An Extra Day

In observance of Leap Year, I figured I'd shoot 29 of something leaping. My first thought was shoes, because I saw this shot a while back which I thought was way cool and I wanted to do something like it. But 29 shoes would have been difficult (and besides, I could only find 28 shoes). So to make it easier, I thought I'd go nuts again. So here's 29-Peanuts-a-Leaping.

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A Little Bit of Chester

As many of you probably know, our wonderful canine friend and companion Chester died November of last year. At just over 10 years, he left us too early. However, Shannon sent some of his ashes to a guy she heard about from a co-worker, (John Svenson of extremedreams.com in Alaska) and he made beads with them. So now we can take a little bit of Chester with us wherever we go.

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Sunny Blue Sky

Freezing. Snow. Hail. Rain. Wind. And then blue skies and sun! We've had quite a lot of weather in the last few days.

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Popcorn Snow

We had popcorn snow again. Kinda like that granulated stuff I shot in the driveway last month. This time it was almost hail, but not quite (and then yes, we did get some hail later). This shows the edge of our patio where it meets the lawn. I was doing some design work today for a client when I saw the snow coming down. Ran outside, and 1/125th of a second later, I had my photo for the day.

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Ugly Beauty

Ugly because it's an oil spill (or gasoline or something like that). Beauty because of all the cool colors. I saw this when walking home in a downpour. It stretched for a good 200 yards (meters) down the street, and then right where I was crossing to the other side, it caught the light just right and I had to shoot a photo of it.

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Cannery Sunset

Took a quick break from all the projects I'm working on and ran down to catch the sunset over the old Jackson's Cannery. It was actually a lot darker than it appears here. I wanted to wait until I could do a long exposure to smooth out the water - There was a good breeze and the water was quite choppy.

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Funky Fungi

I'm not sure what it is with me and fungi lately, but I've sure been seeing it everywhere and have enjoyed photographing it. The soft light from a high overcast can really bring out some colors too if you look carefully enough (and maybe tweak it a bit with photoshop ;-)

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