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< August 2025

August 1, 2025
The parking ticket was satisfying (see July 31, 2025). Other photographers were nearby taking pictures of a bald eagle in a tree. I headed to the prairie instead. On the radio later in the day I played a Vivaldi flute concerto nicknamed The Goldfinch. Life is brief and beauty is fleeting. In its adult form, a pipevine swallowtail lives for about two weeks. There were noisy children nearby, but I avoided them.

August 2, 2025
There was a lot of Art in the City today. Once a year I take a ballet lesson (see August 5, 2023). I sat in the shade while he risked his neck in the sun. The FIRST time you pick up an instrument it`s fun. I had plans to photograph Art in the City events all over downtown until 6pm, but I ran out of steam by 4:30.

August 3, 2025
In order to get the best angle, I found myself among the large crowd of Michigan fans. This was an exhibition game with lots of substitutions. It was hot and sunny and I left after 30 minutes. Look at the hand on her shoulder. The grabbing, pushing and knocking down makes it hard to enjoy the game. This play went nowhere, and Dayton was a spectator as Michigan dominated.

August 4, 2025
Recently I experimented with using Automatic mode on my camera since I was planning to loan it to somebody. That person will use the camera in Automatic mode and I wanted to see how it worked. Now my camera is on its way to Michigan and I`m here using a different camera that`s more than 20 years old. This is the first camera I bought in 2004 and it`s very low quality compared to what I normally use now. If the technical quality of the pictures is lacking, I can always make up for it with obscurity.

August 5, 2025
It`s another day with an obsolete camera from 2004. I can`t believe I once took good photos with this camera. With a 2004 camera in my hand, my pictures lately seem to echo my photographic style from back then. There was a breakfast cereal explosion on the sidewalk. I don`t understand why some people do what they do, but at least I can take pictures of it (see July 8, 2025).

August 6, 2025
Sometimes I start taking photos of someone and can immediately tell it`s going to be rough, but not this time. She said, `I love the camera, and the camera loves me.` I photographed another redhead with the same first name on August 16, 2014. She climbed a tree without me asking her to (see the other redhead on September 5, 2021). I wanted to meet in the morning, she wanted evening. We wouldn`t have gotten this shot in the morning.

August 7, 2025
I learned a lesson about butterfly behavior on June 30, 2004, and I used it again today: Step into the Light. In the garden this morning, there was only me, bees, butterflies, birds, chipmunks and flowers. I was happy. Unnaturally close to a skipper (see June 20, 2025). I had the wrong lens for this shot, but I made it work. I do a lot of bug chasing.

August 8, 2025
Lift your steins, it`s time for Germanfest Picnic! The German festival features French can-can dancers (see August 13, 2021, and August 12, 2022). It`s her job to be outrageous. Some musicians just put on lederhosen and play oom-pah-pah, but this guy really is German. I told him not to spill his socks. You know, cuz I`m funny.

August 9, 2025
We`re all one year older (see August 10, 2024). In August he`s German. In July, he`s Irish (see July 25, 2014, July 30, 2016, and July 28, 2017). Not a German shepherd. He did a pretty good Louis Armstrong impression. This Camaro had a 1968 tail and a 1969/70 front end. What it lacked in authenticity, it made up for in shine.

August 10, 2025
I`m uncomfortably hot, and I`m not wearing a dark suit (see August 15, 2021). Volkwagen is a German company, but its cars are manufactured in 27 countries around the world. Once a year, I go to Mass. Yes, a polka band plays at Mass during Germanfest. The beer tent was closed during Mass, so I hid in the shade. Hover flies busily slurped up last night`s spills.

August 11, 2025
Tonight`s dinner? My photos are often multifaceted. In case you forgot where I live. I live to the right, but I walked to the left since there were TWO panhandlers on that side working in shifts. I`m using an old camera from 2004, and taking the same kind of pictures I took in 2004.

August 12, 2025
Missed it by that much. MAXWELL SMART Still a few spots to fill in (see July 18, 2025). My building is leaking. I should get my real camera back today and I can put the baby camera back in the closet. This camera does fine with things that don`t move.

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