I apologize for my low participation lately - just a lot of everyday life things to attend to.

And about a week ago my camera started acting up; the shutter stopped functioning and it took several cycles of turning the camera off then on to get it to work. This got worse and worse, and I checked everything that came to mind. Then yesterday I thought the lens probably wasn't communicating with the camera, so I removd the lens and reseated it. Eureka! Problem solved.

   

I didn't know that Aloe plants had teeth; did you?

TGIF everyone.

Here is another from the archives (Feb, 2019). This is Chubb, a fine-looking boy belonging to the married daughter of a former neighbor. She wanted to give her husband some shirts withubb's photo on it, and asked if I would take some photos. This one turned out to be her favorite...

   

You folks have yourselves a great weekend.

Good morning, Guys.
Before I go to swim this morning, I have time to start the daily for us.
I decided that I would us yesterday's milkweed pod picture for one of my photos.  Thanks, Peter.
The SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT for this month was ICM, Intentional Camera Movement.  That has always been a challenge for me. When I have attempted this technique, I take about 30 shots and hope that I get at least one that is decent.  Sometimes, they all get deleted from my computer.
But I did get one that I think is good enough to share.

I have a crystal ball that has cuts in it so that it has the effect of producing colors as in a prism.  So, I put it in the sun light, had the speed on over a second, and started wiggly the camera as I pressed the shutter.  I chose this one and took it into Infinity after upping the saturation and played with the blending modes.  There is no layering, it was just one shot.  And this is the one that I will share at tonight's photo club meeting.

Have a great Thursday, 
LORELL

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Half way through November already, well at least Peter is at the half way point at about now.

I really am running late on preparing images for tomorrow night's photo club meeting.  I still have to take some photos of ICB , Intentional Camera Blur.  But if I don't, that is okay too.

One of the topics is Nature.
So, here is one that I might be submitting that I took using my WHITE BOX, but with a black poster background that I inserted into the box.
I am not sure if I like it enough.  I think it is too soft.

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Good day friends. A beautiful day in South Dakota. 65 F and light wind with sunny blue skies.
Just before the Grand Ole Opry show we had dinner at an aquarium restaurant. Eating fish with fish swimming around us. An interesting meal!

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Good day Foto Friends.

Nothing new from me, so here's one of the detail shots that I used in my poster of White Pelicans gorging on catfish...

   

I've been busy reprocessing photos for my Flickr account; have a little over 80 photos uploaded there.

Those of you with Flickr accounts can find me by searching People for "droll.1967". For any without a Flickr account, this link (Dave's Flickr albums) should let you see any of my albums and the photos they contain. Let me know if this doesn't work.

Good morning all from a rainy Georgia. First rain we have had in a while and probably need it.

I've been absent for a few days dealing with a severe case of vertigo. I spent one entire day in bed because I could hardly get around. But, fortunately it has subsided and I am "almost" back to normal, whatever that is.

Something to look forward to though is that 2 weeks from tomorrow we will be driving to Atlanta to spend the night and fly out the next day to New Mexico. We will spend a bit over a week there exploring Bosque del Apache NWR. We did this same trip a few years ago and had a good time so we decided we would do it again. I also discovered another small NWR just outside of Albuquerque that we will visit. I don't know how we missed it before.  Hopefully I will have some decent photos to share.

Greetings Friends! No daily yesterday , lets see what today brings!
Here is the World's Only Corn Palace in all its splendor.
The front panel showing Billy Mills, the winner of the  Olympic 10,000 meter run in Tokyo in 1964. A Native American born in South Dakota.
The panels for 2024 will all be of famous South Dakotans.

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Good day, all.

I saw this beauty a couple of days ago.

   

   

It's a Jaguar F-TYPE. Curious, I looked up the price for a a new 2024 model. Depending on the options and packages, prices start at just under $80,000 and can reach about double that.

Lunch in B&W

Leica Q2, Highway 55, Major munchies and holding a camera.