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20Jul/110

Photo #45 “All That Shimmers”

The backstory:

So tonight I decided I wanted to go practice with my new lens.  I bought a second lens over the weekend for my camera.  It's a 55-200mm lens.  I'm still not sure exactly how to use it correctly.  But I think if I just mess around enough I'll eventually get the hang of it.  So that's what decided to do tonight.  I drove down to Media with a plan to take shots of the old theater on the main street with the sign lit up.  But on my way I saw something else that caught my eye.

I decided to stop in a small park just north of Media.   As I drove past I saw a GIANT flag waving in the wind.  It was somewhat mad storminess out and it looked like it was JUST about to rain... so I thought hey that's kinda cool.  I turned around and then pulled into the park.  I walked around a bit and took a bunch of random pics of the flag and some other things.  It started thundering... I was kinda thinking umm this can't be safe.  Then I noticed this memorial towards the back of the park and I... threw my caution to the wind... so to speak.  I decided to walk across the small field even with the thundering. As I walked up to the memorial thing I noticed a bell in the center...  I thought the bell in the foreground and the flag waving in the background could be a cool shot.  So I decided to try my whole "focused not focused messing with the aperture near far objects" thing... This is one of the shots that I LOVED the most.  So I came home and did some photoshopping and here we are!

Fun Fact: When I got home and unloaded my SD card and looked at the picture full size I saw a little spider hanging there.  I used the clone stamp cool to umm... kindly place him elsewhere.  Don't worry... no actual spiders were hurt in the making of this photo!

So there's my picture for this evening.  I hope ya like it!

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