P52 49/52 Jingle, Jangle, Jingle

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Nikon D700| LensBaby Composer Pro w/Soft Focus Optic, 8mm & 16mm Macro Adapters| Hoodman Digital Film|LR6

Monochrome Madness 2 35/52 Bells

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It’s theme week at Leanne Cole’s MM2! We’re going to be doing Holiday themes for the month of December and we’re kickin’ it off with Bell(s).

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Click on the link highlighted above to see all the Bell images that were shared this week.

Nikon Df| Nikon 105mm| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| LR5, Silver Efex Pro, & On1 Photo 10

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Before and After

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The front landscaping was finished today! It took a bit longer than we thought because we had rain, then we had to wait for the fountain and trellis.  We’re just waiting for the light transformer to come in then we’ll be adding some lights to the small half round planter boxes up near the house to highlight the fountain, and trellis.

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I had carpet roses put in the two big spaces lining the walkway, and there are azaleas in the two half rounds with the trellis, and fountain. I’m going to plant sweat pea to grow up the trellis, and in the little space between the lawn and upper courtyard area I’m planting bulbs of Daffodils, or Tulips. I’ll decide when I go to the garden center.

Next Spring I’ll have a little Bistro table in the courtyard up by the door.

I LOVE the fountain! It sounds lovely.

It’s probably hard to tell in these images, but we added just under 500 sq. ft to the house. It feels HUGE now.

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Nikon Df| Nikon 24-70mm| Hoodman Ultra High Speed Digital Film| LR5

OT- My CS6 was somehow turned into PSCS6 Extended Trial, and I’ve been trying to get Adobe to reactivate my CS6 without success so far. I’m waiting for a Senior Technician to call me back since the lower levels of technical help couldn’t fix the problem.  It’s been very stressful trying to learn a new workflow in the meantime.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Wishing everyone in the USA a wonderful, and safe Thanksgiving,  and friends around the world a lovely  and safe week, and week-end!

Happy Thanksgiving

Watercolor made with Turner Watercolors on Strathemore Card Stock  watercolor paper, image made with my Nikon D700, and 105mm lens, cs6.

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Monochrome Madness 2 34/52 Birds

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This week’s Monochrome Madness 2 I selected an image from a recent day I spent birding in the Pacific Flyway.  The Pacific Flyway is a section of CA. that is part of the Winter migration path used by birds fleeing the cold months in the Winter.

These are Black-necked Stilts, and Long billed Dowagers foraging for food.

MM2  34 of 52 Black Necked Stilts and Long Billed Dowagers

I was trying out the Tamron 150-600mm super telephoto lens this week-end for the extra reach which was nice to have, but I won’t be saying much about the lens because I wasn’t able to use it as much as I had hoped. We had rain come in which kept me indoors the following day instead of out photographing birds.  I won’t complain too much since we need all the rain we can get. 🙂

I’m really behind reading blog posts, but am catching up ever so slowly.

Too see all this week’s posts in Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness 2 click here

Nikon D700| Tamron 150-600mm| Hoodman Digital Film| CS6 & Silver Efex Pro

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