Campout Aug 1 2009, - 'best of' pics.

I changed my Blog format, to this layout, so I can display pictures a bit larger... .

I think I posted a link to the slide show of these pictures in a former post... but there are like 140 pictures, many of them of various weeds I thought looked 'interesting' at the moment... and with a digital camera, there's no need to be frugal snap snap snapping away.

These 25, are some of the better shots that I liked. There are a few more in the bunch that were pretty good and they'll be up on Flickr still, but I figured I'd distill the bunch down to a 'consumable' size heh. Feel free to click these to make them bigger.

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interesting close up... from far away.

DSC_1341, originally uploaded by Zachary Wolf.

I just thought this was a cool shot, of a thistle from up in the mountains. The thing is, I didn't take my 'normal' lens that does a much better job of shots like this, so all I had was my 55-200.

I was surprised that it turned out as good as it did, seeing as how I took it from about 6 feet away heh. The background is all blurred out, but what ever bush / light patch that was behind it did a nice job of highlighting the flower I thought.

anyway, I just wanted to post this one up here, there is one or two more shots I thought turned out pretty nice from that trip... oh, in addition to the 70 billion I took of my nephew and niece who are adorable.

here's a link to the slide show - I know I need to 'cull' through a bunch of the boring 'bushes' and such, that were interesting at the time, but lose some of their appeal when placed in a slide show with several similar shots heh.

anyway, this is the link to the flickr set:

Sceens from my 'commute' - heh.

I like a lot of things about my "job" I work for a family owned Business, and sell asphalt maintenance products. heh, I know it seems quite a ways off from the Tech Industry which I have a natural affinity for, but I get to work with Family - talk to them most every day, and it's fun to feel like your building something that is a benefit to some people that you love.

In addition to those things, I get to take some amazing drives through some great country. I headed out to McCammon Idaho earlier this week, to measure up a drive way for an estimate. (here's the drive way heh,)




You find little roads like these:



Patriotism is alive and strong in South Eastern Idaho.



The Farm Sceens are great:



Here is a Panoramic shot from right off the road I was on: (click on it to get the larger effect.)



Anyway, the great views as I drive along sure make the time fly, and really make that part of the job enjoyable and stress free, gotta love that. heh, no Virus Confrence calls at 2 AM is kind of nice for a change of pace. :-P

WAde -out.