“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
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I made this image last summer at the Rodeo. These guys would have a laugh or two in between riders, and events, but man they worked hard when it was time to work, and making sure the arena was ready for the show. 
I do love those BIG belt buckles!
This image is part of Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness 2. To see all the great images posted this week click here.
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“I have left my bed and walked upon the grass and the night dew has wet my feet and the hem of my garment. Here I stand under the blossoms of the almond tree, heeding the call of your spirit. ”
~Kahlil Gibran, Communion of Spirits, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
Went I laid in the grass to photograph the dew and rain drops in the grass yesterday morning I thought of these lines from Kahlil Gibran’s prose Communion of Spirits.
I hope you all have a sunny Friday and week-end both in your spirits and weather!
Nikon Df| Nikkor 105mm macro lens| Hoodman Digital Film| PS CC 2015| Hand-held
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This is a door from the 3rd tier of Fort Point in San Francisco, CA. I’ve blogged about the fort before here.
The arches in this fort are really neat. I had fun trying to find compositions, and shoot while the light was good. There were quite a few people here the day our Scott Kelby Photowalk group was here, so I had to wait sometimes for a long time to get an image without people in it.
Fortunately, no one else was interested in this door when I started photographing it.
This image is also part of Norm 2.0’s Thursday’s Doors. To see all the other doors posted this week click here.
Nikon Df| Nikkor 24-70mm| Hoodman Digital Film| PS CC 2015
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It was drizzly this morning when #1 Grandson got up, but by 9ish the sun was shining!
We donned our boots, and headed to the backyard. Me to photograph water drops, and him to play with his construction trucks, and dirt of course!
I was looking through images in playback when he called out, “look Grandma, dirt!”
I was happy to have the camera at hand!
We’re halfway through the week. I hope your Wednesday is as happy as #1 Grandson is when playing with his tractors in the mud! 🙂
Nikon Df| LensBaby Composer Pro w/Double Optic| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| PS CC 2015
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To see all this week’s entries to Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness 2 click here.
I participated in Scott Kelby’s WorldWide Photowalk last October, and the walk I did was at Fort Point in San Francisco, CA. This is an image from just outside the fort.
Nikon Df| Nikkor 24-70mm| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| PS CC 2015, LR CC, ON1 Photo 10
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After the rain we had this week I thought I’d take a drive out to Uvas Canyon to photograph the creeks, and falls.
Here’s just one of many images I made this morning along Swanson Creek.
Nikon Df|Nikkor 28-105mm| B+W 6stop ND Filter| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| PS CC 2015, LR CC, On1 Photo 10
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I am doing another Project 52 this year. I thought about doing one or more genres which I love to photograph, but in the end thought I’d do something different this year; Doors. I thoroughly enjoyed Dan’s doors over at
No Facilities blog this past year brought to us by Norm over at:
https://miscellaneousmusingsofamiddleagedmind.wordpress.com
I like doors and windows and I hope to come up with 52 or more doors that are interesting.
My first door for the year are the doors of Yosemite Valley Chapel. I love this Chapel. It’s so pretty in all seasons.
I went to Yosemite on January 1st to shoot the valley in it’s new Winter Coat of snow with 2 dear friends. This was our “not-so annual” trip. We try every year to start the year with a photography trip, but it hasn’t been consistent since we all have families, a life, and other interests. This year 3 of our little group were able to make the trip to Yosemite. Our 4th we will forgive for missing…one day! He was in the Galapagos Islands photographing all the sights, and some wildlife. I confess I’m a little jealous! Okay, back to the subject at hand. The Chapel.
I had the pleasure of attending a friends wedding here in the early 80’s. It was lovely!
My favorite time to photograph this chapel in the winter when there is snow. It has the distinguished honor of being the oldest building in public use in Yosemite Valley. It was built in 1879 under the auspices of the Yosemite Union Chapel Association. Their stated purpose was:
“To erect an undenominational house of worship in the Yosemite Valley”. ~Yosemite Valley Chapel.org
“Mr. Charles Geddes, a leading architect of San Francisco, made and presented the plans. Mr. E. Thomson, also of San Francisco, erected the building at a cost of between three and four thousand dollars. It will seat an audience of about two hundred and fifty. Mr. H. D. Bacon of Oakland donated the bell. When its first notes rang out on the evening of dedication, it was the first sound of “the church-going bell” ever heard in Yosemite.” [“In the Heart of the Sierras” by James M. Hutchings (1888)]
My interior images must be on film because I can’t find them in my digital archives. I’ll have to stop by the chapel on my next visit to photograph it again in digital since it’s been a long time since I was last inside. Who knows when I’ll find the negatives, or scan them since they’re boxed up in the garage, and I’m moving ever so slowly through the boxes in the garage.
For more information about the Chapel please visit http://www.yosemitevalleychapel.org/history.htm
This post is part of Norm’s Thursday’s Doors click over to see all the doors posted this week, and add your own if inspired to. Norm gives you until Saturday noon to post!
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