ISO 80; f/5.7; 1/640; 100mm; 8:25am (Canon SX10) Cropped and processed in Aperture. Used a preset and then tweaked and added a vignette.

I’m a little slow on getting this one posted.  I took it the day I visited the Hi Jolly Cemetery.  I tried a few different discrete shots of these two…  would have loved to have known the whole story.  Do they come out here and drink often?  Was it a recent death?  An anniversary of a friend’s death?  How long had they been sitting here? (It was only 8:30 in the morning.) The only conclusion I could come to is that drinking in a cemetery has to be for sentimental reasons. And drinking often makes you sentimental.

ISO 80; f/5; 1/250; 16mm; 9:41am (Canon SX10) Cropped

This is Carl’s glider trapped in a Palo Verde tree.  Really, really wish I could have shown how it got here but it all happened way to fast for my reflexes!

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ISO 80; f/8; 1/20; 30.mm; 7:48am (Canon SX10)

Post processing done in Aperture… experimented with using a percentage of Sepia and a percentage of pink monochrome.  Also did a lot of burning and some tinting. Also, played with Exposure to give it this over exposed look.

ISO 80; f/5.7; 1/1000; 100mm; 7:24am (Canon SX10 on tripod)  Aperture preset: Public Enemies Opening Scene with saturation painted on the scorpion.

To be honest, I did not see this baby scorpion until I started looking at the pictures that I took this morning.  Wish I had noticed it because I could have worked on getting a cleaner photo of the this tiny, but dreaded creature.

I decided to use an August theme because none of the September  themes seems appropriate.

ISO 80 f/5; 1/800; 49.6mm; 7:00am (Canon SX10) Cropped

ISO 80; f/4; 1/80′ 13.8mm; 7:40am (Canon SX10) Cropped

I know that Red & Blue is not a theme that we’ve been given, but for some reason I saw these two images on my random photo walk / bike ride this morning… forty minutes apart.  Kind of strange, huh? Doesn’t two make a theme?

ISO 80; f/8; 1/125; 8.7mm: 7:30am (Canon SX10 – no tripod)

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ISO 80; f/8; 1/250; 100mm; 7:51am (Canon SX10)

Signs clustered in a defunct motel window. Adjusted hue in Aperture to help bring out the red.

ISO 80; f/8; 1/640; 7.7mm; 5:15pm (Canon Powershot SD950IS in M mode)

This was taken through the new windshield.  Too bad it won’t stay this clean and clear for very long!  Anyway, payback for the down side of having to write a  check for insurance deductible; the upside is that it makes the car feel new.  Considering that we just made the last payment on our 5-year loan, it’s not a bad birthday present for “Ms. Prius.”

ISO 80; f/5.7; 1/320; 100mm; 6:51AM (Canon SX10 on tripod)

This is one of the few times that every single picture that I took in a series was a keeper.  For today I’m just showing this one, but I may do something with the whole series in the future.

ISO80; f/5; 1/200; 5mm; 8:36am (Canon SX10 on mini tripod, cropped)

They are laying in new sewer pipes at our RV park.

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