I received some Christmas money from my mom and dad so I got the thing I always want most. I spent it on a gift card at my favorite online retailer for myself. I just love perusing their online catalog of items, specifically books and movies. And books and movies is exactly what I got for myself. I also got some items for each of my family members, too. I got books for a few of them and movies for a couple more and I also got a bumper sticker for my oldest son who is impossible to shop for seeing as how he is sixteen. Anytime I shop at this retailer I always make sure I get enough stuff to take advantage of their free shipping. That option may not have as quite of a fast turnaround as if I chose the regular shipping, but their order fulfillment is still very reasonable. Now that I have placed the order, I am chomping at the bit to get the package, though. I just love receiving packages in the mail. It doesn’t matter that I ordered them myself, for some strange reason I just like receiving them. I can’t believe I got more new books because that’s just what I really need: more books. Oh well, I can’t wait to start reading them anyway.
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February 10, 2012 2:58 am | 
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SOne of my favorite bloggers has been having a March Madness style movie match-up for the past week or so. She took all of the Best 
Picture Oscar-winning movies for the last thirty-two years and matched them up in a bracket. So that everything was random and not fixed in any way, she simply matched up movies that were sixteen years apart, so for example the winner from 1979 and the winner from 1995 were matched up and so on. It’s been fun voting on each round and seeing which films made it through and which were discarded. I’ve seen most of the films in question, but for the few that I haven’t seen, she also included a third choice in her voting. If you haven’t seen one or both of the films or simply can’t decide between the two, you can choose the third option which is “can’t decide or don’t know”. I’ve tried to stay away from that option, but sometimes the decision is just too difficult. Right now we are down to the second to the last round and the films in the semi-finalists are: Forrest Gump vs. Dances With Wolves and Titanic vs. Schindler’s List. Geez Louise, could the decision be any harder?!? I even tried to put off the decision by working on the digital printing I needed to get done, but in the end I finally had to choose. It was tough, and I wouldn’t let myself cop out with the third cop out option, so what I finally chose was Dances With Wolves and Schindler’s List. I’d like to take this moment to apologize to Forrest Gump and Titanic. You guys are tops in my heart as well, and please don’t hang a banner outside my door calling me a traitor, but a decision had to be made. I’m looking forward to seeing what all the rest of her readers think.
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As I was shooting the bald eagles, I briefly lamented the fact that I don’t have a better camera that has fewer noise issues and the fact that I don’t have an even longer lens. But my lament was brief. I decided to just shoot what I could shoot and enjoy the sights before me.
Unfortunately my lament came back to me once I had downloaded my digital photos to my computer. After seeing the shots I got, I again wished that I had a longer lens so that I could have gotten more close-ups, and as I was afraid would happen, the noise issues that my camera has definitely compromised the quality of the pictures. And unfortunately because of that, I (in my perfectionist’s mind) don’t feel that any of the photos are capable of being a high quality digital print. I’m very happy that I got the opportunity to see the eagles, and I’m glad that I have digital photos of the sights I saw, so I am trying not to dwell on the fact that it’s not my best work and thus will not find its way through my digital printer. The bald eagle seems to be more prevalent here in Iowa these days, so maybe someday if I ever get a better camera and a longer lens, I can try again.
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I sat there and took shot after shot. I was completely oblivious to pretty much everything around me. Which is why it took me quite by surprise when a police officer walked up to me and told me I needed to leave. Apparently this side of the road was a posted ‘No Parking Zone’.
Oops.
I honestly had not even realized that I couldn’t park there. When I pulled up, there was already someone else there taking pictures, so it didn’t even occur to me that perhaps I shouldn’t be there.
If I had noticed the ‘No Parking’ sign before I parked, would I still have stopped anyway?
Ummm . . . yeah. You bet I would have.
An opportunity like this doesn’t come around all the time.
Would I have sat there for an hour like I did? Probably not. Although I do have a tendency to lose track of time when I’m shooting something, as a photographer I try to be very respectful of privacy, private property, rules, and boundaries.
But in my defense, how could I not stop and take a few (or a hundred) digital stills of such majestic creatures? If only Nature would follow posted signs so that us poor humans could sit for as long as we liked and revel in the beauty around us without having to worry about whether or not it’s legal to be there, right?
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Shooting the Eagles – Part 1
One of my wishes as a photographer has been to digitally photograph bald eagles. There is just something about their majesty that has always intrigued me. My husband recently discovered that there is a pond near where his office is located that many bald eagles have 
decided to call home this winter. Since he was on vacation over Christmas break, he agreed to watch the kids while I took off one morning to see if I could capture any digital shots. He was really hoping for one I could print on my digital printer for him to hang in his shop. I got to where he had directed me, parked alongside the road, and was enthralled. There were at least 25 – 30 bald eagles of varying ages flying around and landing in the trees and on the pond a short distance in front of me. It was one of the coolest things I’ve seen in all of my nature photography attempts. I quickly got out my camera, attached my zoom lens, put my camera on my tripod, stepped out of my vehicle and set up the tripod to start shooting. I then quickly took my camera off my tripod, folded it up, threw it in my van and hopped in the passenger side. That wind was stinkin’ cold! So instead I rolled down my window about halfway, propped my camera on that instead, and shot to my heart’s content.
