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Pumpkins!

Just a display at the store, but I'm liking the colors and shapes available these days.

October is over, I have successfully taken (and posted) every day for a month.  I learned a few more things about my camera and I just took it more places, therefore getting more pictures.  It's definitely a fun exercise, that I'd recommend to others.

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Today, I played around with light-painting.

This is a 15 second exposure; I held the light on my face for 5 seconds and then started making the star shape with the light.  Felt a bit silly in my mom's yard, but it was pretty fun.

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From a walk around the neighborhood.

Just a little bokeh for the weekend.

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Playing more with manual settings and some editing.  Probably should have polished the silver, but at least I dusted it.

f/5
1/3 second
ISO 800

Used Pioneer Woman's Action Sets for the editing.
Used sepia toned and slight lighten,

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Today, I started playing with Inkodye, and I'm hooked.  My little cousin and I made these.

It's a really fun process and surprisingly, not that messy.  They dye doesn't have much color until it gets in the sun, so clean up isn't a huge problem.  And it's so fun to see the color develop and surprise you once it gets in the sun.

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On our way home from New Orleans, we stopped at Nottaway plantation to see a bit of the Old South.

This is some of playful wickerwork from a ladies' parlor.

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Today, we went to Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in the Garden District.  I really wanted to see all of the raised graves.  It might be the best place to play hide and seek in all of creation.

Then we headed over to the French Quarter to see the Old Ursuline Convent.  The oldest building in the Mississippi River Valley.  This is a picture of the door to the adjacent church, it was built later, in the 1800's.

We leave tomorrow, so much left to see, but I'll be glad to get back to San Antonio.