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Well I did get to take pictures of my wife's flowers today but I haven't had a chance to download them. I also am having some issues with this computer and I have installed all of my software and moved all important files so that I can wipe the hard drive and do a restore. I will hopefully be back up and running soon. So for today I am sharing with you this image of a Lunar eclipse that happened recently.

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Wedding Day

I promised that I would try to put up images from my wife's flowers, well I have had a busy day and I have not had an opportunity to shoot them. I am hoping that tomorrow will be a better day but I am no hopeful. I will try to get some time to shoot them and get them posted asap.

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Wedding Rings

This is an image from the last wedding that I shot in Xenia, it is Valentines Day so I thought it would be appropriate to share an image that had something to do with love. I bought my wife some very pretty flowers today and I plan to photograph them tomorrow for fun. Perhaps I will share them with you tomorrow.

Happy Valentines Day,

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XCHS Homecoming

What a stud with 2 beautiful girls for Homecoming!

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Snow Shoeing

This image is not an image of Xenia, but it is taken by me and I am a resident of Xenia. Just about a week ago this is kind of what it looked like in Xenia. We had a lot of snow and it was cold and gray, but it warmed up and now the snow is gone and it is just gray. I am afraid it will be getting cold again soon though.

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Winter Fun

Sledding is a lot of fun, as you can see from this photo, though in this image they are not really sledding more like rafting. I think they are on an old deflated raft trying to make it down the hill. I can't remember if they made it or not. I do know that on this particular day there were no serious injuries, unlike many other times of sledding on this hill. I don't get it, when I was a kid we went sledding and every once in a while you heard about a kid getting a broken bone, but now a days every time my kids go it seems like someone comes back with a broken bone. Odder yet is that they don't get hurt going down the hill it seems they always get hurt on the way back up the hill. I mean I remember one time we took 4 giant inner tubes and had this really big guy lay on top and hold them together. Everyone else about 20 or 25 of us climbed up on top of him and went down together. I was the smallest so I had to climb up on the top and hold on for dear life. Which I managed to do quite well for the first 25 feet or so, then we hit the bumps that someone had dug into the snow for more fun and the tubes started bouncing and so did all 20 or so of us. It was at this point that I lost my grip on whoever I was hanging on to. As we bounced down the hill I bounced forward of the pile of people and eventually bounced right off the front of the tubes. Yep you guessed it I fell right in front of the tubes and became part of the hill, they tubed right over me like I wasn't even there. As far as they were concerned I was just a bump on the hill that screamed ouch when they hit it. My point is, I got up and went right back down again only not on top this time. I never got hurt let alone broke any bones.

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Cold War Relic

This image of a fallout shelter sign is hanging proudly on the courthouse building in downtown Xenia. I am not sure how may times I have passed this building but I had never noticed the sign until recently. If you look closely there is a capacity limit of 240. I don't know how long this sign has been up but I am sure it was during the cold war era. I don't know who they intended to allow in and who they were going to turn away but there are and were a lot more than 240 people in Xenia both then and now.

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Pow Wow

I took this photo at a local Indian Pow Wow. Each year there is a group of American Indians and their descendants that get together for a family reunion or what they call a Pow Wow. It is open to the public and is quite interesting and entertaining. If you get the chance you should try to attend a Pow Wow in your area.

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Abstract

Tonight is one of those nights where I don't really feel like writing but I must if I want to have a daily blog. I don't remember when I took this image but it is a bunch of lights out of focus. I have always liked images like this so when I came across this one I thought I would share it with you. I had a fun day of shooting couples portraits at a local high school homecoming tonight. Now I have a basement full of teenagers in my basement having a very loud after party. I think I am going to be up for a while tonight.

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Senior Portraits

I thought I would share this image from a recent Senior Portrait shoot that I did. I love shooting Seniors especially when they are as photogenic as this young lady.

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Happy Birthday to me!

I recently had a birthday and thought I would share a photo of me blowing out the candles on my cake. So happy birthday to me!

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Help!

I need help in finding out what kind of flower this is, one of my faithful followers has expressed an interest in flowers, I am hoping that she may be able to help. If any one knows I would really appreciate some help. I have loved this image since I first made it and I have never known what to call it. For those of you who are interested in photography I made this image by painting with light. It was my first real attempt at painting with light and it was probably the best I have ever done. It must have been a case of beginners luck as I have never been happy with my painting with light results since.

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Passageway

This is an old farmhouse that sat empty for a while before a group of crackheads moved in an started making crack. Once the police found out about it they seized the property and burned it. It was good practice for the Xenia Fire Departments and it made for a great photo op for me and a friend. Of all of the properties that I have snuck into to shoot this is the first one and the only one that I have been approached by someone and asked to leave. When we explained to the person what we were doing they gave us permission to stay and shoot. One of these days I will not be so lucky, but hey trying not to get caught is half the fun, shooting is the other half.

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Covered Bridge

Do covered bridges bring back memories from your childhood? If so then you are probably old! I have a few memories of them but not many, there are 6 covered bridges in the Xenia area, this one is the best kept of them all. I really like this bridge it is very photogenic within it's setting. Most of the others are not as easy to photograph. I will go back out to this bridge later this year to check on her but it is to cold right now.

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American Colors

This huge flag used to hang in an even bigger barn in Xenia. The barn is no longer there as it was demolished. You can see my friend Dave standing by the flag to give you an idea of its size. This is also the 2nd floor of the barn it has another level below where the dairy cows were milked. This level is where the hay was stored to feed the cows. It was an amazing barn, I loved investigating it looking for the next cool photograph.

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