Monday View - 7 January 2019 Edition

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Today's photo is pretty much the same as yesterday's except it was shot about an hour earlier. I really wanted to capture the sunset but my timing was a bit off. But at least it's a good location and I'll be able to try again.

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This is straight out of my camera (phone) with no editing

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Sunday View - 6 January 2019 Edition

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Today was one of those busy Sundays that I intended to take a little time and shoot for a bit. Well it didn't work out that way. We had many errands to run and some work around the house to do so I didn't have much camera time. I did however take a few minutes on our drive home from the supermarket this evening to grab a few frames of the night sky with my camera phone. This is pretty much right out of camera though I did try to reduce the graininess a little in Photoshop. I love the silhouette effect.

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Not bad for a camera phone huh?

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Saturday View - 5 January 2019 Edition

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I have mentioned on more than one occasion that I have a difficult time getting a good picture of Schnitzel because for some reason he seems to be camera shy. Well apparently one of our cats Smidgen is too. But I did manage to get one good shot today.  And here it is for today's photo.

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Friday View - 4 January 2019 Edition

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Good evening my friends. It's Friday at last and you know what that means, right? It's time for a Friday Schnitzel pic! As you may know Schnitzel is not very fond of cameras but he does seem to at least be trying to cooperate with me. It only took me a half dozen tries to get tonight's shot. Of course bribing him with a treat helped a lot. 

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Throwback Thursday View - 3 January 2019 Edition

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Today we take a look back to January 3, 2015 and one of Pennsylvania's many covered bridges. This one is a few miles from Shady Maple in East Earl Township at Poole Forge. Poole Forge is the site of a former pig iron furnace. To read about it please be sure to Click Here to see my original post.

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As you can see in the photo it was a rather rainy day when we visited so Poole Forge is on the list of places we would like to visit again. You know, when the weather is a bit more friendly.

Now for the unveiling.

As you know I post a photo here everyday. Sometimes it's artistic but more and more I tend to share something from my day. And over the past several months I have been posting a lot of snapshots. But I still want a place for my more serious work. Someplace that isn't overshadowed by the snapshots and the "Hey, look where we went today" pictures. So I created a website. Now please understand that this is just a beginning. There is still a lot of work to be done. But I really like the way it's turning out. And I think you will too. So if you would please have a look and let me know what you think. There is even a handy contact form if yu don't want to leave a public message. Here is the website:

Exploration Photography

Have a look around and if you like what you see please feel free to share it. That would be awesome!

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Wednesday View - 2 January 2019 Edition

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This past weekend trip to Longwood Gardens was mainly for their Christmas exhibit, "A Longwood Christmas". It's an event that we try to go to every year and it's simply amazing. You really should see it if you ever have the chance. But whenever I visit the Gardens I am always drawn to the flowers. After all they are the main attraction year round. And that's the cool thing. Year round. I can visit any day of the year and see flowers at full bloom. Inside the Conservatory of course. The  Conservatory is warm and offers the perfect environment for the many species of flowers Longwood has to offer. Flowers like the one featured in today's photo.

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love to shoot orchids. In fact I have a few at home. Unfortunately they are not currently at bloom but should be soon. And when they are I will be sure to share them here.

As for the "unveiling", I am in a holding pattern of sorts. It should be fixed by tonight but these things take time and are completely out of my control. When you see you'll understand.

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Tuesday View - January 1, 2019 Edition

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Happy New Year my friends!

It's a new year and I have some new projects in the works. In fact I am almost ready to share one of them with you. Maybe even tomorrow. I'm doing some fine tuning and have some people helping me with testing but I think it's almost ready. Stay tuned! Those of you who do know what I'm talking about please keep it under wraps until it's unveiling. Thanks!

Today I find it fitting to start off the year with one of my favorite and most popular subjects. I am of course talking about a squirrel. On Sunday I shot more than 400 frames of squirrels and to be honest I can only come up with a very small handful of what I would call useful images. I was toying around with the camera settings and used AUTO ISO (Film Speed) instead of manually setting it and most of the frames are too grainy for my liking. I think this one is pretty good though.

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In addition to the new projects I am also making a few changes to this blog. I am still striving to post on a daily basis and will do so for as long as possible. I'm kind of stubborn like that! But to streamline things a bit I am making two main changes. First unless someone asks I am not sharing each images EXIF data. To be honest I think there's only a few out there who are truly interested in what camera and settings I used produce a picture. And second instead of showing the previous days photo in each post I am simply re-sharing it via Twitter and Facebook. I already do this with my mobile updates which have become more and more frequent anyway. So all in all nothing major. I am also going to be doing more robust posts. Kind of like in the early days when I first started out. And of course I will be doing some house cleaning and fixing things here and there.

So that's about it. I think the minor changes will be offset by tomorrow's (hopefully) unveiling.

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by!

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