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.
I Wish… I wish I were a pretty angel Dancing on a leaf, Then jump into the sky Against all disbelief. I wish I could espy the crowd All huddled at my door From my angelic vantage point, So they could not hear me roar, As I swooped down beyond the fence, And ate…
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…
Ambience, otherwise known as the Crack in Irish-English, and there’s a very Irish term if ever there was one! Of course no offence intended with what may be construed as an inappropriate racial slur, however I’m harking back to my own childhood here growing up in what was a very stereotypically, and racially monochrome London,…
I’m often trying to capture a certain ambiance in my photographs. The kind that instead of taking you outside of yourself, puts you firmly back inside of yourself where the emotions swim about in abundance and with abject freedom. It works to varying degrees depending on how emotionally connected with yourself and the world you…
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…
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