Life, uncorked.
Okay, this is the official call for May’s Photo of the Month Submissions. This month our theme is Black and White. How about it? Feel up to the challenge? Just drop a link to your photo in the comments on this post, or use the contact button above to email your photo. You have through the 31st to send me your entry! Let the black and white challenge begin!
What? This choice of photo surprises you not in the least?? :toofunny:
So, how better to spend a Memorial Day weekend that putting up a fence for The Geeky One? In the rain… The family that installs fence together stays together, or something like that. I do know that there were a lot of comments made to The Geeky One. “You SO owe me, bro.”
All so this cute little dog, Boo, can have a fenced backyard at The Geeky One’s house. (Ha, and I can tell you the name of this puppy! Unlike the weimaraner!)
They drilled holes. Lots of holes. They hit rock in every. single. hole. Notice the crossed fingers here, hoping for at least one hole without hitting rock…
Did you know that Croc made work shoes?? Wonder who this is??
There was some manual digging going on…
Of course a good supply of power tools… Men.
Pink spray paint to mark where each hole needed to be dug. Pink. You think they did that just for me?? Well, not that I was digging any holes! I was in charge of photography! The important stuff!
See the nice straight line of fence posts? Well, at this point some neighbor called the neighborhood board, who called The Geeky One and complained the fence was going to be too high. Um, they were cutting the posts off even after the cement dried… Whatever. Gotta love subdivisions…
This neighbor had his slide put right up to the lot line… The Geeky One did pull his fence in a bit on this side, but he’s going to offer to help his neighbor move his slide if he wants too.
SuperGuy was in charge, so there was a lot of measuring, strings, and levels involved…
Well, I’m sure you’re wondering where the photo of the finished fence is…Yes, well, it was pitch dark on the THIRD DAY when they finished the fence. Not to mention pouring down rain. So I still owe you a photo of the finished backyard next time I go over there. But I will leave you with this photo…
Because we can’t have a photo op with the boys without someone posing for a pointing shot, now can we??
You know sometimes you have a photo and you just can’t make it look like you have it pictured in your head? Well, here is one photo gone bad. Really bad. Yes, sometimes I like to show you my failures. If this were as good as I could get my photos, I’d have to give up on the idea of a photography biz, now wouldn’t I?
This photo of The Impish One. I’ve messed with it a bunch of times. As an aside…there is way too much green stuff growing on those stairs, must write it on SuperGuy’s to do list… No, I’m SURE he wants it on his list. Positive… Anyway, the lighting wasn’t so good, The Impish One was pale (he’s always pale), but there was no light reaching his eyes. I should have used my reflector. Sigh. But I wanted to save this snapshot.
I did a color pop. (That was HORRIBLE!) An action gone bad. Really bad. Okay, I masked back his skin and did make it look a bit better than this one I’m showing you, but I wanted to show you how terrible one this was.
Of course I tried out a black and white conversion because, well, that is the theme of this month’s photo of the month’s contest. But, alas, no matter what I do to this photo, I just don’t like it. Love the kid, hate the photo. Sigh.
Back to the drawing board on a black and white photo to enter in the contest. Do you get photos like that? No matter what you do to them, you just aren’t happy with how they turn out? You realize that if you had just moved over a bit, got a bit different light, it would have made all the difference in the world? Hm, maybe one month we should have the theme be photos gone wrong…
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