127/365

Picture info: ISO 100, 1/2500, f/2.00, 50mm, Av

I spent most of the day doing yardwork. I mowed the back lawn, then took our new weed whacker and whacked weeds.

All afternoon.

You know that old joke, "I just flew in from (insert city here) and BOY are my arms tired"?

"I just weed whacked all day and BOY are my arms tired!"

That's me.

This is the lawnmower we use to mow our kiddie pool sized front lawn.

126/365

Picture info: ISO 100, 1/15, f/22, 18mm, Av

I shot this on Utah Street at Discovery Park. Apparently these are abandoned, or unused, military buildings. The road was open to "authorized vehicles only", which meant I had to check it out, of course.

I heard the truck and snapped away. I do not like the foilage above, but unfortunately it's part of the picture, so there you go.

This is the picture I was going to do until I had some unforeseen computer problems earlier. Those are now gone and this will replace the previous #126.

Picture info: ISO 400, 1/4, f/3.50, 18mm, Av

I went to Discovery Park in the Magnolia area of Seattle today. A friend's sister wants me to shoot her engagement photos there so I went ahead to scout things out so I didn't seem unprepared when we actually do it. It was absolutely gorgeous out and I took about 150 shots.

I downloaded them to my desktop and, since that computer was running SUPER SLOW, I thought I'd reboot it to refresh everything.

Instead, I decided to tweak the BIOS to see if I could increase the speed a little. After all I did bump the RAM up from 2gb to 3gb (WOW ) recently, and the thing still runs like a PIG.

Well, the tweak I did (adjusting the video aperture from 64mb to 512mb) apparently hosed the computer. It turns on, but won't post or boot. I can't seem to get back into the BIOS screen to change it back, which means I can't get to any of the 150 pictures I took as they are on that computer and I've already erased the memory card.

So you get this awesome self portrait. I'm sorry. :(

125/365

Picture info: ISO 100, 1/1000, f/3.50, 18mm, Av

I shot this at Coulon Park scouting a location for a friend's portrait shoot. It was a miserable rainy day today and when we finally shot, it was still miserable and rainy.

Of course, after dinner, around 7:00pm or so, we had a glorious sunset and even now at close to 9:00, it's not raining out.

Grr.

124/365

Picture info: ISO 100, 1/1600, f/3.50, 50mm, Av

I went to a photo workshop/seminar today in SODO with Art Wolfe. I didn't know who he was but apparently he's a world famous nature/landscape/everything photographer that's been shooting for 30+ years and has put out countless books.

I'm lame.

Anyway, he talked about light and it was, of course, enlightening.

Afterward, I and a friend walked about SODO and, just before a torrential downpour (including HAIL. IN MAY), I snapped this picture of razor wire above a fence.

Inspiring, huh?

123/365

Picture info: ISO 800, 1/40, f/8, 50mm, Av

My brother and SIL went on a China tour last month. One of the things they brought home was this.

I don't know what to call it, but Marci elegantly called it a "Chinese hackysack".

Which is kind of what it is.

It has a bunch of silver dollar sized washers (below the red numbers) to keep it weighted down, and up top are the feathers. This is a top down view.

Apparently my mom was quite nimble footed with these when she was a wee lass.

122/365

Picture info: ISO 3200, 1/10, f/5.60, 55mm, M

After my gig last night, I drove near downtown Tacoma because of this bridge. I know not what it's called, but I thought it looked great in the early morning (1:30).

Trouble is, I didn't have my tripod with me so I propped myself up against light poles for a few shots that didn't turn out.

I wanted a shot that showed the bridge, but simply shooting the bridge was sort of boring. When I saw the little wildflower, I thought that might be cool.

It was windy and since I was shooting hand held, I was unable to get the flower in 100% clear focus. As it is, I dodged (lightened) it a little in PS to make it pop some. I also applied a noise reduction filter to, well, reduce noise.

Hope you like it.

121/365

Picture info: ISO 200, 1/400, f/4.50, 37mm, Av

When I told Riley I might not have a picture for today as I'm gonna be out, this was his response.

Actually, not. But I wanted a placeholder just in case. I wasn't about to let 120 days lapse by missing today. I'm about to head to Tacoma for a gig, so even though I'll be shooting there before and after, I won't be able to upload until tomorrow, and I wanted this to be a true 121st day shot.