First Dance

Bride and groom share the first dance.

I fell into the trap. My wife's best friend's daughter got married yesterday and the inevitable request came my way. "You're into photography, we're having a wedding. Can you shoot it?"

My photographer friends advised that it was a dangerous undertaking. A wedding! A one shot attempt to get it right WEDDING! Four hours, and four hundred images later, I found one or two that I'd like and I hope I'm the picky one... I'm at least smart enough not to be doing this sort of thing for money. I'll leave it to the professionals.

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Lone Pine Peak and Mt. Whitney

It's an older shot that needed some post-process attention. I shot this using the very sweet 18-200 VR lens that Steve let me borrow.

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Locomotive Breath

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
Steam breaking on his brow --
Thank God, he stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees --
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible --
Open at page one --
God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going --
No way to slow down.
-- Jethro Tull

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Racetrack Playa

Mike, Roger, Steve and I made a trip yesterday to visit the Devil's Racetrack in Death Valley.

It's HDRish... I used the same image but played with the exposure in Camera RAW and then selectively merged.

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Sailing Stone

Made a trip yesterday to visit the Devil's Racetrack in Death Valley.

This is just one of the many moving rocks we found there

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Desert Fence

I decided to drive up the Panamint Valley today. Saw a dirt road with a sign saying, "Indian Ranch Road".

Near the soggy dry lake I saw this fence. It wasn't more than a couple hundred of yards long.

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