Mike's "Fancy"

This is a fancy version of a tricycle. Went on a charity ride this weekend, and this was one of the bikes ridden.
With all the new 3-Wheelers in production, its nice to see an old-school kit on the road.

Cory's Fancy

Lis has some pretty fancy spices on her enormous spice rack, but this is the one that comes in the fanciest tin.  I like that they haven't had a weirdo design agency to recreate their image.

Ryan's "Fancy"

So... I didn't come up with anything better.

"Fancy" is kind of hard to define. It's a lot easier to find "not fancy".

I'm pretty sure that almost everyone will agree that paper plates are not fancy.

/rl

Next week: Inverted

"Fancy" due today!

Cory's Shiny

I suppose I'll follow Fred's car theme: as I've noted here before, I have an old Beetle living in my garage.  Last week I went out there and discovered a rather large puddle of transmission oil under it, which led to me removing a drive axle to replace a seal.  As long as I had it off, I figured I should clean and repack the CV joints.  CV joints are very messy inside, but once you get all of the grease cleaned off you find these pretty little shiny ball bearings inside.  My joints were in pretty good shape, so later this week I'll fill them with grease again and put them back on the car, at which point they won't be anywhere near so shiny anymore.

Fred's Shiny

This is a shiny new European Honda Civic (a very different car than the Civic for the U.S. market).  Paul and I spent the last two weeks visiting Holland, Germany and Austria.  I'm a bit of a car nut, and have a particular (unusual) fondness for Hondas.  So on Monday, the 13th, we stopped at a Honda dealer in Holland for a few pictures. In case you're curious, there are lots of pictures from our entire trip online on Flickr.

Next week: "Fancy"

Tomorrow: "Shiny".

/rl

Ryan's "Shoot"

I planned a fantastic photo for this week. I'd hoped to get a shot near sundown of a friend shooting one of his rifles that produces truly amazing muzzle flash. I figured I'd also get a bunch of other shooting related photos.

Instead I was stuck in town all day Saturday because of car issues. Sunday was ruined when I unboxed the new axle I had ordered only to find that it was used and returned. A 60 mile round trip drive found a rebuilt axle, but upon installation I found it was almost an inch too long. I ended up installing the "new" used axle, but it has a pretty nasty vibration.

As far as I can tell, the Omaha Police Department frowns on firing rifles within city limits, even if it is for a photo contest.

Instead, I shot a picture of some of the bullets I would have shot if I'd had a chance to shoot photos of people shooting for the topic "shot".

/rl

Cory's Shoot

They've been shooting an upcoming Lone Ranger movie at sites near town lately, and there were a couple of nights last week where the side of the ski mountain was lit up by gigantic lights.  I couldn't see any famous people from my house, but with my 300mm lens I got a shot of their shoot going on.

Mike's "Shoot"

I'm not sure how to make this photo fit the topic, except that its a picture that I shot.  There were three of these in Baker's parking lot and they were still busy parking two of them, so I only got this one.
One had a water cannon on top that could shoot water.  Sandra's dad was fire chief at Offutt for years and was horrified during that time they tried to make fire engines yellow.  She said if he saw this, he would shoot himself.  She, however, thought it was rather cool.

Oh, and I really wanted to inform them that they were blocking the fire lane.

Next week: "Shiny"

Due tomorrow: "Shoot"

/rl

Ryan's "Bearded"

Not a great photo, but it is a bearded man:

/rl

Cory's Bearded

This is a fence lizard, one of several that live in my yard.  He's a rather distant relative to the bearded dragon, but he still has a little neck beard going on there.  He'll just have to try growing it out a little more.

(obviously, I couldn't come up with an actual "bearded" picture either)

Mike's "Bearded"

People buy me weird things.  Sandra said this reminded her of me.  Granted, I was wearing my hair and beard a little longer than normal last Christmas, but I looked nothing like a Willie Nelson nutcracker.

So, that is my "punt" for the week.  Whenever I don't leave the house with my camera, I consider it a "punt".

I just wasn't in the mood to drive around looking for a goat, clam, genie, pirate or any number of things that I could think of that sported beards.

Next Week's Topic

Next week: Shoot.

"Bearded" due tomorrow!