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'Trees' Contest - top 10

Journal Entry: Wed Feb 28, 2007, 1:42 PM
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Hey Y'all!

I'd like to announce the final top ten photos (out of 65 entries) have been chosen by the four judges in ~darkernights 'Trees Contest'!

It's time for the public to vote, so head on over and cast a vote for your pick.. good luck to the finalists.


On a personal note, I'm back to 100% health now and went on my first photo shoot in 10 days just yesterday morning .. unfortunately a spectacular sunrise turned into nothing as  storm clouds rolled over it, but it sure felt good to be out hiking again!

Also I'm getting excited about my daughter coming for a 10-day visit starting next week!  She lives with her mom in Sioux Lookout which is 400km away, so when she comes to visit, it's a huge deal for me :aww:

Forest fire season is almost upon me ..only another month before I return to work.  I have to perform my annual fitness testing in three weeks, so I'm getting a bit nervous about that.  This will be my 17th season fighting fire, and as always I look forward to the adventure and comradery.

There's a bunch of new features for ya there,,enjoy! ..and as always..

Be good to yourselves and one another,

Skinner






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If you missed my previous journals or are a new watcher and you want to know more about what makes me tick, I was chosen as !absinthebride's featured artist for February.. read my interview here:

Interview with Skinner

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Daddy's little girl by *Buble

The first painting ever done of my daughter.

It touches me like no other piece I've ever laid eyes on, and pretty much makes my heart swell.  I wish you all could find such a piece of art if you haven't..whether it's someone elses work or your own, so that you may appreciate the true power it has when you look at it.

Karen based her work on my photograph Walk in Fields of Gold

I am forever in your debt. ... thank you Karen :heart:

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:icondjwaski:
amazing shots...a lot of work there....
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:iconwb-skinner:
oh! the features... glad you like those :nod:
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:iconiws-stock:
so glad you're better hun :glomp: :D
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:iconwb-skinner:
thanks alot sweetheart! :hug:
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~Adaera Feb 28, 2007   Photographer
I couldn't find the perfect shot to enter...I had a specific setting I wanted, and well...wrong time of year to duplicate the one I wanted to enter but was taken before the "shoot date" :(

Glad to hear you're out and about again, and you must be sitting on the edge of cloud nine waiting for your daughter to arrive.

Unless it dries up a whole lot out here, the fire season will probably come later in the year. Right now they're very concerned about major flooding due to the snowpack sitting up on the mountains and...it's raining in the valley, snowing up past Hope, apparently. *sigh* Spring...now...please lol ;)
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:iconwb-skinner:
well .. BC always burns later in the summer.. we usually have our hands full here in Ontario earlier than that though .. June is usually our crazy month..
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~Adaera Mar 1, 2007   Photographer
I know just how crazy fire season can be; we used to move the MoF camp trailers around until Victoria decided to go with the absolutely lowest bidder for the services, and then when the Chilliwack Depot gets fed up with the non-service they get from said bidder, they call us anyway because we are always far better organized and faster, and they have no problem paying for the service, which really calls into question what the big fuss over the bidding was for in the first place. Government, gotta love it :giggle:
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:iconwb-skinner:
:laughing: ..I work for the Ministry of Natural Resources .. or MNR .. we like to say it stands for 'Ministry of No Reason'
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~Adaera Mar 1, 2007   Photographer
:laughing: ....reminds me of our local Naval Base. First they were going to close it, then they weren't, then they decided to downsize it, then 9/11 happened, then they decided to think about it some more, so NRS (Naval Relay Station) came to mean Not Really Sure. :rofl:
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