Day 124 - Xander

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    I'm going to miss this little guy while he's visiting grandma for the summer. Can't wait until he gets back and he hasn't even left yet.

    I love the effect the wide angle lens gives. Sometimes the distortion is really, really obvious and sometimes it does just enough for you to scratch your head thinking something just doesn't look right.

Day 123 - What is it?

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     Intentionally out of focus shot for this "What is it?" shot. So, what is it?

Day 122 - Stacey

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     Went out front to see about shooting a few pics of the flowers Stacey had planted. I thought she made for a much better subject.

    7D and EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM (1/100 sec @ F/11, ISO800) Processing done in Lightroom and CS4.

Day 121 - Blurry

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     This is a shot of the sun through the tree in my front yard. This is one of my attempts at trying to capture images to later mask in as a background.

     Let's be honest here, it really doesn't matter what this was shot with.

Day 120 - astrojax

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     My friend Chip has a pair of old school astrojax that were returned to him after many, many years missing at our last office location. When I saw these new astrojax I just couldn't pass up getting them.

     7D and EF24-70 f/2.8L USM (70 mm, 1/20 sec @ F/3.2, ISO640)

Day 119 - Xander and all you can eat pizza...

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     This is was a common site on the cruise and often several times a day. There was pizza constantly made and available right here on the Lido Deck. Xander loved chowing down on all the pizza and frozen yogurt he could possibly handle.

     7D and EF24-70 f/2.8L USM (62 mm, 1/200 sec @ F/3.2, ISO100)

Day 118 - Balcony View

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     Here's a 180 degree view from our room's balcony on the second to last day. It was an absolutely beautiful day.

     This was a fun one photographically, I like the odd unnatural view it gives. It has a couple of small flaws in it I'm going to have to go back and correct at some point. This panorama was done using 8 different image. They was shot using the Tokina 11-16 I rented from the great folks at LensProToGo. This is a fantastic lens and I can't wait to give it more of a run through in some of the parks back home.