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Water Features

The topic for the month is slow exposure. I hadn't had time to read all the information about to use my camera. So how did I do slow exposure. Well. There was only one way to find out. Experiment. I like snapping people - unawares. I get better action shots that way. I decided to practice what I thought would work. I focused the camera on the water feature. Zoomed in for a close-up. Pressed down on the shutter button. I held it in place for a few seconds then let go. I took another one. I switched to assessing mode. I had succeed. Both photos had a different shape in water which slowly fell. So I stopped at each water feature throughout the ground which were on display. And another of a fountain in a lake from the sixth floor of an apartment building. Following are some of the different shapes I captured with slow exposure. Also the sun rising above the building next to where I stayed. Slow exposed.

Edgar turned 94

I have been slack with keeping up because I was busy writing a story for last term. I finally finished it on the last day. The piece turned into a long short story of 10,000+ words. I'm posting photos of my uncle who turned 94 on the 30th June. Family joined at a restaurant to help him celebrate. I nearly didn't make it. I had exercise class in the morning. Didn't make it. I stopped on my way to do a message. On arriving back at the car, water had pooled beneath the front of the car, and was still dripping. Believing a hose had burst, or the radiator had sprung a leak, I headed to visit my mechanic. I left the car with him. Thank God for friends. I had a friend's car in the spare shed. I didn't make the exercise class but I did make the lunch. The bad news of the day was I had to have a new radiator. The inside of the old one had begun to disintegrate. Must have been in the car since new so I can't complain of the expense. This week I'm trying to c