I Heart Faces Beach Entry

I decided to enter this at the last moment... at least it will be a lot different than all of the cute kids at the beach! This is in Thailand - a local is pulling up the anchor from a boat full of tourists.

One of my coolest photos ever!

Last night, lighting was flashing outside. I have been trying to get a good lightning photo for a very long time! I set my camera to take a 13 second exposure with an aperture of 22, and just kept releasing the shutter. (The shutter just needs to stay open and you hope to catch something!)



What is really crazy is that you can see it HITTING the Pearl TV tower!

Photo Contest

Mom just told me that I won a photo contest! It was called "Between Fences" and it went along with a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition that was at the Miner County Rural Life Museum in Howard (my hometown in South Dakota.) Above is the news article about the contest. I won the adult category with this photo I'd taken when I was back home and fixed fence with Dad. Someone involved in the contest told mom that the judge picked my photo as 1st right away, then had a harder time picking out the 2nd and 3rd places. It's not a huge prize or lots of fame, but I'm happy!

Textures

I just LOVE my Canon 5D MarkII!!

Photo Mall

The address of the 6-story photo mall that I always go to is:

Shanghai Xingguang Photo Gear Mall, No. 288, Luban Road, at the corner of LuBan Lu and XieTu Lu 上海市泸湾区鲁班路288号上海星光摄影器材城

You can take the metro Line 4 to LuBan Station. It is then 2 blocks away on the corner of Lu Ban Lu and Xie Tu Lu.


Jon's old camera had a sensor that went bad. Almost every other line of pixels was white.

150 RMB and an hour and a half later, everything worked perfectly again! We are amazed at what people can fix over here. In the US no one would have suggested to attempt to fix it; just throw it out.

Park in Nanxiang

Sensor dust - gone!

Today we went to the photo mall with William. He picked up a nice lens, I picked up a Canon 5D Mark II, we got Jon's old camera fixed, and I got my Rebel XT sensor cleaned. That's supposed to be pretty dangerous to do, but the guy there did it in about 3 minutes for 100 RMB. No problems at all.

Before - the black dots are where all of the dust was.

After - nothing!!

Springtime in Shanghai

Here are some more photos from geocaching on Sunday.

I Heart Faces photo contest

I read a lot of photography blogs, and recently discovered one called"I Heart Faces." It seems to be a lot of blogging moms with photos of their kids - not me, but I like faces and contests so I think I will attempt to enter some. They have two photo contests each week. This week is "Pout" and "Pets."

This is probably the best pout I have.



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