SNOW AND OTHER FOUR LETTER WORDS.....

if you use and like really foul words like SNOW, COLD OR WINTER, you will probably love the pictures at: http://naldzgraphics.net/inspirations/30-freezing-and-chilling-examples-of-winter-photography/. While I enjoyed the techniques used to produce these beautiful pictures, and they are great pictures of cold and snowy places for the most part, I really do need to work on forgetting the memories of bone chilling cold. They remind me of why I moved to sunny and mostly warm FLORIDA. The pictures of **** froze my brain and I do not remember what other great pictures are found at: http://naldzgraphics.net/.

Can you name the bird?

I shot this photograph on the evening of December 28, 2010.

                        Can you positively identify the birdie?

CHRIS'S FREE PICTURES

Here is a short video I shot late on December 28, 2010 showing what I believe are some type of  Sparrow's playing in a drainage culvert.

I hope that you enjoy it. 

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration.......

I thought that you might enjoy this late afternoon shot of the Burger King and Sunoco near the corner of Havendale Boulevard and Charlotte Road in Winter Haven, Fl. I took it from my vehicle while waiting for the traffic light to turn green on December 5, 2010. I also used the Kodak easy share software to "crop" and "enhance" this photo.

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration.......

I took this photo on December 5, 2010 at Lake Sears in Winter Haven, FL. at about sunset. The top Picture is the raw image. 

 

The image below is how it came out of the Kodak Easy Share down load program after using the "color balance" and "enhance" buttons.

I especially like the silhouette of the Great Blue Heron on the dock.  

Pancho Villa Revisited

I spent an enjoyable few minutes visiting http://old-photos.blogspot.com/ and learning a different perspective of Pancho Villa and some of his bandit friends. Though I am not strong on most things historical, I have at least heard of Pancho Villa and some of his activities. I did not realize that in his day and age (the early 900's) his power and influence was equal to or greater than that enjoyed by a Godfather named Alphonse Capone during the dirty thirties. In fact, I think that Pancho Villa may have been even more powerful; because he successfully or nearly successfully overthrew an entire government before he was killed.

More Photographic Inspiration and Perspiration......

This is another photograph that I took at Lake Sears on the late afternoon of December 5, 2010.

                                                                                    

                                This is a slightly enhanced version using the Kodak download program.

                                      

I am still trying to figure out the GIMP program that I down loaded from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/. What little that I have managed to understand so far has been impressive, but do not expect to see my efforts with it here until I master at least the very basic functions. I suppose that it would help if I was at least as smart as the program I am working with. 

More Photographic Inspiration and Perspiration......

 Still another photo from Lake Sears on December 5, 2010 showing what happens when you use an improvised "tripod" to take a late afternood sunset photo.

 This is the photo "enhanced" using the Kodak Download program.

It did a fairly nice job of cleaning up the picture and showing more detail.

More Photographic Perspiration and Inspiration.......

I thought that you might enjoy this late afternoon shot of Lake Sears taken from the public boat ramp.