River 'n' Surfin'

Contrary to what the title may suggest, I have no picture of someone surfing on a river, lol. Just an ocean surfer and some more river pics. ;-D Enjoy!

The logo on this one above is weird, but I like the focus of the splash and the green. :-)

I like rapids! Too bad I didn't get some close up ones (would have if I had a waterproof camera).

It was fun standing in the river. This one didn't focus quite right.

I love the color in this shot! and the bubbly water.

I still have more river pictures coming, so stay tuned, and please comment! :-D

Beaches: in day and dusk

Beaches! Beaches are so nice and varied, you can get all sorts of shots when your there - depending on the time of day. Here are some pictures I've been wanting to share here for awhile, though they aren't exactly new because I don't get down there on a good day often. Enjoy and please comment!

 

I like this one a lot! :-D

Sky and a little Sand

Hey all, decided to post some sky pics! They aren't the best though so I'd be glad of your opinions. ;-D Btw, I may not be around for a little while, so if you don't see a post in 5-7 days I went someplace (and hopefully is taking pictures). Enjoy and have a good week!

 

This one's my fav ^

Next time I'll be having some beach pictures, so here's a taste! lol :-D

Rivers and Flowers and Faces (oh my!)

Hey all! I've been in the picture taking and processing mood for the last week (but didn't get to those River pics till today, so the Beaches will be for next entry) and now you get to finally see them here! (yes....I've been neglecting this blog a bit and posting most of it on DeviantART)
Here are a few of my River pics first:

I call this one "I'm Sinking!" - lol

This I call "Not the best shot in the world" :P

This one's one of my favs. :-D

The water was definitely clear. :-)

There's a story behind the shots of this flower. ;-D

The story is that I took them while I was weeding - I just happened to see an oddly beautiful weed that I thought would make a good photo - So I took the camera, set it to macro, and took a few quick shots before throwing the weed away. :-) Amazing all 3 shots I took are pretty decent and I was even able to see my preview screen, lol.

He was being funny. XD This was his pose for me.

This shot wasn't posed for, but it's the better of the two in my opinion. ;-D

Wow, that was long, 'eh?

The Answer

Not in a million years would I have ever thought an object as simple to recognize as this would take so long to guess! Sure, there are a few different types and styles of it, but it should have been pretty easy. So you want to know what it is, eh? Well it is a........


Solar Panel!




Yup! That's right, a solar panel. One of those big (usually blue) sets of hundreds of small sun-grabbing tiles (see, there's your tiles) that turn solar energy into electricity.

See here is the same type of tile --->











And here is the positioning of the panel that I had taken a picture of.
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You guys like this guessing game any? 'Cause I thought it was pretty fun.
XD

New logo and a pic for you to guess at

Hey all! I have my butterfly pictures as a Facebook and DeviantART exclusive but I decided to post my new-and-improved butterfly photo. ;-D

I also posted a picture I want you guys to guess as to what it is! So please comment!
Both the butterfly and the next one have my NEW style of logo on them.

Monarch!

http://oneofakindknight.deviantart.com/art/Monarch-Butterfly-3-244786113?q=gallery%3Aoneofakindknight&qo=2

 Can you guess what this is?

P.S. PLEASE go back through my entries and vote on how Good or Excellent they were!! Thank you. ;-)

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A few Close-ups

For those of you on DeviantART, I will say that I now have one!! :-D

(http://oneofakindknight.deviantart.com)

For those of you already watching me on there you would know that I added a few that I haven't added here, so here they are:

The watch is my fav. ;-) You can find in on DeviantART HERE.

Fireworks!

Yeah, as a photographer I just had to try to take some pictures of the fireworks (sorry this post is so late, lol). All the other times I've tried to take pictures of them have not turned out well, but these are somewhat good. Tell me what you think. :-)

 

I call the one on the right "The Forge", lol.

 

 I made some graphics-art lightsabers from scratch using the one on the right. ;-D

 

This last one is one of my favorites. :-)

Does anyone know why I have WHITE BORDERS on pictures? Is this changeable? I don't remember having them before and there is no option that I can find to remove them....the HTML says it has no border! HELP?

Behind The Edit - Brown turned Green

I like posting the original pictures to ones I edit out of recognition, lol. Scroll down two posts and compare this original with my edited version!

Doesn't look all too horrible, but it's definitely Brown turned Green, 'eh? XD

New Poll

 This entry is to notify you that I opened a new Poll titled "How would you rate my photography?" on my sidebar. :-)
A nice addition as well is the entry rating system I now have per post. Voting is greatly appreciated! :-D

Fire 2 (and brown turned green)

I liked playing around with my last fire picture, so I decided to post two more. They aren't nearly as good, but I like them all the same, it is so difficult to get the shots right! I must of taken a dozen pictures of the same camp fire to get these ones.

The flames on this one are pretty awesome. My watermark isn't perfect, but I liked the positioning of the text. :-D

I actually did not try to stick the watermark in there, and I kinda messed it up, just ignore it. XD This shot had kinda long exposure.

I also thought I needed something more than just the above fire pictures. So, I took a pretty bad shot of the brown hills of California in the early-morning mist (shot from a moving vehicle), edited it like crazy (I changed the temperature, hehe), and boom! you have the below picture that looks like someplace wet and misty, lol.

Nice, 'eh?

PLEASE COMMENT WITH YOUR OPINION! :-D

Fire and Water

I decided to play with some pictures I took in Mexico back in 2009.  I think I did pretty good with my watermarks, what do you think? :-D

Fire!

 A pool, lol

Same pool.

This shot wasn't in focus at all, I tried to obviously get a unique fire and flower shot, lol. I got the fire picture above right after this one. This is a controlled field burn down in Mexico.

Trees and a rose

I like flowers pictures some, but my favorites are roses. They are just plain better looking than most other ones. XD Except maybe orchids a few of those other ones, lol. Here are some leafy tree shots and the rose:

 I like the green in this shot ^

I was playing around with my watermark again, lol. ^

The Rose. ;-D Nice, 'eh?

BlogSpot has been giving me some grief. It picks and chooses which of my pictures it'll let me upload, lol, and I don't like it.