Cute

The weather was awesome this past weekend so I decided to go to Wilmington North Carolina to walk around and snap some photos. It is about an hour away from where we live and it is very photogenic, has plenty of excellent places to eat and to top if off they were having a St. Paddy’s festival.

Well it turned out that the festival was rather small and that I am not that great at street photography. I guess that means I just have en excuse to practice more. So the trip was kind of a bust. I did get some delicious ice cream from a place called Kilwins. Some of the best ice cream ever. I was introduced to it while living in Maryland and am glad they have one in Wilmington. I also had a delicious steak at The George which is a nice restaurant right on the river that is dog friendly (just so you know). However dinner made me miss Nancy because I was eating alone which I have not done at a real restaurant in a long long time. The view and weather and a pint of Guinness however, aided in lifting my spirits.

Don’t normally take food pics but this was delicious!

Nothing like a fresh pint!

I do have one photo that I decided might be worth sharing. It is of the Cape Fear River Bridge. I used the in camera HDR function that the 7d mkii has because I was curious and am still learning all the features it has compared to my old SLR. Generally I am not a big fan of HDR but after some quick editing and changing to black and white I thought it wasn’t too bad. Let me know what you think and as always thanks for stopping by.

Oh and next time I will take Oshie and do a little Golden Wilmington Portrait session ha-ha.

wilmington bridge — Cape Fear Memorial Bridge

Lunch Adventures

Occasionally I go to the Marina on base during lunch to practice my photography skills and enjoy being out of the office. There is usually an interesting assortment of birds as well as Marines flying overhead in all types of whirlybirds.

Here are some shots I was able to capture today. The weather is just to beautiful but it was a bit bright and there was a lot of smoke clouding the sky due to ordnance being destroyed.

3J2A1640-1 — Brown Pelican touching down

3J2A1686-3 — Not sure what species this is.

3J2A1677-2 — Marine UH-1Y Venom. Sky is grey due to smoke.

3J2A1697-4 — Marines doing Marine things ha-ha

March 10, 2016 4

Photographer Adopts Dog From Shelter And Takes Him On Epic Adventures Across America

This is awesome. Check it out!

Traveling is so much more fun and interesting when you’ve got a loyal friend by your side.

Source: Photographer Adopts Dog From Shelter And Takes Him On Epic Adventures Across America

March 10, 2016 2

Caretakers

Dogs are just so awesome. I recently read an article, albeit and old one but new to me, about two Golden Retrievers who took care of their owner for two days when she fell. Judy at the time was 76 and had two Goldens ages 10 and 4. She lives with Parkinson’s disease and other than her pups to keep her company she lived alone.

Well apparently one day she had a fall in the kitchen and did some pretty serious damage to herself and was unable to get any help. Her loyal pups laid right by her side keeping her warm and making sure she wasn’t alone until help arrived two days later. Now that is some loyalty and serious love. Anyway here is a link to the full article in case you wanted to read it and watch the video.

Cheers!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/dogs-save-elderly-owner-with-parkinsons-after-fall_n_5977904.html

March 10, 2016 0

How To Walk On Air

Just wanted to get something posted this week to keep myself from slacking off. I don’t really know how to walk on air but Oshie might ha-ha. Here are 2 quick shots of him attempting to walk upside-down in the air. It is possible that he was trying to roll over but it is more fun to believe he was trying to air walk!