Moo times 2

I love being able to play with the photos I take.  Before digital photography I would have needed all kinds of different chemicals and equipment to do stuff like this.  Today, all I need is my point and shoot camera and my computer.

I nearly missed you

My current hobby, aside from gardening, is taking candid photos of people who are almost out of the frame. Here's a couple of shots I recently took:

Expect a Flickr set out of these sometime soon.

Here's my new favorite picture that I took recently

I like the contrast of the cheesy cheap fast food place's umbrellas against the blue sky.

New Flickr set

**UPDATE**

I added the link to the set. Sorry I left it out of the initial post.

I just finished uploading some great pictures to a new Flickr photo set. It's all pictures from children's picture books from the late 60's, 70's, and early 80's. The photos remind me of the PBS kids show Zoom and the early days of Sesame Street when they'd show kids doing crafts and adults doing their jobs. The pictures I uploaded were from Rollerskating Mania, Let's Take A Trip to Thailand, Ethiopia: Mountain Kingdom, What Happens Inside a Skyscraper (which was about life in the Hancock building in Chicago), A Day in the Life of a Basketball Coach, Department Store Careers, and Handmade Crafts for Kids. All the books were discarded by a local elementary school library and I bought them at a local thrift store for a quarter apiece.

From What Happens Inside a Skyscraper.

From Let's Take a Trip to Thailand.

From Department Store Careers.

From A Day in the Life of a Basketball Coach.

From Handmade Crafts for Kids.

I also bought one called Lobsterman, which is all about a lobster fisherman, and it was written and illustrated by Dahlov Ipcar. It's a stunningly beautiful book full of insanely great illustrations. I'm going to scan it in it's entirety and put it in a Flickr set all by itself. Trust me when I tell you it's an amazingly beautiful book.

A Two for Tuesday bonus!

Here two artsy fartsy pictures I took last week on our aborted mini vacation.

I love how ivy and kudzu take over everything they grow on.