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Posting something as you’re status in Facebook that you didn’t write and asking for a repost if you agree seems to be quite popular. But just like chain letter emails (and printed chain letters when I was younger), I never repost these things, and in fact rarely even read them all the way through. Once I realize it’s one of those kinds of posts, I typically move on. One of my friends posted one this evening that caught my eye, however. It went like this:
“Anyone who was BORN in the 60′s-70′s… We are the last generation who played in the street. We are the 1st who played video games & the last to record songs off the radio on a cassette tape. We learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play from Atari, to super Nintendo. We are the generation of Tom and Jerry & The Flintstones. We traveled in cars without seat belts or air-bags & lived without cell phones. We did not have flat screens, surround sound, iPods, Facebook, Twitter, computers & the Internet…But nevertheless we had a GREAT time!”
I agree, and couldn’t resist responding with a funny remark. I commented on her status as follows:
“Although I was born in 1977, I have to admit I never played in the street. Then again, living off of a highway might have had something to do with that…” Heehee, I just couldn’t help myself.
Another thing that we did more than kids today seem to do was play with stickers. I remember having an actual sticker album in elementary where we would trade them with each other and put them in our albums.
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I have a tendency to get bogged down in the past and the future and forget to focus on the present. I use my digital photos as a way to continue living in the past when I need to put it behind me and move forward. Then I use my tendency to over think things as a way to worry about the future too much. I keep waiting for some kind of sign to point me in the right direction, so I know that I’m taking the correct route with my life and how I’m raising my kids. Instead I should just relax and live each day as it comes and not worry about things that I either can’t change, or can’t predict. Life doesn’t give you a huge banner splayed across the front of your house telling you if you’re right or wrong, you have to figure that out on your own. That seems to be hard for me to remember, though. I guess you could say that I’m so focused on the journey that I forget to look at the scenery sometimes.
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I am trying to establish a Christmas Eve tradition for my family. Ever since we stopped going to my husband’s grandmother’s house for her family Christmas party on Christmas Eve, we haven’t really had anything to do that night. At first I was okay with that, after having somewhere to go every single Christmas Eve since I was a baby (growing up we went to my dad’s family gathering on Christmas Eve then once I was married we started going to my husband’s family function), it was nice to not have to pack up the kids and go anywhere, getting home late only to wrestle with the kids to get them into their new Christmas printed pajamas and then to bed so I could relax and put out the Santa presents. But after a couple of years of having nothing to do, I realized that I missed it. And since I want Christmas Eve to be enjoyable and not stressful, I’ve tried to think of something fun to do. Last year I came up with the idea of putting some hot chocolate in a thermos, grabbing some snacks, and after an early supper of homemade pizza, heading out to drive around and look at Christmas lights for a while, then head home and put the kids to bed. That seemed to work well and we all enjoyed it so we’re going to do it again this year. It’s also a good opportunity for me to take some lovely high color photographs of the Christmas lights. I’m not sure it’s a tradition that will hold since after a while the kids will get too old to want to look at Christmas lights, but it will work as a tradition for the foreseeable future anyway.
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A friend of mine on Facebook tagged me in a picture that was just so awesome I want to have it printed on stickers to put on my Christmas 
card envelopes. It was a digital photo that she had found on the internet of a Christmas tree, but it wasn’t just any old Christmas tree. It was a Christmas tree made entirely out of books. I know, right? Books! It was so cool. Obviously someone had put down a layer of books in a circle, then another layer only alternating them enough so they looked staggered and so on getting smaller as they went up so that it looked like a tree. Then they put some lights on it and took a picture of it. I thought it was a really cool idea. And my friend thought of me when she saw it because she knows how much I love books AND Christmas! Two of my favorite things together in one place! I would consider making one myself except that I’m not sure I want to take that many books off my shelves. When I put them back, I’d have to reorganize them all over again. You never know though, I just might give it try next year…
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I enjoy photographing nature and landscapes and even some wildlife from time to time. I don’t have many opportunities to shoot wildlife, but every once in a while I will get lucky and just happen to be in the right place at the right time. One thing that I have wanted 
to get a shot of for the last couple of years is a bald eagle. I have no idea if I would be able to get a decent high resolution digital photo of one even if I had the chance, or if my camera is even good enough to get a decent shot, but I sure would like to try. The thing is that although there are bald eagles around here in Iowa in some places, I have never seen one myself. That is until this weekend. On Friday, as I was driving home from a clothing shopping trip in Des Moines, I saw one flying by near the interstate on the other side of the road. Then on Sunday, at my mom and dad’s house, I saw one flying over the hills near their property as I was taking out the garbage. It turns out that that particular bald eagle likes to roost in some tall trees that are on the edge of their property. I hadn’t realized that, and now that I have, I will definitely be on the lookout for it. I don’t know if I could ever get a decent shot since those particular trees are pretty far away for my camera, but it’s fascinating to watch them nonetheless. Too bad I can’t make a digitally printed sign that says, “Come here so I can take your picture” and actually expect it to work.
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