New Year's Eve at B&C

So here's the scoop....Darwin has a cold.  He really didn't think that he should go down and eat all of this delicious food that he couldn't taste.  Just then, a little JEEP pulled up to my mailbox....Ramona....maybe she'll be spontaneous & join me tonight.  I ran out and startled her as she was driving to our neighbor.  She came and we had a WONDERFUL meal!  Every bite was filled with flavors that made us just sit there and say "yum".  The restaurant was dark and lit by candlelight, so I thought the photos from this evening should also reflect that.

Squaw Creek Year End BONUS

Deb & I introduced my college friend, Robert, to Squaw Creek.  It was a total safari today.  This was the first time that I was there this year, since it was all flooded for many months.  Everything was there from thousands of snow geese, many eagles & swans and best of all AN OWL!!!!  I spotted it in the distance as it looked like a tree trunk.  When I looked through my binoculars, that tree trunk had EYES!  An A+ adventure!!!!!!!!!

Buttons & Thread

Went and played with our macro lenses today at Dawn's.  Old buttons with old thread.

New photo program

Wow, is this ever fun. I made this image using ColorSplash

Birding in December

Deb & I went for a LONG walk today.  Saw a couple of bluebirds and a busy woodpecker storing up food for winter.

Frosty deck

A couple of pics from Deb's deck this morning. 

Snowflake Studio practice - with turbinado sugar

This shows my "studio" setup for snowflakes.  BUT, it is 55 degrees in my sunroom, not the needed 0 degrees to shoot snowflakes.  Nothing special at all done to these photos, just adjusted sliders in Camera Raw and then converted them for the web. 

Macro practice with the MP-E 65

Got a new lens for Christmas.  Waiting for snowflakes now.

On Duty - sort of

One ear is still on duty.....

In the snow

To get photos like this.

You have to be on the ground!!!

Frosty morning!

Darwin & I were at a Christmas party last night until midnight.  When we went out to our car, frost was EVERYWHERE!  It was amazing.  So, Deb & I were going to go snowshoeing this morning, but instead we went to our favorite cove to take frost photos.  These were processed in DPP and the color of the bottom 3 was saturated by moving the slider from the left towards the bell curve. 

Ice & Lights

The air temp was about 30 tonight, so after I finished the photo I played with the lights outside the lodge.  First shooting with the 70-200 2.8  Never mind that these were shot at ISO 6,400!!

Christmas Snapshots

Went over to the lodge to take a few family photos tonight.