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5/24/13

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:39:26 +0000

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This is a macro shot of my spring Columbine blooming and after being watered. I found that Columbine comes from the Latin word for dove because the flower looks like a cluster of 5 doves. Hmm, I guess I can see that a bit, can you?

5/23/13

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:41:43 +0000

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Well of course I have to start off the third year of my Photo a Day project with my favorite subject, railroading. This is one from the archives as they say, an original film shot back in the 90s at the Colorado Railroad museum of Denver and Rio Grande locomotive 583.

5/22/13

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:33:36 +0000

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Today marks 2 years that I have posted a photo a day! Happy anniversary to my Photo a Day project! This is a lovely bluebird I was able to capture a shot of earlier this spring when I was in Pennsylvania.

5/21/13

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:55:44 +0000

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I was playing with water droplets on a spent dandelion flower and I quite liked the results. This macro shot showed off the droplets rather well. Weeds can be pretty I think.

5/20/13

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:52:59 +0000

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I had purchased this flower at a nursery last Saturday. It’s a Bracteantha, better known as a Straw Flower. I took this shot right after watering it so that’s where the water droplets came from. I ended up changing the background because I wasn’t happy with it and liked it on the black better.

7/19/13

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:28:09 +0000

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Last weekend we went to the Overland Park, KS Arboretum. Quite the beautiful place. They had 3 different fairly good sized waterfalls and this is the first one. It’s a 2.5 second shot to get the water to look as it does. I also used a neutral density filter to be able to do the long exposure.

5/18/13

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:11:49 +0000

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Here is a Grape Hyacinth shot from earlier this spring being photo bombed as they say by a honey bee. Liked this one because you can see the wings. Bees and butterflies are slowly coming back after the big cold snap and snow.

5/17/13

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:47:24 +0000

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The Baltimore Orioles are fully back. They are eating jelly like crazy. We have 5 of them at least this year! I have to feed them jelly twice a day and also have an orange half out for them. They are very cool to watch but very skittish and difficult to get a shot of. This one turned out rather well in spite of that.

5/16/13

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:18:38 +0000

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We finally had a beautiful sunset in late April. This was on April 28. The sky was glowing red quite nicely.

5/15/13

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:21:04 +0000

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These are some tulips that I love with the light and dark pink. I shot this trio of them. Tulips are just about done now so glad other things are beginning to bloom again.