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Sunday, February 28, 2010

365 #59

Date: 2010/02/28 14:57
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/8 sec
Aperture: 8.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 50.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”
~
Jane Austen ~



Saturday, February 27, 2010

365 #58

Date: 2010/02/27 11:37
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~



Friday, February 26, 2010

365 #57

 

Date: 2010/02/26 16:48
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/8 sec
Aperture: 4.5
Exposure Bias:  0.00 EV
Focal Length: 30.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

 

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"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."
Federico Fellini


Thursday, February 25, 2010

365 #56

Date: 2010/02/25 16:02
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: 4.5
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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“ What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
~ George Eliot



Wednesday, February 24, 2010

365 #55

Date: 2010/02/24 17:25
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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“ May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.”
~ Irish blessing ~




Tuesday, February 23, 2010

365 #54

Date: 2010/02/23 16:11
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/10 sec
Aperture: 6,3
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 47.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
~ Lao Tzu ~




Monday, February 22, 2010

365 #53

Date: 2010/02/22 12:14
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 6,3
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_8691

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
~ Basil Bunting ~

Sunday, February 21, 2010

365 #52

Date: 2010/02/21 13:57
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/15 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
~ Charles M. Schulz ~

Saturday, February 20, 2010

365 #51

Date: 2010/02/20 12:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 20.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

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“Happiness is.....finding two olives in your martini when you're hungry.”
Johnny Carson, Happiness is a Dry Martini

Friday, February 19, 2010

365 #50

Date: 2010/02/19 14:29
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/25 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 41.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: light bulb

IMG_8497

Hospitality should have no
other nature than love.
~ Henrietta Mears ~



Thursday, February 18, 2010

365 # 49

Date: 2010/02/18 14:53
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 38.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_8453

“ Locks keep out only the honest “
~ Jewish Proverb ~





Wednesday, February 17, 2010

365 #48

Date: 2010/02/17 14:37
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 66.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
~ Eden Phillpotts ~





Tuesday, February 16, 2010

365 #47

Date: 2010/02/16 16:07
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/80 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 61.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
~ Author Unknown ~




Monday, February 15, 2010

365 #46

Date: 2010/02/15 13:43
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_8166

“Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits;
while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”
~ Robert Burton ~
English writer and clergyman, 1577-1640

Sunday, February 14, 2010

365 #45

Date: 2010/02/14 15:54
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 500
Exposure time: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: -0.33 EV
Focal Length: 41.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
 
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

IMG_8126

 

"Love is a beautiful red rose given for no apparent reason."

~ Author Unknown ~

365 #44

 

Date: 2010/02/13 17:47
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix

Flash Used: yes
Exposure: macro
White Balance: auto

IMG_8077

“When garlic is smoked, its cloves soften a little and turn a lovely buttery yellow. The smoking process forces some of the natural sugars in the garlic cloves to bead on the surface of the clove, under the papery skin, becoming sticky, tacky and sweet. You can use these cloves wherever you'd use raw garlic; the whole bulb is also exceptionally good roasted. Try making roast garlic and fresh tomato pasta with a smoked bulb for great depth of flavor. I really like the roast cloves popped out of their skins and spread on a good crusty bread, sprinkled with a little salt. The squashed, roast cloves are also fantastic stirred into mashed potatoes.” 
~ Liz Upton ~

Friday, February 12, 2010

365 #43

Date: 2010/02/12 12:34
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 1.00 EV
Focal Length: 41.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_8050

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
nor time unmake what poets know
~ Ralph Waldo Emerso ~

Thursday, February 11, 2010

365 #42

 

Date: 2010/02/11 15:38
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 1.00 EV
Focal Length: 50.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

 

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Love the moment,
and the energy of that moment
will spread beyond all boundaries
into blissful,
peaceful happiness.

~ Author Unknown ~

 

 

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

365 #41

Date: 2010/02/10 10:49
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 56.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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If a doctor treats your cold, it will go away in fourteen days.
If you leave it alone, it will go away in two weeks.
~ Gloria Silverstein ~

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

365 #40

Date: 2010/02/9 15:13
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_7970

I'd stop drinking coffee, but I'm no quitter.

~ Author Unknown ~

Monday, February 8, 2010

365 #39

Date: 2010/02/8 10:43
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: manual

IMG_7959

"In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends."
~ Okakura Kakuzo ~ (Book Of Tea)

Sunday, February 7, 2010

365 #38

Date: 2010/02/7 01:21
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: - 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 80.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: manual

IMG_7901

" God made the cat in order that humankind might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger."
~ Fernand Mery ~

Saturday, February 6, 2010

365 #37

 

Date: 2010/02/6 14:19
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/8 sec
Aperture: 9,0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 33.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_7815

 

"Cooking is at once child's play
and adult joy.
And cooking done with care is an act of love."

~Craig Claiborne ~

Kitchen Primer

Friday, February 5, 2010

365 #36

 

Date: 2010/02/5 12:01
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/80 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 80.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_7768

 

 

And when it rains on your parade,
look up
rather than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. 
~ Jerry Chin ~

Thursday, February 4, 2010

365 #35

Date: 2010/02/4 13:01
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight

Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

IMG_7749

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.
~ Cynthia Nelms ~

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

365 #34

 

Date: 2010/02/3 13:16
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 100
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 81.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix

Flash Used: no
White Balance: flash

IMG_7652


Work in layers.
By freezing water layer by layer instead of all at once, ice makers produce clear ice which is more presentable in commercial settings than the cloudy ice you can make in an ice tray for your home freezer.

This week’s theme for Thematic Photography is “ Water in any form” .

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

365 #33

Date: 2010/02/2 12:37
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix

Flash Used: yes
White Balance: flash

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

This week’s theme for Thematic Photography is “ Water in any form”.

Monday, February 1, 2010

365 #32

Date: 2010/01/31 13:11
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 8,0
Focal Length: 59.0 mm
Flash Used: No
White Balance: Flash

IMG_7557


This is the view from the citadel of Dinant on the river Maas, La Meuse as the French speaking population of that part of Belgium would call it.
We took a guided tour of the citadel and I was horrified by the stories of blood spilling and cruelty that happened here. This part of the river has seen many a battle to defend the city against foreign intruders. What is a peaceful city now has been a place where thousands of people lost their lives throughout history.


Can anything be stupider
than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river
and his ruler has a quarrel with mine,
though
I have not quarreled with him?

~ Blaise Pascal ~

365 #31

Date: 2010/01/31 13:16
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/80 sec
Aperture: 8,0
Focal Length: 59.0 mm
Flash Used: No
White Balance: Flash

IMG_7563

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war
that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him
before you can shoot him.
~ M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter ~

365 #30

 

Date: 2010/01/30 15:57
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 6,3
Focal Length: 44.0 mm
Flash Used: No
White Balance: Flash

IMG_7496

 

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. 
~ From the movie An Affair to Remember ~

365 #29

 

Date: 2010/01/29 15:38
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 5,6
Focal Length: 24.0 mm
Flash Used: No
White Balance: Flash

IMG_7119

 

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. 

~Lao Tzu ~