The Big Photo Challenge ...WATER

This week's challenge is WATER, which I was very eager to try out my new underwater camera on. Unfortunately, it still thinks it's winter here. Rain, Rain, Rain. So after settling for the hot tub for underwater pictures I tried to get a picture of my wife's beautiful feet with blue toe nail polish. Unfortunately, you can't tell it's underwater. It just looks like feet. I tried again but the rain chased her inside. So, using the rain to my advantage, I settled for this shot.

This is a picture of a glass top table on my deck after the rain storm. I used my new Polaroid t833 8 mpixel underwater (10 meters) camera. It has scene settings for everything you would normally find on a pocket digital camera plus many additional settings for underwater. I actually didn't get to use the underwater settings and instead used the color controls to select an overall purple picture. So I guess I will call this picture Purple Rain.

Big Photo Challenge...OLD

I am participating in Adori(ble) Photography's Big Photo Challenge. I have been following this for the first couple of weeks but could not find a way to add a picture since I don't have a Blog or Web page. I finally broke down and asked my talented daughter-in-law Jen to help me set up a blog just so I could post a picture. Since I already had a picture for last week's topic (OLD) I decided to sneak it in late.

I took this picture near Grays Harbor in Washington state USA. This is a cranberry bog used by Ocean Spray Cranberry Drink company. The Cranberry plants can be seen in the bottom left corner of the picture. When it's time to harvest they flood the field and the cranberries float to the top. After they are herded up, they drain the field and dig out the old cranberry plants with this old truck mounted tractor. This poor old work horse has seen better days but is still in use. I took this picture with my Canon Power Shot S3IS in the Program AE mode with the color settings forced to Vivid to get a higher contrast between the green and yellow.