Ducky Paradise

Beep! Beep!

One of my favorite toys! I like to ride my scooter around the lake in my neighborhood and just chill. I think this is the best spot.

Point and shoots can take great photos. This one was taken with a my first digital camera, a 3.2 MB Nikon Coolpix with a 3X optical zoom.

Football Fun

Still working on catching the moment in sports shots like this. I've found that lighting and shutter speed can be critical.

Capturing the action

Purchased a Nikon SLR for the fast shutter speed to capture shots like this - one of my firsts with the new camera in summer 2008.

Croc

Shark Reef at Mandalay

Puddle

Dan says I need to stop taking pics of Aiden...so here's a puddle.

Cones at Mandalay

Just learning how to use Photoshop and Lightroom.

Toast to the Sunset

This picture is really grainy because I am still using my crappy camera but I still like the picture. My family and I toasted the sunset at our house in Bullhead overlooking the casinos on the Colorado River. *When you guys get tired of looking at grainy photos, I'm taking donations for a new camara :)

Bonnie Springs

Angel

Ditch digger

Just driving around work again..

Sprinkler

Balboa Pier

I'm still using my little Casio camera because I'm too chicken to press the "Buy" button on the nice Canon. Here's some shots of the Balboa pier.

Big Baller

I'm not sure what is going on with this costume and that ball...guess I have to play World of Warcraft to find out.

BlizCon oddness

This is an example of the serious Bliz-conians at the Blizzard gamers convention I went to last weekend. I love her shoulder pads!

Aiden Drenched

Aiden in Millennium Park, Chicago.

Aiden Checking his blind spot

My wife actually took this photo. but after some post processing I decided to take part ownership in it.

Southwest

Outside my airplane window on my way to San Antonio

Stinky Boots

I played around with the telephoto and wide angle lenses this weekend. This picture wasn't one of them.

Hello Doggies!

I was having a little fun with my dogs Bailey Bean and Max Bean. I think they were getting a little irritated with all the close-ups.

Mojave Preserve

Hiking near a place called "Hole In the Wall."

Gulf Queen

Spider Web

I didn't do any manipulation with this one

Down the road from work

I've decided to rent this bad boy to prune the trees in my back yard this fall.

Since they were parked so close to the road I took a few more pictures of a couple other machines

Auto Focus

Rocket Car

Kid 2 rainy

This is a photoslop retouch from last year around October I think. I don't really know because we always have our Halloween decorations up.

Baby Steps...

Just learned how to download images to my computer.

Monkeys

Here is my first post on "It wont shoot itself" This is a picture I took at Lincoln Park Zoo a couple of weeks ago when I was visiting my home town Chicago. I did a little photoshop magic here, It was very dark in the monkey house so I couldnt get the sharpest photo, so I used some unsharp mask. Also I wanted to draw more focus on the open eye of the top monkey, so I toned down the color of the rest of the image, not that there was much color in these monkeys to begin with.