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.

Day 117 - Poker

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    I spent many hours at this table this cruise. Nearly the entire time I played I sat at the seat farthest back in this shot. It must have been a lucky spot since I didn't walk away from the table down any of the times I played. I have a ton of other interior shots of the ship I'll upload when I get the chance.

     7D and Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 (11 mm, 1/25 sec @ F/2.8, ISO400)

Day 116 - Dream and Freedom

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    Here's a shot of the ship we were on the Carnival Dream . Behind it is a slightly smaller ship the Carnival Freedom. This was taken after a long hike around the bay in St. Thomas.

     This is another panorama and this time I used the 7D with the 24-70 2.8L. This one is another smaller merge using only 3 images.

Day 115 - Lido Deck

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     This is a shot of the Lido Deck (Deck 10) on the Carnival Dream during one of the activities they were having. I stood on a chair to get the images for the pano, but I would have been better off going up a couple of levels and shooting without so much in the way.

     7D and the Tokina 11-16mm I rented @ 11mm. This one was made similar to the last, but only using 4 images this time.

Day 114 - Atlantis Paradise Island

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     Here's a quick panorama I threw together of Atlantis on Paradise Island (Nassau Bahamas).

     This was shot with the 7D (as usual) and the 100-400L@100mm. I used CS4's Photomerge feature to build the pano. This one was made using 9 different images.

Day 113 - Pelican

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     Just after boarding we were hanging out on the balcony and these guys were flying by all over the place. Sometimes they were so close you swore you could reach out and touch them.

     I'll have photos of the ship up sometime after I get a chance to go through them all.

      7D and EF 100-400 f4.5-5.6L IS USM (235 mm, 1/3200 sec @ F/5, ISO400)

Day 112 - KSC Shuttle Mid Deck

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     We hit the Kennedy Space Center first thing after getting into Orlando. Great, great place especially if you love NASA and all the great work they do. This is the mid-deck of the shuttle they have on display.

     7D and Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 (16 mm, 1/50 sec @ F/2.8, ISO800)

Day 111 - Tokina First Shot

Decided to take a break from going through all my crap for the trip to take a quick shot with the Tokina. Wow is lens going to be fun. I'm practically on top of the car taking this and I love how wide this glass is. This is going to be fantastic for areas with less room and landscapes.

Day 110 - Tokina 11 - 16

     I've been wanting to give this UWA lens a try for a while now. My upcoming vacation seemed to be the perfect time to run it through its paces so I rented it from the great people at LensProToGo. I can't wait to see what I'm able to get with this.

Day 109 - The World Cup is more important ...

     It was getting late and I still hadn't shot my pic of the day. It was take the time to set up for a shot or watch the game that was on. A World Cup game will win every time.

Day 108 - Concept

     This is a shot of the fan in my office. I've had a concept running through my head and how to process it. The fan became my processing guinea pig. Let me know what you think.

Day 107 - Spyder 3

    This is my Spyder 3 monitor calibration tool. At the top is a sensor the adjusts that detects the ambient light in the room. The blue light slowly fades in and out. I can't help to think sometimes that it's watching me...

Day 106 - Nike Free

    I finally got another pair of Nike Free shoes. I loved my last pair and wore them completely out. I finally got around to getting another pair. Some of the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn.

Day 105 - Cleaning Cloth

     This is the lens cloth that isn't apparently doing its job very well based on yesterday's photo.