Ray had asked me to take photos at his wife’s surprise birthday party today.
I drove on down the road to his place around three. The cooks were at it when I arrived with this big portable BBQ. Nice rig.
Surprise
At the proper time we all went out on the bridge on the road by their place to greet Elaine the birthday girl in the red car.
She was surprised and got out of the car and gave out some hugs. That’s Elaine in the pink.
We all got off the road before someone got run over and went back to the house.
The cooks were cooking up a storm, well, er chicken anyway.
The back deck was kept real busy with lots of bull going on, I mean visiting.
Lots of people on the side of the house too. I know quite a few of them as a lot of them are locals I went to school with many years ago.
More visiting on the back deck. Everyone was real friendly.
Emotional speech
Here’s Elaine giving a small speech at the dinner table.
Cake cutter upper
And here’s the cake getting cut up by a very capable cake cutter upper and Elaine is checking out the cake. It looked like real good cake, but none for me cause of my corn stuff.
Here’s Ray Elaine’s hubby doing some visiting and relaxing after getting this party together.
Their puppy
And there dog, a puppy that is usually all over you was very well behaved today. Good dog.
And near the end Elaine gets her baby fix.
I took over 500 pictures of the event so I hope she finds a few good ones in the bunch.
Thank you, Bob, for this lovely blog post! It’s so wonderful that you have been in my life all these years — and in Ray’s even longer! The pix are terrific, and I’m slowly going through the all the ones you downloaded for me. Rich, Jane and David are still here — so I probably won’t get to serious photo editing until they leave Thursday!
You are terrific!
Elaine
What a fun time, Happy Birthday Elaine ! The chicken cooker all the people and cakes sound wonderful. Love surprise birthday parties we at 2 to go to this summer as well.
Happy Birthday, Elaine! Nice to have a handy photographer and a cake cutter upper nearby when you need one! Love the surprise parties! Heck, any party with friends, wine and cake. :)
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Header Pictures
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Thank you, Bob, for this lovely blog post! It’s so wonderful that you have been in my life all these years — and in Ray’s even longer! The pix are terrific, and I’m slowly going through the all the ones you downloaded for me. Rich, Jane and David are still here — so I probably won’t get to serious photo editing until they leave Thursday!
You are terrific!
Elaine
What a fun time, Happy Birthday Elaine ! The chicken cooker all the people and cakes sound wonderful. Love surprise birthday parties we at 2 to go to this summer as well.
Happy Birthday, Elaine! Nice to have a handy photographer and a cake cutter upper nearby when you need one! Love the surprise parties! Heck, any party with friends, wine and cake. :)