Another 24 hours! Saturday June 3

[poker]

Put your shots after sunrise through and including lunch Saturday here!

Shooting Date/Time
6/3/2006 06:21:36

When it's first come first serve at the park for the best space, you mark your territory by putting your folding chiars on the park tables. This way, late comers will see the chairs on the table and not bother to come close. This helps avoiding ackward situations.

[walterick]

Post shots after lunch until sunset here!

[dmm96452]

Post shots after lunch until sunset here!

Took a few shots walking around the Capitol.

The Capitol building. Shot at 12:01:02 PM



Having some fun with the distortion of one of my lenses.
The Leaning Tower of Washington Monument. Shot at 12:29:26 PM.



A shot of a Mounted Patrol. Shot at 12:37:22 PM.



A shot of a goose biting the hand that feeds it. Shot at 12:59:40 PM.



And the Guardians of Time. Shot at 1:23 PM.

[Liz]

Post shots after lunch until sunset here!

My day was wonderful and extremely busy. We had 13 College Students here who are on Womens' Leadership Retreat this weekend. Their weekend includes an afternoon of service and ministry and they chose our residence. They painted one of our resident's rooms, washed all the windows on the first floor, cleaned and polished the kitchen cupboards, along with numerous other smaller jobs. We had about 50 bags of mulch and top soil delivered while they were here and they helped the driver empty the truck. We are blessed to have many students come here during the year as part of their ciriculum (sp?) -and some of them as community service volunteers.

We were very busy all day, but I managed to get a few snapshots along the way.

[Liz]

Two more pictures....wish I had gotten them all, but just didn't have the time.

[walterick]

Liz! I'm so happy you were able to post today! I'm glad to see they all had smiles on their faces despite the obvious hard work they were doing. I'm telling you, people respond well to your camera!

[swmdrayfan]

The wife and I went into town this morning to catch the big doin's. Today was the annual Doo Dah Parade, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Festival, Public Library used book sale, and Greek Festival. We got there around 9:30 and stayed till about 1. Here are a few

Street performer

Qudoba float in the Doo Dah Parade

Art Festival

Art Festival

Kalamazoo Wings hockey player with this year's United Hockey League Championship trophy

Part of the Art Festival crowd

[walterick]

Hey John,

I'm glad we got this figured out. I was about to say that my favorite was the maracas shot, but it seems to have disappeared in the transition

Thanks again for playing!

[schrackman]

Went back to the Cherry Festival Carnival to get some shots of the Temptations and Peaches and Herb. Of course this Peaches is the not the original Peaches but had a beautiful voice nevertheless. They were a LOT of fun to watch perform.

These were shot with my Digital Rebel & Sigma 300mm lens and a tad of fill flash from my 550EX.

[Photo-John]

Went back to the Cherry Festival Carnival to get some shots of the Temptations and Peaches and Herb.

These are beautiful concert photos. The light is great and your exposures are perfect. The first one is really great. I love the Temptations.

[schrackman]

These are beautiful concert photos. The light is great and your exposures are perfect. The first one is really great. I love the Temptations.

Thanks John! It's amazing what the right light can do for a photograph. Compare the previous photos I shared to these Temptation photos, which were shot in full sun with a dark background, and on top of that they were wearing white over blue!! Not a very good combination I must say.

[schrackman]

Here's another cute shot from the Cherry Festival.

[walterick]

Still hot out there!

[mdmc]

Post shots after lunch until sunset here!

Racing the mower to beat sunset.1&2.
Taking time to smell these. 3-4.
i'll post 2 more.
Mark.

[mdmc]

Taking time to smell these.
i'll post 2 more.


still smelli'n these.
mark.

[swmdrayfan]

More from the Art Festival
Maracas? I forgot to ask the lady.

Reflecting windows on an insurance company building

My favorite----FOOD vendors!

[dmm96452]

Post shots after lunch until sunset here!

And you can't have one.... Shot at 1:06:43 PM

[adina]

I worked. Not the best one of the bunch, but I don't like to post other people's kid's faces.

[SmartWombat]

Why is it that young girls can't resist a unicorn with flowers on his horn ?

[SmartWombat]

more horn from Thaxted

What I find so amazing about this animal in particular, compared to the others, is the life and movement put into it. No one, but no one, looked at anythimg but its face.

[SmartWombat]

Sharing !
My wife spotted this moment and pointed me in the right direction ...

[Photo-John]

Sharing !
My wife spotted this moment and pointed me in the right direction ...

Tell your wife, "thank you," for me. I love photos like this. This is a wonderful moment. So much tied up in this one I can't even begin to list it all:

Hot summer pavement, being little with big parents that love you, ice cream (of course), summers that have no end, life that has no end...

[SmartWombat]

fiddle, accordion, bells and hankies .. must be morris
... but this is a side from Utrecht in the Netherlands, keeping an English tradition alive !
dancing the folk dances from the villages around where I live ...

[SmartWombat]

sunshine, ice cream, morris dancers, what's wrong with this picture?
It's an English summer and it's not raining, that's what's wrong with it !

[SmartWombat]

flap those hankies fast enough and they take off ...