Decided to try my hand at some black & white conversion. I think this is one area where full blown Photoshop probably would be handy, rather than just PS Elements. Still, it’s another aspect I expect will improve only with practice.
There’s a very old cemetary outside of downtown Tulsa. Well, “very old” is a relative thing. There are headstones with dates going back over a century. For Oklahoma, that’s pretty old. Something about viewing the downtown skyscrapers across the fields of headstones has been catching my eye lately. I finally had an opportunity to shoot some pictures there this morning.
Yesterday, Davis took some pictures of the flowers he & Susan planted this year. Tonight, we stopped at a couple parks after dark, hunting for fireflies. I had the camera and tripod with me and tried some long exposure night shots.
We attended a birthday party/cookout for Michael, one of Davis’s friends. Water balloon wars seem to be the In Thing this summer.
Andrea, my eldest niece, and her fiancé, Derek, came into town tonight to talk to my Dad (who will be performing their marriage ceremony). We convinced the young couple to stroll around the Tulsa Rose Gardens and be the subject of numerous portraits.
Yesterday, we carpooled with Susan’s brother, Jake, down to the Sparks’s family reunion in Chickasha, OK. While there, we stopped at the Chickasha cemetary where Susan and Jake’s father is buried.
Saturday afternoon we carpooled with the grandparents to the Tulsa Zoo. Susan has a “Zoo Friends” membership, and she and the kids have been to the zoo several times already this summer. This was my first visit since probably 2003. Grandma said that in 20 years in Tulsa, she didn’t think she’d ever been to the zoo.
Susan needed some photographs of her quilts for the quilting class she will be teaching soon, so we set out to find a suitable location. We started at the Harwelden Mansion. We weren’t thrilled with the quilt pictures there, but I did get a chance to take my first Tulsa Penguin picture. We had better luck at the River’s Edge park. The kids played on the playground, and Susan waved bubbles around.
Anita & Eric had a “2H Club” Woodworking Craft Class yesterday. Eric saw to it that everyone received a lesson in safely operating many of his power tools, including the band saw, scroll saw, and nail gun. Nieces and nephews, with the help of their adult assistants, built a bird house, book ends, pulltoy puppies, and a waddling duck.
Susan, Serene & I took a walk through downtown Tulsa while Davis went to his ceramics class.
Next Page >>
