" Ridin' the range once more..." ~Gene Autry

I'M BACK!!

I have returned from my ten week exile into dayshift purgatory.  Holy.  Crap.  Sometimes I wonder if the monkeys are running the circus.

Well...since I didn't really get to do much except work 50-70 hours every week, not many photos were taken.  I have 20 or so here to start me off tonight.  It's the regular mish-mash, so....

More Lego building.  I did more but this was the only one I photographed.

And that time Mara made Gingerbread Cookies....I think I see Borat in there - and Chewbacca (and a grumpy old man - Pappy).

And I must have spent some extra time sitting in the car...

This mirror is actually 2 cars over...

And THIS one....this wasn't what I had planned on posting.  It's just a teeny portion of the photo I was processing.  When I happened to look at one of the modules in Lightroom, THIS creepy-assed face was staring back at me.  Holy crap...no wonder I have nightmares.

And when I first saw this, I couldn't decide whether or not it was misspelled on purpose.  Probably not....

THEN...I bought two new lenses!!  A 50mm to replace the one I broke last year and a 24mm so I can start on my new project.  Hopefully, I can get my brain schedule back on track so I can begin shooting soon.  I'm excited!  I will probably leave the 24mm on Chuck until I can get a better understanding of how it will work for what I have planned.  So far, so good.  I'll apologize now for all of the weird things I will be shooting to determine how this lens will work on interiors.  Like these...

OOPS!!

And since it is a macro lens, I was trying to see how macro-y it actually is.  The shortest focal distance is 6" so this will be fun.

YES!!  I like this lens!  (This is a button for one touch dialing on the office phone.)

Pappy and I were driving past Lunken Airport the other day and happened to see this plane.  How cool!

And this Chrysler TC - masquerading as a Maserati (it was actually a collaboration of the two).

And some randomness...(I think the first one was another unintentional photo from me wrestling with Chuck.)

And this one...from when I was using the loo at Joseph Beth...I was trying to shoot the cool ornate frames around all of the mirrors when a lady walked in on me and scared me...not that it looked weird or anything.

And the sky was on fire Monday night...when I stopped to buy my daily ration of Full Throttles...