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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/2500 sec, f/1.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
About to Lose a Tooth
the front upper right (from our view) is dangling down, hanging on by a thread
( sorry, I seem to have gone overboard with the thin depth-of-field thing )

Having upgraded my laptop drive, I've finally started processing the thousands of photos I've taken in the last few days, and these two are the most recent of the bunch, from this morning....

Anthony's upper front-left tooth is very loose, just hanging on by a thread (so to speak), so I expect it to fall out today or tomorrow. [UPDATE: or the day after tomorrow.] He's never had a baby tooth fall out naturally, though six months ago, we did have two baby teeth pulled by a dentist.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos

He posed this morning in a T-shirt he made with his Aunt Natalie the other day, holding a card he spontaneously made for Mommy yesterday (which I asked him to hold for the picture because Mommy will be able to see the photo on my blog before postal mail reaches Kyoto).

Fumie misses us while we're visiting The States, but she knows it's important for Anthony's English, and for his American culture. But I told him that she'll have mixed emotions about his tooth falling out, that on one hand she'll be so proud that he's growing up, but sad that it's while we're away traveling.

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My laptop, which I'm using for photo processing during my month in Ohio, found its disk full after a few days of photos of Anthony's cousins. The 80-gig disk needed a quick upgrade.

On Monday I ordered an “On-The-Go Pro 500GB 7200RPM Triple Interface FW800/FW400/USB 2.0 Storage Solution” from Other World Computing, and it arrived Tuesday. It's a small external housing with Firewire and USB interfaces, and holds the same kind of disk as the laptop; I got the 500 gig version, with the faster 7200 RPM disk, which will help with Lightroom (which benefits greatly from faster disk)..

I plugged it in, copied my whole disk with Carbon Copy Cloner (donationware, like my Lightroom plugins, so I sent $20 in thanks), then swapped the disks so that the new 500-gig disk was in the laptop.

After booting, checking the disk-free space, angels sung: “396 giiiiiig freeeeeeeeeee.”

The On-The-Go external disk housing is great.... it doesn't even require a separate power plug, since it's powered over the Firewire cable. I'll use it with the old 80-gig disk as a photo-backup disk.

I've spent all day copying data around, and can now get back to processing photos. Hopefully tomorrow I can start to process some of the photos from the last couple of days, and get back to posting on the blog...

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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Tractor Ride

Yesterday's rock-throwing party ended abruptly when Grandpa showed up with a tractor and wagon. We loaded the kids (and an adult for safety) and headed off...

Anthony again had Grandma's old camera, and so again after loading both our sets of pictures into Lightroom in the evening, I could interleave the photos and view the event from two perspectives, something I'm finding that I really enjoy.

In the photo above you can see Anthony taking a picture....

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/350 sec, f/4, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
Not Much of a View Straight Ahead
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/30 sec, f/2.8, ISO 140 — map & image data — nearby photos
Kid Point of View
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 105 mm — ¹/640 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Snapping Yet Another

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/45 sec, f/2.8, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
Photo He Snapped
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/60 sec, f/2.8, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
Uncle Marty
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/350 sec, f/2.8, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
Following Along
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/2.8, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Good Old Fashioned Fun

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Off Around the Lake

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Catching Up

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/5, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
Far Side

After a trip around, Mike swapped with Marty for the next circuit....

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Heading Off Again

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/3200 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Little Princess Riding in her Carriage

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/4.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Taking a Bit of Video

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Relaxing

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Third POV
Photo by Michael R. Friedl

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/4.5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Thanking Grandpa

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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 110 mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Boys at the Lake
Marty and Josh Kreta, Anthony's uncle and cousin

Anthony and I were playing at the sandpile when a gaggle of relatives passed us on the way down to the lake, apparently so the kids could throw rocks into the water (which is real entertainment when you're a kid, or, if there are good skipping rocks, of any age).

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Heading Down
Josh and Uncle Marty  ·  Grace, Luke, and Uncle Mikey

I wasn't sure how many rocks were down by the lake, so I had Anthony fill a bucket with pebbles from the driveway...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 102 mm — ¹/2500 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rock Harvest

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135 mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Delivery

As I've written before, Anthony has recently shown an interest in photography, and it's gone up a notch here in the countryside with all his cousins. Grandma's old camera was lying around, so he's been using it quite a bit.

Here he's photographing some geese on the lake, followed by the photo he took...

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Photographing the Geese

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Photograph of the Geese
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

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Marty and Josh
rock in hand ready to throw

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Waiting to Capture Josh's Throw

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 102 mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
The Throw

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Chimping the Shot He Took

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/500 sec, f/4, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
The Shot He Took
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 135 mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Luke
dipping in for another handful of rocks

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Grace
making cute look easy

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 82 mm — ¹/1600 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Heavy Lifting

Compare the photo above, which I took, to the one below that Anthony took at about the same time, from about the same position....

Kodak DX6490 — ¹/350 sec, f/4, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
Heavy Lifting, and More
Photo by Anthony M. Friedl

Mine is a nice picture of Luke, but Anthony's captures so much more.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 95 mm — ¹/4000 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Josh “The Babe” Kreta

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 98 mm — ¹/800 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lesson in Rock Skipping

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — ¹/640 sec, f/4.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Going for Distance

I have the shot showing how far my brother Mike could throw the rock, but I'm not publishing it to avoid embarrassing him, because he'd be embarrassed if everyone knew that he could barely get the rock a third of the way across. So, I won't publish that one, or even tell you about it. Lips are sealed.

Our rock-throwing escapades ended soon after, when Grandpa showed up with the tractor and a little trailer big enough for the kids, but that'll have to wait for another post....

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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/1250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Joe Cool

From our ongoing trip to Ohio, a few more snaps from our first day here (the same day that produced the water play and chasing the geese posts)....

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Bowling-Pin Point of View

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Three Pointer

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Checking Messages

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 102 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/3.2, ISO 220 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Toad House”

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“Toad”

Anthony found a couple tiny toads in the grass, and brought them over to a “toad house” garden ornament, and put them in. He closed the door and intended that they would live there, but I suggested that he should leave the door open and let the toads decide for themselves. He really didn't like that idea, but in the end relented....

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Releasing a Firefly