Yesterday morning one of the things I needed to do was get a haircut.  I have been a customer of the same barber for over 25 years.  He has always cut my hair the same way.  Always perfect and always the same way.  Today he cut it with the part on the other side.  I don’t know why and I didn’t ask him, truth is I liked it better. 🙂

After my new hair cut, Jeanne and I went to the Farmer’s Market to buy some bread.  It was 10:30 am.  Considering the Farmer’s Market opens at 7:00 am we were indeed fortunate to find one bag of bread left.

I don’t know why I don’t go to the Farmer’s Market every Saturday.  There are so many sights, sounds, smells and interesting people.  I always come home with a card full of interesting (to me anyway) images.

I met and visited with a very interesting Gentleman playing a Banjo.  I was taking some images of his group and he asked me if I was going to post those somewhere.  I told him I was and gave him one of my Upde.Net cards.  I had them printed because it saves a lot of time trying to explain why I’m taking pictures and where you may find them. 🙂

Turns out he is an avid photographer as well.  He said he shoots mainly wildlife and landscapes.  He gave me one of his cards.  I notice a violin sitting propped up against a case and I asked him if he played that as well.  He smiled, put down his banjo and promptly started playing an Irish Jig.  Pretty neat stuff.  I’ll show you some of those images at a later time.

Today I wanted to show some of the interesting shapes, patterns and repeating lines I found.  There are just so many things to take images of.  I told Jeanne next time I go down, I’m just going to find an inconspicuous place to sit and shoot away.

There was one image that eluded me however.  There was a young lady (at least a teenager or older) that had pale skin, fine red hair, and wearing a pastel dress.  I thought it would make a great image.  There were always people standing around talking to her and other companions and I didn’t want to barge in and ask if I could take her picture.

Friday there were three images that I wasn’t able to capture that I really wanted to.  I had to be in Clinton for a 7:30 am meeting (which I made with 5 minutes to spare.)  On the way I saw the big orange full moon.  I could have pulled into the airport and parked at the observation area and got a great image of that blue moon.

Next I was going through the river bottoms near Maquoketa and there was a low hanging fog that bisected a great tree in the field.  I could have made a composite of the tree, fog, and moon.  My third shot was of a barn.  There is a wonderful barn on the way to Clinton but when I’m usually going to Clinton the light isn’t right.  I’ve taken some shots of it before and never been happy with the results.

Friday the sun was at a great angle and it was the “golden hour” of quality light.  To capture any of these images would have taken 10 – 30 minutes of set up and tear down (most would have required a timed exposure, which means tripod.)

So those are the 4 images that got away.  Kind of like a fish story isn’t it?  They sound so good but who knows what they would have really been.  🙂

We’re off to the Airshow in the Quad Cities today.  Hope to get some good images.  Thanks for stopping by and be careful