What Happens When The Lights Go Out!!!!!

Last night our lights went out (and stayed out for a couple of hours)....this has been way more typical lately then when I first got here in August. Well, Grace and I started playing cards by candle light out in our porch and at one point Grace said we needed to take a picture of our experience of being in the dark (NOW I KNOW MANY OF YOU HAVE FELT LIKE I....STEVE....HAVE BEEN IN THE DARK FOR YEARS). Well, I started playing around with my time elapse shots and got what I think are some very interesting shots.

The top one is just cool cuz of the double image of both of us. The middle one is shot from outside our home through the screen at Grace playing solitaire while I play with my camera. The bottom one is my favorite as it is a time exposed shot of those flowers that I call the 'Cobra flower' (look at earlier blog pictures to see more of these flowers).....I left the lens open for 25 seconds on a full moon lit evening with my Canon on a tripod. The only light on those flowers comes from the moon. I love that! I hope you enjoy it too.

That's what we do when the lights go out....well...that's not all we do.....(one thing we don't do it is microwave popcorn.....duh, Libby...with no electricity the microwave doesn't work! Oh, yea........Libby, we don't even have a microwave! Nor a mixer, toaster, TV, and a few more things either....Grace said we are missing our friends and family too.......true but we have made many new friends that we have come to love and respect here in the Congo). Enjoy!!!!