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I’m in San Fran again this week to help with our new store opening. The store looks so great! But I am more excited about the opportunity I had tonight to join a photo walk hosted by PhotoJoJo.

First, PJJ is an amazing online blog and camera store where you can buy gadgets, gizmos and just fun toys. They are based here and I’ve purchased a ton of stuff from them.

Second, in case you don’t know, a photo walk is where you meet up with some other photographers and take some shots. Of the group… Of what’s around you… Of what captures your eye. So fun to meet new people and see their creativity unleashed.

Here are some of my shots. Sorry for the Instagram photo bomb. 🙂

– Grab some goodies to sample from the PhotoJoJo bag:

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– Testing the macro cell phone lens which quickly became my fav. This is a brick wall. (I know how excited you are…)

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– Lots of these guys around. This one wanted to pose for me.

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– Korean Sailors came around and several shots ensued.

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– Algae (??) up close… With the macro.

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– Small flower with the macro. I love the buds.

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– Sun starting to set. No fires, no barbecues.

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– Another of the sea gull

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– Sunset with the Golden Gate Bridge

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– Anchors Away!

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– Not my photo, but a partial group shot! (By @jsterne33)

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An amazing adventure!!

Week One – Color

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My first week on Project 52… And I have to tell you. I only took photos today. AHHHH… What a nice break. I took about 30 shots to get this one that I like. It was the first shot! I wonder if that means I’m getting better?

These are the chocolate pieces to a new Monopoly that I got from friends last night. I can’t wait to play/eat!

Color Rainbow Chocolate Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And a second one for fun.

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Photos taken with: Nikon D700, Nikon 60mm f/2.3

Day 189

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The Unfinished…

The Downstairs

This weekend some friends, Dave and I will dry wall our downstairs room. It was a cement slab with some roughed in plumbing when we bought. We waited awhile and finally decided to get it done this year. We are about 60% through… I am so excited! I am also super proud that I am learning about the steps needed and actually doing some of it with them vs. just hiring someone.

My dad always wanted to come up for a week or two and do the room with me and I always told him no. He also wanted me to travel with him to Kentucky to help build houses with him and the church. He loves the building of things, tools, etc… I hate it! So, we never really did these types of projects together. I don’t know if I would really consider it unfinished business or even something that I “missed”.

We did have great times together… Boy Scouts, family geneology, sci-fi movies and shows, photography… and I am so excited to have had those moments.

Do you have that “one thing” that someone close always wants to do? But you don’t and you always say no? Maybe you should reconsider. While I don’t have regret that I didn’t do those things with my dad, maybe it would have made his life experience just that much better.

Photo taken with: Nikon D700, Nikon 60mm f/2.8

Day 188

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The Intricate Details

All of the small parts

Our friends brought over these awesome sunflowers tonight, so of course, I had to shoot one. Can you see the number of small “sunflowers” on the inside of this? There are hundreds per flower and it amazes me that they are so small, so detailed.

I was talking with a friend (and my stylist) tonight about my dad’s situation. Her mother-in-law also has stage 4 cancer. I was sharing with her how much I have learned about the human body, the details of what happens in death and how amazed I was. She related to how she felt the same way about when she was pregnant… how can such a small human being be INSIDE you?

We both immediately related it to how impossible it could be for evolution to have created humans. It’s not possible for such an intricate system of body parts so well intwined to have been evolved over millions of years from a micro-organism. The same with the flower… How can the flower be so detailed without some divine help?

My dad’s throat muscles are starting to give out… no more talking, he can’t hold up his head too well, and is having trouble swallowing. This will make medication administration a little more difficult. Again, amazing to me the number of body parts that we depend on every day, but never realize or put value behind the awesomeness of what God created. Amazing to me how many of the body parts have to “unwind” for us to expire.

God — Thanks for all of the quality control you have installed in your machines. 🙂

Photo taken with: Nikon D700, Nikon 60mm f/2.8