Early Blooms

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My Flowering Plum tree is in major booming mode. The bees are buzzing all around the branches, and it’s raining delicate pink pedals on my patio.

Blooming

Nikon Df| Lensbaby Soft focus lens plus Macro adapters| Hand-held| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film

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P52 8/52: Yosemite Falls from Swinging Bridge

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It was a gorgeous sunny day in Yosemite. In February! The little bit of snow we had up here last week from the 3 day storm has all melted.

Yosemite Falls from Swinging Bridge

The meadows are brown, and dry since there has been very little rain, and next to no snow this year, but

I gotta tell ya…no matter what time of year it is or the conditions, this view never gets old!

Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm| Hoodman STEEL Ultra High Speed Digital Film| Tripod| BW 6 stop ND filter| 2 images focus stacked and blended in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Dawn-Vasona Lake Los Gatos, CA

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When I woke up this morning at O’Dark Thirty (4:30am) I peeked outside to check out the sky. The clouds that moved in two days ago had some breaks and pockets with a few stars poking through here and there so, I thought it might be worth getting dressed and going out for the sunrise.

It’s been sometime since I have shot a sunrise by the water so I headed to one of my “go to” spots; Vasona Lake which isn’t too far from me. While walking over to my shooting location on the lake I could hear that the geese were already up making a fuss about something, and soon they had the mallards, and coots up, and it wasn’t too long afterwords that I spied the first morning runners and walkers out for their morning’s exercise. Then the sun started making its way up and over the mountains bringing with it some wonderful yellow and pink hues.

Dawn Vasona Lake Park Los Gatos CA

All and all a wonderful sunrise!

Nikon Df| AF-D Nikkor 24mm f/2.8@ f/14| Tripod

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First New Year’s Resolutions

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Song Sparrow

First New Year’s Resolution: I will get my garage cleaned out, and organized!

Second New Year’s Resolution: I will lose 8 pounds!
I’ll probably add more as the year goes on, but to start with these two are my BIGGIES!

What about you, are you making any New Year’s Resolutions in the New Year?

Nikon D300s| AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4| Hand-held| Lexar Professional Digital Film

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P52 52/52 The End!

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I completed the Project without missing a week!

P52 52 of 52 The End!

I’d like to wish all my family, friends: real, and virtual a very Merry Christmas!

Nikon Df| AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8g| Hand-held|

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Sunset between storms

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Sunset Santa Clara Valley

I had just a few minutes to get up to my tree to capture the end of the day. I just made it! Not too much color, but the light was pretty, and the clouds moving in bringing rain tonight added to the drama.

My tree is growing up! It’s getting fuller and our hills and mountains are green again.
In Santa Clara County we’re 190% above our average for rain fall, but we still have a long way to go before we’re out of the drought. We need 6 more storms like the one we just had to get out of it the Meteorologists say. I hope we get that! Either way I’m already looking forward to Spring flowers. 🙂

Nikon Df| AF-D Nikkor 24mm f/2.8| Tripod

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