A visit to Sprint

My best buddy and I headed to the Sprint store together yesterday.

We ended up spending the better part of an hour and a half there, mostly due to our indecision!!

Our favorite sales guy was there. He has been helping us for years now, and we love to hassle, I mean intrigue him with our presence.
We were so excited to congratulate him on his marriage and his baby due early next year.

I believe in talking to people who are in customer service and making their day fun. Dealing with grouchy grumblers all day can't be easy, so I do my best to lighten the atmosphere!!

Since we were there sooooo long, and the better part of it...the only customers there. I decided to bring in my camera.
It was such a hit!!!


Especially with our guy Matt.


He was totally into the whole photography scene!!



He has a way with the lens, right???

Ahhhh ha ha. I try to tell people, if you make a crazy face when the camera is pointing at you, then don't be all freaked out when I take that picture and seal if for all time.


There is a LOT of downtime when you are trading out phones and upgrading as the information is transferred and the computer system does its required work.

Thanks Matt for making that time entertaining!!

And, thanks for giving me permission to use your pictures...though you may never ever see them!
Oh, and remember and put into practice all that good Daddy advice we gave ya; speaking from years of experience here!!

As you have guessed these are yesterdays pictures.
As you have come to expect, I will be taking more today to maintain my promise of photos every day.
I may or may not be back to post them though.
Oh and btw....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I have a photo shoot on Saturday evening!!!
This is the engagement session I told you about awhile back.
I am about to burst waiting for the time to get here.
My head is FILLED to the brim with images I want to capture for this couple.

If you care to, then say a little prayer for a steady hand, eyes to see beauty, stealth to capture it quickly, and focus to exact the details I want.

Later!!!

Week 34 SOOC to Wow

I am back here EARLY today because, well because I know today is gonna be another hum-dinger of a day!

I am really needing to do some adjusting in my timing on things.
Don't worry, I will get into the swing of things...eventually.
I hate to always be rushing when I am here with you, but truly if something has to give...it is gonna be this.
I know you understand, and I ♥ ya for it!!


If you stopped by on Monday then you saw my entry into the SOOC to WOW challenge for the week.
But, here it is as a reminder.

Today is the WOW part of the work on this photo.
I do hope if you have time and are interested in other photographers work you will check out some of the other entries.
For me...it is neat to see where and how a photo begins and what people choose to do with it to make it better than it was, or to just change the feel of it, or focus of it.
Of course with this challenge, the goal is to get it really good before the process to work on skill!!

As I looked at my photo, I couldn't help but be charmed by the shape that the bridge openings and reflections made. The photo became "about this" for me. I could see nothing else.
I tried to push it a bit to get those semi- semi circle oval shapes to sing a bit more.



I then decided that maybe black and white was the way to accomplish this even better.

I ached for symmetry, but the way I took the shot didn't allow it.

Hey, I have got to get.
I still have one more lunch to pack!
I promise that I will take some pics today, but I won't be back for posting.

At least I don't think I will...ha hahaha!

This post is fast and furious as once again I have less day than things to do.
It is hard to get anyone to cooperate around here, even in short snippets of time.

I say..."I'll just take a picture of your feet, could you scooter for me at least."



My daughter is pretty willing but my boys are almost impossible.

As soon as I pulled my camera out to record a small scrap of real life today, they scattered like roaches.
Hiding behind cabinets and darting from wall to wall.

It was a fun challenge to catch them, but don't tell them I thought it was fun.

Deserting pages of homework or


choosing to move in super close quickly so that the lens can't "see" them.
He moved and fast!!!



They didn't realize this new lens can "see" closer than my tiny 50mm lens.

It intrigued my younger son, and since any little distraction is a way to get out of homework he took to testing the closeness factor.
Can you take it this close???



How about this close??

This close? This close? This close??

Gotta jet, the day is flying by and we still must finish homework before supper.

A short walk

See that over there?
It is my mailbox, and it is a long way off.

