On the whim of Mindy wanting to see her cousin that was in Maryville I tagged a long and went to see Christy, Grandma, cousins, uncles, turtles, fishes, etc… obviously I always bring my camera with me, now I need to start doing this with my skateboard as well since skateparks are randomely within one block of where I’m sleeping. But as the weekend went on I actually got to take a lot of pictures. At least more than I am accustomed to. I even got the little cousin and new baby to let me snap some shots of them. I wish I could have got more of Mindy’s new cousin Amelia, but perhaps another time because she was a cutie.
It was nice to randomely drive six hours and hang out with their family. We went fishing while trying to stay out of the way of golfers, did plenty of baby watching, homework, eating where a person was murdered, sweating in the ever hot house, etc… Maryville must be a crazy place even though not appearing so. We even witnessed one turtle laying eggs that I got to photograph, and another turtle (alligator snapping turtle) trying to cross the road and a man kicking it while a police woman watched. I didn’t want to try and put my lense in the snapping turtles face, he probably would have taken it off.
Speaking of lenses, you’ll see that in some of these pictures I was experimenting with two new add ons I got for my camera. One is a fish eye adapter. While not a true fish eye lens it works for someone that can’t spend $700 on a nice Canon fisheye lens. It has some obvious distortion at the edges, but it still fun enough to play with and get some interesting looking shots. I also got a macro attachment that I tested out one some of the flowers there. I’ll be posting all of these below so you can see and judge for yourself if these new toys were worth it.
Maryville is a fun place to hang out, at least as long as family is there. I’m not sure I’d stick around long without anyone to see. Polly’s house is a little too smokey for me to be hanging with her, haha. Now enjoy some photos and let me know what you think about them. How about you pick a favorite? Thanks for reading.
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