Mystery Flower. Mark found one of these growing in the wild along Alki Beach. He plucked it, and planted it next to the front door, where it took root. If you know what it is, please leave a comment

Morning Glory. I hate Morning Glory. It's taking over my yard. The flowers are kind of pretty though.

I've started playing around with Photoshop more. I see why every photographer has it. It allows you to do some pretty amazing things with ease. This photo for example is a composite of 5 photos. I took a very dark photo, then slightly lighter photo, then a lighter photo and so on. Photo shop then merged the 5 photos capturing the detail of each. So even though each of the 5 photos had spots that were too dark, or too light, the resulting photo has a great range.

Coral

Solstice Parade.

Solstice Parade

I wish I knew who the little girld was. The pics of her are soo cute.

Solstice Parade

Solstice Parade

Solstice Parade

Picking Bogart's Nose

Freemont Solstice Parade

The new lens gives me greater control over the depth of field, so I can focus on one object, and blur everything in the background. It takes some practice, but it's helping me control the "background is too busy" problem

I've got the new lens. It's very nice but, it's also humbling. If photos don't work out, I have no one to blame but myself. The lens is a good tool, but I still have to do the work to make things look good.

This picture was taken hand held in dim light. The previous picture of the blue ceramic horse was taken with a tri-pod and with proper light.