Day 174 Bloomin' Onion

We went to Outback today for mark's birthday. This was the appetizer. Soooo good!

           f/4.5; ISO 100; 1/30 sec. exposure; 37mm focal length

Day 173 Bird of Paradise

These are always pretty and colorful. They can get out of control in the yard if you don't keep up with 'em though.

         f/4.5; ISO 100; 1/1600 sec. exposure; 21mm focal length

Day 172 Joshua

This is my little buddy Joshua Lavey at bat last year. Notice the intensity in his eyes?

            f/5.6; ISO 100; 1/25 sec. exposure; 250mm focal length

Day 171 Race Car

This was parked out in front of the Firestone store on Lincoln today.

           f/5; ISO 100; 1/2000 sec. exposure; 44mm focal length

Day 170 Sunset out my front door

I took this one this evening as the sun went down. This would have been neat a the beach.

           f/4.5; ISO 250; 1/30 sec. exposure; 32mm focal length

Day 169 Peacock

Interesting colors. I can do better, though...

            f/5; ISO 100; 1/320 sec. exposure; 81mm focal length

Day 168 Billy Goat

Taken at Irvine Park.

          f/3.5; ISO 100; 1/250 sec. exposure; 24mm focal length

Day 167 Birthday Cupcakes

My sweetie worked her butt off to make a zillion cupcakes for my brithday. Here are a few. What you can't see is that each cupcake is cherry filled! Yummy! I'm going to go eat one (or two) as soon as I get this posted.

            f/3.5; ISO 400; 1/30 sec. exposure; 24mm focal length

Day 166 Tall Ship

I could not get the picture to load, so I posted gibberish as a placeholder. At any rate here is Day 166 taken at Dana Point Harbor.

f/10; ISO 100; 1/250 sec. exposure; 25mm focal length

Day 165 Music Box

This is a Precious Moments music box titled "It Came upon a Midnight Clear"

                   f/3.5; ISO 640; 1/30 sec. 50mm focal length

Day 164 Happy Birthday, A.J.

Here is a shot I took of A.J. when he made Eagle Scout.

           f/5.6; ISO 100; 1/11 sec. exposure; 44mm focal length

Day 163 Baby # 2

Here is baby number 2.

            f/8; ISO 100; 1/200 sec. exposure; 40mm focal length

Day 162 A gift from Guam

This is a gift Kim received from friends who lived on Guam.

            f/4.5; ISO 100; 3.2 sec. exposure; 35mm focal length

Day 161 Caleb

A sleeping Angel...

          f/4; IS0 3200; 1/30 sec. exposure; 34mm focal length

Day 160 Monarch and Lavender

Here is a Monarch butterfly on a stalk of lavender.

         f/4.5; ISO 100; 1/250 sec. exposure; 150mm focal length

Day 159 Refreshments and Conversation

Matt and I went to Starbucks tonight for a short conversation and relaxation. That's yer basic Earl Grey and Caramel Macchiato.

            f/4; ISO 1000; 1/30 sec. exposure; 25mm focal length

Day 158 Pink Petunias

These petunias are growing on our front window ledge.

           f/3.5; ISO 100; 1/30 sec. exposure; 21mm focal length

Day 157 Egyptian Geese

I had never seen one of these before and this morning I saw two of them at Katella High School. They were not afraid or even the slightest bit skittish. I got close to them and they didn't seem to care.

          f/5.6; ISO 100; 1/400 sec. exposure; 55mm focal length

Day 156 Silly face

This is the face Verity makes when you ask her to smile for the camera.

f/4.5; ISO 100; 1/25 sec. exposure; 24mm focal length

Day 155 Sisters

Here are Faith and Verity clowning for the camera.

            f/4; ISO 100; 1/30 sec. exposure; 24mm focal length

Day 154 Lighthouse

This is a lighthouse on Faith and Randy's porch. I thought it looked kind of cool texture-wise so I made a few shots.

             f/4.5; ISO 100; 1/400 sec. exposure; 24mm focal length

Day 153 Purple Flower

Can someone tell me what kind of flower this is? The name is on the tip of my tongue.

            f/4; ISO 100; 1/100 sec. exposure; 32mm focal length

Day 152 "Top Men"

This is a sculpture at the Ocean Institute at Dana Point.

            f/5; ISO 100; 1/30 sec. exposure; 23mm focal length

Day 151 Fra-gi-lay...It must be Italian!

Seen in the window of a house in Anaheim. Hilarious.

          f/11; ISO 100; 1/30 sec. exposure; 131mm focal length

Day 150 Are You Ready for Some Football?!

Super Sunday is on its way...

            f/5; ISO 200; 1.3 sec. exposure; 41mm focal length