Taking a walk

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Being back home (yeah it's confusing) in DK there were a few opportunities to just go out and take a walk. Now that I have been living in the states for a good 4 years the landscape and all seem kind of new to me in some strange way. Now I notice things I never noticed before. If for nothing else then because Jacki is asking about it ;-)

Here are a few flowers lit by the setting sun.



Sometimes simplicity just works better than whatever you construct. The next photo is very very simple. Just a straw with a calm out of focus background. All with the setting sun.



As much as I like waterfalls and all that. A wheat field captured while dragging the shutter... It just does something. Hope you like them.



And finally a little extra from the beach with a very blue sky.



Hope it helped getting you all ready for Friday and you know... Finally it's the weekend :-)

Double take

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Just playing around and trying to learn the "new" camera and what it can do. I found a good old technique build in. In the film days it was possible to arm the camera without advancing the film. By doing that you could get two photos in one or make a double take. Of course with film you would have to do a little calculation with exposure and all that but it was fun.

In the digital age you can tell the camera how many photos you want in one and it will automatically do the calculation for you... Now how cool is that :-)

Here is one of mom... Probably wondering what is he doing now... yep just taking another little snapshot that turns out slightly different than usual :-)



Here a little motion is added and it's a double take so... yeah it's different but kind of fun.



Ohh and before you move on. Check out the Emma and dad photo story

All natural colors

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For this photo friday I dug out a few photos that are a from the fall season. I wanted to get a few showing the colors of nature and what better season for that than fall. Well other than spring and well ... anyway I chose fall this time around :-)

I couldn't even begin to tell you about how many times I got the comment sounding something like "what are you going to do with a photo of a single tree with red leaves???" followed by something like that is crazy...

Anyway those comment sort of faded a wee bit after a similar shot ended up on the cover of outdoor photographer. Here it is:



The next one I have had on my desktop at work and somehow just started liking it more the more I look at it. I dunno why but... there's just something... for me anyway ;-)



Now I like waterfalls, water, mountains, fall colors and all that. Here I have tried combining a little bit of everything and get some punch by doing some simple color isolation. One by removing all other colors and the other simply by have the main yellow color "stick out" from the rest.



That's it for this week. Hopefully soon I will get some more from the mountains :-)