Day 669 Emma and Heidi

I was in Southern California visiting my sister when I took a few snap shots of her young twins in the jacuzzi.

Day 668 Red Shouldered Hawk

I definitely have better pictures, but I can't resist posting a picture of a bird. A Red Shouldered Hawk to be exact. It is not much as far as bird images go, but someday I'll get a better picture. Just wait and see.

Day 667 An Old Place

This old place can be seen while I'm driving to work. You have to drive off the main road a bit to get a good look, but it's worth it. A nice place with several very old buildings and even an old tractor. The tractor is on the other side and at some point I hope to get a picture of it. This place is probably dangerous and is therefore fenced off, which is to bad for me as I'd love to go in there and photograph it all.

Day 666 post 2 Somewhere on Crows Landing Road

I drive by this place often. It's so far back off the road I haven't been able to get a decent picture of it, but I enjoy todays attempt. I think it's the nice cool pale blue of the morning sky that helps this image out.

Day 666 post 1 Openshaw and Sons

Another day another just as beautiful Openshaw and Sons building.

Day 665 post 2 San Joaquin River

I already posted for today but if I get a picture of the San Joaquin River while driving across the bridge, I have to post it.

Day 665 post 1 Openshaw and Sons

I love getting images of this building. I love it's old metalness (My neologism). I couldn't decide between these two pictures. The top image has the name Openshaw and Sons sign which I love, and the bottom has a reflection of the sky and trees in it's window, which I also love. So take your pick on which one is best. I can't decide.

Actually now that I look at it the bottom picture does not have a reflection of trees in the window. It has a broken window so that you can see the trees and sky behind.

Day 664 Wheat Bread with Forks

I made a terrible loaf of light wheat bread and the picture I took of it was terrible too, so I added some forks.

Day 663 Charbay

I don't photograph my horses much. It's difficult for me to get a decent picture of them. The background where they are at is an ugly one. The place I board them at is a great horse place just photographically speaking what I have for a background isn't what I would like. I did enjoy my series on Covey, but he was easy an old white horse mostly photographed in the evening. I am thinking I might try and get good pictures of my remaining four horses.

This is one of them, my only mare, Charbay.

Day 662 Dried Weeds and Blue Skies

Day 661 Glasses with Forks

Nothing to show for today so I photographed a couple of glasses that were on the kitchen counter. I added the forks for fun.

Day 660 White Orchid from Savemart

I cant' explain why but I have been desirous of photographing a flower. I drove to Savemart and bought two bunches. One was a mixed flower grouping and the other consisted of yellow roses. I tried the yellow roses first but they were falling apart by the second. This is my flower choice from the mixed bouquet.

I also was wanting to photograph something else in front of this back drop. I like it. I think it works, even though my flower has quite a few imperfections. I can call myself the imperfected flower photographer.

Day 659 Disney a Half Moon Conure

I was browsing pictures of Half Moon Conures yesterday when I noticed a picture of Disney had a name I didn't recognize underneath it. Of course I clicked on it to discover a breeder in NH was using a picture of Disney to sell/promote his birds. I then clicked on his website to see Disney's picture on his web site as well. Can you say really annoyed? I e-mailed him to take down Disney's picture. This morning he responded he would, but that he didn't do anything wrong. I explained to him that even though the image didn't say it was copyrighted, it was. Today Disney's image is no longer on his web site.

This made me think about Disney and about how I don't have many good pictures of him. So I set up my lights and tried again to photograph my sweet little bird. Here he is all washed up.

Day 658 South Ninth Street

There was a train blocking the entrance to the freeway. So I turned down South Ninth Street. I haven't been there in so long. It would have been nice to have enough time to get out and photograph some people, only there were none. A couple images of the street itself.