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Picture some more summer

Since I haven’t been doing anything these last few sweltering days that is worth talking about, maybe you’d like to see some more of my Picture Summer shots?  The first three were here.  These are all in response to daily prompts.  So far, I don’t feel like I’ve taken any earth-shatteringly fabulous pictures, but for […]

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This is my Jersey Shore

Forget what you’ve seen on MTV.  This is the Jersey Shore, “Ocean City in May” style. In other words: cloudy, breezy, reading a book on the blanket, a bit chilly, quiet beach, peaceful, dipping a toe in the ocean, family-friendly, shopping, postponing bedtime to take in the boardwalk lights, ice cream, no crowds, wishing we […]

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Speaking of playing with cameras

I got an early birthday present this week!   Isn’t it pretty? First thing I did (aside from take a boatload of pictures) was rip apart the Canon-branded strap it came with and replace it with a new one.  I made this patchwork strap from scraps that were leftover when I made my beach blanket last […]

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Camera play

Over the last few years – ever since I began blogging regularly, really – I’ve been working on improving my photography skills, both in the taking of the pictures, and the processing of them later. On the one hand, I think that you should be able to get a fantastic shot straight out of the […]

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My camera’s last hurrah?

We took advantage of the 50-degree weather (because compared to what it had been, 50 degrees is positively balmy) on Sunday and trekked off to the Jersey shore.   We landed about an hour and 15 minutes from home in Ocean Grove, a Victorian beach town we’d visited once before.  We spent time on the beach, […]

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