New lens- more fotos- Enjoy...

Here is a shot off my back porch of the driveway coming into our development...



Here are some flowers from the front of the house...



More flowers on a table in the back porch...



Here is a green mater...



Here is one of our three beasties- Chaser in the sunlight...



Here is a disappointed cat walking away from a shut door...



Here is one of the kids Gerblily bits named Basil...



And this is twilight in the south...Hope you enjoyed the pics.

Nice shots, AC! Glad you are liking the 50mm. I never really use mine outdoors because there's usually plenty of light and the 50mm is a tight frame to work with. Great shots, though.

When does a 'development' become a 'neighborhood'? Once it's fully developed?

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

You have a really good idea for light and shadow play, AC. Really great pictures. Your neighborhood is really pretty. Is that a little creek and a bridge?

Nice pics. Looks like you guys are having some great weather.

"The beets, they haunt me." Louise

Hey Jen-

It's a man made pond that they made when the "neighborhood" was "developed"...

I grew up in California- I am so used to these planned suburban places- hard for me to call it a neighborhood. Love the way this lens sucks up light though- Even the outside shots have a completely different feel to em-

Nice pics AC!

Your tomato is ready to fry!




"There has to be an invisible sun."

I had really never heard anybody say they lived in a development. Struck me as funny. I know someone that lives in the projects, although that seems like a misnomer. I think it was a project that somebody just quit in the middle of.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

My (out of favor) neighbor refers to our neighborhood as a "PUD," Planned Urban Development.

Whatever. It's a nice large neighborhood about twenty years old with a PITA Homeowners' Association.

Nice.

Very cool shots, AC. I love that first one. Green scenes like that are very cool to see. One day soon I seriously need to get myself back into a living situation that has greenness like that.
I like the cat shots too. Maybe it's too much icanhascheesburger for me, but both of their expressions cracked me up for some reason. The critter pic? Not so much. I think I'll leave it to certain critter people here to comment on that one.

I like gerbils, the others meh, not so much.
And the pics are great AC. Of course the cat one made me smile.

And you have a basket of twig balls.

I love dried twigs fashioned into balls and stuff. Love huge twigs in branches in big vases as well. I have both balls and pointy sticks where we live cause that's how I roll.

Linds has started me on a 12-step program and tries to cover my eyes whenever we spot them out shopping so I don't buy more.

I love that weeping willow tree!
We planted one in the natural spring in the pony lot at home. Those things have crazy root systems!

Not half as bad as bamboo- that shit is crazy!

thanks for all the kind words about the fotos...

That tomato pic is so sharp, I want to pluck it right out of the 'puter!
Shooting with a 50mm is fun . . . I need to play with mine more. You have a beautiful home, AC. It looks so cozy with the kitties.

Everything out here is developments. Building companies will buy huge blocks of land, build 50 identical houses on them, put up a gate, and sell all of the houses simultaneously.

It's the same concept as living in a huge apartment complex - except with separately owned houses, rather than shared-wall units. The phoenix development we lived in was called North Heights - which was right between SunRidge Canyon and CopperWynd.

They tried calling the burroughs for a while but everyone realized that was stupid.

Awesome photos!

The detail you can pick up with that thing is amazing.

I enjoyed these photos.Thank you.