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

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 ~

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 #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

"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 ~

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 # 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

 

 

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

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

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 ~

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

"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) ~

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 # 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

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 ~

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

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 ~

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

 

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. 
~ Frank Howard Clark ~

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

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

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

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 ~

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

 

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