Day 90 Sunset Blur

Well, I did it. I made it to 90 days, a picture a day. For this last shot I waited til the end of the day to capture something symbolic of coming to the end of the task. I'm really quite taken with what I call "blur-o-graphs" so I tried out the technique as the last rays of the sun shone on the woods next door.

Day 89 Tomato waiting to ripen

My wife has a tomato plant in a pot on the deck. This is the first tomato to appear. It's about golf ball size. It still has a way to go before it can grace one of her salads...

Day 88 Red Lily pad

Sunday I was sat on the dock in the gorgeous sunshine and saw this red lily pad a few inches below the surface of the water. I'd never seen a red lily pad before. So I thought it an excellent subject for the day

Day 87 the elusive hummingbird

Saturdays picture is an attempt to catch a hummingbird feeding at the feeder on the deck

Day 86 reflections

Playing catch up today. I was away up at the lake all weekend. This is the reflection of our neighbours speedboat in the water

Day 85 Peeling Birch Bark

Seen this morning as I put the garbage out. Peeling bark from the Paper Birch in our front garden

Day 84 Feet up

Nothing clever, nothing creative. Just what I saw today in the car park at work

Day 83 Infinite monkey theory

I don't know why I was thinking of the Infnite Monkey Theory when I saw this picture but I was. For those of you unfamiliar with the I.M.T. it is that if you stick a monkey in front of a typewriter for an infinite length of time he will, in time, type the works of Shakespeare.

So by the same token if a person picks up a camera and without looking takes a picture he will, in time, come up with a good shot. This one isn't too bad and it only took me a dozen attempts...

Day 82 cloud

Nothing more than a snapshot today.As I came out of work my eye was caught by this rather interesting arrangement of clouds.

Day 81 Underwater

I've been away up at the lake this weekend which always gives some kind of interesting photo opportunity. Like these weeds underwater. I've seen people like Jim Brandenburg and Craig Blacklock photograph this subject and fancied a go myself and while out running I saw this chance. So after I'd run I picked up my camera and went back to the spot

Day 80 VerndaleRail

On Saturday I was out with a group of fellow railfans on the Staples sub in Northwest Minnesota only a handful of miles from where the tornadoes struck on Thursday. We saw no evidence of any damage anywhere so we had a great time watching and photographing trains. A couple of my fellow enthusiasts children got into this shot. Which kinda sorta makes it echo some of the marvellous English railway posters from the golden age of trains

Day 79 bark

Something a little calming after yesterdays excitement. I took a stroll in the woods out the back this morning perhaps hoping to find a tree down or something. No luck on that count but I did discover some fir trees with some remarkble bark.

Day 78 Storm

Total and utter fluke this.

A big storm went thought town this evening.

You can't beat a big heavy storm for some great clouds so I stepped out in the rain to take a look and while I was taking this shot of the clouds over the road I snapped this...

Day 77 Prairie... Not

A sliver of land underneath a big sky it could only be the American Prairie. Except it isn't It's by the entrance of my office building. to the left and right are other offices and over the horizon is Highway 169 bustling with cars at rush hour...

Day 76 beheaded

I thought I wasn't going to have anything to show for today, everything I tried didn't work out then in desperation while walking around the garden I saw this impatiens head stripped from the hanging basket above during the previous nights storm that had fallen into some hosta leaves.

Day 75 you choose

I'm having way too much fun with this little camera. It makes me want to go out and try all kinds of things. Today from some reason I was thinking of those long exposures where you zoom while the shutter is open. I had a go and I got a result I liked on my second attempt. (I did keep going but 'skeeters and the rain put a stop after about a dozen more goes.)
Anyway I pulled the picture into CameraRaw and then elements and had a play.
Not much of a play I only upped the saturation. But then in one shot I upped the clarity and in the other I knocked the clarity all the way down and now I can't decide..

Above: With the clarity set at +100 things become harder and the zoom is more apparent
-100 makes things softer and gives a more impressionist feel

Day 74 tree-o

I saw this whilst out at Riverside park today checking out the bridge demolition The three tree trunks just seemed to line up nicely. I've also been experimenting with this one as a blur-o-graph...

Day 73 another blur-o-graph

A really dull rainy day today. The perfect opportunity to try some more "blurography". There's little information out there on how to do it so I have to learn by experiences. I probably shot a good dozen or so of this one area and this is number 12 thats why I stopped.

"Quit while you're winning" say I.

I'm formulating some theories on this blur-o-graphy lark and grass seems a pretty easy subject to cut your teeth on. Being vertical it's easy to tilt the camera vertically and not loose sight of what the subject is.

Day 72 what I was waiting all week for

Now come on. I was there for over a hour. You didn't think that I missed a close up of the side panel being lifted away did you?

Day 71 Removal

I was pretty lucky when I went down to check on the latest bridge removal progress this evening they were actually removing a section of the bridge deck