Been missing my eagles so when I saw a flock of gulls at a local park, I grabbed my trusted 1DX paired with my 100-400 MKII and practiced my birds in flight techniques.
Week 4 of 52: Ring-Bill Gull in flight.
Life is good and I am blessed!
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For week three I picked a family photo from my trip out in sunny Phoenix. I like that the kids were rough-housing and mom was carefully watching.
Life is good and I am blessed!
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For three years I did a a photo a week for 52 weeks to remind me to always pick up a camera. After 2012, 2013, & 2014, I took 2015 off due to the move and all. One of my New’s Years Resolution is to complete another 52 week project.
Week 2: a Pair of Burrowing Owls
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I had a work trip back to Illinois, Sharon decided to drive up and spend some time with Shelby and then met me in Bloomington to get to see Audry and little Layla. Somehow while she was up in central Illinois she was able to talk her kids into letting her kidnap the oldest two granddaughters for TWO weeks. It was my job to try and balance work and time with all the girls. My main objective was to keep them busy and wear them out!
Everyday at least once a day time was spent in our pool! They wore Nana down and she let them jump off the waterfall. Then Nana had to get in on the action. This is my favorite photograph of the two weeks.
Day 1 Activities was Urban Air: Both girls learned to do back flips!
My trusty 5D3 handled the tough lighting conditions, but the iPhone videos did a nice job of capturing the series of flips.
Couple more days in the pool and then over to JumpStreet in Allen for a larger trampoline park.
Even Nana decided to flip around.
The last big adventure was to take their cousin and her friend over to Fort Worth to see the Long Horns and cattle drive.
I was really impressed when Sharon told me to pose the girls and capture the repeating vanishing lines.
All in all I think they had a blast and went home wore out.
Life is good and we are blessed!
I have several new hummingbird photos to post, I’ll work on keeping caught up and doing better!
While on vacation, I ventured out from my normal golf club and drove over to Flower Mound and played the Tour 18. Tour 18 is America’s Greatest Golf Holes. I took my camera along to document a few of the holes.
The Blue Monster from Doral.
Crooked Sticks #15
Wing Foot #10 Par 3, 174 yards, I hit the green and made par.
TPC Sawgrass #17. I hit the green and 3 putted for Bogey. I played a knocked down 9 iron from 127 into a strong wind.
The Start of Amen Corner: #11 from Augusta National 
#12 from Augusta National, 148 yards, I hit the green on the fly, one hopped into the back bunker. Hit a decent sand shot that stayed on the green and 2 putted for Bogey. 
The REAL #12 from my trip to the Masters.
#13 from Augusta National 
The REAL #13
I was supposed to play with a couple of guys from my normal group. They all backed out and got paired with 3 three Farmers Branch Police Department Officers. Really nice guys. This was before all the craziness but I offered to take their photo on TPC 17 tee box. Thanks for your service guys!
The course was in decent shape. The bunkers were washed out from some heavy rains the two days before. The mid-week rate was only $39 and I thought it was a fun track and a good value. I will go back now that I have played a lot of the blind tee shots.
Life is good and I am blessed!
Kent