It was another 100°+ day yesterday – 101° to be exact.  Too hot to work out in the yard, although I did do a weed check of the front yard.  My front yard looks awesome, by the way, with the exception of a couple of dry spots in the lawn that just won’t green up.  Ugh.

Yesterday morning the dogs got me up at 5:30 am.  On a Saturday!  I sat down at my laptop at 6:00 am fully intent on catching up on blog visits, but I remembered that I didn’t get all of the files downloaded from www.brand-ography.com that I mentioned in a post a few days ago.  I got my download started and noticed a link that sounded interesting so I went there and spent a couple of hours (yes, hours) checking it out.  It led me to someplace else where I spent an hour or so, which led me to another site and then another site, and so on and so forth.  I did manage to get a nap in there somewhere.  Anyway, I didn’t get restarted on my blog catching up until later in the evening and I didn’t completely catch up.  I will finish that today.

Tomorrow I will share some of those resources and links with you.  I think I bookmarked them all (eyeroll).

Sunday Spotlight with international flare.

• Luca Bobbiesi (aka BoB) is from Italy and he caught some spectacular light on his Memories in the Dust blog.
• Mohammadreza Rezania from Iran has some very creative portraits.  Check out My Bit Life for more inspiration.
• Olivier Jules is a master at HDR.  I’m not sure if this ocean shot is HDR or not, but I love it.  I do believe Olivier is from Italy.
• Sebastian Wahsner of cozmopics.de does a lot of portrait shots.  He always captures the intensity of the eyes.  Sepp is from Germany.