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Monday, May 31, 2010

365 # 151

Date: 2010/05/31 8:34
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

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Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith ~


Sunday, May 30, 2010

365 # 150

 

Date: 2010/05/30 13:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/40 sec
Aperture: 7.1
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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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

~ Marcus Aurelius ~

Saturday, May 29, 2010

365 # 149

Date: 2010/05/29 18:48
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 16.0
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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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment
which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words.
Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~



365 # 148

Date: 2010/05/28 17:19
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 16.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 44.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

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"Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made."
-Robert N. Rose



Thursday, May 27, 2010

365 #147

Date: 2010/05/27 10:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 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: auto

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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~



Wednesday, May 26, 2010

365 # 146

Date: 2010/05/26 18:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
~ John Barrymore ~



Tuesday, May 25, 2010

365 # 145

 

Date: 2010/05/25 10:21
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 9.0
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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A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. 
~ Andre Maurois ~

( today is our 19th wedding anniversary)

Monday, May 24, 2010

365 #144

 

Date: 2010/05/24 14:06
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 59.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

 

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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
~ Ken Kesey ~

365 # 143

Date: 2010/05/23 19:25
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/200 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 59.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

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"Cooking is an art and patience a virtue...
Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need.
There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table.
With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love."

~ Keith Floyd, A Feast of Floyd ~



Saturday, May 22, 2010

365 # 142

Date: 2010/05/22 17:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 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: auto

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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out.
In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.
~ Robert Brault ~



Friday, May 21, 2010

365 # 141

Date: 2010/05/21 17:52
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 6.3
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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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein



Thursday, May 20, 2010

365 #140

Date: 2010/05/20 9:08
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 6.3
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 pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking"
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr ~



Wednesday, May 19, 2010

365 # 139

Date: 2010/05/19 12:47
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 6.3
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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What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. 
~ Gertrude Jekyll ~

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

365 # 138

 

Date: 2010/05/18 9:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 11.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 83.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority

 

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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
~ William M. Thackeray ~

Monday, May 17, 2010

365 # 137

Date: 2010/05/17 10:54
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program

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When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.
~ Michael Pollan ~



Sunday, May 16, 2010

365 # 136

Date: 2010/05/16 19:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 sec
Aperture: 5.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program

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"Dine, v: to eat a good dinner in good company, and eat it slow.
In dining, as distinguished from mere feeding,
the palate and stomach never ask the hand,
'What are you giving us?'"

~ Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914) ~



Saturday, May 15, 2010

365 # 135

Date: 2010/05/15 12:45
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 14.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

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Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith ~



365 # 134

Date: 2010/05/14 11:11
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

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The art of mothering is to teach
the art of living to children.

~ Elaine Heffner



Thursday, May 13, 2010

365 # 133

Date: 2010/05/13 15:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 8.0
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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Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~ Terri Guillemets ~



Wednesday, May 12, 2010

365 # 132

Date: 2010/05/12 10:09
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/40 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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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ Elwyn Brooks White ~



Tuesday, May 11, 2010

365 # 131

 

Date: 2010/05/11 14:59
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 10.0
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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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. 
~ Frank Howard Clark ~

Monday, May 10, 2010

365 # 130

Date: 2010/05/10 11:47
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

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Coffee smells like freshly ground heaven.
~ Jessi Lane Adams ~



Sunday, May 9, 2010

365 #129

Date: 2010/05/09 11:29
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

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Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~ George Cooper ~



Saturday, May 8, 2010

365 #128

Date: 2010/05/08 16:02
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

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The flower is the poetry of reproduction.  It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.  ~ Jean Giraudoux ~

Friday, May 7, 2010

365 # 127

Date: 2010/05/07 13:22
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/50 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

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“The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician . Or watch your food - just watch it, don’t eat it.”
~ Edward Koch ~ former mayor of New York City

Thursday, May 6, 2010

365 # 126

Date: 2010/05/05 11:41
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 1600
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: yes
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: Auto

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful
than the risk it took to blossom.
~ Anais Nin ~



Wednesday, May 5, 2010

365 # 125

Date: 2010/05/05 17:35
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 modus
White Balance: Auto

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"Once a bear has been loved by a human being, its expression is forever marked."
~ Jama Kim Rattigan ~



Tuesday, May 4, 2010

365 #124

 

Date: 2010/05/04 17:21
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 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: Auto

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There are always two people in every picture:  the photographer and the viewer. 
~ Ansel Adams ~

Monday, May 3, 2010

365 #123

Date: 2010/05/03 10:04
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: Program
White Balance: flash

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Each flower is a soul opening out to nature.

~ Gerald De Nerval ~



Sunday, May 2, 2010

365 #122

Date: 2010/05/02 12:43
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: Program
White Balance: flash

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Life is like a landscape.
You live in the midst of it
but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
~ Charles Lindbergh ~



Saturday, May 1, 2010

365 #121

 

Date: 2010/05/01 15:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 7.1
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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The best number for a dinner party is two — myself and a dam’ good head waiter.
~ Nubar Gulbenkian ~