The Big Photo Challenge...FALLLLLLLLLL

This week's theme is Fall

It's about 2 weeks away from a full Fall color extravaganza in the Inland Northwest. We make a point to take a couple of days off every year and go some place to enjoy the rich Fall foliage. This year we will go to Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint Idaho. In the meantime, here is a picture of the only trees in our neighborhood that have changed to their Fall color.

Picture was taken with my Canon Power Shot S3 IS in program mode with color set to vivid F stop of 4.0 and shutter speed at 1/320 of a second.

My wife Julie has an entry for this week as well. This is her favorite picture of our grandson Aiden taken in the fall of 2005. She took it with a small Sony digital camera while at the downtown park on a beautiful day in October.




Isn't he cute?!!!

The Big Photo Challenge...EXPRESSIONS

This weeks challenge is "Expressions"



I took my grandson Aiden to Pop Warner football practice tonight. He's only 6 and they play tackle football with full pads and helmets. He lost a tooth at practice tonight, it was a loose baby tooth. He played anyway and I thought it would be the perfect book end to Jen's picture of his toothless brother Connar.



After practice I asked him to show me his most menacing football grimace GRRRRRR!!!!. You can see the hole in his gum and the tooth in his fingers.
I took the picture in the dark and the camera focused on the helmet instead of the face. I didn't realize it until I downloaded the picture at home and then it was too late. But I thought the picture captured the theme so well I put it in anyway.