A few pictures I took of my family about a month ago.

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Little Photography for ya today.  My son’s Cross Country team.

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Hey, we’re waiting at LAX and our plane just pulled up.  It’s huge.  The engine on this thing is at least 20 feet tall.  Probably more.

Anyway, I just wanted to update you as to how we are.  If you’re in Tulsa or the rest of the midwest, you’ll probably wake up to find this and we’ll be over Alaska.  Yeah.  We fly over Alaska.  I think it has something to do with avoiding the jet stream.  But honestly I have no idea.

So, we’re tired and thirsty and looking forward to sleeping on the next flight, which is 14 hours long.

Emily is punchy.  She’s running on adrenaline, which is fun.  The boys had never flown before today and are freaking out at how big the plane is.  It’s fun.

So, here are a few pics I snapped on the way.  I hope you enjoy.

I’ll update you when I am able.

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Haven’t been out lately, but here are a few of Cain’s Ballroom.  I’ve posted them before, but it has been a while.

Still, if you like these and want to see more, you can check out my photoblog or my flickr page.

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Sorry for the long wait on Phriday Fotos.  I’ve been negligent with my camera, much to my own chagrine.  Nevertheless, here are some pictures from our Ski Trip with Bonnie’s family over the Christmas break.

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These are of my daughter marching in the Christmas Parade.  Can you guess which is mine?  Next week, I’ll show you how to do this with a free program like Photoshop (not free, very expensive) called Gimp.  Feel free to download and start playing, if ya want.  Available for Mac or Windows.

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These are of a spider I found suspended on a bridge of his (or her?) own making above the floor of the woods whilst hiking the other day.  Though I think I disconcerted him (or her?) somewhat at first, he (or she?) seemed to get used to me pretty quickly.

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Been a while since I posted pics on Friday.  Sorry about that.  I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t even had time to take pictures, must less download and process them.  Which is all a shame, too, since I had just saved up to buy that 10-20 mm Sigma wide angle lens that I love so much.

So a couple of weeks ago, I went on vacation with my bride to a cabin in Beaver’s Bend State Park, in Southeast Oklahoma.  Got enough pictures to last until next year, if I choose.

Here’s a set from the porch of our cabin taken of the night sky with use of a tripod.  The first picture is taken at 1600 iso and was an 8 second exposure.  The next was was at 400 iso for 8 mins and the last was at 400 iso for 30 mins.  All were taken at f/4.0.

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Couple of things to note…

You can see the North Star through the trees and all of the other stars seem to rotate around it.

The Milky Way (our galaxy) can be seen in all three pictures.

If you go to Flickr and look at the really big sized versions of the pictures that show motion, when you zoom in really close, there are billions of stars that don’t appear to move at all, though faint and very far away.

Here’s a little small town Friday Night Football in Oklahoma.  Last week, the #1 ranked (in 3A) Clinton Red Tornados (15 State Titles) were defeated by the #2 ranked (in 2A) Chandlers Lions, a team that sported a whopping 20+ Seniors.

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My office is a wreck.  Whenever I have pictures taken in my office, I usually clean my desk and make sure the junk isn’t in the frame.

The truth is, I still don’t have my diplomas hung, my desk is covered with commentaries and projects… and junk.  My shelves aren’t full and I still have books and miscellaneous detritus in boxes in my garage.  I have files that belong in the filing cabinet, but the movers just piled them in boxes, so they are ALL out of order, and I’ve never taken time to reorganize them.

*sigh*

The one bright spot is that I have shelves that I can dedicate to books that I received from my Uncle Ross’ library after he passed away.  I remember him more often – which is a good thing, since he was well worthy of emulating – when I see those shelves as opposed to having those books scattered in with the rest of them.

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