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John and I have returned from our trip to Washington DC, which seemed a lot less crowded than last year. The Washington Monument was closed for safety after the unusual earthquake around DC on August 23rd, so at least it made sense that there wasn’t anyone there. Though I did notice while working on this one that I happened to catch John as he was taking pictures himself.

The sunset is mostly real…I did do a little tweaking of the colors in a new layer, then did a Linear Dodge blend. It was quite dramatic, so that top layer is set to 70% opacity.

My husband, John, gave me this ring a while ago, around the time we decided to get married. I don’t have an engagement or wedding ring, per se, but the jewelry he’s given me are quite special, as you would imagine.

Oh, and we also got a 50mm compact macro lens this summer.

Yeah…been off with the Worcester Shakespeare Company working on Hamlet and Comedy of Errors this summer, hence the blog has been a bit sporadic. (And that’s putting it mildly.) I do have some stuff here and there, so will start going through that soon. In the meantime, we got a 15mm Fisheye lens. I like it!

From the Fourth of July at Cauldron Farm in Hubbardston MA.

I went to a baseball game up the street with the awesome Canon 5D Mark II, and a 20-70 mm lens. Why? We have a 70-200 mm lens which would have worked much better! So I took pictures of a water fountain for you.

I also forgot bug spray. That might be more important to remember next time…

And yes, it was cold enough that he needed a sweater. Which I totally love, by the way!

These concert pictures were taken using the zoom without a flash. I thought they looked good on Wednesday, but between then and now they became all noisy. I blame the eclipse. That’s usually when I turn things into art prints, or at the very least put them into black and white. I did try sepia, but the black and white (at 65% opacity) looked much better. I like how you can still see hints of the reds behind the kids.

Another shot from the MFA in Boston. By the way, first rule of photography is don’t lose your battery charger, and bring a spare charged battery. I learned that one on this trip, so the last half of my pictures were taken on my phone.

At the Connecticut Renaissance Faire, and I wish I had noted the name of the vendor who made these iron hammers so I could plug them. At any rate, yes, there was a larger one, but even I couldn’t lift it.

I nearly changed the font on my watermark for this picture…

If I could steal have one painting in the whole MFA, it would be this Van Gogh.