Close call!

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Here is a photo of just half of the root system above the ground. It was a huge tree about 150 years old and I will miss that tree!
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Storm Damage

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Originally uploaded by bmwrider

Saturday early in the hours of the night we had a strong storm move through. It has rained for the last two weeks and the ground is really saturated. I am glad the tree went into the pond and not on the house. As you can see it would have destroyed the house and I am not sure we would have survived the impact. Glad someone is watching out for us!
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No post in a while!

This is sad that I have not had any new posts in some time now! I was busy the beginning of this year getting images ready for my first photo show in May. It was a great success and had about 200 people show up for the show. I can't wait to do another show this year. I am trying to decide where to go photograph this year since I did not win the lottery this year to go to McNeil. I have to try each year to go, but not lucky this year. I had considered to go to Alaska this year, but have too much to do around the house to go this year. A storm did some damage to my fence that I spent most of last summer building, so I have been busy rebuilding that. I missed a lot of great waterfall pics while re-building the fence! I hope to do more postings as time permits.
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Happy New Year!

A happy new year to you! A lot will be going on this year for me and I have a lot of photo projects to do. I will be doing my first nature show in March and maybe I will get some intrest to do more shows. This is a new thing for me, so I will see how it goes. I will be going on my first mission trip with the church this year and i am excited about that. I plan on doing lots of nature photography this year. Stay tuned...
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Backyard Photo Project No.2

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Originally uploaded by bmwrider

This is the second in my photo self assignment " My Backyard". This is Queen Ann's Lace just before going into full bloom. These buds are not that cool looking from a distance, but when you get up close they are really nice. They go from this pod to multi-flower that is not my favorite, but we have lots of it in Arkansas. Canon 1Ds, 100mm lens.
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Backyard Photo Project

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Originally uploaded by bmwrider

Here is one of my first images from my "backyard" project. It is a self assignment project that will make me go out and look for things that make me think outside the box. I hope to post more later this week. Fall is just around the corner and I am ready to photograph the fall.

Location: my backyard
Camera: Canon 1DS
Lens: Canon 100mm macro
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No posts for a while....

I can't believe I have not had a journal entry since Jan 1! That is just not right! Well, lots has been going on and it has been a busy year so far. I have not had much creative time to blog, so maybe things will start to slow down a bit. I have been busy riding bikes this year as well as making some new ones (bicycles). I have converted a few old 10 speed bikes into some really nice single speed bikes. They are so much fun to ride around town. We have put on a few alleycat races and had a blast doing them. Hope to do some more in the fall. I'll post some more soon. I am on facebook now and I don't like it as much as blogging, but it is neat in it's own way.
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Happy New Year!

It is a windy and cold day today for the first day of 2008! We got up early and went to Van Buren to photograph the downtown area for some image backgrounds Becky needed for an upcoming special. We found some cool images and braved the cold and wind to get them. Becky photographed while I played with the new pocket camcorder I got for Christmas. Not a lot of excitement for the day, but the family had fun!
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