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Took a pic on Sunday of an Angel statue. A little fooling around and:

Well I finally went out and bought an L Lens (Canon EOS 100-400mm L), and it cost more than my camera did. Wow.

But it was worth it. It’s alot better optically than any of my other lenses, has Image Stabilization, and the long reach I have wanted for awhile.

On Thursday & Today I got to test it out pretty thoroughly and took alot of bird pictures. Here’s a collage of some of them The Kestrel & Shrike were taken Thursday, handheld, from my car while doing a quick surveillance in NE Houston. The others were taken today at Brazos Bend, some on a monopod and some handheld. All the pics were full size crops from the images (no enlargements) and the collage was 2400 pixels across. This was reduced to 1000 pixels to save webspace (or else it would be a 1.4 MB pic). Only post processing was Raw conversions in Bridge, cropping, and some slight smart sharpening on the Kestrel & Shrike since these were JPG shots originally.

Full size crops of the  Shrike & Kestrel:

Needed something new… or in this case, something old… on the webpage.  This is part of a railcar in San Angelo, TX, at the RR Museum.  You should see the full size… the close up (real close up) range in color with the rust is amazing.

Enjoy!

Here is a leaf that told me to take its picture while recently in Brazos Bend State Park.  After a little selective coloring… voila!  Have a wonderful Valentines Day!

Trying to learn a new program for graphics.

Here’s a sun like shape I rendered in blue light shades, as a solid, and with a close up of some of the solid’s details.

Dad sent this photo.  It’s so cute!  Apparently, this is Mom, Dad, and I stopping in Nice, France, for a little lunch!  Ha!

Enjoy!

We took a drive out to the park yesterday with the dogs.

It was a bit muddy, and chilly, but there were plenty of birds out, mostly robins, yellow rumps, and quite a few wood peckers (probably ladderbacks). Also alot of Hawks seen on the way there.

I also found my first Geocache while there. Info about Geocaching can be seen here: http://www.geocaching.com/

OK… so, I fought a lot to get these pictures taken.  Now we’re all ready for next year’s Christmas cards!

Dori (left) and Teela (right)