Looking down at my feet I spoted some ice... Hang on, it's the middle of summer, it's stinking hot! How could this be Ice? Closer inspection revealed that this was fish scales rather than ice! Sure fooled me.
Always something interesting down around the docks.
These are some photos I took at the St. Louis, MO zoo a couple of weeks ago. I had a clean shot at this lion but I thought looking through the trees gave it a more natural look.
OK, so this isn't a tiger. I didn't get any good shots of a tiger at the zoo, they weren't cooperating so I substituted a leopard for a tiger.
Mmmmmm, naps. My favorite time of the day. I guess the older you get the more you look forward to the days you can take a little nap in the afternoon.
Found this old timer on the boardwalk at Telegraph Cove. Con't make em solid like this anymore!
It's not exactly an airport and you're not looking down a runway but................
Doing a little fancy turn around, or showing off, I'm not sure which. I'm sure he could see me standing in the yard with my camera. I could clearly see him in the cockpit of the plane even without the zoom lens.
I didn't even see the bird when I was taking the photo. He kind of snuck into the photo by accident. I'm sure he was probably trying to get out of the way of the "big noisy bird"!
Took this picture of a "Killer Whale" or "Orca" in Quatsino Narrows. Once or twice a year a "Pod" or family group of Orcas comes into the inlets where I live and hunts for Salmon or Seals.
I saw this cloud the other day and something about it just made me want to take a photo. I think it was the contrast between the cloud and the super blue sky that caught my eye. Or maybe I just had my finger on the shutter button when I got out of the car! LOL
Am I being repetitive? I actually took this photo on the same day as the train track photo but this was earlier in the day. I wasn't even trying to shoot the road, I was more interested in the slice of sunlight at the end of the road and the road gave it a little context. For some reason it looked better in person!
I wouldn't really recommend standing in the middle of a train track to take a photo but I didn't see any harm in it on this day. I didn't see a train for miles and I thought it would be hard for one to sneak up on me.
With all of the rain and cool weather we have been having the flowers have stayed abundant and so have the bugs, the good ones and the bad ones!
Found these two at a rock pit on the far side of Hardy Bay. Someone has a sense of humor!
They call this a pink flamingo but to me it seems more orange than pink. I shot this picture mainly for the reflection in the water. It would have been better if the flamingo would have been looking at me but he just didn't want to cooperate.
The D90 has all the usual editing bits you would expect though why anyone would ever take the time to fiddle with a picture on the puney little screen is beyond me! I will admit however that I don't recall seeing this particular effect in any photo editing programs I have ever used.
Some of that British Columbia weather must have slipped down here this summer because we haven't gone more than eleven days in a row without rain all summer long. This has brought out a bumper crop of inedible mushrooms. Too bad these can't be truffles, I would be lying on a beach in Hawaii right now!
Waiamea Bay North Shore Oahu. Keana Point in the background. Picture taken from the Pu'u O Mahuka Heiau (State Monument).
When you leave the beach and head "up" Haleakala, the volcano that makes up a good portion of the island of Maui, they say you are going to "upcountry". I guess that makes as much sense as anything else you could come up with.
This is actually 3 pictures stiched together using a program that came on a previous computer. Haven't found a suitable program like it for my present computer so no panorama pictures until I do.
I love sunsets! They are better than sunrises because you don't have to get up early!!
These were both taken from the top of a small mountain in southwest Oklahoma just a few minutes apart. The colors are as they were taken and haven't been adjusted in photoshop. I really need to get a super wide-angle lens!
