The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is architecture. I love old buildings of all kinds. But especially neat are old buildings of stone or brick with all their flourishes and adornments.
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Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
As I lamented in a post almost a year ago, bird photography ain’t as easy as one might initially think. I’ve been trying off and on for a year and a half now with extremely meager results. Mostly due to my lack of patience and my lens not quite having the reach I wish it did. (Though the 16x optical zoom on my bridge camera is still a vast improvement over my little point and shoot.)
I have particular trouble with little flitty birds. So I was overjoyed when I managed to capture this uncooperative kinglet. The photo isn’t as sharp as I’d like, but I was lucky to get it at all. Prior to this one I had two photos of empty branches and two of blurred tail feathers. I finally caught it here in the moment before it flew away.
Star Dahlia
Skykomish River
The assignment from the WPC today is to “share your vision of our glorious Mother Earth”. This picture was taken with my very first digital camera, a little Canon point and shoot, so the image quality is a bit lacking.
But it does help demonstrate why I think Washington State is such a gloriously beautiful example of the natural splendor of our Mother Earth.
Photo taken from the Index bridge over the north fork of the Skykomish River near the beginning of October in 2005.
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