phriday photos

just something about film that looks different.

really hot out at Waterloo Park last weekend

almost 90

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down Lady Bird Lake

sunset

there is just something about film and B&W that makes me like this picture of the dizzy bat race

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went out last Saturday evening to take some pictures of the power plant on first street.

as long as I was down there, I walked around and took some more pictures.

here is the Lamar Street bridge

and here is the pedestrian bridge

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We made a trip up to see my Dad’s river place last weekend.

huge old trees

some of my mother-in-law’s flowers

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here is bokeh from the 105mm on Film

and Joseph is back out at Camp Peniel for two weeks of work camp. This is the shower and sink facility

and here is some lightning from last night’s storm. This was my first attempt at lightning capture. I want to have another go at it.

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some more hot weather sun loving flowers

wider view

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My lovely wife and I celebrated 20 wonderful years of wedded bliss last weekend in Grapevine at the Gaylord Texan.

and the sky was really funky one evening this week

here we are on self timer

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UPDATED to put this on Friday where it belongs. Sorry about jumping the gun yesterday.

still water

360 bridge

isolating the subject from the background

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I enjoy the backlit look if it can be done without flaring.

a little artsy soft focus

Backlit portrait with just a bit of flare. desaturated the colors a bit to make it artsy instead of a throwaway.

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I bought a well used and very cheap twenty year old film camera and have been taking some pictures on, get this, FILM. Lots of fun.

picture from which the current header is cropped.

here are my nephew and daughter

and more flowers

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february is a bit too early for baseball and the weather was not very cooperative for pictures the other night. I decided to use the fog and try for artsy instead.

the scene in B&W

coming up to the plate (I really like this one for some reason)

and firing it in (love the face)

red door furniture

by the tire store this morning was a place where we bought a baby bed a long time ago. wonder how long it has been out of business. I wonder if the property will be put to any use.

reckon if there is a metaphor somewhere in this.

Happy Thanksgiving

happy Thanksgiving to everyone. In spite of the recent economic crisis, we continue to live in one of the most blessed nations in the history of the world.

God, in his sovereignty and to praise of his glorious grace, has allowed this nation to prosper in a material way far beyond any previous nation’s prosperity. Let’s not be ungrateful. Let’s not take for granted the manifest blessings of cutting edge health care, public safety, comfort, and so much available food that we suffer from an obesity epidemic.

Most of all, let us be grateful for the freedom to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ whenever, however and in whatever venue we are led to do so.

At the same time, let us take seriously the threat to the Gospel that comes from the very blessings and prosperity mentioned above. People who are surrounded by such bountiful blessings and comfort are easily distracted from the Gospel. It is easy to equate our material prosperity with God’s favor and miss the equally likely possibility that it is the enemy’s attempt to distract us and to lull us into complacency.

we should take this day set aside for thanksgiving and we should be grateful to God that we live in this country at this time. Then let us encourage one another daily as long as it is called today so that none of us is hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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a bit of flaring.

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instead of linking to flickr. if you click on the picture, you can see the full size version.

another beautiful fall morning

Julie and Hope

Messing around with off-camera flash

which one?

this is a 30 second exposure at f10

this is a 30 second exposure at f14