“Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to meeeeeeee. Happy Birthday to me.”
My mum used to sing this to me over the phone every year on June 26th. Donna and the kids are at the beach house; I’ll have to wait until tomorrow for my gifts. Too tired to drive down tonight.
I took this shot a couple weekends ago with a slower shutter speed – half a second. The idea was to get the moving water to blur slightly, while keeping all else in sharp focus. It seemed to work, thanks to a tripod. It came out okay, not great, just okay. The location was Hunt’s Mill in East Providence, RI.
Thanks, Eric and Christy, for my new ties. I love them!
This is my first blog post using Google’s Blogger. If all goes well, I may be leaving WordPress behind. So all the stuff posted below this was PAINSTAKINGLY copied and pasted from WordPress. I have a long way to go.
I just saw for the first time my Sweet Pea teary eyed during a sad scene in a movie. Luckily this one has a happy ending. I asked Christy, age 7, the name of the movie, and it’s called Felicity.
Eric waits patiently playing second base. Note: ready position actually means bending your knees with your glove at the ready. Seven-year-olds can only maintain that position for so long, and I can’t blame them; there are no strikeouts in Junior Minors, so games can be very, very long. One more game to go Tuesday night. Need to hurry back from work.
One last word on this one: I went with a larger aperture (f5.6), which kept Eric in sharp focus while softening the leaves in the background. In short, I’m beginning to learn what the all the buttons do on my Nikon (’bout time).
More flower photos…these lillies were in bloom right after the Iris saw its last days (at least until next year).
I slowed the shutter speed and tried to keep my family (foreground) in sharp focus. It came out okay, not great, just okay.
Okay, this might look like a repeat from two posts ago, but I went back to Hunt’s Mill, this time with a tripod. You’ll notice that the leaves are a little more in focus, and there’s better lighting. The tripod was a suggestion made by members of a photography club I recently joined at work. There’s definitely some improvement, but it still needs work. I may go back…again.
This is a question my daughter, Christy, often asks me when we’re nearing home. I suppose Wallmer Avenue would be a “big” hill…to a seven year-old.
Long Days and Nights 