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Photos (part 1 of 3) – Everything but the Osprey…

As some of you know, I had on order of 1200 recent photos to dig through. Others may remember that I bought a new super-telephoto zoom lens in May. Because of the large numbers involved, I decided to split it into three posts:

Photos – Everything but the Osprey… (this post)
Photos – Osprey!
Photos – Lens Review

Quick background: After the initial photos I posted in May, I did some walk around in New Hampshire and a long weekend on Cape Cod over Memorial Day weekend (last weekend in May). This was a time I was doing a lot of testing and experimenting. I took about 400 photos. I then spent two weeks on Cape Cod, with a bit of time off, in the middle of June. I spent a lot of time on the kayak taking photos and a few walks in the salt marshes and woods. This came in at about 800 photos.

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The Weekly Smile for the 12th of July, 2021 #weeklysmile

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Hi all. Yes, I am back after taking a week off of the Smile. And, as you may guess, that is what my smile is about.

I spent a week traveling to Ohio to visit family. It was the first time I saw them in two years. It was nice to see everyone and catch up face-to-face. One thing that had to be seen face to face were the bees.

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Photos from Late June and Early July, 2019

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Immature red Tail Hawk flying over

I used to do a lot of photo posts, but haven’t put many up recently. I have literally thousands of photos from 2018 and early 2019 that I have not even looked at let alone sorted and edited! over the last week I broke down and looked at the last few.

I spent the last week of June on Cape Cod. I worked half of the week and entertain guests, so I didn’t take a lot of photos that I can post, but there are a few, like this photo of my nephew fishing. Continue reading →

Time and Photos #tanka #haibun #haiku

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Time and Photos

Photos beyond count
Raw statistics in folders
No time to revel
I have snapped many pictures
But have left them unopened

I open the ‘Explore’ on my computer and go to photographs. There are folders ordered by dates staring at me. Each folder contains a lot of photos, dozens, hundreds. I leaf through some and find them both familiar and unfamiliar. I have seen very few of them since the moment I clicked the shutter. There are birds and people. There are rabbits and buildings. There are trees and lakes and seascapes. Pictures of merrymakers reveling at a wedding reception, dancing to loud music. Birds sitting on quiet shores or soaring majestically through the air. Where has the time gone? Why can’t I just sit down and go through these pieces of memory? Perhaps even post some on my blog Ooops, where has the time gone!?! I have to get back to work!!! Bye… Continue reading →

Time and Photos :(

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I used to do a weekly “Media Monday” post. I’m not sure what happened to it. Well, I do. One thing you most likely know is that I take a lot of photos. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to go through photos. I have about 2000 photos that I’ve taken over the last three months that I have not looked at. Anyway, the osprey chick and osprey butt at the top of the page is a sample of some of the photos I have taken without going through. The eagle photo below is another one. Hopefully sometime I will find the time…

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Hawks and Eagles – Cape Cod on April 14

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Red Tailed hawk

The last couple of times I visited cape Cod I took quite a few photos. I decided to divide them out into four posts:

Osprey
Hawks and Eagles
Ducks, Geese and Swan
Turkey and Other Birds
Water and Such

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Camera Video Test

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I was playing around with some videos I shot with my new camera and made a short video. I used my Prelude in D Major as the music. I think the best part of the video is the eagle feeding its young.

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Photos from Ohio – Early June 2017 – Mostly Eagles

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Immature eagle flying

I spent a few days in Ohio back in early June. This is a yearly trip to visit family. And that’s what most of it was about – visiting. Of course, part of the visiting where the “eagle hunts” with my father. We did two of them: one to McGee Marsh and the other, more local to my parents, to Old Woman’s creek.

Even though we saw a lot of the same types of things as usual, there were a few special things. Some I didn’t notice until I was looking at the photos.

I took quite a few pictures of a great Blue Heron in Lake Erie out at McGee. Later I discovered that a snapping turtle was right next to the bird. I can see the head in almost a dozen photos. Here is one. Can you see it? Continue reading →

I Want Your Smile! #weeklysmile Reminder

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Weekly Smile #WeeklySmile

I take a lot of photos. One problem is going through all of those photos, finding the best, and then editing them to post here (or use in other ways). I finally had a chance to go through all of my photos from the trip I took to Ohio in early June. I was surprised by a few of them. For instance, I took a lot of pictures of a great blue heron in Lake Erie. As i was going through the photos, I noticed that you can see a turtle in about a half a dozen of the shots. It was swimming around the bird. Looking at the head, it must have been a huge snapper. Was it looking for poultry? I have a few shots of another great blue shaking the water off like a dog. I take a lot of pictures of the moon, and I think I took my clearest yet. Continue reading →

A Few Birds I Saw in Ohio

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Geese

I don’t have time to write anything. These photos were quickly cropped but I didn’t have time to do anything else to them. Obviously I didn’t take time to decide which were my favorites ;) Well, I started with over 700, so I did cut the numbers down a bit. Click on the pictures to bring up more detail – you’ll be glad you did!