My Wife, Carol, has earned her Silver Beaver the hightest award an adult in Scouting can recieve.

Carol Paulsen

Carol has been involved in the Boy Scouts since my son was 7 years old. He is 27 now. She has camped with the Boy Scouts over 100 nights, including one night on a frozen lake in Minnesota in January, with the temp well below 0F. Carol has been to all three high adventure bases in the United States, Philmont, Sea Base and Okpic. Carol has a passion in her life to serve others. Boy Scouts has been a great fit for her and the Scouts as well.

Congratulation Carol, well done, well done indeed.

Photo taken with Canon 5D with a 70-200 mm lens at f4. The off camera Canon Flash was shooting through a white umbrella. Flash was two stops over the dark background, a bush with some Bokeh shinning through. 

ciao bella  (if you are reading this I know you are beautiful)

ron

Simplest workweek lunch ever.

Microwave Brown Rice And Vegetables.

I am not a cook. It is on my bucket list to learn how to cook and in that vain this is a cooking effort.
This dish was suggested by a friend of mine. Simply a few vegetables cleaned and sliced uniformly in this case just potatoes and carrots.  Many more vegetables would work. Basil, salt and pepper and one tea spoon of coconut oil, found in the health food section of your grocery store. Plus one cup of steamed brown rice.

Place all ingredients in a microwave steamer with 1/4 cup of water and cook on high for 6 minutes.  Walla!!

Photo was taken with a Canon 5D Mark11 with a Canon 24-70 Canon Lens and one off camera Canon 580 EX11 Flash. The flash was fired through a 44 inch Wescott Shoot through umbrella.

Can you take photos at night with just a flashlight?

Lisa ready for Dinner

Do you know this old trick? If you want some dramatic light in a night photograph all you need is a good bright flashlight. I like to use a 2million candle power light I bought from Farm Fleet for 15 dollars. A bright light like this one lets you use a small aperture in this case f/14. The, Canon 5D, is on a Bogen Tripod and set for a 30 second exposure. After the shutter is pressed you use the Flash to light your subject. Just one quick, less then one second, sweep for the main light and then move around and add the hair light and all other lights you wish. As long as you don't light yourself you can stand right beside your subject and it will not show on the photo.

If you try this you will discover it takes a few attempts but when you get it you will have a unique  photograph. Let me see what you get.