BUG PAINTING PARTY

This was my other shot submitted for the BAPC assignment of "AMERICANA".  Interestingly enough this was what I considered to be my "A" shot for the night, but it turned out to be the lowest scoring photo of the night.  Meanwhile "The Pie Lady", see previous post, was the highest scoring.  Judges didn't like the effect, which started as and in-camera Olympus "art filter" and went on from there.  I guess what I liked the most about it is that it's exactly what I intended the shot to be from the time I took it.  An over-the-top representation of an over-the-top event, hence the early selection of the fish eye lens.

THE PIE LADY

This was one of my shots entered at the Bay Area Photo Club under the August Honor's Night assignment of "AMERICANA".  Dianne and I built the set and she posed as the "The Pie Lady."  The judges liked the shot and awarded it with a Gold award and enough points to make it high for the night.  I shot it with my tripod mounted OMD-EM1 and a 12-60 f2.8 lens in mostly late evening light.  I did add a little light from the lower right of the shot to help brighten Dianne in the shot.

GRANNY

I like this shot of Granny [Dianne's Mom] sitting in the backyard on a short break.  I like the tone and the lighting but mainly the fact that Kale is out of focus in the background which adds a multi-generational element to the scene.

SOUTHERN GIRLS CONFERENCE

I entered this shot in the "open" category of December's of the Bay Area Photo Club's "Honor's Night" program and received a silver award from the judges.  This show was taken at my wife's 2014 family reunion in Sweeny, TX. and it just struck me a as a slice of Americana.

KALE AT AN ASTROS GAME

Here's a shot of my grandson Kale taken a couple of months ago at an Astros game at NRG field.  This was another candidate I was considering for Thursday night's Honor's Night program under the assignment of "Bokeh."  In a couple of days I'll have a better idea about whether my choices were good ones!

KALE

Here's a shot I took of Kale in my front yard a few weeks ago.  I used my 60MM F2.8 macro lens and on camera flash.

GRANNY #1

This shot was entered in last night's Bay Area Photo Club Honor's Night under the assignment of "One Light Portrait."  It was lit with a flash reflected from a white umbrella and received a Bronze award from the judges.

FIRESIDE FUN

This shot of Dianne and Kale was my second entry into the Honor's Night assignment of "Night Photography".

HALEY #2

This is another shot of my niece Haley taken at my wife's family reunion in Sweeny, TX a few weeks ago.  This was a technically tough shot because I had to mirror her jump while taking the shot!

HALEY

This is a shot of my niece taken in Sweeny, Tx at a family reunion a couple of weeks ago.  We took several photos of her that day for a series that her mom wanted that had a "Texas feel".

KALE FOR THE WEEKEND!

We're Keeping our grandson Kale for the weekend so there are lots of photo ops!

ANIKA SWINGING

I took this photo of my niece this morning at my sister's house with my 50-500mm Sigma lens mounted on my Olympus E-3.  The shot was handheld with available light.

ROCKER KALE

I took this shot of my grandson this past weekend.  It's for an invitation to his "Rock Star" themed upcoming first birthday party.

FUTURE FIREFIGHTER KALE

We stopped by the Pink Heals firetruck tour when it was in Baytown the other day and took this picture of our grandson Kale.  I submitted it in last night's Bay Area Photo Club Honors Night Program under the November assignment of "People" and was give a gold award by the 3 judge panel.  The Pin Heals tour is a traveling group of pink firetrucks used to raise breast cancer awareness and raise funds for the effort to eliminate it.  Cancer survivors are invited to sign the trucks, which I think added to the applicability of the shot in the "People" assignment.  Learn more about "Pink Heals" at http://www.pinkfiretrucks.org/.

Kale's First Easter_2

Another Easter shot of my grandson.

Kale's First Easter

Now that I have a grandchild I find that I am doing more portrait work than normal - go figure, right! This is one of Kale's Easter shot's from this past weekend.

Kale and Great Grandmother

My new grandson and his great grandmother photographed two weeks ago.

Grandson Kale

A shot of our grandson Kale taken this past weekend.

New Addition to the Family

As of 12:18 this afternoon we have a new member to the family! Kale Garland Kelly, son of Kelly and Jamie King, came into the world at 7 lbs. 11 oz. and 20" long. I'm sure this will be the first of many photograph on this grandpa's web page.

Relaxing with the Dogs

Here's a shot of my wife and our dogs relaxing after a hard day of Christmas activities.