Nature has wonderful palette of colors to show us.
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Natures Surprises
Bumble Bee and Dotted Blazing Star Nature is always changing and presenting us with surprises. This bumble bee is an example of such a surprise. I was in Blendon Woods park playing around with my white balance preset, you know the adage, practice makes perfect, when this bee decided to get in the image. As a photographer, I had no problems with that.
Life is also constantly changing. Big and little surprises enter our lives on a daily basis. How do we handle the surprises in life? do we accept them or fight against them? Do we run away from them? I kinda like surprises, myself!
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Kimberly
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Kimberly This is my friend, Kimberly, the lovely Kimberly. She caught my attention in a coffee shop, stopped me in my tracks. She was struggling with some things in life at the time, physical ailments and job loss. Life is much better now, things such as a special man in her life, she now has work, which is pretty important now a days. As time moves on so did we. Her new job took her to Washington and my new job brought me to Ohio. We keep in touch through phone calls, text messages and facebook. I was lucky enough to have a couple of photo sessions with her and this is from the first session.
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Energized Bee
Busy Bee Did you ever notice how bumble bees are a lot like the Energizer Rabbit, they just keep on going? They have a mission in life to pollinate and then go after it. Wish my body could keep up that pace but alas the age thing is taking its toll. I’m posting this image because it was taken with the new Nikon 35mm f1.8 lens. I got as close as I could get with the lens then I’ve done a major crop in Lightroom 2, tweaked levels and a bit of saturation. That’s it. I think the lens performs well, especially for a $200 price tag. It’s a keeper and the lens stays on the camera most of the time. It’s a lot lighter to carry around, another one of those age things. 🙂
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Nature Walk
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Taking a Walk They say walking is good exercise. I believe them. We can keep weight off, build up our cardiovascular and just feel good about ourselves. Finding the discipline to walk on a regular basis has been lacking in my life for the past few years. Now that I have this nature area behind my apartments I do get out more often and that’s good. I headed out to the park with my camera and tripod, thinking I could get a self-portrait image along with a walk.Â
On the way back to the car, this silly question came to mind. I bought myself a nice carbon fiber tripod a few years ago and have been really pleased with it. It’s rugged and solid. Paid a lot of money for it. But even with the three legs I still have to carry the darn thing. Anyone else have to carry theirs, also?
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Good people…
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Olivier …will pop in to our lives and bring their smiles. I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with one of my pilots, his wife, Cindy and their son Olivier. They are good people and not because they invited me over for a BBQ the other evening. They are just good people inside. I enjoyed seeing their new home and hearing about all the things they have done to the house and what some of their plans are for the future. This is their son, Olivier, who wanted to make sure we watched as he rolled down the slope in the backyard. Can you tell he likes the new house also? Yep, good people!
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Melinda
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Melinda Sometimes I find it easy to approach people on the street and other times I find it uncomfortable. A fellow blogger, Earl Moore, wrote a short blog on this issue and how we can approach photographing people. His blog has been triggered by Bruce Percy who talks about his approach to travel portraits. I tap into both of these two photographers. Because of this young lady’s inviting smile my gut told me to ask her if I could take her photo. Thankfully, yes was her answer. However, if it had been no, I would have honored that and moved on.