People have already put up a bunch of Christmas lights around me. Thanksgiving must signal that it is time. I captured this image of a small house down the street from me sporting a basic, but well done light setup:

Edit: This image was made from 9 separately exposed images and processed in Photomatix to make an HDR. The house number and some light flare were removed.
I spent a bunch of time at the U of M Aquatics Center today watching my cousin dive in the State preliminaries. She did a great job. It is amazing how they can get their bodies to flip and twist like they do.
The diving well:

I got out with the camera over Halloween. There were great clouds and a full moon which made for some good photographs and ambience.



Yeah I put tin foil in my pumpkin! It did make the pumpkin look more lit up, but doesn’t look that good in the photograph.