Mooned

It's a full moon tonight.

I took a few shots and loaded them into Lightroom. To my amazement, if you crank clarity up to 100%, you see STARS.  I'm going to have to experiment with this further...

Waning days of Fall

There are still a few beautiful bits of Fall out there.  Walking into church today, I had no choice but to stop and take a picture.  (Not bad for a camera phone.)

Fall eye candy

Happy Fall!!!!

Fair babies

When the opportunity presented itself to head to the Minnesota State Fair today, I made sure my camera came along.  I didn't visit all the animals this year, but I did see some of the babies.  This floppy-eared piglet had only one thing on its mind: FOOD. 

I think this Oreo calf was daydreaming of milk.  Oreos and milk just go together.

This baby woolie was just dreaming.  Period.

And this baby was fighting the need for a nap.

A sunny day in the neighborhood

Never mind that summer is still almost 2 weeks away.  Today it definitely feels like summer!

I braved the hurricane force winds and sweltering heat, trying to find something to photograph that wouldn't be too far from my air-conditioned truck.  I wound up here at the Cathedral of Saint Paul.

The sun was a bit tricky.  Tried some HDR, but the wind was too strong for a tripod, and my arms apparently, because they were really bouncy.  Decided to stick with a traditional image.

I really like Lightroom 4.  The image out of the camera was tilted and warped due to perspective distortion.  I tried adjusting it in Photoshop CS6, but that didn't work so well.  I thought I'd give the slider controls in Lightroom a try, and the image fluffed right up.  Fluffy cathedrals look much nicer.