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Water Park

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A few weeks ago, we went to a Spray Park that was perfect for the girl. She doesn’t like a lot of splashing so she was able to get wet without getting too wet. Here is one of the cooler sprayers. It’s a flower. I kept trying to play with settings to gets the water [...]

Camera Back

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My digital camera has been in the shop for two weeks but today I was able to pick it up. It’s so good to have it back. Maybe now I can get back to taking a photo a day.
They replaced the shutter. I kept getting the dreaded Err 99 on my Canon Rebel. The error [...]

Best of 2008 Part II

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Here are some of my favorite photos from the second part of 2008.
July – Plant
This is a plant I bought for my Mom for Mother’s Day. I really like this type of plant. It’s just different.

August – Butterfly
I like photographing butterflies almost as much as flowers. I even bought a book on different butterfly species. [...]

Best of 2008

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2008 was a good year for us. We are looking forward to 2009 since we do have some big plans. I also have a new blogging focus and one of my resolutions is to take a photo a day. But before I start that, I wanted to share some of my favorite photos from the [...]

ManBabies.Com

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One of my new favorite blogs is the Goody Blog. Well, when they had the a link and a picture from ManBabies.com, I thought this is too funny not to share.
GET MORE AT ManBabies.com!
ManBabies is a blog of user submitted pictures of babies(or kids) and their fathers(or grandfathers or another grown male) with the heads [...]

The M Setting

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I have been reading a few lessons on photography and feel like I am learning something. So the past couple of days I have been using the ‘M’ (manual) setting on my Canon. It’s an exercise in learning what settings work in what situation. I have horrible reading comprehension skills and learn a lot better [...]

Portable Hard Drive for Pictures

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Last week I ordered a portable hard drive to store all my digital photos. It arrived two days later! I can’t wait to start transferring all of my photos onto it.
I do plan to organize my photos as I go instead of just dumping them to it like I have been doing to my hard [...]

Blog Searches

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Photonovice.net is having a little experiment that involves search terms that has led visitors to people’s photo blogs. I don’t publicize my little photo blog that much and don’t write much content for it. But some visitors have found me through some search terms that are interesting.
Photo hunt DS – I take part in the [...]

w00t! My Camera is Fixed!

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YES!! My new digital camera is fixed. It’s not back in the store yet but has been shipped, so in a few days I will be snapping lots of photos and learning about my new camera. And you can be I will be extra careful with it from now on.

Dice

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My husband’s dice. My collection is not this many yet but could be one day. I love to buy dice.