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Today I took the boys that I nanny to Franconia Sculpture Park. I was so busy trying to keep them entertained though that this is one of the few decent shots I was able to get.

53/366 – Post Office

These beautiful mailboxes are inside the Stillwater, MN post office. Unfortunately they are moving to a new building soon, so these probably won’t exist much longer.

50/366 – Herd

I had the urge to spend a while in photoshop for today’s picture. So I set my mind on an image that would require multiple shots combined into one. I only had one giraffe, and moved him over and over taking pictures as I went with my camera on a tripod. I then brought them all in to photoshop to combine them. After tweaking the colors a bit, I must say I am very happy with the result!

Oh, and I have decided to bring my logo back, so you will be seeing that from now on.

53/365 – Curves

I had no clue what to take a picture of today, until my friend dropped some stuff off at my house and commented on this metal piece. I debated for a while about making this black and white, but in the end decided to just go with color. I may post a black and white at some point though.

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306/365 – Soldering

Elliot occasionally gets to solder stuff at work. I have been wanting to see it basically since he started working, but whenever I am in there he never has anything to solder. Today however, I finally lucked out! So of course it had to be my 365.

And yes, I am aware I am a bit of a nerd.

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258/365 – A nice evening rain

WordPress wasn’t loading for me yesterday, so here is my 365 for the day.

We got rain for the first time in ages yesterday, and after sleeping away an awful migraine all day that was about all I could think to capture.

239/365 – Josephine Sculpture Park

**Catching up now that I have photoshop again…

When I was in MN my family and I went to visit the Franconia Sculpture Park. While we were there we talked to one of the ladies who worked there, and she told us about the Josephine Sculpture Park, in Frankfort, Kentucky. We thought it was so ironic that she would mention that to us, not knowing that one member of our group (my brother’s wife) is from Kentucky, and that I went to school there. After she told us about that I decided that I had to go see it, and finally on Sunday (9-5) Elliot and I made it out there. It was a lot smaller scale and less impressive than Frankonia, but still a very cool space (to me at least). I am curious to see if it grows like Franconia has over the years.

Here are a couple of the pictures that I took while there. The first one is technically my “365” but I thought I would share the rest in this post so I don’t have even more as I play catch up.

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Another random/ironic thing, this piece had a Wisconsin plate on it.

And, this obviously isn’t a sculpture, but I liked it, a lot.

235/365 – Staples

Last night in printmaking  (we are learning about screen printing) we were prepping our frames for new mesh. We had to pull all the old staples out so that we could staple the mesh onto the frame without hitting the old staples. It was such fun, and I managed to cut myself.

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And for the fun of it here is a reverse lens shot as well:

217/365 – Metal Sculpture

This afternoon my family and I went to the Franconia Sculpture Garden for just a quick little outing. It is such an incredibly cool place, I must say. There are paths going everywhere, with all sorts of sculptures, ranging from massive to more reasonable sizes. They have work by artists from all over the world; from Taiwan to Ireland to many different states here in the US. They also have the coolest amphitheater I have ever seen. It is a huge area with these mounds of grass with big rock slabs jutting out of them for benches. This place also has lots of events going on; concerts every other week during the summer, iron pours, workshops with kids. It is such an impressive and cool place to visit.

I will be uploading a few others from the day later on, but I am exhausted from walking around all day, and my knee is hating me and swelling up to show it, so I need to get some sleep.

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190/365 – Metallic

I tried to think of a clever, interesting title, but failed miserably. If you have any recommendations please let me know!

I think this pictures shows how incredibly random my mind is. There is no reason for this picture, it doesn’t have any deep or interesting meaning, it just is. I don’t even know how I thought of this. I was sitting at my kitchen table after church last night trying to think of what to take a picture of, and tinfoil” just popped into my head out of nowhere.

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