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July 5, 2011

Jackson Fett

I’m a Star Wars nerd. Have been since I was a little kid, even before I saw the films I guess cause the first one I saw in the theater was Return of the Jedi. But when I was younger I had a bunch of the toys and bed sheets and stuff. Actually still have an Empire Strikes Back pillow case. Obviously I don’t still sleep on it (much), but I still have it.
But since I don’t have any kids of my own to introduce Star Wars to, I’m having to teach Jackson, my nephew, all about the Star Wars universe. I’ve got him liking Boba Fett, which was one of my favorite characters.
So I heard on a Star Wars podcast last week that Target had dropped the price some on their Boba Fett helmets. Off to Target we went and of course they didn’t have any in stock. So we went to Walmart and they had two on the shelf. It was great to see Jacksons face light up with that big smile when he saw it. I took a picture of him standing there in the aisle with it.

We ended up stopping by my parents house after the store and I put the helmet together for him. It was a bugger to get out of the box, it was tied down in so many places. Then had to figure out how to get the fitted part right so that it sat on his head the right way. The helmet is way to big for him right now but he’ll grow into it. Hopefully it’ll last that long.

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July 25, 2009

Fossil Rim

By unclejerry

Had a PTO day at work I needed to use so I thought I would take a trip down to Fossil Rim. It’s a 1700 acre wildlife center that you drive thru and can feed the animals from you car.
They’ve got all kinds of deer, rams, ostrich, zebra, giraffes and many other animals roaming around freely. It took us 4 or 5 hours to go thru the entire thing including about an hour break about half way thru were we ate at the cantina and walked thru the petting zoo. It was a fun day and I would like to do it again sometime. Got some pretty good pictures out of the trip and looked like my niece and nephew and sister had a great time feeding the animals.
When we finished up at the wildlife center we called an audible and stopped at the Glen Rose State Park and walked around the dried up muddy banks that hold the dinosaur foot prints. It’s pretty interesting to see foot prints that are millions of years old that you are actually allowed to touch. Usually this type of stuff is locked up behind glass, but here you can actually stick your foot in the dinosaur prints and see how your own feet compare to a big T-Rex.

And of course if you would like to see more pictures from this set, please check out my Flickr page.

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July 15, 2009

4th of July

By unclejerry

So I have a DSLR. From what I understand, that means your supposed to take pictures of fireworks. The only problem with that is that you only get a couple of times a year to do it so my first couple of times are going to suck.
Some of these look ok, but I was also hoping for a “crisper” look when the shutter closed. Guess I need to read up on it some more.
For those wanting to know tech specs. I used a Nikon D40 tripod mounted and shutter activated via remote to cut down on vibration. F11, ISO 200. The shutter time was set to bulb so it was open for as long as I wanted, usually 3 to 5 seconds.
If you have any tips or tricks to get better shots, please let me know in the comments.

And there was a stupid tree in the way most of the time.

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May 10, 2009

Gardening Day

By unclejerry

Went over to my parents house with Jackson and Madison to shoot them doing some gardening. Some day we’ll have some decent skies on the weekend, but lately it’s been either real overcast or raining. But for what it’s worth, this is what I got.

Then Jackson found the mud and decided to see how big of a mess he could make in it.

And as usual, if you would like to see more pictures from this afternoon, please visit my Flickr site here.

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March 30, 2009

A walk at River Legacy and hair cutten day.

By unclejerry

Got bored yesterday and went for a walk down at the park. They had opened up a few new trails since the last time I was there though I didn’t get to walk the whole park. Only did about 3.5 miles. Unfortunately the only wildlife I saw was a fish in the Trinity River. But the water was so murky that the you couldn’t see it when I tried to take a picture. I was hoping to see a bobcat as they have been spotted in the area some. Maybe next time.
Also went over to my sisters house to visit and play with the kids. After watching Horton Hears A Who, we went to Bueno and then all got our hair cut and played some Rockband. Madison who’s 6 is already better than me at playing the drums. That girls got some musical talent. Can’t wait to see what she does with it as she get’s older.