What was that squirrel doing in there?

A couple of weeks back as I was sitting in my office a co-worker asked if I knew who that was getting out of my car.  At the time the car was new to me, rising to my feet to look out the window at what he was looking at I was surprised to see some squirrely behavior.  I caught a shot of the suspect breaking out of my car, what was he doing in there?

Low light shot of a gecko with E-PL2 & 42-150mm lens

HugeGeckoInfo_wjLetting the dogs outside tonight and noticed this little guy lurking in a corner near the back door on the tile.  Despite the shot the floor is pretty clean, the size of the little black ant gives some scale to the < 1.5″ nose to end of tail gecko. To see the unaltered (except for watermark) full size image click this link, it is a large file so just letting you know for low bandwidth links.  Full size jpeg.

A shot of my office with the Olympus Fish-eye converter FCON-PO1

Arrived at work early enough this morning to use the Olympus Fish-eye converter to take a picture of my office.  The predawn light was very nice and an earlier evening getting to know the Manual settings of the camera has paid off, the manual shot turned out very nice.  My first rookie mistake with a consequence with the new camera, never reset to factory defaults and shoot expecting to have RAW formated shots available to you.  You will need to go back into the menu and set that as well as the SCP (super control panel) menu to be your default menu for the various types of control settings, particularly the P,A,S,M modes.

New desktop wallpaper backgrounds

hayrolls_wjI have really enjoyed taking pictures and then modifying them to look more like something I only wish I could have painted. I have uploaded 3 images I modified to resemble a painted version from Suzanne’s trip to China that I really liked, and one from my hay rolls in searcy.

If you like them by all means use them as your desktop background.  Just click a thumbnail below, when it’s in the image-browser right click on it and select save image, or set as wallpaper.  If you want to use them for any other reason please contact me and I am sure we can come to some agreeable terms, usually just attribution if it is not for a commercial use.