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Probably the handiest tool ever invented. Most of the fix-it stuff I need to do around the house can be handled by this Leatherman. I even once managed to remove the fiber glass liner of a truck bed for a gal who had somehow managed to drop her keys between the liner and the bed, using a mini Leatherman, which is a much smaller version of this one (I never leave home without the mini).

The topic for Macro Monday is diptych. To put it together, I opened a new blank document in PSE 9, layered a new background on top of it, moved the two photos on top of the background layer, cropped it, and that was it.

Also, ODC, "Geometry."

The camouflage outfits our troops are equipped with aren't nearly this effective.

While on my a.m. walk through the Corte Madera Marsh, I saw a flock of house finches flitting through this tree, and I waited to get just the perfect shot of one of them amongst the red leaves; but they refused to cooperate and just hung out in the bare branches at the top of the tree. So, I figured the heck with waiting and took a shot of this bird on a bare branch and another shot of a bunch of red-leaved branches, and then moved the finch to where I wanted him to be in PSE 9 after I got home. They say it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature, but if she ain't gonna cooperate, then she simply has to be dealt with in Photoshop...
HSS!

This was taken nearly 60 years ago when I was a member of the Marine Corps Rifle Team. I first posted a shot similar to this five years ago, but it was quite bland with a blank background, and since it's one of my all-time favorite shots of me (taken using a screw-in external self timer on my Nikon S), I decided to perk it up a bit with a new background. The rifle is an M1 Garand (officially, US Rifle caliber 30 M1}, which was used during WWII and the Korean war and was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge.

A few months ago, my two sons and I brought my M1 and a couple other guns out into the boondocks to do a bit of target shooting, and boy did I ever experience a rude awakening. My duties on the rifle team were to fire this rifle morning and afternoon, five days a week for months on end, burning up thousands of rounds of ammunition in the process, and I did so with great pleasure. However, on our recent jaunt into the boondocks, I sadly discovered I could hardly hold this 9.5 pound rifle up any more (I haven't done any rifle shooting in years), and I was a l o n g way from being as steady as I once was. The way that rifle was swaying, you'd have thought I was waving at a friend somewhere out there in front of me, and for sure, if I'd been shooting at him, he'd have been perfectly safe.

As you can see here, I'm shooting left handed, but I'm really a rightie. However, my 20/10 left eye was so much better than my right eye that I switched to left handed shooting to take advantage of it because shooting a rifle at a stationary target doesn't take all that much coordination. However, when I pick up a shotgun, which is almost always shot at moving targets, the shotgun always goes to my right shoulder. Then, when I pick up a handgun, I fire it right handed (using the two-handed Weaver stance) but aim with my left eye. No, really, I'm not confused....

...No kitties were hurt during the creation of this image...

Created for Down Under Challenge #540, using PSE 9 and Topaz Adjust.
Thanks to Manyone1 for the original image, which I cut down and flipped over (see it below).
The cat is mine.

...I mean, observe the Intense concentration and unblinking focus of our son Scott, waiting patiently for that sudden arm-wrenching jolt when the big one hits; and our other son Greg out there on the bow, risking being hauled overboard when that monster grabs his bait. Or, at least he would if he were hanging on to his rod....

►See below for a look at what we caught.◄