goodbye august

future mimosas

rose window

my fine feathered friend

Since we liked this little guy a few days ago...

I decided to post his other two poses as well...

chapel of love

#2

This is a "#2" at our favorite Vietnamese place: pork, carrots, cucumber, jalapenos and lots of cilantro on an amazing French baguette...

Aperture priority  f/1.8  1/800  ISO 200  50mm

westward

happiness is...

...a walk on the golf course...

hmmm good

A dash of this, a splash of that...

Aperture priority  f/1.8  1/200  ISO 200

lunchtime

Pork spring rolls with peanut sauce...

Aperture priority  f/1.8  1/640  ISO 200 

same picture, just cropped

river bank

1/25  f2.8  ISO 200  50mm lens

P mode (I didn't know how to set other modes then!)

taking a break

5 o'clock

Cheers to the new lens!

Program mode  f/3.2  1/40  ISO 200  50mm

gruene hall

Fun times at Gruene Hall...

gruene

Nothing like a hot summer day in Gruene!

umbrellas on the riverwalk

I thought the 5-views-of-the-same-subject technique would be a good way to introduce my new 50mm 1.4 lens.

San Antonio Riverwalk at 8pm with no flash...

Bird's-eye view...

It's 8:30pm and still no flash!

me and my shadow

Cowgirl taking pictures on a sunny day...

tree of racks

This adorns a front yard in rural Central Texas...

stamp of approval

Patriot put his own stamp of approval on the wedding invitations...

entwined

prickly pear cactus

smoke gets in your eyes

Late afternoon light meeting the smoke from the grill at the lake...

slip slidin' away

This slide made me start humming Paul Simon's Slip Slidin' Away...

under the dock

on deck

Doesn't this deck look inviting!

rearview reflection

reed grass

Reed grass shining in the hot August sun...

mama don't take my kodachrome away

This ad is in the May 1954 edition of National Geographic.

Makes me want to sing some Paul Simon!

 . . . Kodachrome

You give us those nice bright colors

You give us the greens of summer

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So Mama don't take my Kocachrome away. . . 

on the fence

this time last year

A year ago today, we enjoyed an early evening trip to the beach on the French Riviera.