Colorado Stream Crossing...

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Taken about 5 years ago, with a Canon Powershot IIRC.




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Edit: I REALLY wish I hadn't cut her feet off in this shot... :(

[ConsAreLiars]

1. Crop a bit below the right hand

and the missing feet are no longer an issue. Great capture of a moment many of us can recall from personal experience, and maybe those who never had that opportunity can experience and appreciate vicariously.

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2. Thanks ConsAreLiars!

Better? Seems so to me...thankyou for sharing your knowledge; I really do appreciate constructive criticism! :hi:





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[ConsAreLiars]

3. I would have cut a bit lower,

but that's getting a bit personal-style subjective. Another crop to try out, to see what pleases you best, would be at the top, maybe 2/3 the way through the ulna, since the rest of the arm/hand is pretty well communicated already through the first part, and the viewer sort of automatically will fill in the rest. It's surprising how in one case the viewer fills in the missing part without question and in another sees an amputation.

[intheflow]

4. I bet her toesies were cold after that crossing!

Brrr!

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5. Her toesies were cold, indeed. We didn't mind, though...

She and I had been driving from Iowa California during a very hot July a few years back. That stop in Colorado felt GOOD! :D

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[TahitiNut]

6. Y'know... she's lovely. I can't help but think it's cheating to have such a subject.

:silly:

You must feel really 'large' (warm, thrilled) inside to contemplate this PERSON (whole, unique, adventurous, awed) who is your daughter. (Somehow the word 'pride' doesn't quite hack it.)

I guess it's something like .... amazing grace.

Good on you, sir! YOUR feelings come through in the photos you take of her. Kudos.

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7. Thanks TahitiNut...I take more shots of her than my older daughter....

only because I have done a lot more picture-takin' over the last four or five years, and eldest daughter has been away at school in Philly, unavailable for very many photo ops.

Even this one is getting skittish; I have to catch her in a willing frame of mind, or without her noticing.

I love my kids and my wife (of 30 years in December), but I came from a house where love of the parents for each other was complicated by severe alcoholism, with the kid in the middle.

Maybe what shows in the pics is my delight with being in a family situation where everyone loves and likes each other. It certainly hasn't always been perfect, but the underlying unity has carried us through the normal rough periods of marriage and child- raising.

However...there may be something else I am usually unaware of until someone points it out...my wife and the girls all sing wonderfully, and the younger one plays the piano with some competence...whenever any combination of them perform in public someone always comes up to me afterward and asks if I have any buttons left on my shirt, so I must look pretty "large," as they always tease me about it. :D

I just really, really enjoy my family...it is night and day from what I lived with until I was old enough (17) to convince my parents (very little arm twisting required) to let me join the Army.

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[Eurobabe]

8. adsos and jhain win the best redhead category

their daughters are all gorgeous with that beautiful red hair. :D