Blackbirds

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014Leave a comment

I was playing with my big zoom lens a week or so ago and came up with these. Usually there are too many leaves to get pictures of the birds way up there, but it’s spring, so I got some halfway decent shots. And I finally have a camera that’ll let me crop a shot and still have a decent size to do something with it. Yay!

You can’t see it because these are low-res for-the-web versions, but there’s actually enough pixels to print if I wanted to. 🙂

Of course, blackbirds aren’t all that photogenic, but I did what I could from the ground. 🙂

A Hawk on My Back Fence Today

September 28, 20123 Comments

He sat there for over an hour and let me get as close as about 20 feet from him. I think he’s a red-tailed hawk, but I’m not sure.

Miscellaneous Photos

August 6, 2012August 6, 2012Leave a comment

And here’s a few stragglers that don’t really fit under the other categories.

Scenery

August 5, 2012August 5, 2012Leave a comment

Here’s some scenery from my trip also. Unfortunately, it was cloudy most of the times I tried to take scenery pictures on this trip. Still, I got some and I played with Photoshop filters to salvage others.

Macro Photos of Flowers

August 5, 2012October 21, 20122 Comments

I just came back from a family trip up to Wisconsin. Since the kids wouldn’t have the patience to wait for me to draw pictures of the things I saw, I took photos instead. Even that tried their patience a bit, but they lived through it. 🙂

Here’s a collection of close-up flower shots I took. Both garden flowers and weed flowers. And three that aren’t actually flowers, but they are plants. I don’t know what all of them are, but if you recognize one that isn’t labeled, let me know.

Some of these are available as prints.

Happy Fourth of July!

July 4, 2012July 4, 20125 Comments

And what better way to usher in this day of independence than with a little felony property damage? That’s just what happened to us. A bit after midnight someone was screwing around outside and lit off some explosives in our mailbox. Yes, there was mail in it. And the backend blew all the way up to the porch. Completely shredded the box. And the mail.

So, to make lemonade out of lemons, I figured I’d take some pictures and make them all artsy (by that, I mean black and white) for you all.

Anyhow, Trevor filed a police report and the officer told him it was a felony. But, of course, no one will ever get charged because we don’t know who did it. My money’s on damn punk kids.

Rabbit Pictures (or maybe it’s a hare)

May 17, 2012June 18, 201215 Comments

So, today I went out to my garden to see if there were any peas to pick. Someone had left the gate open, and there was a bunny inside. So, I closed the gate and went back in for my camera. These are the pictures I took before I let the bunny out again. I think I need to weed the garden.