Your Sunday Best (5/12/12)

A swim lesson's tools of the trade, 12 May 2012, local YMCA.

Taken with an iPhone camera, I used PicMonkey to edit the photo (I used "Posterize").

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Your Sunday Best (5/5/12)

"The Boys of Summer (and Mid-Spring)"

This week's "Your Sunday Best" photo is of Cedar Rapids Kernels baseball, during the break in the middle of their double-header games on Friday May 4th, taken with the Instagram app on my iPhone.

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Your Sunday Best, 29 April 2012

Thomas Park, Marion, IA

This week's "Your Sunday Best, #14" entry, taken with an iPhone using the Instagram application.

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Your Sunday Best 21 Apr 2012

South side of Schaeffer Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

I used my iPhone to take this photo, using the Instagram application.

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Your Sunday Best - 14 April 2012

Details of a Pow Wow dancer's regalia, 7 April 2012, The University of Iowa's 19th Annual Pow Wow, Iowa City, IA.

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Your Sunday Best, March 4, 2012

"Your Sunday Best" is a weekly photo challenge hosted by A Rural Journal.

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Livie's birthday flowers; in a photo, they'll last.

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Your Sunday Best, Feb 19, 2012

The Old Capitol, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

Livie helped me choose a texture (the postmarked envelope) and effect (Lomo-ish) on Picnik.

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Your Sunday Best, 29 Aug 2011

This is the Ferris Wheel at the 2011 Iowa State Fair. I used Picnik and its "Boost" and "Lomo-ish" effects.

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Your Sunday Best - 26 Jun 2011

This big, ol' tree fell during a recent, severe storm that blew through east-central Iowa. Can you believe that?!

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Your Sunday Best - 4 Jun 2011

Mr. Sniffer, the Westie, circa early 1990s.

 This is Mr. Sniffer. My brother, Joe, named him. He's a West Highland White Terrier, or Westie.

He belonged to my grandparents when they lived in El Paso, TX. I chose this photo because I was thinking of him this week after seeing someone else's Westie walking through my neighborhood.

Plus, the photo is cute; it looks like he's sniffing that plant. He was actually just seeing what I was doing out in my grandparents' flowerbed. (I was taking pictures, of course.) And it shows his "I know everything that's going on in my yard" attitude.

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Your Sunday Best - 28 May 2011

Rose, Alamogordo, NM, circa April, 2007.

This was from one of the rose bushes in my backyard in Alamogordo, NM. We had three rose bushes in our back yard: a dark pink bush on the left, a yellow one on the right, and in the middle? Yellow with pink edges, as seen in the photo above (cross-pollination, I guess?).

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Your Sunday Best - 21 May 2011

This week, I'm heading back to Chicago and Millennium Park's "Cloud Gate" sculpture, a.k.a. "The Bean." I thought sharing another view of "The Bean" would be fun.

I love how you can look at it at one angle, and it'll look metallic, mirror-like. But at another angle (as seen in the photo below), you get an awesome mirror-image of the sky and the cityscape.

"Cloud Gate" (The Bean), Labor Day, 2009

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Your Sunday Best - 7 May 2011

Yes, I love New Mexico . . . and here's another favorite photo of mine from the Land of Enchantment which I'm sharing today:

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, NM, October 2006.

I took this photo when Andrew and I were in Santa Fe for a day in October 2006 after his return from his deployment to the Middle East.

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Your Sunday Best - 30 Apr 2011

Here's this week's photo for Your Sunday Best, hosted by A Rural Journal.

White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, NM, February 2007

I've posted this photo before, but it's one of my favorite New Mexico scenes, and one I wanted to share again. 

I took this photo at White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico, when we still lived in Alamogordo. It was in February 2007, just a couple weeks before Livie's first birthday. She had fallen asleep in the car on our way to White Sands (it was about a 20-25 minute ride, so of course, she fell asleep). Andrew sat in the car with her while I got out and took a few photos, the above being one of them.

I miss the vibrant skies of New Mexico, where we had 300+ days of sunshine per year. At least I have photos to look at when I'm homesick for the Southwest.


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Your Sunday Best - 23 Apr 2011

Okay, here's my contribution for "Your Sunday Best," hosted by A Rural Journal.

"Cloud Gate" (a.k.a. "The Bean"), Chicago, IL October 2009

I took this photo in October 2009, while Livie and I were in Chicago with a friend of mine and her daughter. They'd wanted to do something "touristy" and "uniquely Chicago," so I figured they'd like seeing "The Bean," as it's affectionately called. We then headed to dinner for some authentic Chicago-style pizza, before heading to Ghirardelli's (across from the old Water Tower) for chocolate.

Livie and I love "The Bean" because it is just so cool-looking. It's fun getting photos of it because of its reflective surface. And with the color of the sky, the cityscape, the clouds . . .

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Your Sunday Best - 17 Apr 2011

Today I'm participating in the weekly "Your Sunday Best" (showcasing photographers' favorite "photo of the week" entries) hosted by A Rural Journal.

Farmers' Market produce (mostly eggplants) from summer '10.

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