Quaker Oats

A view of the Quaker Oats Plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I wonder what they're making - cheerios?

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Patriot's Day

Today is Patriot's Day - and in honor of that here is a photo of the Sullivan Brothers Veteran's Museum in Waterloo, Iowa.

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Mount Mercy College Admin Building

The photography club I belong to in Cedar Rapids did a night photo shoot at Mount Mercy College. A college had a staff member take us around to a couple of locations. This shot was taken from the penthouse floor in one of the dorms and is a view of the top of the administration building taken at sunset.

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Rural Iowa

This is a photo of rural Iowa taken off of Highway 20 between Iowa Falls and Waterloo.

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In Search of Eagles, but...

...found only a pizza guy... It's surprising, but by carrying a camera around one can get some "different" photos that would otherwise fade into a memory.
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More Peppers

More peppers - I used Photoshop to isolate each color. Here is the series. I suppose I could have stretched this into 4 days worth of pictures - but, what fun is that? My favorite is the green as it is a crisper black and white. Yours...?

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Barn

I imagine that at one point in time this barn was somone's pride and joy. It has obviously seen better days.
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Reflection

On Easter morning, before services, there was a reflection coming from the sun shining through he stained glass. Appropriate for the day...
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Visitors

I was visiting my sister-in-law yesterday and noticed in her backyard that she had visitors. She loves animals and puts out feed. She says that the ducks peck on the window if the food has not been put out.
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Easter Lilly

I love the Easter Lilly. I used my MACRO lenses for the bottom photo.

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Cloudy Moon

The clouds, the moon, the colors - they all just blend so well in this photograph. It supposed to be cloudy and rainy next week so I will move on to something other than the moon.
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You Want to Do What?!?

I hate to re-cycle photos - but, this is one of my favorite pictures. I took this last year. I saw this chocolate bunny rabbit at Target and the eyes just said, "You want to do what?"
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Timed Exposure

I was playing around with a timed exposure and here is one of the pictures. The red and white streaks are cars that passed though while the lens was open.
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Another Moon

The Moon seemed to line up perfectly - as if the remains of this tree were pulling it down.

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Moon Painting

The moon was out again last night. This time I waited until it was dark before taking photos. I wasn't happy with the top picture, but then decided to play around a bit. I opened my aperature wide open, set the shutter speed to BULB and held the aperature open while I moved the camera around. The results are below. I added the color in Photoshop for effect... I call it "Moon Painting".









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No Eagles But Found A Moon

Went in search of Eagles [again] at Lake Alice and found the Moon [no Eagles (again)]...



It was a very narrow window of opportunity as the clouds rolled in and there was no visible moon for the rest of the night.
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Palm Sunday Snow Storm

OK, really now, is THIS the last snow? The poor Easter Chick got really cold in the 5" of snow we received on Palm Sunday.
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Appliance Wall

The appliance picture wall is complete.
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LittleTokoyo Restaurant

Ok - 2 pictures in one day. My youngest daughter is visiting from Minnesota and we went to the Little Tokoyo Restaurant where they cook your meal in front of you. A good time and good food. I took my camera and snapped a coupple of photos - here's the best.
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Cookies

Perhaps I can get out of the kitchen after this - probably one more picture when this one is added to the wall...

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Peter Piper Picked...

It seems that I'm still in the kitchen taking pictures. Here are a few more peppers...
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Bell Pepper

Playing around taking some food pictures...

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Eagle Search

Continuing the Eagle Search my wife and I went back to the park. This time we did find a tree with about 20 Eagles. They pretty much stayed there and didn't give me much of an opportunity for a photo. I snapped the one above as an Eagle was coming in for a landing. Now - I'm lusting after a 100 mm-400 mm Zoom lens with a 25 mm extension tube so that I can get close with the camera - without being closer physically.

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Sincerity or Sarcasm?

I drove by this coffee shop yesterday and took note of their sign. As I thought about it I had to turn around and take another look. I don't know these people so I can't make any guesses as to whether or not they are being sincere, "Thanks for All Your Support", Or, Sarcastic, "Thanks for all your support we are now closed!" Perhaps they are just victims of a bad economy and bad spacing on their sign.

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Framed

Here are my appliance pictures from last week printed, matted, framed and hung in the kitchen. You may pick up on the fact we like the color red.

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A Snowy Spring Morning

Woke up this morning to snow. Perhaps this is Old Man Winter's last feeble attempt to hang on. (one can only hope).

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Antique Butter Churn

This is my wife's antique butter churn. Every once in a while she makes butter with the grandkids so they can learn about the past and the effort it takes to put food on the table.

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Mr. Toaster

...continuing with the "kitchen" theme here is the toaster (and yes, it really is red).
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Mr. Food Processor

I seem to be making my way around the kitchen. Here is Mr. Food Processor AKA Kitchen-Aide. Tomorrow I'll introduce you to Mr. Toaster and perhaps on Saturday Mr. Microwave. Actually - I'm printing all of these, framing them, and doing a display on one of the kitchen walls (I imagine that will be photo of the day too.)

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I'm A Little Tea Pot...

I'm a little tea pot, short and stout...

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Concrete Frog

This frog stands guard at our front door. To understand where he comes from follow this LINK.

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Yellow Tulips

Oz Girl, a fellow 365 Blogger, gave me the idea to use poster board as a background. My wife had brought home some tulips for a center piece, and put them in a red vase - it just screamed "photo op"... I ran to Hobby Lobby, purchased some foam core board, ran home again and took this picture. I softened it a bit in photoshop - but, I like it. Do you?

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Inaugural B-B-Q

We had a birthday party for our oldest daughter and my mother-in-law and the spring weather was so nice we broke out the grill, cleaned it up and had the first B-B-Q of the season.

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First Day of Spring

Do we dare put the snowblower away for the season?

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Bird(s)

I had heard that there were Eagles near a lake in Waterloo and thought I'd go out and take a picture. Perhaps I thought that since they are our national symbol, that they would just strike a pose. Well... no Eagles - but I did see a gull, a hawk, a robin and a sparrow. I wasn't about to come home without any pictures, so here are 4 bird pictures [perhaps I am over-compensating for no Eagle pictures]. I'll keep trying for the Eagles...

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Cross

We had choir rehearsal last night and this was the sunset behind the cross. God was painting.

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