Monday, June 17, 2013

Choya in the yard... Its bloomin!



 The little baby choya that floated into my yard and landed on the backside of my pond waterfall is blooming like crazy. Its never bloomed like this before. I will have to trim it back soon as its now almost impossible to walk around the backside of the hillock. I took some HDR 3 bracket shots of it and I will post them below. With so many choices between settings I had a hard time deciding which was right or good or best or appealing so I did a bunch of different versions.


I really need to do as a friend of mind did and move all the raw files off the hard drives and onto dvds so that I can get some space back. Its crazy. Then duplicate that by 2 as I mirror the data... takes time.
But necessary.



I am going to process some more of the shots from the Top Gun Meet yesterday tonight... restful. I will then have to go back and clean up the shots in light-room since the micro specs are only showing up after tone mapping them. A lot of shots I took are looking very nice just in photographic mode. I will post the whole set which includes a complete run of a Pop A Top balloon coming down... That's Sunrise Angel... I wished I was closer and I also wished I had it on video.... So much I want to do... so little time to do it... and there is only me... This is that split thing... I want to fly, shoot, videotape, process, show... oh.. and then there is the dancing around the field thing... well... I will try to dial it back a bit.... on the dancing...

Here are some nifty links I found today... There was not a heck of a lot good stuff out there... Not interesting as I thought.... so this is a little bit of interest...

Don't mess with this one.... yeesh!
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/17/Mom-Tells-Carjacker-You-Messed-with-the-Wrong-Witch-Runs-Over-Him/

Repair.. replace... really...
http://lifehacker.com/ask-an-expert-all-about-repairability-513813551

Sniff... another awesome photo opportunity I wish I had....
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-where-manhattans-payphones-go-to-die-513824487

Oh.. This hits right where it should... I think this is a good idea! LOL
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/16/Tabloids-for-Dads/