To officially mark our foray into the wilderness and red-neck-dom here in The Middle of Nowhere, PA - we made a trip to the fishin' hole in our neighborhood!
That's right - in our neighborhood - just a walk down the street- where I'm sure lots of ticks live.
As much as I am mocking this Sunday activity for us - it was SUPER fun and highly rewarding.
Rewarding? Fishing? Yup, in our pond - LOTS of little fishes are very hungry. We'd cast the line and within SECONDS, we'd have bites. Within a minute, we would have a fish on the line.
I'm a fan of instant gratification. It's a wonder I made it anywhere in this world. :)
So - pictures galore.
Michael gettin' ready:
Reminds me a bit of Andy Griffith (Griffin?)
Dad helpin' son:
Casting a line - me standing far away - hoping I didn't get hooked in the mouth myself:
Proud of our 1st catch of the day:
We got that one through the eye. Couldn't get the hook off. Finally had to just CUT the hook off and toss the fish back. Yah, there's a fish swimmin' around with a HOOK in his eye in that pond now.
Fishin' ain't for the light-of-heart-city-girl-named-Phuong.
Next, we caught a catfish who was lost from Louisiana:
Poor guy didn't even get the worm.Michael's hilarious face with the fish:
Brian, proud of his large catch of the day:
Nasty up close image of the worm that decided this fish's fate:
SUPER fun activity! We had NO idea there were fish in that pond!**End official post - start photography talk **
I took my D50 instead of my new fancy D700 to the pond - good grief. Talk about frustrating! It's got a zoom lens, which my D700 does not have. That's why I brought it. All sorts of exposure blow outs/strange color casts/frustrating. So glad photoshop saved a lot of these images!
Pretty proud of myself - edited 12 images in about 30 minutes. That's a record for me! A little over 2 minutes an image! Depending on the image, I can take anywhere from 3 - 15 minutes an image!
Finally came up with a work flow which lends me to posting my images on Smugmug and posting on the blog. If you are interested, here it is:
LOVE Adobe bridge for organizing images. Thanks KK for introducing me to this!
1) Copy images from memory card, paste into appropriate month/year folder
2) Adobe Bridge - assign 3 stars for every image I want in my smugmug album.
3) Edit whatever images I want to edit. Assign the new edited images as 3 stars. Send the original unedited images to no rating and gone.
4) Select all 3 star images - Batch rename - A_Month Year _ 01 etc for the month. If in the middle of the month, start count on the next number, which Bridge should do automatically.
5) Upload to smugmug all 3 star images.
6) Go back and select 5 star images for "best of book" at the end of the year.
VOILA! And so we start catching up. Next up is OBX to go through this process!
