Life these days

A man holding a sign that has Smoky Bear "Only You Can Prevent Fascism"

A crowd of people with signs and flags standing up for democracy.

A handwritten high school report card from the early 1950s.

photograph of a smiling woman and her husband and a photograph of that man with his son.

A marina full of sailing boats with their hulls reflecting in the water.

Two dogs sleeping in the sun next to a sliding glass door.

A woman holding a small dog in her lap, bent over and stroking his ears.

Woman in sunglasses with gray short hair holding an SLR camera in above her left shoulder and HANDS OFF sign in the backpack behind her right shoulder. She is wearing a navy blue tshirt over long-sleeved white shirt that says: Well-behaved Women Rarely Make History. — Trying to stay sane.

Black Bullet

For exercise, Nina runs around the yard at breakneck speed. There is no one chasing her, nor is she chasing anyone or anything.

Rider Referee

At the Tour de Nez. Downtown Reno.

Hummingbird Duel

I captured these this afternoon in my backyard. For such tiny birds, they are pretty fierce.

Tour de Nez: The “Old” Guys

The “Masters” race, for those 45 and older. Yeah, they may have had a little gray, and some thickening around the middle, but holy cow. Awesome!

Tour de Nez: Handcycles

I’ll be posting a lot of my shots from Sunday’s Tour de Nez over the next few days.

The handcycle race was the first race of the day (after the 5k run) and it was great fun, and inspiring. These guys can fly!

These are just a few. When the gallery is complete, I’ll provide the link.

More photos tomorrow!

Sneak Peek: How I Spent My Sunday

Much more to come.

Day 302 – Jump!

A friend of mine has asked me to do a portrait of her leaping so I thought I ought to practice. Also, I got a third wireless remote which now allows me to auto-focus with the remote and fire the camera and flash at the same time without having to use the pop-up flash as a master, so this was practice using those wireless shutter releases as well.

On top of this, Sweetie and I woke up all achy and with slight fevers, so I’m surprised I was able to find the energy to do this. But then, Sweetie went out to fly his radio-controlled airplane, so I guess you could say we both have our addictions. He stumbled in a little while ago and I fully expect him to pass out in his overstuffed chair.

Please excuse the dorky look on my face. (And this was actually one of the better ones.) It was quite tricky firing the camera at the right time to make sure my feet were in the air. Shot at 400 ISO at f/8. 1/200s.