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Focal Length 200.0 mm
1/1000 s
f/4.0
ISO 125

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My Daughter...

Focal Length 175
1/60 s
f/5.6
ISO 400

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Focal Length 105.0 mm
1/2000 s
100 ISO
f/3.8

A little macro work at the beach!

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Focal Length 200
1/400 s
f/8.0
ISO 100

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Focal Length 135
1/250 s
f/8.0
ISO 100

I think I am becoming a "birder"....

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Didn't want to miss my blog tonight.  One of the "weekend challenges" was TRAINS...so I took this picture of a painted train outside of Baton Rouge today on our road trip!

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105.00 mm Focal Length

1/60 s

f /3.8

ISO 200

Macro is not necessarily easy.  I am doing "Assignments" from a book I purchased and the results are posted online for review.  This one had to do with taking pictures of M & M's, skittles, or other candy. This is my favorite.  I must have taken over 400 pictures and saved 15.  All good!

This one was taken by me (with my elbow anchored on the counter) of my finger.   I like the "background" which is actually my laptop screen. 

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focal length 105.0

1/30 s

f/5.0

ISO 100

This is a shot of some wet M&M's on a mirror that I was taking as part of my "macro" assignment.  I was kind of rushed and am going to try this one again tonight or tomorrow using a tripod as there was some camera shake on this one so I am not posting to the assignment website.  I think I can do better than this.

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Good Morning!  Rain last night, Sunshine this afternoon!

1/4s
105.0 mm
f/5.6
ISO 200

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Another Rainy Monday....back to work.

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1/125s

Focal Length 200

500 ISO

f/4.0

For the record, this was my first weekend to really try to get some pictures of birds.  I was out at Mayfield Park in the early AM.  Lots of birds, and lots of bad pictures.  I am determined to get better at this! 

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A Very Clean American Duck

First Pictures with my AF-S Micro Nikkor 105mm/2.8

and a picture to my weekend "cleanliness" challenge

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"panning"

After work, I got to my car grabbed my camera and thought I would practice some "panning" with the cars that went by.  They probably thought I was crazy.  I did have to slow down my shutterspeed...but I did like the results as it did reflect the motion.

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1/80s
f/2.8
Focal Length 200
ISO 800

Tried again this morning using my new tripod and remote shutter.
It is a little better for sure.

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Early Morning Moon

(taken from my back porch)

Focal Length 200.0 mm

1/20 s

f/2.8

ISO 200

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A Busy Day in the Kitchen

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1/500 sec

Focal Length 86.0 mm

f/3.2

ISO 1600

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Flowers for Today
Happy Birthday, Mom!

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I hate pictures of myself, but I have never used my "mini" desktop tripod or my delayed remote.  Both were used here.  That was fun.  Do not expect more, however.  It is just what I did today. 

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Snow in Austin!

Brief, but Beautiful!

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DESSERT!

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Focal Length 200.0mm

ISO 200

1/125s

f/5.0

I was trying to catch some of the rain on the leaves this morning, and didn't even see the little bug on the back side of the leaf until I downloarded the pictures.

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Tired of Bad News

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Small Change

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burning

focal length 55.0 mm

1/30 s

f/5.6

ISO 220

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Happy Birthday, Lara!

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White Wine Reflections

Focal Length 22.0 mm

1/160s, f/6.3, ISO 100

Got home and poured myself a glass of wine and wondered what picture I would take tonight.  The light on my porch was so lovely as the sunset, I thought I would take a picture of my wine.  I didn't plan on the beautiful reflection.  I guess it is CHEERS to the first 20 days of my 365 Photo-a-Day Project!  I haven't cheated once, but this is harder than I thought!

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Inside Grandma's Clock

Took this one for a photo challenge called "gears".  I have decided not to post it there, but it is the best one in a series of shots I took today.

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Colorful Backstroke

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Lauren at Regional Preliminaries

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School Bus in Motion

Focal Length 55mm

1/2 S - f/14.0 - ISO 400

Took this waiting at a stop light on this rainy morning.  First time I have really tried the S setting using a slower shutter speed capturing motion to get a blur effect on objects and lights. Looking forward to trying this some more with my tripod this weekend.

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Morning Street LIght

There was a beautiful moon this morning, and I tried without luck to capture it with my camera.  However, I did get this picture with an interesting reflection of the street light.

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Garlic...simply the best!

and to answer your question, I did take pictures of garlic in my kitchen tonight.  I was not going to miss "today" in this challenge.

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On my way home from work...a little sun.

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1/160s

Focal Length 200

f/5.6

ISO 800

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Nikon D60

200 mm focal length

1/800 s

f/10.0

ISO 400

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For My Cousin-in-Law, Sharon

You will get through the snow and I will post

 pictures of the real thing tomorrow!

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Nikon D60

1/100s

Focal Length 120

f/5.0

ISO 1600

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Nikon D60 with 18-55 Lens

Focal Length 52.0 mm

1/13 s - f/10 - ISO 800

I love this The Digital Photography School website.  I am liearning a great deal from their online articles.  I started this 365 Day Challenge because of it, and actually had my camera in the car with me today on my way to work.  When I pulled into the office, I decided to see if I could catch a few raindrops on my windshield before I went in.  I tried my camera on both "A" and "S: modes.  However, what really helped was a few of the tricks I learned in an article on controlling AutoFocus .  I like how the few pictures I took turned out.  May add some of these to my "BLUR" post.

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Wooden spoons, my laptop, my TV, and my glass of wine....

A perfect evening in my kitchen, but probably not my best photo!

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A Guitar from another Angle

Nikon D60

Focal Length 29 mm

2.5s; f/10; ISO 200