“Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself. If that doesn't make you different then something is wrong.”

Okay...

So, I only have a couple of photos to post.  I really haven't been doing anything exciting, hence the chintzy amount of shots. 

Sorry.

I've been trying out the depth of field on my new 24mm and I am really impressed (and satisfied).  The first one is from breakfast at Frisch's with Pappy.  I was trying to see how small of a focal range I could shoot.

This one is my first Crocus sighting of 2016.  (Exciting!!)  To be fair...it was a little windy and I am not getting on my knees to take photos...we would need to call the Fire Department to come help me up off the ground.

I did stop on the side of the expressway to take these...no driving with my elbows...promise.  These are an experiment with the Gradient Filter on Lightroom.  I have no idea how to use it - I watched a video.  You really can't tell the difference with the first photo where I used it and the other two where I just processed like normal.  Oh well.  It was worth a try.  Sky was gorgeous - either way.

(They do look a little different, don't they...)

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/be_different.html

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Cecil Beaton
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/be_different.ht

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