338/365 - Jim - GrayRox v2.0

( f/18 105mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

I just had to do a white version too. You know, for my letterhead. So I'm getting ahead of myself... Not really, I just enjoy doing this kind of thing and have had this image in my head for a long time. I even thought I could get these made to look like this and hand them out as paperweight business cards rocks. Anyway, it's just a different version of the same thing. By the way, the rocks I used for these photographs are actually from a hot stone massage kit that never gets used... until now :)

166/365 - Jim - Rocky Raccoon

( f/4 200mm 1/400 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Matt Smochko (remember him?) and I went for a Photo Walk today. We started at Lake Arthur and ran into this raccoon. He was just laying in the yard and as we photographed him, he got scared and ran to the rocks. Of course we followed him and took over 100 photos each. Then we made our way over to McConnell's Mill since it's just down the road. We went down to a waterfall that comes off the hill and got some nice slow shutter photos. As I got what I thought was THE shot, I turned to show Matt. I heard a tumbling crash that turned out to be his second lens that he had in his hoodie pocket. I reacted faster than I feel is possible for me and grabbed it as it was rolling down a large rock toward the water. The whole thing made us extremely nervous so we left immediately. I got a lot of nice photos, which I could have used for over a week of FotoEveryDay, but I haven't broken the rule yet so I will continue as usual. Here are the other photos.