May 29, 2012

A fun lab and group. Today was a lab shooting long lenses. The students were fun and excited, I really enjoyed it and I still remember my first shoot with a 300mm 2.8 lens in 1989.

May 28, 2012

A big toad.

May 27, 2012

Someday the rains will come.

May 26, 2012

Look what was blocking the trail. An adult Timber Rattlesnake.

May 25, 2012

They finally cut my front yard.

May 24, 2012

I really wish this spider would be more geometric.

May 23, 2012

Great night for a ride. Listened to Metallica's Load on the iPod.

May 22, 2012

Lots of choices to post today, the first small format class and lab, Erin making a silly face while I demonstrated a flash, my boss making a face, but I choose this picture since this was the subject of chatter all day for my racing friends. There are 4 of us racing for the Cat 3 Southern Classic Mountain Bike Series championship, all of us got this e-mail. We have petitioned the series to allow us to finish the series as Cat 3, just waiting for the answer. Fun fact, in the race two weeks ago, I finished second, my lap time, if doubled for the Cat 2 race (assuming I could do another lap just as fast.... read unlikely) would have had me finishing DFL.

May 21, 2012

Last of the flowers photos for a while. The Morning Glory blooms.

May 20, 2012

The rabbit. Spitz captured this baby rabbit last night. Mountain biking, today was the River Classic in Charlotte as part of the Southern Classic Mountain Bike Series. I had a great start and ran 2nd for most of the first half, I lost a little ground while passing back markers from earlier waves and even fell to 4th... I caught 2nd and 3rd late and set them up for a sprint. I ran out of room, finishing third, second and I were wheel to wheel, I was just a 1 foot behind him. I learned I don't know how to throw my bike like Tour de France sprints... but I was on the rivet... 5 more yards and I think I had him. As they say in NASCAR, it was a good points days for me in the series. Congrats to Chip Harris on his first series victory!

May 19, 2012

The yard dog love attention, doesn't really matter what you are doing.

May 18, 2012

More 105mm Micro Lens photography.

May 17, 2012

Playing with a 105mm Micro lens. The flowers are from an arrangement my sister sent my daughter to help with the stress of end of grade state testing.... thanks Lynn. The cat was annoyed as I tried to focus two inches from it....

May 16, 2012

Repainting "The Cove" at RCC.

May 15, 2012

Spitz.

May 14, 2012

It's a Monday.

May 13. 2012

Kayaking at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte. I was a bad guy and left my wife and daughter alone and went to Charlotte to pre-ride a race course. I will say, the U.S. National Whitewater Center is a very cool place!

May 12, 2012

A great day, Deb and I went kayaking in the morning and had lunch and frozen yoghourt, I got a nice 1.5 hour ride in and then we played cards with the Clarks.

May 11, 2012

Hissy. Another cat photo, it's been a long week!

May 10, 2012

My day. I wrote my small format class lectures, assignments, and labs on sticky notes and played with the presentation order on the walls in my office.

May 9, 2012

Graduation. Maria and Brandi decorated their mortarboards, representing the photojournalism grads! Congratulations to all the photo grads!

May 8, 2012

My boss has a word with me ; ) I am back to work!

May 7, 2012

My Cinco de Mayo present.

May 6, 2012

This is my POD, Sam's pictures didn't count.

May 6, 2012

Great second place finish today in the Southern Classic Hobby Park race, Matt and I exited the woods together and I finally got to sprint (and win) someone for a place. I was really lucky Matt chooses to race singlespeed : P (all photos by Sam)

May 5, 2012

A fun filled day. We slept in and started the kayak trip a little late. After trying a small creek that was too low, we headed to Asheboro's Reese Lake for our first family outing in our kayaks. Then we met Clay and Kay for the Asheboro crit downtown and a playing Phase 10 till way to late! The photo of Daisy (the cat) is her watching 5 turkey vultures sitting n fence posts.

May 4, 2012

Test ride on Lake Tilley. I finally found a used second kayak cheap enough to buy, a Pamlico 135T Kayak by Wilderness Systems. I wanted a tandem so Sam and I or the whole family could get out. This is a heavy boat but with one seat in the middle it paddled great solo.

May 3, 2012

Another cat photo.... only 4 days left in the "summer" break.

May 2, 2012

Mark and Michelle stopped by for a night on their way from the beach to the mountains. We liked their roof top tent!

May 1, 2012

Road side flowers during a ride.

April 30, 2012

Sad kitties, in for the night.