Real, Practice, or Demo Rescue

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During the Thanksgiving parade/festivities at Plymouth, MA on Saturday, this helicopter was either training or demonstrating...not sure which, as I heard both theories among the crowd of spectators. Either way it was interesting to watch. Unfortunately a LOT of other people thought so too, so I couldn't get a good shot of the guy swimming in the water and being lifted up to the helicopter.

Shell Pointe

Ex-Raft?

35mm B&W film, c-41 process, has a sepia-ish tone to it (first version is post processed). I think I like the non-pp'd one better.

Kayaks

Mine is the orange one on the right.

My new toy

Well, it had to happen. This will no longer be a Project 365 but more of a picture a day. I apologize to any strictly P-365 followers. I have bigger fish to fry.

A photo blog or a photo journal - what ever you'd like to call it, I still plan to post often but no longer have to be concerned with missing a day, "cheating", etc. I'll post every day, maybe many times a day; or maybe not for a few days or a week or so if I really get shooters block or busy or something.

Really, the change will be barely noticeable. I will stop the "Day*xx" thing at the bottom of each post. Oh, you never even noticed that? lol. Also, the photos I post will usually have a more relevant reason for my posting them as opposed to just a need to post a picture...quality over quantity, in a way.

Wow, I feel more relaxed just having typed this. I am really looking forward to continuing this blog now more than ever. It will be fun again, as it lost the funness at some point.

We have enough stress, deadlines, requirements, and so on thrust upon us in "real life" - why would we voluntarily add more? When life gives you lemons, why grow your own (I just made that up. Anyone using the line must give me credit for it, and send me a dollar or two each time. lol).

I hope y'all enjoy Wayne's Project 365 as much as I think I will now.

I got a new toy yesterday. Now I need to learn how to use it without drowning. It has fishing rod holders and I have thought about getting back into fishing which I haven't done in many years!

I still have some work to do to my canoe, which I hope to have done soon. I hope to have both on the water this spring/summer.

Can you canoe?

Day*70

Anchors away! An extra oldie!

taken in Plymouth, MA in November, 2005

Day*62

Tesno

Cloudfish

Lonely but never alone


Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge

Tweet tweet?

My ol' canoe update too

My ol' canoe update

Swamped

Well, more like capsized I guess. Despite their trip down the "rapids" with their life vests but without the canoe, everybody seemed ok.

Then to the canal

The terns stole the show. It was a challenge to get good pictures of them. But I did take a lot of pictures. There were a lot of boats and people fishing, walking, some with dogs, biking, roller blading, etc.

This is the back of a shed at a home by the canal. I thought it was a nice display.

Then back to Plymouth

...for the fireworks. I have to admit they were probably better than I originally told people, after seeing my video (see very bottom of this post). It was my first time seeing them in Plymouth.

I think I was more preoccupied with trying to get good photos of them, which I didn't do so well.

The whole atmosphere was great though, as well as hanging with friends.

Traffic was absolutely horrible afterwards, so we walked around by the waterfront for awhile.

Police boats (Harbor Masters) standing by while the many boats were taken out of the water and loaded up on their trailers.

There were a few bands playing in the few bars around. Local bands I assume but sounded great and added to the whole atmosphere.

After enduring the traffic, we finally got home at about midnight.

A trip to Plymouth

My 3 sons were staying with me for a week and one of the things we did was act like tourists in Plymouth. We walked around some, then had dinner at Lobster Hut, ice cream at pebbles, and headed home. There were threatening clouds when we first got there but we thought maybe if we ignored them they'd go away...they did.

But Seriously...

Took some boat pictures today.
Yes, the previous one was a joke. I purposely blurred the actual scene and thus enhanced the lady packing up her gear for the day. I did try my hand at people photography though, but all candid stuff because I'm still very shy. I think ladies have more willing strangers as subjects than men do.

I have been having trouble with my rechargeable batteries lately and especially today. I dunno if it's the charger or the batteries, but I'm tempted to throw out the whole she-bang and use alkalines and lithiums...but there's a lot of money invested in rechargeables. *sigh*