Did you wear your bonnet?
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This, as you might imagine, is pretty humbling to me.
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(Hope your Easter’s happy!)
Should it ever stop raining…
My plan is to pack a bag with cheese, some lovely fresh berries, challah bread, a good-sized grubby blanket, a book, a large container of bubble mix, and a bubble wand and head to somewhere that I can feel the sun on my face.
Who knows what’ll happen next.
What’s your plan?
Wings
by Hugh MacLeod, shared under Creative Commons license.
I get these great cartoons via email each morning; some days they’re sweet like this one, but more often they’re irreverent in a way that tickles the creative part of my spirit.
You can see more of Hugh’s artwork, read his blog and sign up for his daily comic at gapingvoid.com
Yes, you.
You there…
(not you guys, of course, or you)
But you… yes you, looking over my shoulder as I write.
(and you too, faraway, but not invisible)
You think you know me? You think what I write here is the truth of me? The truth of us?
Pfft!
I can be anything… go anywhere… do anything… be anyone, here.
How would you know otherwise, really?
I can write any story, create any truth…
You’ll believe what you want… read your own truth into whatever I write, but know this:
I write with the knowledge of you, there, always.
What you create from my stories is your truth, not mine… a mirror of what’s inside you.
You’ve a very convenient window into what you imagine to be my world, but this is not my world. This is a story I tell to entertain myself.
Sometimes I write to entertain you… or to annoy you, maybe, just a little.
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(Of course you know that, right?)
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We nearly froze, but…
A poor photo of a lovely group of people…
The Monmouth County Audubon Society sponsors free monthly walks, regardless of the weather.
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This day, early last month, we nearly froze to death at Sandy Hook, but saw Long-Tailed Ducks, Common Eiders, lots of Harbor Seals basking in the sun, and an Iceland Gull.
I’ve been responsible for planning these field trips for a couple years now and so have developed a sense of who our customers are… mostly beginners and plenty of kids dragged outdoors by their parents… plus there’s Marty.
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Marty (pictured far right, smiling) is a regular on our field trips, yet I’ve never seen him at any of our monthly meetings… curious, that.
Our next scheduled outing is Saturday, March 28th at Monmouth Battlefield State Park (Marty will be there, I’m sure!)… after that it’s Saturday, April 17th, again at Sandy Hook for Osprey, Piping Plovers and other early migrants…
We’d love to have you!
Ever wonder?
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*spotted at SHBO which now has their own FaceBook page! Why not become a fan and encourage Pete and Scott as they enter the 21st century of birding!
Magic
More from the flower show in Philly:
Playing with focus
Playing with color
Playing with both = MAGIC
I do a lot of playing with my camera and I make a lot of mistakes… probably those two necessarily go together. Once in a while though, something cool happens, as if by magic.
I know… the key to making that magic happen all the time is understanding and actually applying the science behind photography.
I’m only just learning to use the camera outside the comfort of automatic mode… I like portrait mode best, for its shallow depth of field, but the challenges of working outside of automatic, with aperture priority, sometimes feel too much like a math test that I forgot to study for and I just want to make a pretty picture, you know?
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Add to the equation the vagaries of ISO and shutter speeds and trying to take pictures of things with wings and BLECH!! Any sense of creativity and fun is lost for me. I guess I’m mostly interested in the magic, when it happens… the mystery of the process makes photography very compelling (and intimidating!) for me.
So anyway, a little at a time I’m forcing myself to use what I understand about f-stops and all that crap… and I’m deleting dozens and dozens of photos as I learn, but celebrating the magic when it happens.
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About the flower display, called Global Terrain, the artist’s statement reads: “The way land and sea are represented and form the texture of maps — inspired this unique display. Multiple vases and arrangements of thistle, delphinium, baby’s breath, trachilium and other plant varieties are used to replicate the look and feel of these three-dimensional depictions of the world.“
I’ve only focused on a couple small parts of the display here… but Steve has a pic of the overall effect… it was really breathtaking, yet sadly difficult to photograph well, I think.
