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What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

Kudos to the Wisconsin Badgers. I am rooting for them to upset undefeated Kentucky in the Men’s NCAA Final Four. It would seem that the winner of that game would be the likely national champion, Coach K and Duke notwithstanding…. Can Notre Dame stop the Lady Huskies juggernaut? All in all, great stuff. The jubilation of the winners and the tears of the losers are quite point\/counterpoint. I get a tremendous amount of pleasure watching the handshake lines….<\/p>\n

This blog post took about 1 1\/2 hours to prepare and was published from my home at ILE at 12:01am on Monday. While I slept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Azizen Pesach to all of our good friends at B&H<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Order Soon to Avoid Lengthy Passover Delays\/Please Use Our B&H Affiliate Link(s)<\/h3>\n

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Orders placed after the deadline will not ship until Monday, April 13. <\/p>\n

Puzzling Mystery #1<\/h3>\n

I was getting ready for my Sunday swim. I was putting on the snorkeling cap that I wear to keep body heat in; it is black with ear flaps. The pool is about 75 degrees right now. Suddenly I remembered, “I need to put in my ear plugs.” Those help me avoid getting water in my ears. I walked into my office (aka man cave) which is adjacent to the pool deck. The plastic box with the earplugs was right where it was supposed to be. I took the two wax plugs out, shaped them, and inserted one into each ear. <\/p>\n

I walked back out to the pool expecting to see the cap either on the table or atop my fins and snorkel that lay on the deck next to the pool. Not there. I went back into my office thinking that I might have placed the cap on my desk. Not there. I walked back into the bathroom to see if the cap was on the counter. I had gone there to apply anti-fog spray to my goggles. Not there. I checked my bed. Not there. I went out to the laundry room as that is where the cap was when I first grabbed it. Not there. <\/p>\n

As my #1 rule for good living is “If you can’t find something, go back to the first place you looked and you will generally find it within two feet of that spot.” Not there. Then I looked again in all of the locations mentioned above. Still no cap. I was beginning to think that I was nuts. I knew that I had had the cap out on the deck as when I started to put the cap on it made me realize that I needed to put my ear plugs in. I searched the whole house again. No luck. <\/p>\n

Finally I found my snorkeling cap. Where was it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created at Alafia Banks with the Canon EF 600mm f\/4L IS II USM lens<\/a>, the Canon Extender EF 1.4X III<\/a>, and the Canon EOS-1D X <\/a>. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/1250 sec. at f\/5.6 in Av mode. <\/p>\n

One AF point to the left of the center AF point\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure (as is always best when hand holding). Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n