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Of love, snow and flowers… part 1…

My younger daughter, Mollie, just turned 20, so we had a little daddy-daughter adventure trip. We saw snow, and we saw flowers. And we shared love. Hence, the clever name of this series of posts. Now, I know I share … Continue reading

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And now, the mandatory post of flower pictures in my mom’s garden…

I always do these posts when I visit my mom in the Bay Area. I love that steep garden, where I played as a small child. And the view of San Francisco and the bay, seen over the roof from … Continue reading

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Me and Mollie’s marvelous magical macro madness… the final chapter…

That is a macro photograph of my daughter’s eye that I took. As we proved in an earlier post, she has my eyes. Ironically, that means she also has an eye for art. She has Art’s eyes. Seems like there … Continue reading

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My marvelous magical macro madness…

Just a few shots I took while my daughter Mollie and I were playing with the macro zoom lens. A simple leaf. It turns out that moss is really just a bunch of small plants growing really close together. Lichen … Continue reading

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Mollie’s marvelous magical macro madness… part 2…

More super-close-up-macro-photos, taken by my daughter, Mollie. That is my eyeball. A tennis ball. The printing on the tennis ball. The pattern on the side of a car tire. Another view of my tire. Dirt, stuck to the tread of … Continue reading

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Mollie’s marvelous magical macro madness… part 1…

While we were at my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house, north of San Diego, I followed my daughter Mollie… now in her second year of college… around, while she took some shots with my camera using the macro lens. That … Continue reading

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Shootin’ nature with a Canon… part 2…

Just some more random photos, like that woodpecker. And I am rather proud of my butterfly shots. They don’t sit still for very long. You need to be quick. The same is true of hummingbirds. I seem to have been … Continue reading

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Shootin’ nature with a Canon… part 1…

Today, my wife, my daughter Mollie… who came back from college for the weekend… and I went to Fallbrook… about 30 miles North of San Diego, and spent the day.  We visited my wife’s aunt and uncle. I brought my … Continue reading

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Trippin’ in… uh… I mean ON Amsterdam… part 6…

Color is such a big part of life, and yet it isn’t really important. Being color blind isn’t really a handicap, is it? But, as an artist, I can’t imagine life without color.

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I don’t know why I like doing these, but I do… part 5…

Well, that’s pretty cool… but what happens if we flip it around? Okay, that is the last one of these I am going to do… of flowers… HA!

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