Saturday, May 31, 2014

Grounded


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 15 ~ And my 250th blog!

The plane looks sad that it can't be up in the great wide-open sky above.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Muffler Art


~ 90 blog challenge: day 14

The theme for the next few days will be airplanes.  This pile of plane mufflers screamed "art" at me.  Can you hear it?

Thursday, May 29, 2014

A Sounder of Swine Shakers


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 13

I grew up looking at a passel of antique pork products, including these salt and pepper shakers.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Can't Touch This


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 12 ~

If I'm in your way, you can just move.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 11 ~

Time for a re-charge.

Monday, May 26, 2014

Got Food?


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 10 ~

Mama couldn't keep up with these hungry little mouths.  She was bringing them noms all afternoon.



Techie Corner

1/6 sec
155mm 
ƒ5.6
ISO 100

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Sweet Innocence


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 9 ~

Met this little beauty yesterday.


Saturday, May 24, 2014

Help Me


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 8 ~

How many men does it take to change a muddy toddler?  Apparently, more than three....

Friday, May 23, 2014

Evening Lovebirds


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 7 ~

Love.  It's a beautiful thing.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

I'm Not a Big Fan


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 6 ~



Self-explanatory, wouldn't you say?

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Goodnight Dragonfly


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 5 ~

Goodnight, sweet Dragonfly, the light does quickly ebb.

Goodnight, sweet Dragonfly, it's time to go to bed.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Happy Spring


~ 90 day blog challenge: day 4 ~

Just a happy, fluffy Robin enjoying a real Spring evening.  Finally.


Still not tack sharp, but I like the colors, and lighting.


Monday, May 19, 2014

Chillin' Great Blue Heron


~ 90 day blog challenge: day three ~

This was a 4 second exposure with my lens set at 300mm and shot through a window at about 25 feet, so not a chance of it being tack-sharp.  Still, it's a beautiful bird and I'm glad I got any shot at all in the twilight conditions. 

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Birds Galore


~ 90 day blog challenge: day two ~

I don't know if it's because Spring is a late bloomer this year, or I wasn't very observant last year, but I've seen more different types of birds in my backyard this past week than I saw all of last year!

My backyard is DNR land, which includes a pond that connects to a lake.  In the last few days I've seen:  Great Blue Heron, Wood Duck, Yellow Warbler, Cardinal, Robin, Black-capped Chickadee, some others that I'm not quite sure of, and the Great Egret, pictured above.  I love birding.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Dirty Pig


It's Spring once again and I'm really feeling a drive to get back into photography.  But good intentions aren't enough.  I need discipline.  And what better way to tackle discipline than to start a daily blog challenge?  My last challenge was in 2011–30 days/30 blogs.

I can dooooo this!  Time to get down and dirty–just like my flying pig.  90 days.  90 blogs.  Starting....NOW!

I fired up my Nikon today and my flying pig was taunting me to start a challenge, so what could I do?  Start with him, of course!  I was shooting through a screen, which gave a nice soft focus effect.

Day 1 of 90 down.  Woot!