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Friday, June 11, 2010

365 # 162

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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
~ Robert Orben ~

This blog is taking a vacation. I’ll be back in two weeks.
Provence is waiting for me. I’ll be back with loads of pictures to update this blog!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

365 # 161

Date: 2010/07/13:58
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 38.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.
~ Oscar Ameringer ~



Wednesday, June 9, 2010

365 # 160

Date: 2010/06/11:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 83.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

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"Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder."
~ John Mc Leod ~



Tuesday, June 8, 2010

365 # 159

Date: 2010/06/8 9:24
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 7.1
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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If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
~ Toni Morrison ~



Monday, June 7, 2010

365 # 158



Date: 2010/06/7 13:37
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin ~



Sunday, June 6, 2010

365 # 157

 

Date: 2010/06/5 12:05
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 100
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix
Flash Used: no
Exposure: portrait mode
White balance: auto

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Everyone smiles in the same language. 
~ Author Unknown ~

Saturday, June 5, 2010

365 #156

Date: 2010/06/5 11:28
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White balance: flash

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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

~ Stacia Tauscher ~



Friday, June 4, 2010

365 # 155

 

Date: 2010/06/4 18:32
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash

 

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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern;
it will come out a rose by and by. 
Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently
and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. 
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

Thursday, June 3, 2010

365 # 154

Date: 2010/06/3 14:06
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 14.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~ Peter De Vries ~



Wednesday, June 2, 2010

365 # 153

Date: 2010/06/2 15:32
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/160 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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Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me,
who could ask for more?
~ Bev Adams ~



Tuesday, June 1, 2010

365 # 152

Date: 2010/06/1 16:49
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 30.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto

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“The water is the same on both sides of the boat”
~ Finnish proverb ~