F/18.0, 1/60, ISO 160, Photoshop CS6.
Day 76 / 365
I told my fiancé i will only have three beers today! ( I didn’t lie. ) 🙂
Interesting Fact: Approximately 13 million pints of Guinness will be consumed worldwide on St. Patrick’s Day, according to WalletHub, which released a St. Patrick’s Day by the Numbers report this week. ( http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/10-things-st-patricks-day-including-real/story?id=29618275 )
F/4.0, 1/60, ISO 125, Photoshop CS6.
Day 72 / 365
It is friday the 13th, what do you expect ?
Interesting Fact: Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Photoshop. ( http://www.adobe.com/company/fast-facts.html )
F/6.3, 1/500, ISO 1600.
European Starlings
Day 64 / 365
“My family immigrated from Europe”.
Interesting Fact: All of the 200 million European Starlings found in North America today are descendants of approximately 100 birds released in New York City’s Central Park in the early 1890s by an industrialist who wanted to establish, in the U.S., all birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/160/_/European_Starling.aspx )
F/4.5, 1/60, ISO 800.
Day 55 / 365
I would like to wish my beautiful fiancé a Happy Birthday, my wife to-be. A woman that means everything to me.
Interesting Fact: The origins of “Happy Birthday to You” date back to at least the mid-19th century, when two sisters, Patty and Mildred J. Hill, introduced the song “Good Morning to All” to Patty’s kindergarten class in Kentucky.[6] Years later, in 1893, they published the tune in their songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Kembrew McLeod stated that the Hill sisters likely copied the tune and lyrical idea from other popular and similar nineteenth-century songs that predated theirs, including Horace Waters’ “Happy Greetings to All”, “Good Night to You All” also from 1858, “A Happy New Year to All” from 1875, and “A Happy Greeting to All”, published 1885. However, Brauneis disputes this, noting that these earlier songs had quite different melodies. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You )
F/18.0, 1/60, ISO 160, Photoshop CS6.
Day 52 / 365
This easy mixer started it !
Interesting Fact: In 1908 Herbert Johnson, an engineer for the Hobart Manufacturing Company, invents an electric standing mixer. His inspiration came from observing a baker mixing bread dough with a metal spoon; soon he was toying with a mechanical counterpart. By 1915, his 80-quart mixer was standard equipment for most large bakeries. In 1919 Hobart introduced the KitchenAid Food Preparer (stand mixer) for the home. ( http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/mixers.htm )
F/8.0, 1/320, ISO 100.
Song Sparrow
Day 51 / 365
“Got any food? ”
Interesting Fact: They recognizes enemies by both instinctual and learned patterns, and adjusts future behavior based on both its own experiences in encounters, and from watching other birds interact with enemies. ( http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/146/_/Song_Sparrow.aspx )
F/16.0, 1/60, ISO 250, Photoshop CS6.
Day 46 / 365.
Valentine’s day is over and the love continues.
Interesting Fact: The term “love” is from the Sanskrit lubhyati, meaning “desire.”. ( http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/08/04_love.html )
F/22.0, 32.0, ISO 100.
Day 43 / 365
And for my next trick I’ll make another photo appear tomorrow.
Interesting Fact: Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1956, when their design was a revolutionary break from the metal eyewear of the past. Wayfarers enjoyed early popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the sunglasses had faded from the limelight by the 1970s, a lucrative 1982 product placement deal brought Wayfarers to their height of popularity. Since the mid-2000s, the sunglasses have been enjoying a revival. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-Ban_Wayfarer )
F/14.0, 1/60, ISO 100, Photoshop CS6.
Day 40 / 365
Best team ever Me Myself and I. 🙂
Interesting Fact: In 1940 Canadian Norman Breakey invented the first paint roller. He didn’t profit from it because he never patented it. During World War II, an inventor working for Sherwin-Williams also created a roller brush because the hogs’ hair used for paintbrushes was unavailable thanks to the war. ( http://jerryenospainting.com/8-fun-facts-about-painting/ )
F/6.3, 1/125, ISO 1600.
Peregrine Falcon
Day 39 / 365
Don’t Mind The Mess I Was Just Having A Snack!
Interesting Fact: Falcons are the swiftest birds of prey and are very muscular. In level flight the travel about 50 kilometers (31 miles) an hour. In a dive, called a “stoop” they reach speeds over 300 kilometers (186.33 miles) an hour! ( http://www.powayusd.com/teachers/lharvey/falcon2006/facts.htm )
Through Open Lens 