I talked my husband into going back to feed the ducks. We took some corn with us to feed them.
Quack! Quack!
So I snapped some close ups, while Dennis snapped some with the fisheye. He said I could share some of them with you.
I think they like the corn!
This guy was not shy at all!
Neither was this gal.
Sure hope we have enough feed.
And here's me feeding the ducks.
There was something in the middle of the road. Hubby threw the car into park and out we jumped, cameras in hand. The lens you see up there is the fisheye (on the Canon 5D) and if you scroll down to the bottom you can see one of the shots Dennis took. He really was only a couple of inches from the turtle; the neat thing about the fisheye is you can be really close.
The turtle willingly stopped and posed for his paparazzi.
He even waved at the camera.
I guess he was waving ‘bye’, cuz then he was off like a flash, well, uh actually more like a tortoise.
I snapped a few close ups, from a distance, if that makes sense. I was using the Canon 40D with the huge honkin lens (100-400mm), too lazy to take it off after birding.
I love the moss on his shell (it gives him character) and the stripe on his eye that matches his body.
As promised, here’s one of Dennis’s photos and me in the background, about five feet from Mr Turtle, as that’s as close as I can be to focus with that huge lens. Sidenote - You see that is the bad thing about his using the fisheye, it has 180 degree view so I have to be slightly behind him or I will be in the shot. And honestly, when we plan a day in the woods taking photos I don't exactly dress up for a photo, afterall, I'm supposed to be behind the camera, not in front of it.
The first thing I do every morning is let my little pups go outside. Yesterday morning I got to the sliding glass door, and let out an, “Oh Shit!” I’m sure hubby thought the sky had fallen as I’m not much of a cusser, and in a way it had. He yelled, “What?” and I yelled, “It snowed! It snowed. . .and it’s still snowing!”
6:26 am - Of course I ran and grabbed the camera for you guys.
7:45 am - All the little birdies were out running around. My son thinks they were preparing for another winter.
7:50 am
9:23 am
9:26 am
9:30 am - Update for yesterday’s Fun Monday post on trails and paths. PS - Those last three photos (up there) were taken with the fisheye on the 5D body and it has a full frame sensor unlike our other cameras. So it looks really funky, doesn’t it?! I just felt the need to see the difference.
11:30 am - JoZe’s angel has a halo.
11:30 am - Cute duck is carrying quite a load. I think he’s saying, “Spring is here!” while all the other birds are migrating back south again.
Mother Nature likes teeter-totters. Saturday 30s, Sunday low 50s, Monday 30s. . .We had huge honking flakes flying until the afternoon and got a few inches. The ground was white when I went to sleep. Today we’re supposed to get back up to the 50s.
