The Big Photo Challenge...ME

This weeks photo challenge is ME

Or a picture of me or about me that shows what I am about.


This time of year I am all about Arena Football (American, with an oblong ball). Our local team, the Spokane Shock, are number 1 in the league with a record of 13 wins and 2 losses. We only have one game left and have earned a spot in the playoffs.

This is a picture of ME and my better half, who completes me, outside the football arena. We dress in the teams orange and blue colors and cheer are heads off. There is a fantastic series of metal sculptures outside the arena that represent an athelete jumping into the air. We dressed them in the orange fuzzy hats that we wear to the games. The last one behind us shows his head gone and legs stretching like a spring. There is another in front of us that you can't see of just his legs with the springs sprouting out.

Go Shock!

And check out this link of the team high-fiving my grandsons and wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_y9YGzRf88

Yay! We're in the newspaper. Me on the right, my son Derrick to my right, my wife Julie, my son Kyle (9th man jersey), my daughter-in-law Jen below me, and my grandson Connar to her right. Shock game Aug 12 against the Milwaukee Iron. Shock win 60 to 57 and are going to the Arena Bowl. Watch us on NFL network Aug 20 at 5 PM PST.http://www.spokesman.com/photos/2010/aug/13/111566/

The Big Photo Challenge...TECHNOLOGY

This week's theme is Technology.

I decided to take a picture of my work station.

7 computers (2 RAID Servers under the keyboards) running on 4 dual input monitors.

These computers are used to configure software to run a utility plant.

Then I noticed everyone was submitting pictures of their iPods, so I decided to follow suit. Until I realized I don't have an iPod. So I took a picture of my multimeter since it is small and has wires coming out of it.

I took the picture with my Canon PowerShot S3IS. I used the Shutter priority mode and set the shutter speed to 4 seconds. The camera adjusted the aperature to F4.5 automatically. I had to put it on a tripod due to the slow shutter speed or it would blur. I also set the timer delay to 2 seconds so I would have my hands off of it when the shutter opens. The meter is actually dark red but I used a black light to give it the eerie glow. I balanced the meter on a small rubber ball to give it the effect of floating in air.

The Big Photo Challenge...GREEN

This week's topic is GREEN


This is a picture of lily pads in Newman Lake in Washington State I took while kayaking.



I took this with my Canon S3IS using the Scene feature called Color Accent.
You can point at an object and press the set button and when you take a picture it will make a black and white picture except for the color you set.

8th Picture

So Jen has challenged some followers to show what the 8th picture in the 8th folder of our picture hard drive is. Well I had to take it one level deeper by selecting the 8th picture in the 8th folder of the 8th year folder.

Wow! What a surprise, it's her youngest son Aiden in 2005.

Well, not really an unexpected outcome since 75% of all my pictures are her sons (my grandsons). This is little boy blue, which just happens to be his favorite color.