144/365 Katie Ramsey at Special Olympics

5-24-2013

143/365 Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies

5-23-2013

142/365 Flowers all day long

5-22-2013

I like to stop by Mount Holly Cemetery and pay a visit to my old friend Jennings Osborne.  He loved this place because it is beautiful and full of history and many famous Arkansans.

 I hope someday when it is my time to go that I can be buried in a cemetery that is as beautiful as Mount Holly.

 These beautiful red lilies belong to the Doran's .  Mr. Doran graciously let me photograph in his yard.  I have never seen anything like these bright red beauties and the backlighting was perfect.

 I had a film camera with a macro lens with me although it was loaded with B&W film.

Wild blooms along the bike trail by ASU Searcy.

All color photos were taken with a Leica M8.  Not the ideal flower shooting camera but it did fine today.  B&W photos were taken with a Canon EF and a 55mm macro.

141/365 Bloom and a bug

5-21-2013

Shooting a safe quick photo on a rainy day and I got a bug on the bloom.

140/365 50th Anniversary Portraits

5-20-2013

Fred and Alice Jewell called wanting to have portraits made for their upcoming 50th anniversary.  This is the second time for me shooting the Jewells.  I photographed them in the spring of 1989 as a freshman Petit Jean photographer.  The assignment was to photograph a married faculty couple.  I chose the Jewells because I had Alice as a teacher that semester  so I knew her and they were agreeable.  I did a little searching and didn't turn up the Petit Jean photo so I am not sure it was ever used.  I hope the Jewells have a wonderful anniversary and that they have many happy years ahead.

139/365 Wild by design

5-19-2013

I passed these in a ditch beside a body shop on Booth road.  These grew wild in a ditch.  I don't believe  these grew wild, I believe God planted them there for me on this very day.  When I see the beauty I am humbled by God's handiwork.  On the other hand I am stunned by the quality you can get out of an iPhone when it nails the focus.

138/365 Chain Link Shadows - Film Scan

5-18-2013

Some days you just don't get anything.  Today was one of those days so I am substituting a film scan from the last roll of film that I got developed.  Photo taken with a Canon EF and a 55mm macro lens.

137/365 3A State Baseball Champs

5-17-2013

Harding Academy scored 5 run in both the first and second innings and the game was never in jeopardy again.  These boys also won the State in football and basketball this year.

136/365 The Citizen Photographer

5-16-2013

I haven't been to The Daily Citizen in years.  Years ago, I stopped by often to drop off prints.  We upgraded to digital and then we delivered images on Zip Disks and then CD-Rs and then finally by email.  Today I stopped by to get press credentials for the State 3A baseball championship game.  Tomorrow, I will be the Citizen photographer at the game.

135/365 Joe Pike Prayer Garden

5-15-2013

This little garden nook at the Business building is a prayer garden dedicated to the memory of Harding employee Joe Pike.  Joe died in an accident during the construction of the addition to the building.  This is a peaceful spot that I enjoy visiting and I am thankful that it keeps the memory of Joe Pike alive.