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BUt I Crash Against The Cotton

Willing participant to practice with flash softbox

Sunflower fields near DIA - a few miles east of E470 on 56th.

Motor Museum, Isle of Man

This almost looks surreal, but that was our view today at lunch

My first attempt with a new lens....lots of practice needed!

This reminded me of ladies in waiting circling the princess

Taken from a sandbar on Woman Key, about six miles off the coast of Key West. The water was so smooth, the sky and water just blended together in the distance and made it impossible to see where one ended and the other began.

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lyf is grand!

Architecture

cutest little christmas town, all had working parts.

Every Christmas someone decorates this lonely tree on an otherwise uninhabited stretch of road. The other day I stopped to have a look.

When I read the letter you wrote to me
It make me mad, mad, mad
When I read the news that it told me
It make me sad, sad, sad
But I still love you so, I can't let you go
I love you, oh baby, I love you

A trocedor puts the finishing touches on a hand-rolled cigar.

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The smile on your face
Lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes
Saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand
Says you'll catch me wherever I fall
You say it best when you say nothing at all

Used south facing picture window with bright afternoon sunlight as sole light source. Extremely high ISO 12800 and open aperture (f/4.5) to blow out light and hide tree, porch posts, and parked car in background. Tried to manually focus on leading lattice work near center but was fooled by average of front and rear lattices, true image focus is on the plane of the stem.

Faith is my favorite model...I've taken hundreds of pictures of her and never got a bad one. She can ride with with the best of them.

Brittany Corona, Director for State Programs and Government Relations for Friedman Foundation for Education Choice, addresses Western Conservative Summit 2016 at Colorado Convention Center, Denver.

Butterflies, an icon for the city of Beijing, form a mural on the elevator back wall above the Four Seasons-Beijing atrium and are visible from each floor.

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And older fishing boat rest in her slip in San Francisco.

I saw this chap's striding silhouette against the window at the Victoria and Albert Museum and couldn't resist capturing the moment.

A young girl plays peekaboo with her younger brother around a park bench inside the Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The family was visiting during the equivalent of Chinese Memorial Day.

Shot with a Nikon D3x and 70-20 lens with Nikon SB900 Flashes. F2.8 and iso 200 with shutter at 1/160

3OH!3 performs at Denver Civic Center Park for the 2016 Superbowl victory celebration.

Find a pinecone,
pick it up,
roll it in glue and glitter
for a little Christmas luck

Sunrise and Moon Set in the Mirror.

Children love easily.
Children covet little crushes.

Children break each-others hearts 1000 times before adolescence...

Children, leave their loves in the playground after dark.

Quite hypnotic in my eyes, reminds me of the Mandelbrot set...anyone else think so?

A fallen log blends in with the wild landscape in Washington Gulch near Crested Butte, Colorado.

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We went on a trip to Chiang Mai with our hosts while vacationing in Thailand. This wonderful gentleman was in a small shop next the market where our host's cousin had a stall. He has an apparent joy of life which seemed to cheer everyone around him. He refurbishes and repairs furniture.

Oh, can't it be
The voices calling me
They get lost and out of time
I should've seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind

Table setting for formal evening dinner presents a detailed still life in the dining room of Coral Princess during Panama Canal cruise.

A butterfly seems to be crashing a party. You can see one of the tongues is coiled, while the ones on the ground are sipping from whatever they found tasty. Shot with a telephoto lens from a kayak. Taken near Ottawa, Canada

I'll be out shooting another gather and branding this summer and hopefully have enough to publish a book on ranch life.

When the night takes a deep breath
And the daylight has no air
If I crawl, if I come crawling home
Will you be there?

I took a friend out to his favorite bow hunting spot in the marsh for some shots.

This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
I've been waiting on my own too long

This one of the tombstones near my parent's grave its such a sad thing to see but for me I think it has a lot of emotions to it.. Hope you like it..

