As a photographer I pay attention to the changing light. It can change in a matter of moments. And I find that it is often the light that makes a photograph something special. Early this morning I noticed a shaft of light that lit up a patch of dried grasses Read more…
As we move into April I’m seeing more and more Pond Life appearing and emerging in the pond behind our house. For the past week we’ve had visitations of wood ducks in the pond in the early morning. Most mornings there are a pair and trio of wood ducks (two Read more…
This morning I picked up my camera to photograph a pair of mallard ducks in the pond behind our house. Unfortunately I had forgotten that the last time I used my camera I set the camera settings to allow longer exposures for intentional camera movement images. I made about a Read more…
This morning I decided to practice photographing wood ducks in the pond with my Canon 100-400 mm lens and 1.4X extender. My first photos were awful. None of the fast moving ducks I photographed were quite in focus. I fiddled with my lens and my camera menu selections thinking that Read more…
Yesterday was the first time this year that I saw the painted turtles sunning on the log at the edge of the pond. Each time I see them lined up on the log I think of the old story about Turtles All the Way Down The following anecdote is told Read more…