Photo-a-Day 2016: July
8/10/2016
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Beginning the second half of the year...
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Pallet Break Dance
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4th of July, 2016
We stayed home and played in the rain and enjoyed some sparklers.
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Kombucha Gradient
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We went to the local farmer's market at a park near our house and had a picnic lunch in the grass - fresh baked bread and empanadas, sunflower micro-greens, and horchata.
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I was out watering the mint and the sunset was bouncing off of the neighbor's window, making this mini-spotlight on the wall. I stepped into it and decided to take advantage of the situation and take some shadow photos. A minute later, the light was gone.
Playing around with some more butterfly image manipulation - Butterfly Kaleidoscope
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How's it goin'?
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Kitteh directs his finger minions
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Day Two Hundred
I'm often drawn to textural photos, so when it started raining and the drops were accumulating on some waterproof dog beds out in the back yard, I couldn't help but take some photos.
Day Two Hundred One
I had the opportunity to camp out in White Sands for the full moon. It was amazingly beautiful. We had a black light flashlight (to see all the scorpions... we saw none), and it turned out to be a fun tool for light painting under the full moon on the snow-white gypsum dunes...
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Waking up to this is the stuff of wildest dreams. I exited our tent just before the sun rose over the horizon and wandered the dunes hunting shadows.
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Hollyhock closeup
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Impractical Selfie
Had this discussion today about 'impractical selfies'. Not sure how selfies would be 'practical' anyway, but here's this one: Selfie inside pallet clubhouse with framed butterflies :D Haha
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Sunset north of Española
This is straight out of the camera. The colors are amazing!
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We went out for linner and the light was falling on this beautiful little statue so nicely...
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Young Persimmon
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The chuparosas are having a war over the trumpet vine in the backyard. I observed their sneaky tactics and aerial battles for quite a while, and took photos of them in the twilight.
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Hummingbird War: Part II
Even warriors need to eat (I think these ones may need to eat less if they weren't chasing each other all around the skies all day)
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Exciting times at the Buzzsaw Shark exhibit
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Visiting Dragonfly
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Rainy, rainy night
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This sunflower is so resilient - early on, it got crushed over onto it's side, but the half of the stem still intact was enough to keep it alive, so it grew along the ground and then upwards towards the sun, in an 'L' shape, and then today, the bud finally opened into a beautiful new sunflower.