Window on Cherry Pie Lane

Monday, July 12 – The UPS man brought my new Really Right Stuff ballhead this morning along with the mounting plates for my cameras and lenses. I am especially excited about the L plate for my 5DM2. It makes shooting vertical very easy and you don’t have to move from where the tripod is already set up from doing  a previous horizontal shot. I ordered my Flashpoint tripod (legs) months ago and now am all set to head to the Glacier Park workshop. Bryan Peterson recommended this setup, so he should be pleased to see that is what I am bringing with me. According to him, this is the only tripod and ball head that I will ever need.  I sure hope that I can get used to using a ball head. It is certainly different from what I am used to. Not the greatest shot, but I am in a hurry to go try it out and this table view will just have to do for now. Will have to replace it when I get a better shot. We went to town to have supper at the German place downtown. They have a buffet that evidentally is very good. When we got there it was very quiet(maybe 5 other people). Then the invasion started. It was crazy. The poor gal was not prepared for that kind of crowd and was running out of food. What we had, Walter liked alot. I am not much for that kind of cooking/food. Walter loves anything that has sauerkraut involved and there was plenty of that.

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Sunday, July 11 - A couple more shots at the Steam Museum. I am sure there are lots of stories that could be told from the seat of this old rusting tractor. I am sure there were many sore rear ends and sunburned faces at the end of a long working day. We have it pretty cushy nowdays with padded seats and air conditioned cabs. It is supposed to hit 90 here today. The haying is going full force and the hay crop is looking outstanding. That is a blessing, as we don’t have much hold over from last winter. The pastures are unbelievable this year. One can hardly tell where the cows have even grazed.

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Saturday, July 10 – My class assignment this week was to do shadows and silhouettes. Here are a couple that I am considering uploading to be critiqued. Both were shot at the Steam Museum with my 5DM2, 70-200mm 2.8 L IS USM, hand held and in the late afternoon to get those shadows. It is going to be a hot day today; approaching 90. Finally we have some true summer weather.

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Friday, July 9 – Here are some that I took of a Clematis at Gibson Park. This gorgeous plant grows over the archway at the flower garden there. I am not sure I will make a practice of taking this type of photo, but at least I now know how to do them. Billi and I got Emma and Becca’s photo entries ready for the State Fair yesterday. The girls are so excited to be doing it. It will be so much fun seeing their masterpieces hanging in the exhibit building. They are so proud of the work that they have been doing and they should be.

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Thursday, July 8 – Here are some of the shots that I did for my Impressionist photography class. They were done using vertical panning which is a fun technique. Impressionist photos should look like paintings. I did some clematis vine that will be coming tomorrow. I got great reviews on them all. It is raining today again; we got a third of an inch last night and no hail, thank goodess. I am off to take Becca and Brooke photographing this morning.

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Wednesday, July 7 – Emma just sent these to me. She was on her way home from guitar lessons and went through quite a rainstorm complete with a gorgeous rainbow. I didn’t get to see it, so I am sure glad that Emma thought to capture it on her camera for me. We got a quarter of an inch of rain, but no hail, thank goodness. I had Tiffany and her boys here today. She had Bailey, Shep’s mom down to the vet. The boys had a good nap and lots of fun.

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Tuesday, July 6 – This Lensbaby with soft focus optic shot is of my Mother’s Day geranium from Tiffany. No fake raindrops this time, just the real thing and also my macro filters. I find that little sparkle on the right very interesting. I finally got my worldwide photo walk site up and hope that people will start signing up. I see that Debbie is the first one. Curtis and I walked the route last night. I downloaded  pedometer to my itouch and it said we went right at a mile. I am sure it will be closer to  mile and a half when you add the walking around at the different places we will go. We are starting at Gibson Park and heading to the skateboard park and then on to the River’s Edge trail and the old railroad bridge. Then it is off to the Milwaukee Station and over to the Farmer’s Market. It should be a fun time.

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Monday, July 5 – Becca shot these really awesome water droplets. I couldn’t help but think of you, Chase. I know how much you love water droplets in photos. Becca did a fantastic job in these captures, didn’t she. I love them.Make sure and click on them to enlarge, as the water drops show up even better larger. I do believe that your birthday gift of a new camera was the best gift that your mom and dad could have given you. Someday when you are a famous photographer, you will remember that Canon camera and all the fun you had taking your first photos.

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Sunday, July 4 – This is the day for Fireworks photos. I plan to be out there with my handy dandy tripod for sure. These were taken last week at Summer Celebration. We got stuck behind a tree, so didn’t get the full impact of the bursts. But I really like the lacy edge this gives anyway. I hope others agree.

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