Last Day of September, 2009

ISO400, not bad for lamplight.

"Battered"

My favorite cookbooks are literally battered: splattered, stained, torn, scrawled on, used over and over...

September 27, 2009: Yankee Pedder Festival

The day started out rainy and blustery, keeping the crowd down. Very pleasant shopping for Regina and me. Bought some hand blown glass Christmas ornaments and 2 shepard's crooks for my bird feeders.

CVPS Photo Walk 09 26 09

Used my long lens for this. Manual focus/macro. Adjusted the exp comp to +0.7, blindy. Looks over exposed to me. Quite a feat on a very overcast, sporadically rainy day. Walk was fun, other than the weather. I didn't know coreopsis were native plants, also saw fringed gentians for the first time.

Canadas

I was just thinking about getting the camera out, when this flock flew obligingly (and noisily!) over my backyard.

Vertigo

Shot leaning out of an open 11th story window at a print shop in Manhatten. What was I thinking?!!

September 23, 2009: Control Tower - La Guardia

Lucky me - a short trip to NYC. Loved being a tourist and taking random photos with my p&s. This was just after we arrived, waiting for Mark at Passenger Pickup.

New Dahlia

Looks like a flame - love the intense reds.

September 21, 2009: Working

Interesting how what the camera sees and what I see are different. Working on a P365 layout.

Spode Tower Blue

Some platters from the set of Spode Tower Blue handed down through the women in my Mom's family.

My Boy

Last Days of Summer

As long as the flowers on the deck are blooming, it's still summer...

New Glasses

Chuck's worn contacts forever. While he's not happy about having to switch to specs, he's thrilled to be able to see.

Handful of Ripe Cherry Tomatoes

Dinner tomorrow.

Plate and Tea Light Lanterns

September 12, 2009: Brandywine River Museum

Went to view some original works of my favorite American illustrator, Howard Pyle. This bronze pig is an homage to one of the Wyeth's pig obsession.

Sea Turtle

Torrential rain today, so we went to the aquarium. And Ikea!

Liberty Bell

To stand in the same meeting rooms, touch the same walls as Washington, Jefferson, Franklin - awesome and moving.

Longwood Gardens

Longwood is amazing. These are my favorite waterlilies.

Driving Through Pennsylvania

Credits: LivE grungy paper, House of 3 brush and overlay. Font is Jefferson.

Labor Day at Greg and Sheila's

Just felt like hanging out with the family and chatting, so not much picture-taking today.

First Place

The class was Ladies Driving, Single Hitch Mares in the Great Geauga County Fair Pony and Draft Horse show. This was a particulary snappy turn out with an almost gaited trot.

Nice going, Ladies!

September 5, 2009: Visitor at Mike & Paul's Cookout

And, I discovered their next door neighbor, Roberta, and I were in the same class at Heidelberg College.

Credits: Katie Pertiet Sacked Solid paper, Designer Digitals; Font is Georgia.

Fire Alarm

The alarm went off, we evacuated our building. Smelled like burning plastic, but it turned out to be just a freon leak. We did get to spend some serendipitous time in the sun, though.

Panera/Thursday

Table and chairs outside of Panera. Cool silvery tones.

Mums, 8:06 pm

F16, 10 second exposure - No wind! It's starting to get dark altogether too early here in Northeastern Ohio.

September 1, 2009: CVPS PhotoWalk Critique

Shot at Hines Hill Conference Center.

Jim Roetzel offers a critique of PhotoWalk shots the Tuesday after the walk. It's a good learning experience - some of the "amateur" work is absolutely awesome. I was please to get a couple of "good eye"s, one for a shot of a bachelor button, the other for a raindrop-laden pine branch. CVPS and P365 both have helped me improve as a photographer.

August 31, 2009: Last Day of Summer

Ok, so it's not until mid-September, but it feels fall-ish here: cool, crisp, big, puffy Autumn clouds. Besides, Fall is my favorite season, so it starts, for me, today.