Okay, Okay, I know it isn't THAT far, but in relation to the heat it sure feels like it.

I walked there today.

I put my key in...


...opened the door and collected my mail.



Then, I turned around and made the long trek back to my house.


It was twice as hot walking home, and I had to carry my camera as well as the mail.

Whew!!

Yes, I did take these pictures quickly.
Yes, I did post them without doing anything but resizing them.
Yes, I do know that this post is dull...but my real job got in the way today.

I have a feeling it will do that tomorrow too.

I promise, I do have something of substance to say. It has been on my mind for some time, I just need to time to work it out and compose it.

Sigh!
Such is life.
You know what??
I gotta get, Mommy duties are in full force today!

"body of water"

It is week 34 in the Good to WOW challenge.
I know I missed last week, maybe even the week before, so I was determined today to rise to the challenge.
The prompt this week was... and I quote...
lake/pool/ocean (any body of water will be perfect!)

I had really, really good intentions, but got sidetracked.
There were several...

Oh hold on, before I explain myself, here is my entry this week.

Remember, no touchy the photo!

Yeah, it looks more like a photo of a bridge right??
Well that is because by the time I got finished being distracted I was overheated and hungry and snapped this off before I headed back to the sanctuary of my overheated van.
Not sure what I was thinking heading out at noon to shoot pictures, before lunch, with no water, in the unreal Texas heat.
Ahhh I know, I was thinking I better get this done while I am out and available.

You would have been distracted too.
Okay well maybe not, but you may have been intrigued.

This bird was somewhere between 2-3 feet tall.
I kid you not!!

It was so huge, I couldn't believe that my feet kept dragging me closer to it.

I knew it would take off any second and so I tried to steady my steps and be ready.









So totally gorgeous in flight.

Then there was this guy!!


Oh boy, the distraction time just doubled as I stalked this one as well trying to catch it in flight several times.
Hmmm, not quite as easy to shoot a white bird in the big middle of the day.
Most of my shots were over exposed.
Perhaps I should have chosen a different setting.

Now sticking to the body of water theme
shrug...may as well push this as far as I can while I have you here.
hee hee.
I have a friend who breeds Angel fish.
They have laid eggs several times now, but this was the first chance that the babies survived being eaten or whatever else happens to baby fish eggs??!!
This is the momma herding in her little ones.

They look like eyeballs and stomachs!!

I know that is the momma, cause this is the daddy.

He got moved to another tank for bad behavior!!

And he is not happy about it!!


I hope these angel babies survive and I can keep you updated with their progress.

Well, I must be off.
The dryer is buzzing and homework time needs to begin, and I need to make some banana bread!!
Oh, yes and I haven't forgotten about supper.
See ya tomorrow.

Hunting again

I am back with Scavenger Hunt Sunday!!
Last week was tooooooooooooo crazy, but this week I got 'er done!

And here is the list.

1. Old and New

My goal with these shots was to actually get something old and new of the same type in the same frame.
I really wanted a new tiny baby lizard with (what I suppose to be) his momma!
They were completely uncooperative, so live, immobile subjects became my new goal.


But just for kicks, here is the baby lizard, he is too cute not to show you.

I would say it is about an inch and a quarter long or so.
Quite jumpy too.

2. Night Photography

You can just catch a glimpse of the girls who were there playing in the dark.


3. Music

Our temperatures have been in the 100's every day for the past 27 days.
You just try to tell me the fans spinning in these machines isn't music!!


4. Cheesy

Uggghhhh, I hated this prompt. Hated it!!
I didn't want my outcome to be ordinary, and knew it would be.
Sigh!!


5. Sun

Ohhh, another great occasion for a trite photo.
I ended up choosing this photo of my son in the sun.
I hope you will allow me the homonym and stretch on the prompt.

Well, that is it!!
Head on over and see what others are up to!

Beauty

Take your eyes directly left from the red ball cap, see the lizard sitting on the flat leaf?



She was very kind to pose for me.



Ahhh, God makes beautiful things!