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finally, at long last, I have some pictures for the last hour of this friday. From the Nikon F5, here are some taken with Fuji Velvia 50. I have been wanting to try this color saturated film for a while.

hedge on the Capitol grounds

messing with the sun in our front tree

backlit flag

and a bonus view of Samson

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J Pete needed a portrait made.

here is the bokehed view from the back mike at the Texas House

and Natalie snagging a rebound at the last game

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Too gray and wet for too many days for any picture taking this week. here are some oldies.

Moo goes camping last fall

all this rain makes me think the bluebonnets are going to be great this year. I am ready for them to get here.

and this year in the bluebonnets, I will have the nikon F5 and Fuji velvia. hmmm

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trying Kodak Ektachrome 100G slide film in the Nikon F5.

love the 105mm and sun rays

maximal bokeh

sunset through the tree

and Natalie being the “tall girl in the middle.”

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Natalie’s basketball team.

more depth of field experimentation

and I caught the grackels looking for a place to roost

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It is so much fun to mess with depth of field.

and sun rays.

and grass flash and sun.
Which one of these two? I think I like the less gold one better, but I am not sure.

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more black and white film from the Nikon F4e. this is ilford delta 400. I like the grain and contrast of it.

big yawn

flowers

the little Canon Powershot S90 is an exceptionally good point and shoot camera.

egomaniacal God

John Piper’s message to Passion 2010 is excellent.

(BTW, one of the photographers at Passion 2010 this year was my Austin Stone peep and fellow photographer, Scott A. Wade. He is so talented. love his work. I won a family picture session from him in a drawing that I need to collect at some point.)

Back to Piper’s message. Is God unacceptably egotistical? why or why not? what is all this business about seeking all this glory for himself?

I love this condensed version of the whole story and point of creation. please go read the whole thing. here in a nutshell is why this question is so important:

God’s God-Centeredness as the Test

What I have found in my own life, and in the life of many others, is that God’s God-centeredness is the test of whether our own God-centeredness is real: Do I rejoice in God’s unwavering commitment to uphold and display his glory—do I rejoice in God’s God-centeredness? Or am I God-centered only because deep down I believe God is man-centered, so that my supposed God-centeredness is really man-centeredness, even me-centeredness?

Does my opposition to God’s God-centeredness reveal that my supposed God-centeredness is just a cover for wanting myself at the center, and the use of God to endorse that because he is so centered on me?

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an explosion of color in my backyard

not really happy with this one, but trying to get the elusive Christmas tree shot.

ice in the grass on fuji film

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the sky was a little bit strange Tuesday evening

here is the same picture as the one from last week on 35mm film to show the full 17mm. (compare to D300 17mm which is more like 24mm)

and I always love the flowers

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you will notice over on the left sidebar that I added a button that looks like this:

I have put some of my pictures on QOOP for folks to buy download print or whatever. Let me know if there is something else on my Flickr page that you would like for me to put in the QOOP store.

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I recently got a wide angle lens (17-35mm) and I have been trying to learn how to use it.

from my parents’ backyard

family during thanksgiving. Great great grandparents admiring the second great great grandbaby.

the north side of the Capitol.

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love depth of field, bokeh and flowers

rediscovering film photography with a Nikon F5 and Fuji velvia 100.

wide angle lens and a polarizer

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sunset with fill

morning snapshot

finally got the B&W film I took at Katherine’s wedding developed

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we went camping last weekend and here is one of the dogs camping with us.

Nikon F5 on Fujifilm

Some trees, sun and campfire smoke

nikon d300

and here are David and Paula, our friends with whom we were camping

canon powershot S90 with forced flash for fill

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messing around with bokeh and depth of field in the Parma’s grass.

This one with my 300mm f4 and water droplets on the grass

and this one with my 80-200mm f2.8 and a leaf (new custom header picture)

here is a two flash “strobist” take on decorative grass headers

sb800 to camera left about two feet from the grass. Sb800 on the camera about 6 or 7 feet from the grass. both flashes bare. both on TTL.

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these weeds have been fascinating me and I finally got the chance to photograph them this week.

and I bought a canon point and shoot (powershot S90) to carry around for more spontaneous pictures. It is a great little camera.

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Tuesday morning was very foggy misty and gray.

Tuesday afternoon was sunny and very bright.

tried the 50 f1.4 for under the basket shots.

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sunlight.

joseph in uniform

Lighting information for the Joseph pictures:
two sb800’s and a setting sun. SB800 on the camera in TTL Commander mode. SB800 set to TTL on moving voice activated stand to camera right 3 feet away and pointing up at Joseph. Setting sun off to camera right approximately 93 million miles away. White diffusers mounted.

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Another sunrise. I love sunsets and sunrises and the colors they make.

up a little farther

and I keep telling my wife that I need a 24-70 f2.8 for the close in work

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these cool mornings feel very fallish. loving the change after a very long, very hot, very dry summer.

capitol renovations are on the horizon. soon this will be covered up with scaffold.

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rain and cool brought out the wildflowers (new header picture)

sunrise last week

and williamson county fall league ball has begun

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cooling off

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portrait from last Sunday’s wedding

ninth grade football. nephew Joshua (be strong and courageous) playing linebacker for Midway Panthers.

twin brother Nathan (thou art the man) sidelined with an ACL tear.

wedding yesterday

the daughter of a good friend of ours was married yesterday.

it was an outdoor wedding at Kindred Oaks in Leander/Georgetown/way north area. It was lovely and fun. the weather cooperated in a big way and it wasn’t too hot.