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.

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.

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. 

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.

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!