Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I noticed these two blue and white vases at a local antiques fair and decided to take a picture. As I was taking it I spotted the mirror in the background and decided to wait until someone walked by behind me so I could get their reflection.
I won’t go so far as to say that this car has been abandoned. The house in whose driveway it sits certainly isn’t. However, it does look as if it’s been there for some time. The paint is starting to flake and the moon roof has caved in.
One of the very few pictures I’ve taken of wildlife. I just don’t have the patience required to take good wildlife pictures. Wildlife photography also seems to require very fast telephoto lenses, which I don’t have and which are quite expensive to acquire.
This was taken during a walkabout with a friend. The geese were not happy to have us come close to their young and I know from experience that they can be quite aggressive when aroused. So we had to give them a wide berth. Luckily the grassy area to the right was quite wide so we could quite easily get around them. Otherwise it would have been a long walk back the way we came.
Continuing the flower series – I was very much attracted to this colorful clump of Irises in a neighbors garden.
We’re members of the local garden club and every year those who run it ask for volunteers to help plant at ‘Two bridges park’ near the beginning of Lake Shore Road and my wife volunteered. This year the girl scouts turned up in force to help with the planting.
The two pictures below show some of the girl scouts at work. The shots are actually of reflections in the stream that passes through the park. They’ve been flipped to make them look as if they’re the right way up. I like both of them. The first seems to show more activity, while in the second they seem more ‘at rest’.
Incidentally the scouts have been doing a wonderful job around the lake. In addition to the work of the girl scouts the eagle scouts constructed a new seating area, with gravel paths, a new bridge (which they built themselves) and a picnic area complete with picnic table. Well done to all of scouts (both male and female) who contributed to this!
