This little fart loves to play with my speedlights. I have no idea who taught him where the test button was.
I remember playing with my Dad’s light. I would hide in a dark closet and flash into my eyes so I could see the purple spots, I keep telling you I’m an odd one. Anyway, when I was telling this story my brother pointed out that I am the only one in my family who has to wear glasses…whoops.
We have a Christmas village just like this one. After all of the chaos of the day was passed I was sitting there looking at it and a picture came to mind. This was a mixed light situation I set the WB for tungsten and then lit the “snow” with a led light to get the blue tint of a moon lit snowscape.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!
This picture is of tree ornaments that have been on my tree for as long as I can remember. They are simple and look very home-made, because they are. As I understand the story my Mom made these early in her marriage when things were a little tight. I don’t know if it was a Church or School project when they were made. Growing up there was always a fight over which kid got to put up some of the other ornaments, but never these. I think because anyone could put these up, they were tough and wouldn’t break, and therefore they were never seen as important (at least by me). Now there are only a couple of ornaments that have as much meaning as these do. Oddly, enough my kids bypass these for the more flashy and “special” ornaments. But they are there every year while some of the others come and go.
This story came from the photo challenge that I ran last year. Later my Dad told me that he thought I had my story wrong, but here’s the thing I don’t care. It’s my memory; so that is the way it is. Deluded much, maybe, but once again I don’t care.
Just for the record I love my colors here. It is a combo of positioning and white balance tweaking.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints there are a couple of milestones in the course of your life. My middle son had one of those today.
50mm f/14 1/160s
I neglected to mention that this was the lovely cake that my lovely wife made for that lovely day.
This was a last ditch effort to get a picture for the day, and really was an accident. I had the kid backed into the corner and the flash was mounted on the camera perpendicular to the lens bouncing off the wall. A little cropping and a some cloning, and I am very happy with this picture.
How do I know? Because I start gathering ingredients for my Habanero-Cranberry Relish.
50mm f/13 1/200s
I do not have a recipe for this I make it entirely by smell. I start adding ingredients in this order and when I looks and smells right you’ve got it. I have to have this for Thanksgiving it is a requirement.
2 bags of fresh cranberries. Washed, sorted and chopped,
Zest and juice from 1 medium orange
Grated garlic
Grated fresh ginger
Pickled habenaro chopped finely
Maple syrup
Brown sugar
Let it sit a day and come back, taste, add salt, and fine tune the flavors
I was looking at this lamp that my kids have. It is sparkly and changes colors, very cool indeed. I thought a longer exposure with a close up would be very nice. I tried and I tried and I tried I could not get anything but this rubbish. Good thing I get to try again tomorrow.
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