Wordless Wednesday

Posted in Photography, Wordless Wednesday, Zoos, wildlife with tags , on November 11, 2009 by Ed

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Still one of my favorite Places

Posted in Photography, Zoos, wildlife with tags , on November 10, 2009 by Ed

I’m taking a couple of days off to visit my favorite zoo in the country, the Columbus Zoo in Columbus Ohio. To show how much I love this zoo I live in Tennessee and I have a membership to a zoo in Ohio, I figure why not. They are busy this week putting up x-mas lights at the zoo and as I sit in the entrance at 3 a.m I can see the lights on in the zoo and wish I could get in before sunup and get some pics, it looks really cool. I spent the day yesterday wandering around the zoo watching everything and taking lots of pics, the Lions were chuffing and the Gibbons were howling and causing a ruckus. the babies are growing up too fast and the baby elephant is getting really big, my favorite baby gibbon is getting big too but still clings to his mom like a newborn. Today I’ll try for some pics of the Gorillas and Bonobos, and work on my pics for Sunday Stills. Yesterday was more of a scouting mission, recon if you will, to see how the cloudy grey skies will effect my pics for today and I found if I keep the sky out of the pics the cloudy conditions act as a difuser and there is not much glare. So as I wander around on day two I hope the quality of my pics will be better and I think I may work on some homosapien pics as well. I can’t wait for 9 a.m. when they open..:-))
Here is an updated pic of the baby Gibbon and his howling mommy…
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Macro Monday

Posted in Insects, Macro Monday with tags , on November 9, 2009 by Ed

So I’m sitting in one of my favorite places to have lunch, Steak-n-Shake trying to have a nice steakburger fries and a bowl of their famous chili and was rudely interupted by a pesky insect that would not leave me alone!!! Guess who???
Yep you guessed right…
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Needless to say I got some strange looks from the other patrons…:-))

Sunday Stills: Currency

Posted in Macro, Photography, Sunday Challenge, Sunday Stills with tags , , on November 8, 2009 by Ed

I admit it, since I’m a coin collector this one was stacked( no pun intended) in my favor. But I wanted to see what other countrys money looks like, I’ve been all arounf the world and never kept any of the currency from their countries. Its a bummer I did’nt think of it when I was home because I have an extensive ancient coin collection of roman,greek and british coins… Anyway here is what I have to work with on hand…:-)
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My handy dandy money clip/ CRKT knife..
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A closeup of a 10 and 20 dollar bill..
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Its funny how you find ols coins in your change, these are both silver, the dime is a mercury dime and the quarter is a silver quarter from 1962.
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Before changing the penny to the current one we had wheat back pennies in the 20’s
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And finally our attempt at dollar coins, the first was the Susan B. Anthony in the late 70’s then we went on to the Sacajawea ( a native american who hepled guide Lewis and Clark on their discovery of the western U.S.) dollar, and now the mint is on a presidential dollar kick, the latest is Polk our 11th president..
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And one last one I could’nt pass up.
I hope ya’ll enjoyed the pics I have a couple more but I’ll save them for Macro Monday..Wink,Wink,..:-)
Have a great day…:-)))

TGIF

Posted in Black and White, Daily musings, Photography with tags , on November 6, 2009 by Ed

Well the weekend is upon us once more and it makes ni difference to me since I’m on my way back to Pennsylvania. That is when I get my truck fixed, luckily I’m in St.Louis and I have a good internet connection so I can check my e-mail and do a quick post. I spent some time taking some coin pics for Sunday last night and should have some interesting shots. I took the following pics last month in Iowa in a small town I can’t even remember the name of..:-)
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I’m Still Here

Posted in Black and White, Daily musings, Photography with tags on November 5, 2009 by Ed

Just a quick post to let ya’ll know I’m still around, its been one heck of a week and its not over. I’m on my way back to Pennsylvania for Saturday, then who knows. I just hope I’m somewhere on Sunday so I can post..:-))
Here are a couple of pics from my extensive archives, I’m still working on some new pics but I just can’t seem to get motivated to take some new pics.
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Not so Wordless Wednesday

Posted in Daily musings with tags on November 4, 2009 by Ed

Sorry for being absent the last couple of days, unfortunatly I had no internet for my wireless and I really hav’nt picked up my camera since last Saturday. I guess I’m in a photofunk and since I’ve been driving my arse off since Sunday night I’m just beat. I’m sitting just north of Milwaukee Wisconsin and its trying to snow, at least thats a positive. I’ll try to take some interesting pics in the next couple of days, I’m thinking of switching my camera to B&W for the next month and just shooting everything in B&W.. Well my eyelids feel like they have sandpaper in them and I need to get some rest.
Have a great day…Ed

Sunday Stills: Halloween

Posted in Photography, Sunday Stills with tags , on October 31, 2009 by Ed

O.K. I admit it, I blow! I have nothing for this week except a lame yard decoration from someone elses yard and a pic of me just being me..I’ll just sit back and enjoy everyone elses blogs this week…Hava great week..:-)
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I forgot, there was a full moon tonight for halloween…
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And I almost forgot I was famous for a monent in 1967….
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I made a cute little devil..;-))

FALLAPALOOZA 2009 Last day…

Posted in Photography with tags , on October 31, 2009 by Ed

One last fall foliage post and I’m kaput….:-)
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See ya’ll tomorrow for Sunday Stills….

FALLAPALOOZA 2009 Day4

Posted in Photography with tags , on October 30, 2009 by Ed

TGIF! I hope everyone has a great weekend, I’ll be rockin’ and a rollin’ across the U.S. counting down the days to my next time off. here is the next installment of Fallapalooza..:-))
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