then look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky
is a hazy shade of winter
- Paul Simon, from one of the greatest songs in recorded history.
After two weeks of pulling long hours, I allowed myself to sneak out of work for an hour mid-morning today because the weather conditions hit perfection. Despite being whipped by a damp 40-degree, 20 mph wind, and shaking like the proverbial leaf, I was ecstatic.
Lucky are we the photographers, who can see beauty and experience pleasure outside in weather that would keep most sensible people hiding indoors under a fuzzy blanket. It doesn't hurt though that, after freezing parts off in weather like this, we can still come back home and process them in a computer - while wearing same fuzzy blanket.
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Uploaded on Nov 13, 2009
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Happy Retro Smiling Child Friday (25/52)
I've missed flickr this week. Work has been a little overwhelming lately - but remarkably in the middle of the week I got a wonderful break. Home for Veteran's day (and actually worked most of that) and with warm temperatures and beautiful blue skies, I was able to get Elena to the city zoo for a short outing.
One of the places we just had to go was the snow leopard cage, outside of which was one of these things that . . . you stick your head though to get pictures taken of you . . . . what the heck are these called, anyway? Whatever, here's Elena the snow leopard.
Needed to change up the processing a little so I hope you all like the slight retro / textured look (thanks skeletal mess) . . . seemed fitting here . . . the kind of picture you'd find in an old scrapbook I suppose.
Of course, daddy had a good time shootin' the animals in the zoo, so I had to include some outtakes . . (oh and hey, for once, they're public!)
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Uploaded on Nov 13, 2009
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Happy Smiling Autumn Child (24/52)
Elena and I spent about half an hour building a big pile of leaves in a park last Sunday and jumping in them. She didn't get any pictures of me though, whew.
The outtakes speak for themselves, but I just love the last one, because of the odd capture. She's got a little 'magic' going on.
Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend!
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Uploaded on Nov 6, 2009
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Sunset on Autumn
Looks like the beautiful Autumn is almost gone and we're going to settle into winter. I'm actually fairly excited about that prospect as I love the holidays and having a 3 year old makes them much more fun than they have been since before I was a teenager.
Cheated a little bit here though - it's one from just over a year ago. One I'd never given second thought to until I was cleaning out the image library a few weeks ago and tried to reprocess. I thought it would be a nice scene to share, and a little change from the monochrome of late.
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Uploaded on Nov 5, 2009
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Cast away
I've been remiss in thanking two of my good friends for recent testimonials. The first thank you goes out to a guy you surely must know well by now - Mr. Kevin Saint Grey - better known on flickr as P R I M E R.
This is a shot from the day we spent together in California last month. Again, not trying to make it his style per se, but one of the testaments to inspiration you get from other members - quite possibly not a shot I would have even thought of had I not been with him that morning. Always such an honor to get a testimonial from someone you really admire, so I'm all giddy now.
(And I got another one too . . still figuring out the dedication shot for that. It's taking a lot of thought, which I'm sure will make him happy)
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Uploaded on Nov 3, 2009
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