Flowery Friday 16 plus news

Lots of flowers to go, and I'm planning another round the house tour today for a couple reasons. One is that I haven't done that for a while. Second is that a new mothership has landed. Yesterday afternoon I picked up an new Macbook Pro, mainly for photo editing. I want to plug in a bunch of photos and see how quickly it ingests and builds previews in Lightroom. 

There's still some other domestication to happen, and that will be another blog. 

On to the flowers! We are finishing June 26. That was a big day.

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Plus a few more to finish off June.

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18. Yes, a peculiar image. If you ask, I'll tell you.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film

Linda

Newfoundland

Polar bears

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related

That big lily finally popped.

How big? This big.

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Here's some more after it started opening.

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And in the how big department, a bonus surprise. We don't buy much pizza anymore. Why? Because this is what Linda makes. Tastes great, and as a health bonus, gives me my veggie dose for the week. This is just before it goes in the oven. After it comes out it doesn't last long enough to get a photo of it.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film

Two portraits of Ray, a fellow photographer who contacted me to go for a walk while he was in town. I'm glad I made the time because he passed away a short time later.

Linda

Newfoundland

On the desolate path to find the cannonholes. Which we didn't.

Polar bears

Another of this bear looking for the waiter.

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Another view of that lily from a few days ago.

Landscape

Dino related

The iconic moustache

There I was, the event photographer, working hard trying to capture all the good moments. It's common for people to ask me to take a photo of them against the finish line, or the event backdrop. Sometimes they want to include their training team mates, their family, or their friends. It's all good. I see some of the same people out at the various races, and a few have mentioned they like my photos.

So I see this tall woman coming over during a break in the action, and was expecting one of the above. Instead I hear, "Did you used to work at Skystone?"

Which indeed I did, and then I remembered she was one of the engineers. The bike helmet and workout gear is quite the change from office wear. We reminded ourselves of our names (It's been 20 years or so since I left, after all, hard as that is to believe) and got caught up a bit. She totally admitted that it was the moustache that clued her in. I have come to realize that in almost all other respects I am nearly invisible. Shave it off, wear different glasses, and even my friends probably wouldn't recognize me.

In the possible chance you want to see the photos from that Gran Fondo, and want to see if you can pick out A. D., you can see a link on my races page here. 

One of the things I like to do at events is watch the other photographers working. Often it's people with cell phones, and that's typically not so interesting. But other photographers with real cameras, especially the pros, now that's interesting. I like to look at what they're working on, and think about why they find that interesting. Here's the pro photographers from our trip to visit the bears near Prince Rupert in June.

In case you're wondering, that's a 500 mm lens that's probably more than all of my gear put together. She was doing the distant wildlife.

He was doing the nearby human life.

Patiently waiting. 

One of the fellow passengers with a good camera, and she knew how to use it.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film

Linda

A beach, just because why not.

Newfoundland. A different sort of beach entirely.

Polar bears

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower

Landscape

Dino related