Cozy

Nina snuggled into her blanket.

We’ll just call this one Furry Friday

Yeah, I made that up too.

Image

Hook

She’s gone . . .

Do you know where my mom went?

Selfie Saturday

Yeah, I made that up.

I’m heading out for L.A. later this morning to go visit with the family, so if you don’t hear from me, that’s why.

Daily Prompt: It’s Friday, I’m in Love

Daily Prompt for Friday, February 14th (link)

Remember your first crush? Think about that very first object of your affection. Oh, the sweaty palms. The swoony feeling in your stomach. Tell us the story of your first crush. What was it about this person that made your heart pound? Was the love requited? Change the names to protect the guilty or innocent if you must! No judgement here. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Photographers, artists, poets: show us SMITTEN.

Andrea and Andrew’s story is one of second chances…Sweethearts back in their youth, they both moved on and married others. Both subsequently divorced and then reconnected. On their first date after finding each other again, they sat on the top of this lion at the playground in Idlewild Park and talked for hours and hours.

No, Mom. I’m Done.

No more of this picture stuff. I’m getting down now.

White Balance Salvation?

I often struggle with white balance. Too cool, too warm, a bit green . . . The automatic settings on my Canon work sometimes, and other times not so much. Auto White Balance (AWB) often gets it wrong. I have a gray card, but more often than not, it stayed in my backpack. I’d read about the ExpoDisc 2.0 (link) a couple of times and decided to give it a try. Amazon has a money-back guarantee, so I figured I had nothing to lose.

I took it out for a brief spin yesterday and I am very happy with the results. It is super easy to use. You just hold it in front of your lens, snap a picture and use that image have the camera manually set the correct white balance. I thought this would be complicated, but it wasn’t. It takes all of fifteen seconds to do it. It’s small enough to fit in any bag I’m carrying my camera in, and so it will go with me anywhere my camera does. It will get a good test today, as I am going to be indoors under what I assume will be fluorescent lights.

Buddy in the backyard. It was cloudy yesterday (rain today!).