Good Morning and Welcome to the Weekend.
I worked on another Photo Challenge for Flickr which ended up being a really difficult challenge for me.

Topic:  Black on Black.  
I tried several methods to get an acceptable image that I felt comfortable to share using suggestions that the Challenge site provided, but I kept striking out.  Finally last night I used a variation of LIGHT PAINTING to capture the LIONEL Toy Train Engine.  For this black on black image, I used the LIVE COMPOSITE Time Esposure setting on my Olympus camera.  The Model train engine was set on black velvet and I moved a white board around the toy engine while shining a small flash light on the white board.  This is all reflective light creating the highlights of the details on the toy train engine.  The Live Comp allows you to watch the light build up and when you are satisfied with the effect, you press the shutter again.  No light was direct shined on the engine. 

Hope you have a wonderful start to your weekend.
LORELL
PS. Grant, Patty and Rich, please see comments I left at the bottom of Friday's daily. 

Title:  
Lionel Model Trains, Thanks for the Memories

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Morning,
TGIF
I have boxes of old prints and negatives. It will give me a lot of practice converting negatives. Here is one of our youngest now 40

   

Late start today. I continue to go through negatives. Here is my mom mid 1990's. A little soft but sometimes it is good to be soft on portraits.


   

Greetings All!
Trying to keep up! Grant your vintage scans from yesterday were excellent!
I have been busy working on sewing projects since its a bit too cold to be outside.
I have some GAdgets and fabric coming today so I may be busy for the rest of the week.
I hope your New Year is off to a good start (all of you!)

This is from 2020
Old, defunct Cotton Gin

   

How old were you when you first tried out a camera? Did you know you were going to be a photographer?

This one I found in a box of old negatives. Shot mid 1980's

   

How about "round"?  Balls, signs, nature etc...

Good morning all and welcome to the first Monday in the new year. Much cooler here this morning - yesterday at this time it was in the 70's and right now it is about 40F. Probably below freezing tonight but of course warming up later in the week. Maybe even warm enough for a motorcycle ride.

Here is a photo from our last camping trip. I'm sure I have posted photos of the white squirrels that we see in the state park but this is the latest one. Actually a color variation of the common gray squirrel from what I can find out. Still interesting to see.

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Good day all.

I'll share two photos taken on Friday:

1) A great egret in one of the flood control channels (just before noon)...

   

2) Another yellow rose after the overnight rain (around 8:00 - 9:00 AM)...

   

Should be some good NFL games today, and I'm planning what to dine on. I've got a 2 pound pork roast thawing. I may try my hand at something approaching Char Siu Bao; that's steamed pork buns, and my Chinese in-laws introduced them to me long ago. But I may not be able to pull of the soft buns (they're kinda like a light dumpling; in that case I'll go with just the meat, accompanied by potato salad and another side that's TBD. I'll remove from the roast a 6 inch section that's around 3" x 3" - that will give me 10-12 small pieces when sliced after cooking. The rest of the roast will probably go into the slow-cooker for 8-10 hours sometime after midnight; add some carrots, celery, onions, maybe tomatoes, certainly some jalapenos, various spices, and anything else that sound interesting. Should be done in time for an early dinner tomorrow.

Good morning to all and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday season. I see that activity has been down over the past few days but hopefully it will pick up now that the rush of the season is kind of behind us. There were still some nice photos posted though.

Crazy weather in these parts. Very warm yesterday and should be today, then the cold front moves in and it gets more seasonal. I took the motorcycle out for a spin yesterday morning, just a short one, but I hope to take a longer ride today before I tuck it away for a while. I didn't have a camera but I did shoot some phone photos. I converted to B&W in PS Elements.

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Since no one stepped up with a suggested challenge for December, I randomly chose one from the "list".  So, any photo of any type of padlock will work here, new, vintage, unusual, etc. Let's see what you can come up with. I'll start with a simple shot of a padlock on an old door.

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