Was shooting into another room through an open doorway as the pastor guests gathered for pre-processional prayer. While working in post to bring out the full front portrait using available light, found the silhouette of another made for a more interesting image than my original intent.
I think I may have over processed with cropping, pseudo-HDR process, and light/shadow post work, I see graininess. What do you say?

That girl in the gold glittering shoes, faceless, timeless, glistening.
That girl she always on her way out the door.
She always turns to go.

The setting sun at Pismo Beach pier behind two surfers calling it a day.

Figured id put up one of my shots from his show a few months back in Manchester NH..RIP Scott

I liked this one of Kitters too. She'd look at the camera for about .5 seconds, just long enough to get her face in and right back out of focus since I was shooting a very shallow DOF. Luckily this one and the one I posted a while ago came out. I'm here visiting for a while, I'll keep trying.

So so tiny.

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Before I was able to make this picture, I was hiking for 45 minutes, with a 150m (50ft) height difference.
On this shot you're looking over the south area of Lake Garda, with Garda (the village) in the middle

Fall colors explode at the Maroon Bells, in the Aspen Snowmass Wilderness Area in Colorado.

Find prints on my website here: http://scottsmith.photos/albums/Fall-Colors/143321/Maroon-Bells-No-2

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Best known for it's amphitheater where first class concerts are held nearly every weekend, the blue Colorado sky brings out the color in the area's geological features.

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little goblin

velvet f2.8

Who didn't like playing ball with their favorite pet?

The Central Valley Foothills are alive and well after an early rainfall, helping to relieve our 4 year drought! Bring on some spring rain now!

The Denver Art Museum from the rear alley, the lines in this attracted my eye as I was walking past.

This little guy wanted to see what I was using to take photos of him!

"This way or no way, you know I'll be free. Just like that bluebird, now ain't that just like me" - David Bowie

This little picture was taken at Salmon Valley, British Columbia on New Years Eve. The weather was 23 degrees below 0 ...but having a thermos full of coffee and baileys kept me warm.

ISO - 500, F1.8, 13" (which seemed like a really long time while it was cold out)

1/3000 of a second strobe, still not fast enough to eliminate motion blur. I really want to perfect this.

The last two roses of the season hanging in there until mid-November from a plant next to my driveway.

...the title says it all...
http://mirrorsedgephotography.com

Trying out new lens in low light.

My niece's cat, Kitters.

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Spawling sunflower fields, just a mile away from Denver International Airport.

Was struck by the weathering damage on this shutter along walkway of Mountain Village Shopping Center.

Low angle, morning sunlight dramatically lights up a cottonwood tree along walking path in Green Valley Ranch Golf Course and Highline Canal Trail, Denver, CO.

The youngest Senator currently in the US Senate, Tom Cotton of Kansas, gives his keynote speech in Denver, CO, Convention Center before audience at Western Conservative Summit 2016.

I noticed this bee wasn't very energetic so I kept an eye on it to see whether it would fly away. When it didn't, I thought that perhaps it was really tired and lacking in energy so I went and got some sugared water. I went amongst the plants and tried not to trample them, then carefully spooned some water next to it. I tried to get the water as close as possible without getting it onto the bee for risk of hurting it. It still didn't move for the few minutes I kept watch over it so I smoothed the water over as close as I could. At last, the bee managed to draw enough energy to make a little lunge into the water. I then left it alone and just been to take a look and it's flown away! :D

Korean War vintage F-86 Sabre.

Morning ritual, taken with Mini iPad!

Looking towards Lake Turquoise through the trees at sunset.

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Cajun spiced butter and corn bread course served in Coral Princess' Explorers Lounge restaurant as part of Steakhouse night.

"The wise man in the storm prays not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear" RALPH WALDO EMMERSON

Just a little snowflake and some bokeh :)

The last of the blue hour being enjoyed by two little cowboys...only on the Central Coast of California :)

Holding out in the cold of the morning.

Too cute to keep to myself. Just a great candid shot of a big brother kissing his little sister on the cheek. I couldn't ask for anything better than to just be there to catch it when it happened.

An ornament hangs in a window at a shopping mall in Denver, Colorado.

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