I decided to try a little light painting on my car tonight. So armed with my camera and lens, a tripod, and a flashlight; I headed out in the night to do my thing. My family looked at me like I was crazy when I was put on a black shirt at bed time. This was my first attempt at lighting something as big as a car with only a flashlight. I have lit smaller object this way, like my bass and the cross for the Dominican Republic mission trip but lighting a car was a little more of a challenge.

After pressing the shutter button I had to run around the car shinning the light where I wanted it before the shutter closed again. Making sure the light was not pointed at the camera during that time was tricky. I would have liked to of had a flashlight with a narrower beam for certain parts. I can imagine a photographer that does a lot of light painting having a tool belt with many different size flashlight in it, like a painter with would with brushes.

We had a visitor last night. This guy was running around our yard. So we went outside to see if he would come to us. My family must have some type of draw for dogs, this has to be the 7th one that we have caught after they escapes from their home.

He had no tag on his collar and the veterinarian was closed for the night, so he got to spend the night in the our laundry room. We decided to take him to the vet just in case he was micro chipped. The good new is that he was and his owner had called earlier to see if anyone had found him. By the time the vet used the micro chip service to find the owner,  they were out driving around and came up to the office to pick him up very quickly.

It was a happy ending to his little adventure. And he was very appropriately named, Mischief.

Some say Friday the 13th is an unlucky today, but I saw this awesome double rainbow today. So I don’t see anything unlucky about that at all.

I’ve been trying to get more exercise in my daily routine. Most of my exercise is a mixture of walking and jogging or wogging as I like to put it. I’ve managed to wog 8 out of the last 12 days for a total of 29 miles. I was going to make a cool photo of me running, but I still have not figured out how to be in two places at once. So this photo of the shoe going for a night run without me will have to do.

It’s a long way to the top.

Part of Wordless Wednesday