This is the best I’ve been able to do with this one. Not a terribly sharp image, but then this fellow was rather more evasive than its friend, the Blue Heron from the previous post. I was having to be quick on the trigger and at full zoom too. Also the light was very strong…
Blue Heron. C&O Canal, Maryland, April 2017.
Mother and baby turtles. C&O Canal, Maryland, April 2017.
The Zoo, Washington DC, July 2016. …although these guys were definitely more orange…
I might have mentioned previously how easily I get sidetracked, however sometimes it’s a good thing yielding interesting results. The above image was a product of such a veer in an unintended direction as I searched my archives for TIFF files, mostly to try and make more room on my external hard-drives. I failed…
Gunner’s Lake, Germantown, Maryland, USA, 2016.
In the interest of keeping to the theme of this week’s challenge, here’s another not very relaxed but most beautiful of bugs caught between wing-beats. Incidentally I have been chasing the huge yellow and blue Tigertail butterflies all year in the hope of getting a good shot. They dance around in the air in very…
There is nothing relaxing about taking a picture of a bee alighting on a flower only to relax for the briefest of moments, if bees are able to relax at all. The relaxation of producing this kind of image only comes afterward when one can exhale and unfreeze all muscles, and then only once the…
And now for something completely different: the magic of being at the right place, at the right time. A wily old Heron in mid-flight over the Potomac falls where Maryland waves hello to Virginia just on the other side, and Virginia responds by taking a selfie with one of those long stick thingies. The magic…
In more recent times I have been taking a lot of photos of flowers. I was an obsessively keen gardener for many years. Having grown up with a father who was a garden designer, horticulturist and parks manager for a couple of big London parks, flowers and plants were just part of my everyday life,…
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