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JenniferDiFranco > July 31, 2009
JenniferDiFranco > July 30, 2009 Tall grasses (landscaping - not the weeds we need to pull ;) ) by our pool. The background is the water from the pool.
JenniferDiFranco > July 29, 2009 - Texas Sage I really want a good macro lens. All this cropping to get the shot I want is not working well. Hmmmm do I starve the kids, deprive them of an education and dance classes, sell off the cars or stand on a street corner holding a sign that says "will work for glass"? LOL - J/K! ;)
JenniferDiFranco > July 28, 2009 - Summer is out there - somewhere.
JenniferDiFranco > July 27, 2009 I am so not thrilled with this. Total desperation shot. I have taken much better dragon photos. I took this Saturday. Shot nothing yesterday - and today it is raining and I just don't have anymore time to spend trying to get a daily. So - unfortunately.... this is it. :(
JenniferDiFranco > July 26, 2009 Lily really Really REALLY likes nacho cheese baked doritos!
JenniferDiFranco > July 25, 2009 "God, in His goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much, And great fools not at all." ANONYMOUS
JenniferDiFranco > July 24, 2009
JenniferDiFranco > July 23, 2009 "A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses." —Author Unknown Finally finished all of my Disney photos yesterday. Today I sorted and put them into galleries. If anyone is interested they can be found here - Disney 2009
JenniferDiFranco > July 22, 2009 Getting a late start today. Woke up with a migraine - hate those things. A cold front came through yesterday/last night and any change in weather always triggers a headache. Hopefully the Imitrex will kick in soon. This is a rose of sharon. It rained before the front went through and everything was covered in wonderful little water drops. I don't have a nice macro lens so I had to do some serious cropping on this photo. Then of course I lost a lot of detail so I started playing around with it in Topaz and Photoshop - this is the end result. It is "OK" nothing I am jumping up and down about. Thanks so much for all the kind comments yesterday. It WAS hard losing my parents when I was so young - had for anyone who has to deal with that and I know I am not alone. My heart doesn't cause me any problems and hasn't since I was very young. It is always kind of back there lingering in my thoughts as I get older. I am really blessed with fairly good health - sure there are a few things that anyone and a lot of people have to deal with - but I am doing my best to resolve those issues. Yesterdays photo is in a way - my way - of pushing myself to continue and remind myself where I have come from - how far I have come and also a reminder that I am not quite where I want to be yet. I do have to say though - it feels pretty darn good to be 43 and be able to do something you weren't allowed to do as a child. Everytime I would get slightly out of breath my Mom would make me stop playing, running... being a kid. I understand why. She was scared and that is what the doctors told her. They just didn't know then as much as they know now - that the running and playing was only going to strengthen my heart and lungs. So here I am at 43 doing what I was never allowed to do when it would have been MUCH easier for me. It is just kind of a personal "feel good" thing.
JenniferDiFranco > July 21, 2009 - Running for my life. I was born with a congenital heart defect. My Mom died of cancer when I was 13. My Dad died of cancer when I was 16. The older I get - the more concerned I get about my health - I do NOT want to follow in my parents footsteps. Those health concerns along with a lifetime battle with my weight has pushed me to start jogging. Last week I reached a personal milestone. I was able to reach 21 miles in one week. I am not sure I am going to make it - but I am going to try and break that this week - or at the very least match it, but I really want to break it - even if only by one mile.
JenniferDiFranco > July 20, 2009 Ian (hubby) right after he got his Masters of Business Administration degree. He's my Goober - and I love him.
JenniferDiFranco > July 19, 2009 My last Disney photo - I promise. This is Harpers Mill on Tom Sawyers Island. I have been trying for three years to get a photo of it that I really like. Finally! The only thing I wish - that the wheel was working. Oh well. Thank you for being so patient with me as I have muddled my way through all of the photos I took while on vacation. I still have about 280 to go through. Most of them will not make my Disney galleries so it shouldn't take too long. They are mostly of Wishes - the Magic Kingdom's nightly fireworks show. I was too lazy to drag my heavy tripod with me so I attempted to hand hold during the fireworks. I knew better. That's OK I have 2 other years worth of Wishes photos. Thanks for the congratulations for Ian - I have passed them on and he says "Thank you". He says he feels kinda silly being nearly 46 and going through a graduation ceremony. The girls and I were not about to let him skip it. He has worked too darn hard for the MBA and he is walking up there to get it! Monday - I will have a photo of him to post. :)
JenniferDiFranco > July 20, 2009 The last of the Epcot photos. All I have left are a few from the resort we stayed at (The Wilderness Lodge) and a few from the Magic Kingdom. Tomorrow should be your last day to deal with them. Monday - I PROMISE - no more Disney photos - instead I am sure I wil have one of my husband getting his MBA. Sunday is his graduation ceremony. I am so proud of him. In October he starts working for his PhD.
JenniferDiFranco > July 17, 2009 Kylie - she may be my oldest. She may be nearly 21, but she will ALWAYS be my baby. I tried and tried and tried to finish the entire second to last vacation day of photos yesterday - I just couldn't. By 11:30 I was getting lazy and making dumb mistakes so I quit. As much as I love Disney - I will be so glad when I am done with them. I don't even want to look at them anymore. The plus side - I really think I am getting the whole HDR thing down and I have learned sooo much as far as editing. Over half of the shots I took I bracketed so I could learn what worked and what did not. I knew that if it didn't work - at least I would have one of the three frames that was correct and I could just use it as is and not as an HDR. Most of them however - did work surprisingly. OK I am rambling - I didn't sleep well last night - every time I closed my eyes I was seeing HDR images dancing in my head - makes for very dramatic dreams at least. LOL Have a good day everyone. :)
July 29, 2009 - Texas Sage

I really want a good macro lens. All this cropping to get the shot I want is not working well. Hmmmm do I starve the kids, deprive them of an education and dance classes, sell off the cars or stand on a street corner holding a sign that says "will work for glass"?

LOL - J/K! ;)
JenniferDiFranco > July 29, 2009 - Texas Sage I really want a good macro lens. All this cropping to get the shot I want is not working well. Hmmmm do I starve the kids, deprive them of an education and dance classes, sell off the cars or stand on a street corner holding a sign that says "will work for glass"? LOL - J/K! ;)
July 29, 2009 - Texas Sage

I really want a good macro lens. All this cropping to get the shot I want is not working well. Hmmmm do I starve the kids, deprive them of an education and dance classes, sell off the cars or stand on a street corner holding a sign that says "will work for glass"?

LOL - J/K! ;)
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