County Fair

We spent last week at the county fair.  We have been going for years now and every year I say I am going to take the camera and tripod out on the midway but never have...

untill this year! 

Finally I tried the midway ride lights~

I had a Tamron 17-50 2.8 lens, iso 100, Canon 7d

this is 6sec exposure at f11

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This is 1sec exposure at f4

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This is .3sec exposure at f5

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Imperial Sand Dunes

Spent a long weekend a couple of weeks ago at the Imperial sand dunes in southern California near the Arizona/California border.  We stay in a RV near
the "plank road" historic site http://www.desertusa.com/sandhills/plankrd.html . 

Can you imagine crossing the dunes that way -

 talk about an adventure!! 

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Also close by is the International border fence between California and Mexico.  It snakes across the dunes and you can see it for miles.  We went over to take a couple of pictures.  It wasn't long before I could see a vehicle making it's way over to us.  Not wanting any trouble since there are markers saying to stay back
we decided to head back over to our camp. 

Did grab a couple shots while by the fence~

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