Self portrait

Well, I thought I'd give the mini-assignment a shot -- even though I HATE looking at photos of myself -- and I was trying to catch a typical reading-in-comfort pose lying down on the sofa, which often ends up with me dozing off for a while. It was hard to do! I had trouble with my cable release and switched to a 9 second timer instead. Not enough time to run to the sofa and lie down and pose with a book/magazine and my eyes closed!

I played with the cable release some more and I think it wasn't making contact. Anyway sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. {grumble, grumble}

Big and small

healing
Don't look at this if you're squeamish.
I tried to make an animated gif to show the healing on Bob's hand.

The surgery was done with an open wound that required soaking and changing the dressings twice a day -- no antibiotics or creams. I took a photograph once a week and 4 weeks later the open wound has gone from big to small. It's amazing to watch the skin grow back together.

Luscious

When I saw this in the display case at the bakery I was expecting it to be some kind of cake with a luscious filling and a chocolate glaze. I bought one and it turned out to be a dark chocolate candy shell (no cake) filled with raspberry mousse -- definitely luscious!

Alone

This downy woodpecker wasn't actually alone in the shot above -- but I cropped it
because I wanted to use the one below as "alone" and I wanted to show him going after
the seeds as well as taking flight with one.

Canon XSi with a 70-300 mm IS lens.
Processed in Lightroom -- copyright text added in CS4.

What is that?

Well, what it IS is ice formed on a shrub.
But my question is what does it look like to you?

From left to right I see:
someone making a speech,
a mouse singing,
and a reindeer running away.

Always have a camera with you so that when you look around and see something you might want to capture, you are ready!

White

After the snowstorm--snow on my apple tree.
Curious how the psd had less blue than the jpg in "save for the web"...

Chocolate

Chocolate covered cherries! Yummmm....

Shot with my XSi -- a 60mm EF-S lens -- manual focus on a tripod.
Cropped slightly with Lightroom so I could add a vignette.