This is where we usually take the dogs for a walk--there's a bike path along the river
View Larger MapAs you can see, not a particularly rural area, although not far from the edge of town.
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Directly across from the mall:
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Just a bit farther north
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Angie, at her usual speed. I've been experimenting with motion blur within the limits of my camera. This was taken while riding beside Angie on my bicycle, then cropped and rotated--It isn't all that easy to ride at her speed while controlling the camera and not crashing. For this one I used aperture priority at F:8 (the smallest my camera has) ISO 64 (the slowest speed) and no flash. Resulted in a shutter speed of 1/39 second. I think next time I'll go shutter priority around 1/100...
Later on in the day we took our tandem, and went to the new bike path that heads out of town.
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The path leads past the old Nuclear plant, an experimental reactor that supplied electricity to Piqua for a few years in the 1960's.
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The path is not quite finished. Can't decide which of these pictures I like better
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The bike path leads to this pretty little waterfall. It is just off a side road, barely visible from a car.
Wonderful pictures. Thanks for posting them. I love that little waterfall.
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