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365 Day Photo Challenge 94/365 “Another Rainy Day”

06 Monday Apr 2015

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I’ts rained just about all day today.  In fact, there’s a chance of rain all week this week with storms moving in on Friday.  Because of the rain, I got on the treadmill and did 2 miles this evening.  I’d rather have been on my bike.  In less than 2 weeks I have a 46 mile ride down in Marion Alabama and I’m not ready.  I believe that if the ride was today I could do it, it would be rough but I could do it.

Have a safe week everyone!!

“Life Goes On!!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 93/365 “Happy Easter”

05 Sunday Apr 2015

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Woke up sore this morning from hiking in the woods all day yesterday taking pictures.  It was worth every ache and pain.  I’ve been editing for most of the day and I’m not even half way through all the images.  Some time during the shoot my camera decided to start shooting in Aperture priority mode.  When I shoot in this mode I’m usually using the bracket mode so that meant that every picture was either 2 steps under exposed and 2 steps over exposed.  So every picture has to be edited.

The picture above is part of the creek that I followed for over a mile.  As you can tell it’s really nice out there.  If you are ever in the Atlanta Georgia area it would be worth a couple of hours of your time to at least hike down to the old textile mill.  Sweetwater Creek State Park, remember the name.

Happy Easter Everyone!!

“Life Goes On”

365 Day Photo Challenge 92/365 “Meet Codie”

04 Saturday Apr 2015

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Meet Codie Bell from Atlanta Ga.  I spent several hours with her and her husband today at Sweetwater Creek State Park.  It was a great shoot with a beautiful young lady.  The park was packed today with families with kids and dogs.  We had to walk quite a while through the woods to find a place to have a little bit of privacy.  We still had several hikers come by while we were shooting and even then they were few and far between.

This lady has had three kids and I was shocked when she told me.  She had the body of a 20 year old with no stretch marks what so ever.  She works out every day and you could tell it.  We walked about 5 miles up and down hills that made me gasp for breath and it didn’t even phase her.

It amazed me how we would be somewhere shooting and other photographers would set up right behind her while I was shooting.  I’ve got several pictures with another tripod in in focus.  All they cared is for them to get their shot.

I’ve got a lot of editing to do.  Twice my camera somehow managed to either get in the Aperture Priority Mode or the Shutter Priority Mode.  With me doing bracketing shots one photo is 2 steps under and one picture is 2 steps over exposed.  So I’ve got to spend some time trying to see if I can salvage some of these pictures.  It’s going to be time consuming to do over 100 pictures.  1500 total pictures in all.  Maybe she can uses some of the pictures.

Happy Easter everyone!!!

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 91/365 “Let’s do it Again”

03 Friday Apr 2015

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This is the second time to post this.  The first time didn’t post for some reason.  Oh well.  Got a photo shoot tomorrow in Atlanta Ga at 1pm.  I’m planning on getting there at 9 am Georgia time to scope the place out and to take some pictures before it get’s too crowded.

My app screwed my mileage up today.  I biked over 21 miles today but my app messed up where I stopped and took a photo and it only logged a little over 17 miles.  I’ve logged over 2,000 miles with this app and this is the first time that this has done this.

“Life Goes On!”

Night Riding

03 Friday Apr 2015

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This is a video that was taken with my GoPro a couple of nights ago..  I attached it to my handlebar.  It was light when I started off but it got dark quick.  I do ride with a headlight and a red light that blinks so I was prepared.  This is just a small segment of the video that was taken.  I might try and load more at a later date.  Sorry that it’s not more exciting.

Hope you enjoy.

365 Day Photo Challenge 90/365 “Muscles Sore/Body Hurts”

02 Thursday Apr 2015

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My bike rides are finally getting to me.  My legs feel like jello and my arms feel like they’re about to fall off.  I did another 15 miles tonight and averaged 12 mph.  I’m not where I was two years ago but I’m getting there.  Tomorrows plan is to get up early and do my full loop which is about 23 miles.

My weight is not really going anywhere.  I’ve lost about 11 pounds but it goes up one day and down the next.  Could be muscle weight.  Maybe not.

“Life Goes On!!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 89/365 “Tomorrow is my Friday”

01 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Being that Friday is Good Friday I have the day off.  I’m really looking forward to a day off.  I’m hoping to get some major riding in being that I will be taking a day trip to Atlanta on Saturday and won’t be able to get a ride in.  It really depends on the weather.  I got a little more than 15 miles in today but it was forecasted to rain. Next week it’s supposed to rain all week.  Bummer.

I had my GOPro attached to my bicycle tonight and got some cool video.  I’m hoping to post some of it within the next day or two.  It was light out when I left but it got dark on my pretty quick and you can tell it on the video.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 88/365 “Another good workout”

31 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Well, for me that is.  Anytime I get through with a workout and my clothes feel as though I just took a dip in the pool with them on then I call that a good workout.  I did 45 minutes on the treadmill at a little over 3 mph.  I know by reading some of the blogs that I follow that this isn’t nothing but for an overweight old man I feel that it is.  It’s a start and tomorrow if it’s nice out I’ll get about 15 miles on my bicycle.  As predicted yesterday we’ve had some pretty rough storms come through here this evening.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 87/365 “Day of Rest”

30 Monday Mar 2015

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Today was a day of rest, sort of. I didn’t get on my treadmill nor did I get on my bike.  I used this time to work on my bike.  I’m somewhat disappointed in the tires that I bought a little over a year ago. Granted when I bought these I had already ordered some Grand Prix that came highly recommended for the condition of the roads around my house. The Grand Prix were not going to get here in time for my next big ride so I went ahead and got the cheaper tires so I could go riding.  The Bontrager tires that were purchased lasted year only had about 500 miles on them before they went bald and started showing the lining.  I’m glad I only paid around $30 each for them.

So I took a day of rest so that means that I’ll have to really work on the treadmill tomorrow night and the rest of the week.  It’s supposed to storm tomorrow evening and rain the rest of the week until Friday so unfortunately I’ll be seeing more of my treadmill than I want too.  Alabama weather goes nuts this time of year.  You never know what the weather is going to do until that day.

I’ll be in Atlanta Georgia on Saturday at the Sweetwater Creek State Park so if you’re in the area give me a shout and we’ll hook up.  I’m going to spend the first part of the day taking pictures of the wildlife and landscape.  The afternoon is going to be taking pictures of a beautiful young lady.  Can’t wait to share some new work.

The above is an HDR image of the entrance to the Japanese Gardens at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, Alabama.  Hope you enjoy.  If you like this image click on it and it will take you to my smugmug website where you will find more pictures.

365 Day Photo Challenge 86/365 “Four Day Week Ahead”

29 Sunday Mar 2015

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Good Friday is this week so I have a four day week ahead.  I’m excited but at the same time I’m apprehensive too.  Over half the department will be off so it’s going to be a very busy four days.

I got over twenty miles in today.  Yesterday was just too cold for me to ride as I don’t own any cold weather riding gear.  The temp climbed to around 60 degrees this afternoon so I decided to see if I could get a ride in.  I have an adapter to fit a GoPro on my handlebar but I couldn’t find it.  I hoping to mount my GoPro and take a short vid of the route that I take to show everyone.

“Life Goes On!”