Sunday November 25, 2012

Sunday November 25/12  update #296

I had to be up very early at 5am this morning to meet 4 other photographers at 6am in Parque Calderon.   Paul Wolf was leading this expedition and he was looking to get some nice downtown shots with “decent skies”.   Ron Phillips, Neal Adams and his buddy Michael were the other 3 fellows and they all had some pretty fancy equipment compared to mine.   Heck, Paul’s tripod is worth $1,000 alone. 

Oh well, I am not ashamed of my shots compared to theirs and I took many more shots than they did , almost 100 today, many of subjects they completely ignored.  I even tried out a couple of effects that my camera provides.   I hope you like them.   Hopefully everyone got the shots they wanted to get, although the skies were mostly overcast.

Bella was off to Joe’s to play bridge this afternoon.  Everyone is asking her to give bridge lessons so I probably have to help her compile a manual from 300 emailed PDF pages she sent herself…   That should be an interesting project.

We also had a call with an offer from Barry and Maxine Wilder of Calgary regarding some lodgings in the Galapagos for a week after I return from Canada.  Things are beginning to fall into place on that score.

We still haven’t completely shut off the possibility of getting to Africa next year.   We really need to find some cheaper and simpler transportation to make it work out.  Hopefully something will turn up there as well.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.    Please see all photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/