Farm Country Sunset

I was out in farm country (land, buildings, smells, bugs and all...) near sunset and could not resist switching to the vividHDR camera app taking a few photos.  The only post processing needed was to straighten the horizon, add a slight vignette and a frame.  What a beautiful sunset it was.

Farm Country Sunset

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iPhone 5S, vividHDR, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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Fly Early, Fly Often

What a way to start the day!  A little early morning, calm air flight around the valley in a home-built (a 7 year labor of love) airplane.  Wow!  What a great experience!  Thanks Austin and Richard for the best way to start the day...

Fly Early, Fly Often

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iPhone 5S, vivid HDR, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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Put a little sparkle in your step

Put a little sparkle in your step.  It might be a little easier with these shoes.

Put a little sparkle in your step

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iPhone 5S, ProCamera, Snapseed, Photo fx Ultra, PhotoStudio


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River Rat

When the older kids get to play in the river, what do you do?  Just scream and squirm until you get stripped down and put into the river to play yourself, right?  This little river rat (well more like an almost dry creek rat...) loved sitting and playing in the freezing cold water.

River Rat

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iPhone 5S, Native Camera, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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Splitting tomatoes

Every year we have this tomato garden challenge--trying to minimize the splitting of the tomatoes.  We have 10 tomato plants this year and the harvest is giving us more fruit that we can use.  After all these years we still have not perfected the process enough to avoid these cracks in some of the fruit.  Some come out great while others end up looking like this.  We focus on consistent watering patterns and volumes but just don't have the right touch somewhere.  However, with as many plants as we have we get plenty of perfect garden tomatoes and even these are good--we just cut out the cracked parts.  Oh well, maybe next year...

P.S. Don't forget the CONTEST to win a Rockwell watch.  See the CONTEST post on August 11th.

Splitting tomatoes

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iPhone 5S, ProCamera, Retouch, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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It's Time

Love my Luminox watch.  It is the only one that has a stainless steel band and glows all night long without needing to be charged by exposure to light.  And it is waterproof.  All criteria I looked for after my previous Luminox got crushed and destroyed.  The glow lasts for 25 years they say.  After wearing it for that long I may start to glow too.  Good think I love this watch.

It's Time

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iPhone 5S, OlloClip camera app, OlloClip macro lens, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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Pocket Pal

Meet my best pocket pal.  This little keychain Swiss Army Knife is by far the most used, most useful, most capable, and sometimes surprising little pal I have.  I rarely go anywhere without out it.  As you can tell by the wear marks and scratches, this little guy has been around living in my pocket for years and years.  In fact, the only thing on my key ring is my car key fob and this knife.  I am kind of a minimalist that way--not liking extraneous things in my pockets.  In fact, my wallet is minimalist too consisting of one credit card and a drivers license held together by a rubber band.  Sometimes a $20 bill will find its way into my wallet when I know cash is needed.  Anyway, back to my pocket pal.  This little baby has a sharp knife blade, a file, a flat-tipped screwdriver, scissors, tweezers and a toothpick.  The toothpick is used most often and I am sure the germaphobes cringe at the thought of all the bacteria living on the toothpick and its sheath that never get washed with soap.  Oh well, maybe that helps keep my immune system strong.  But hey, I do wipe off the toothpick often with my shirt tail before putting it back into it's knifehandle sheath.  Whether its cutting open packages or those stupid transparent hard plastic wraps around so many consumer products, or cutting wires, strings, skin flaps off wounds, removing splinters, tightening small screws, filing down hangnails, picking food out of teeth, pulling ingrown whiskers, cutting cardboard....just to name a few...it is just the most handy tool around and has earned its place as my pocket pal.  My first version was red.  They come in all kinds of colors.  Here is an Amazon link to the best pocket buddy I have ever found: Swiss Army Knife Pocket Buddy.

Pocket Pal

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iPhone 5S, OlloClip camera, OlloClip macro lens, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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All in a row

Bannister spindles lined up all in a row.  This is the view from my home computer chair and it has only taken me 15 years to finally take a picture of it.  Photo opportunities are everywhere...

Don't forget to check out the contest going for a new watch--see the August 11th Contest blog post for details.

All in a row

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iPhone 5S, ProCamera, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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CONTEST TIME!

Okay, time for that contest I have been contemplating.

THE PRIZE

Yep, a nice man's Rockwell watch.  It is "The Apostle" model.  I received it at a corporate event, wore it once and it just isn't me.  So the lucky winner gets this prize shipped to them (yes you will have to send me your shipping address) and I will pay the postage. 

THE CONTEST

In a shameless promotion of views into my daily iPhoneography blog here is the contest.  I have been posting a daily photo taken by my iPhone since March 27, 2012.  During that time my Lego friend has appeared in many a daily post.  His name is Lego Man Joe.  Lego Man Joe appeared again in today's daily post--see the post immediately prior to this contest post.

So the contest is in two parts.

Part 1:  To qualify in Part 1 participants must correctly state the number of daily posts in this blog that have contained Lego Man Joe since the beginning of this blog--from the beginning through today which is August 11, 2014.

Those who correctly guess the number (as counted by me using this blog as the data source) will qualify to move to Part 2.  

If there is only one correct answer in Part 1 that person becomes the default contest winner.  

If there are no takers or no correct guesses then I will have to figure out some other way to find a home for this fine watch.

If there is a tie--more than one correct answer, we move to the tie-breaker in Part 2.

Part 2:  The Part 2 tie-breaker will consist of a photo contest on Instagram.  Those who qualify will have 2 weeks to post a picture on Instagram with a "later to be named" unique hashtag and at the end of those two weeks whichever posted photo has the most Likes will be declared the contest winner.

THE TIMING

Part 1 begins today and ends at midnight MST on August 22nd.

If we need a Part 2, qualifying contestants will be notified in the comments section of this blog post on August 23.  Then Part 2 will begin when the unique hashtag is distributed and last for two weeks.

THE FINE PRINT

It is my contest.  I am the final arbitrator of any judgement calls.  I just want this fine watch to find a good home and get a few new faces to take a look through my blog.  I did mention that this was all a shameless (and obligation free) promotion of views into my daily blog, right?

Good luck and thanks for playing!

Stuck to the ceiling

Crazy Lego Man Joe hangs on -- with what I don't know.  Have you ever tried to do this "Spiderman" trick of hanging onto the ceiling?  Must be a ninja plank type maneuver.

Actually it is not really that hard if you just do a headstand and then turn the photo over 180 degrees as you can see from the original image below.

Stuck to the ceiling

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iPhone 5S, ProCamera, Snapseed, PhotoStudio


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