2016-02-22: Monochrome Monday
2016-02-21: What I’ve seen this week
The week ended on a very interesting note, and has left me with a fair number of photos to go through. On the advice of one of the members of the photo group, I went east of town yesterday hoping to see the northern hawk owls that had been spotted earlier in the day; I managed to see one, perched so high up in a tree, the first time I drove straight past it.
Today, I decided to take a drive about an hour out of town to a park, to scope out potential photography areas for the spring. It was just too lovely a day to be indoors. I had Spencer with me and we had a nice walk along the frozen marsh, but on the way out, I started to pull over closer to the side of the road to let a truck past, and the combination of ice covered road and extremely soft snow on the side, I ended up with the passenger side wheels stuck. A lady tried to give me a tow (who it turns out is also part of my photo group, but we hadn’t met yet), but that didn’t work so we set off to get into cell range so I could call for a tow truck. While I waited for the tow, it gave me a bit of time to catch up on some podcasts I’d been wanting to listen to, and honestly, the people around here are lovely. Every single person heading in or out of the park stopped to see if they could help in any way. I’m very grateful to the kindness of strangers.
And if I hadn’t been delayed an hour, I likely wouldn’t have seen a bald eagle perched high in a tree on the side of the highway (thoughtfully, right near a truck pull out so I could safely pull over). And since many wise photographers have always said “look behind you”, I turned to scan the opposite side of the highway, and saw two more perched in a tree and one soaring above, calling repeatedly. So an owl Saturday, and four bald eagles (plus a slightly lighter wallet) on Sunday. All in all, an excellent weekend.
And with that long and rambling weekend description behind us, on to the photos.
Enjoy, and have a lovely week.
2016-02-20: World Pangolin Day
I’ve already done a post with the best pangolin photos I managed to take (if you missed it the first time around, you can find it here). But as it’s world pangolin day, I thought I would see what I could do with a photo that didn’t make the original post, in a black and white edit. I like the way the texture of the scales are emphasized in monochrome.
2016-02-17: Wordless Wednesday
2016-02-16: Artistic Impressions
A couple weeks back, I edited an owl photo with an artistic edge, turning it into something more like a painting than a photograph. (You can see here if you missed it). Now I know that’s not to everyone’s tastes, but I found it a really fun process, something that I would like to play around with once in a while.
I don’t know how often you’ll see the Artistic Impressions post title, but when you do, you know it will be something a bit out of the box.
I hope you enjoy my artistic impressions!
These and others are available for purchase on my Smugmug site.
2016-02-15: Monochrome Monday
Here are a few more photos from my photo walk Saturday afternoon.
2016-02-14: What I’ve seen this week
I managed to get out shooting yesterday with a few people from the photography group I belong to. I went without expectations, only with the hope of putting the Tamron through it’s paces, as it is finally back from its second trip to service (and I must say, it seems to be focusing better than when I bought it, so fingers crossed the issues are resolved). I also took out my new camera, a Panasonic FZ1000, to start learning how to use it, and again, so far so good (and SO lightweight!!!).
I’ve not had much time for editing, so I will post a few now, and a few more photos through the week.
Have a great week everyone 🙂
2016-02-11: WPC Time
2016-02-11: WPC Vibrant
I missed last week’s photo challenge, but when I saw it, I couldn’t resist posting a photo of one of my favourite birds, the lovely lilac breasted roller.
Okavango Delta, Botswana, April 2015
1/1000 sec, f5.6, ISO 320
2016-02-10: Wordless Wednesday
