My dad reeling in a fish he caught in the river today.

One of the bridges on the natural trails in farmington.

One of my nieces hanging upside down from the monkey bars at the park. I'm really happy with this one, I'm not too good with portraits but I like this.

The kids fishing for tadpoles and guppies in a mostly dry branch of the river. We caught a ton of them and put them in a tank - there's probably hundreds in that spot, and all of the fish will just die when the water dries up. The tadpoles have to grow into toads first, or they're done for too.

This is an old (early-80's or late-70's) road bike that I got at a yard sale a while back. It's rideable as it is, but it could use some work. I'm going to convert it to singlespeed properly, and possibly put on some flat (or riser) bars. I'd like to get a coaster brake hub, too, but I might just stick with the front brakes.

Drumming during prayers at the retreat. The 55 1.8 came in handy.

The first one is my niece in a fabric store, they were looking for some fabric and we played around and shot some photos. Her expression isn't really sadness, it's more like "awww, when are you going to let me take a picture?" The others are from this evening, there was a lightning storm overhead and it made some beautiful skies at sunset. I also shot a bunch of pictures in hope of getting a lighting bolt, and got one decent one... good thing I didn't have to pay for film to shoot all of the duds. It was handheld at ISO 800 and about 1/30th, didn't have a tripod with me.

The first full day, the youth and a few of the adults went from the camp, to a challenge course owned by a christian school about 30 miles away. Most of the exercises and obstacles are designed to make you learn teamwork and overcome limitations, but the zip-line thing at the end is just plain fun.

On Wednesday we went to our annual summer camp/retreat thing a few hours away. I shot a lot of photos, this was one of my favorites. The Hopi dancers from Gallup did a performance on Friday, in their regalia. I would probably have entered this in the natural light portrait challenge at DPC, but I got DQ'ed because I wasn't at a computer to send in an original so I got suspended from challenges for a week.

Some more nieces. I like this 28-105.

My niece, when they came to visit the other day. 1D with 135 at 3.5 and iso 800.

There's a big fire somewhere or another, so all the smoke in the sky makes for a really diffused and red sun. Shot with the 1D and 135mm.

So I finally got another digital camera. It's a Canon 1D, and I ordered a 28-105 lens for it but that didn't get here yet. Shot a little with my Pentax 55mm, which is super sharp at f/11 (which I shot this photo at, using an extension tube. The second one is a 100% crop).

I like the camera so far, it's pretty huge and heavy, but other than that it seems to be what I was looking for. I still want a K10D for a backup/portrait camera, but that'll have to wait until I can get a zoom tele for this.

A couple more shots of the chipmunks from a couple weeks ago in Colorado. They were chilling on those rocks watching us, that one let me get pretty close with my 135mm.

Fireworks next to the clock tower of San Juan College yesterday.

Moonrise over the canyon outside of Farmington, last full moon.