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Another Saturday Barbeque

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We invited Will and Sue as well as Liza and the kids over this past weekend for another barbeque in the backyard.  It was a beautiful day and everyone enjoyed themselves.   I have to mention that it has become very clear to Sheila and me that the best home improvement project we have ever done was to build our outdoor kitchen and grill.  This improvement has made things so much easier even in the dead of winter.  That outdoor kitchen and grill is under cover away from rain, hail and snow.  In the summertime when inside the house is ridiculously hot and sticky, it is awesome having everything available outdoors.  We could still use a few small improvements in this convenient outdoor kitchen but it is already our most useful home improvement.  This kitchen worked out very well on this day too. When the kids arrived, they were pretty hot so we started off the day with fresh strawberry popsicles.  Because of the pandemic, we don't see the kids all that often anymore so I try to get

Light Painting

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Light painting is a unique form of art that most photographers have tried at one time or another and this photographer is no exception. You have flashlights in hand, a camera on a tripod, a remote shutter release, and while you use a long shutter exposure you freely and fluidly draw or light objects with the flashlights.  This type of art can be tedious and sometimes frustrating but it is always fun to see what you have created! In this image, I painted the flag in light using a flashlight while it blew in the breeze... Until now, there have been two forms of light painting.  The first involves using flashlights as a way to paint subjects with light rather than lighting them with very harsh flashguns.  Using this technique, the objects can be anything, including people.  I have seen some beautiful long exposure portraits done with flashlights.  I myself have used this technique more than once to create beautifully lit scenes in photographs.  This technique produces a very so