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

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

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

 

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 ~

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

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

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

~ Elaine Heffner

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

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 ~

365 #118

Date: 2010/04/28 07:50
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom,
maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Terri Guillemets ~

365 #112

Date: 2010/04/22 10:48
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/800 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 61.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

365 #111

Date: 2010/04/21 11:08
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/100 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: flash

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ Scottish Novelist & Poet (1850-1894)

365 #106

Date: 2010/04/16 14:53
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: flash

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
~ Toni Morrison ~

365 #104

Date: 2010/04/14 12:07
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 76.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~ Chinese proverb ~

365 #103

Date: 2010/04/13 12:42
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 80.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

What more pleasant sensation
than sunshine on skin,
Spirit and flesh drinking in the light
Of God and energy itself.
~Terri Guillemets ~

365 #100

Date: 2010/04/10 13:37
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: flash

“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set,
the leaves burgeon and wither,
can be said to be aware of what living is.”
~ Joseph Wood Krutch ~
American naturalist and writer 1983-1970

365 #99

Date: 2010/04/09 11:05
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/800 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

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~ Anaïs Nin ~

365 #98

Date: 2010/04/08 8:07
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/100 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

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it
and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
~ Patrick Young ~

365 #88

Date: 2010/03/29 8:57
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 500
Exposure time: 1/100 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

“ Into each life some rain must fall”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

365 #86

 

Date: 2010/03/27 11:33
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 61.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White Balance: flash

 

Strawberry Smoothie Recipe (serves 2)

Ingredients :

1 cup or 6 large fresh strawberries
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
4 ice cubes

To create this strawberry smoothie recipe put all the ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve immediately.

~ Tricia Howard ~

365 #85

Date: 2010/03/26 9:21
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 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

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
~ Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros ~

365 #81

Date: 2010/03/22 10:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White Balance: flash

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoyed the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
~ Matthew Arnold ~

365 #76

Date: 2010/03/17 13:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/1250 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

May you always walk in sunshine.
May you never want for more.
May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.

HAPPY ST.- PATRICK‘S DAY!!!

365 #67

Date: 2010/03/08 11:27
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/125 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

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.
~ Author Unknown ~