tom kf4wol

After Church today, My beautiful bride and I drove over to the Cottee River in our little town here in West Central Florida and I took this photo of her with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens purchased recently, also able to use my new tripod and remote shutter control.

I am still pretty new at Photography, been shooting for about a year, I shot this in raw, and also cropped to remove a car on the street above the river walk way.

Constructive comments are appreciate, I am an old guy age 72 and anything I can learn helps keep the protein flowing between my remaining two brain cells.

Blessings,

tom

tk Loc: Iowa

You are a lucky guy!

Stargazer Loc: South of Watkins Glen, NY

You must have married her as a child. She doesn't look old enough to have been married for fifty years.

ace-mt Loc: Montana

50 years, good for you! :thumbup:

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

50 and still going. Lucky Guy.

Sarge

colo43 Loc: Eastern Plains of Colorado

Congratulations to you both.

jadeast Loc: Virginia

excellent image as is but I'd do a version cropped to the portrait mode and get in even tighter and clone out the tree growing out of her shoulder.

tom kf4wol

Appreciate the comments,

Thanks, Yes I am as of March of this year we have been married Fifty Years, and have two sons, a daughter and three grandsons.

I have truly been blessed, my bride was a wonderful daughter, is a good wife, mother, grandmother and good friend to many.

Her temperament is of a Wonderful Christian Lady, with a mild patient manner, she is very slow to get upset about anything and is truly a rock in our family.

One guy comment I married her as a child...ha We met in May of 61 just prior to my 21st birthday, She turned 20 0n March 8, 1962. We married two days later on March 10 Fifty years ago. Her family has excellent genes, her mother passed away six years ago in her late 80's and still look as if in her 60's, her Dad passed away on April 15th of this year, he would have been 94 May 1st and looked as if he was in his 70's....

We have an oddity in our family, Sandy's birthday is March 8, our son Steve March 9, our Anniversary March 10, our son Dave March 11th., I am a pauper on March 12th of every year...ha ha

I love taking photos of our family, friends and God's beautiful earth and creatures.

Yes, I am blessed, Thank You

Blessings to all..

tom

Ron K. Loc: Upstate NY.

Congratulatiobs!! We just celebrated our 50th on a Tahitian cruise a few weeks ago. Now she's spoiled - she'll expect a cruise to French Polynesia every 50 years.

tom kf4wol

Ron k

Wonderful photo of you and your beautiful Bride, appears We are both very blessed men

Congrats, Thanks for posting the nice photo of the two of you.

The best in Health and Love.

Blessings

Tom and Sandy

Ron K. Loc: Upstate NY.

Many thanks. Much appreciated. Our best wishes to you and yours as well.

John Lawrence

Just found this. Congratulations from a seventy year old happily married 48 years.

tom kf4wol

Ha...Thank You...Very Nice of you to Look, I had just about forgotten posting it...

Time keeps ticking along...now 51 years, 5 months and three days, 8 hrs, 15 minutes and 45 seconds...ha ha

Thanks for looking and the nice comments...

In sincerity, God has surely blessed me to find her....She is a wonderful lady, wife, mother, grandmother, sister to her brother, was a great daughter to her late parents who were wonderful people and has many many friends..

I am till trying to learn how to take decent photos...bought the Nikon D-600 a few months ago upgraded from the D-5000...both Cameras good...Me not so good at using them to their full potential.

Hope your day is wonderful.

Blessings,

tom

John Lawrence

We're in a similar situation, Tom. I upgraded to a Nikon D700 when I retired five years ago. I'm still trying to grow into the camera. It's tough living with a camera that's smarter than me and knows it. Like yourself, my photography is focused on taking pictures of my family. The quality is good put I need to be more creative. I'm from the generation where you just said 'smile' and took the shot. I also purchased Capture NX2 when I bought the camera. I've mastered cropping and am now playing with some of the other tools.

My best to you and your family.

John

Ron K. Loc: Upstate NY.

I know how you feel. I'm 76 and it's 51 years married for my wife and I.