I was very lucky on my walk yesterday to notice a Red-shouldered Hawk keeping an eye on proceedings from above the bike trail. He didn’t seem the least bit bothered by my presence. As much as I love my pocket-sized Fujifilm Finepix AX, it would have been nice to have a more powerful zoom in shooting this guy. Still, I can’t complain too much! These pictures brought to you by 16 megapixels and some image-editing software. 😀
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 19, 2016. Folsom Crossing, north end — April 2015 Folsom Crossing, south end — October 2015 Folsom Crossing, south end — January 2016
Yet another beautiful sunset…
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 12, 2016. … or maybe Art imitates Life! A mural seen inside the local Bass Pro Shops outlet, and two fishermen in their aluminum boat on Lake Natoma.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things That Are Cold. Here in the eastern Sacramento Valley, even in winter it rarely gets cold enough to snow. Sometimes we do get a serious freeze — and on this particular morning I discovered the tiny “pond” in our old wheelbarrow had frozen over. I couldn’t resist grabbing my camera and playing with the ice! That’s ice. Ice, baby.
What really helped kick off my current obsession with ground-level macro was my discovery of photographer Kim Leuenberger and her completely awesome Traveling Cars Adventures series. I wanted to put my own spin on her idea, so I took a tiny ’55 Chevy Nomad and a mini 2001 Mini Cooper to the coast with me and played with a couple of […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of February 5, 2016. View overlooking Folsom Prison
Two of my very favorite books growing up, and even to this day, have been Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice was always shrinking and growing and being forced to examine her world in completely new ways. I liked to play at being Alice: peering toward the edges of mirrors and pretending that backward […]