A couple more

Pigeon Love

I found these guysin a park while my van was being worked on. They looked pretty happy so I had to take their picture for posterity.


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Biltmore Plaque

I was walking around and saw this plaque on the Biltmore HQ in Biltmore Village. I liked the shine.


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Mom in all her color

My Mother.


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Feed Me!

This was a squash The Runtyun was growing. The Blossom just peeked out and said, "Feed Me."

A smile from the queen

My mother

We were at the fine place called the Blue Sky Cafe. We have been there before and enjoyed their ambiance a few times. Mom likes their roll-ups!


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Dreamin' 'bout ridin'

Some times it seems like I spend more time working on the Grinner, than riding it!

Cloud Burst in Color

A pretty flower

Cute Little Girl in the park

I love the happy, yet accidental, thumbs up she has. The Runtyun and I were celebrating Friday Night during the summer. This little girl was dancing during the Drum Circle at Pritchard Park I don't think this video was the same night, but it may give you an idea of the energy  the evening gives.

Mini Mushroom

I wanted to try out the macro ability of a lens, so I got about 6 inches from this delicate little thing.


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My Dad

We were enjoying dinner at a local place called the BlueSky Cafe

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This guy wants a ride!

We were getting ready to go for a ride. I was packing the bike when I saw this tag along.

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The Power Plant

One evening The Runtyun and I went to the local power company runoff lake, Lake Juian. We walked around a little and finally I saw this.

Streaks in the sky

As a courier, I do lots of deliveries. Many of the places I go to are personal homes and others are to businesses. Most of the time, for most deliveries we never go back unless the customer is getting a number of packages. However for a few accounts we have a schedule and make deliveries on a planned basis. I can build a relationship with some of these recurring customers.

One of these customers in particular has a rather challenging life, yet his attitude is always gracious and welcoming. He has a garden and I think that it fulfills him in ways that I cannot understand. From his garden the earth gives him sustenence in the form of vegetables and herbs. The man has found it in his heart to share some of our earth's bounty with me. For this my life and my Runtyun's life are better.

Thank you sir for your generosity!

I had delivery in Tennessee one early Saturday morning and decided to take my new camera along with me just incase I had the opportunity to get some shots. Well, 100 shots later, one stood out. There were others but I saw that this one had potential.

After working on it and trying to find the sun rays and pulling out the colors and definition I came up with this image. When I took it down to the local photo shop to get it printed, I was disappointed to find out that the file size was too small for a good sized printout. Needless to say I was a little disheartened. After hours and hours of post production versions of the image, more than 20 at a guess, to find out the image would not work---well you can guess at my feelings.

I went home and decided to print it on my cheap desktop printer to see what the image would look like and guess what! It was beautiful! So I went down to the local CVS to use their printing kiosk. I figured that for less than $5.00 if it was no good...

The image came out beautifully and I plan to matte it and give it to my friend at my next opportunity.


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A leaf at the end of summer

I had spent the afternoon at a nice little place called the Straightaway Cafe. The music was good and beer flavorful, I drink beer for the taste. Really, I do! It was time to get the Runtyun who had been spending the day with her youth group and I arrived a little early, so I walked around and saw this leaf about ten feet off the ground.

A great time to check out the new lens!

From my back porch on the first day of the State Fair

I took this image the other night. The most striking thing about the scene was the incredible whiteness of the cloud against the blue sky background. When I went to PP to have a look, the image was not very inspiring, so I used a filter to create a Black and White rendering. I also tried to use a little framing around the parameter to highlight the cloud itself.