Red-winged Blackbird

Red-winged Blackbird

I am told that these birds like to nest around ponds.  We have so many that they nest also in the meadow.  This one was around the pond.  

I get attention from them during the nesting time.  As a result, I have the opportunity to photograph them.  

This image was made during an overcast time.  The light is coming over the photographer's right shoulder and provides a nice catch-light in the birds eye.  The bokeh appeals to my eye because of its smoothness and color.  The green is pine trees if I remember correctly.  For these reasons, it avoided the final cuts. It is beautiful printed on metallic chrome paper.

I shot at wide open, f/5.6, and 1/1000 and handheld.

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Beyond the Vernal Pool

Stream Bed

I have completed "A Vernal Pool" and it is on the way to Gorman Nature Center.  I am now passing through the remainder of the 2013 shots making prints of the best.  

I should mention that I have withdrawn my stand-out prints from sales.  I need to do more development before I offer them for sale.  The warping is a problem.  I am currently mounting them on lauan, a 3/16 inch floor underlayment.  It is a plywood which is sanded one side to a very smooth finish.  I paint it on the back with latex paint.  I have suspended the attachment of the pull downs for a period of time, until I can be sure they don't cause the curling.

The above shot, Stream Bed, has come through the culling process successfully.  I have printed it 10x6.67 inches.  I am considering printing it 15x10.  It is sand on the stream bottom.  The current has crafted the sand into interesting lines.  The sand is completely under water.  the light is coming from the top right.  I used a circular polarizing filter to eliminate surface reflections.  This is one that I like more and more as I look at it on the wall.

You can order it at the link below.  I can print it on several different papers.  Let me know if it is to be displayed under glass or acrylic.  I can frame it for you if requested.

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Holly

Holly

This is Holly.  She is my friend.  She belongs to someone else.  She is older than I, in dog years.  She begs food, but not from me.  She knows that I will not give her anything and she is okay with that.  She has arthritis and does not get around like she used to.  She has had some close calls during her life.  She once got a rat poison container out of a neighbors trash.  It almost killed her.  She is well cared for and she survived.  I am more than a little ambivalent about dogs in general but not Holly.  I sincerely like her and she likes me.  When I am at her house she comes and lays by my chair, but not during a meal.  I reach down and scratch her ears. She loves it.  I sometimes wonder if the people would like me to scratch their ears.  No one ever asks and I would have to refuse if they did.  She goes to her groomer and gets bows.  She always looks so cute.

Holly is a Shih-poo.  According to Wikipedia:  The Shih-poo is a small domestic dog. It is a crossbreed between a Poodle and a Shih Tzu.[1][2] The name Shih-poo is a portmanteau of the two breed names.

Associations such as the AKC, the UKC, and the CKC, do not recognize the Shih-poo, or any other designer cross, as a breed.

I spent some time at Wikipedia looking for her breed.  I finally had to ask her owner what she was.  Then I found the above information.  The picture of a Shih-poo displayed on Wikipedia had a face like hers but the fur was not all black like hers.

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Art of the Brick Conclusion

Untitled Hand

The lighting of this one gives almost a how-to tutorial.

Yellow

 I hope you saw the show.  I sincerely enjoyed it.  I was so taken with the photography that I did not think much about it until I was home processing the images.  I had neglected to record names of the works.  I looked up as many on the web site as possible.  For the others, I prefaced my made up title with "untitled."  I think that he called the one "Pole Man" but could not find it on the web site.