A really boring Monday

Well as I sat in the Wal Mart parking lot in Bay City Michigan I started wondering what it looked like for the bugs I photograph and I came up with this…

It took awhile to set up, I’m glad I had both triopds and my spare camera.
Then the rain clouds rolled in and the sky grew dark, and the temp dropped. Oh goody, maybe some lightning shots??? NOT! It rained, and rained, and rained, so I took an extended nap and fell asleep to the rain pounding on the truck, actually I was out like a light. When I woke up the sun was getting low on the horizon and sun started to peek out from behind the clouds and I was greeted by this sight…

Over the next couple of hours I spotted 4 different rainbows, it was pretty cool.
I’m in Waukegan Illinois this morning and heading to who knows where, hopefully somewhere interesting..:-)
Hava great day…Ed

Macro Monday

Well here we are on a monday and I have a few macro shots I’m proud of from the last few days. The bee, globe thistle and butterfly were from last Thursday at the Whitewater Gardens in Indianapolis and the Sweat Bee was from a field in Michigan I shot yesterday.
Hava great week..:-)




All these pics were taken with my 105mm Sigma Macro lens ISO400, f:2:8, in Aperature mode.

Sunday Stills: Things with Wings

I admit I went overboard this week, the first 5 are new pics from last Thursday in Indianapolis, the rest are my faves from times past…..





And now for a couple birdie pix


And finally some BIG birds.



And thus ends things with wings..:-)

Some Cute Critters

As I watched the lions trying to figure out how to shoot through 4 inches of glass and more little fingerprints than I cared to count I overheard a mom talking to her friend saying how much she liked the extra security to protect them from the animals, I interjected that the extra protection was actually for the animals from us. The problem with zoos since the two idiots got themsevles killed by a tiger in San Francisco is for the zoos to protect protect the animals from the visitors is they have increaced the amount of fencing and ballistic glass. This makes it difficult to photograph, single fencing is o.k. I can focus through it but double is impossible, so I gave up on the animals and concentrated on the flora instead of the fauna. But I did manage some good pix of what I did shoot. Enjoy and I’ll see ya’ll tomorrow for Sunday Stills… Ed

Flowery Friday

I have to put Skywatch Friday on hold this week, I spent a FANTASTIC day yesterday at the Indianapolis Zoo and the Whitewater Gardens and took over 1000 pics and kept half of those. My senses were on overload with all the sights and sounds of the area and I was as happy as a kid in a candy store. So I’m using the pics for the next weeks posts from today to Sunday Stills (your gonna love these) to Macro Monday and on to Wordless Wendsday It will be a busy week. So enjoy and have a great weekend..Ed

Indy Skyline

Well to celebrate getting my A/C fixed I decided to spend the day today at the Indianapolis Zoo and Whitewater Gardens. Besides the zoo the garden has an excellent butterfly exhibit. So, off I go..:-)

Wordless Wednesday

Macro Monday

The return of the dreaded Japanese Beetle, munching their was across the land destroying gardens at will.



I hope your garden is safe..:-)

Sunday Stills: Tri-Color

Well I almost went to the archives for this week, but at the last moment I got off my butt and shot a few pics. Its been a pretty busy week driving from Green Bay Wisconsin to Tulsa Oklahoma and over to Scotsville Kentucky and up to Louisville and now I’m off to Owensboro North Carolina. So here are two new pics of my favorite candy and my favorite thing to give me that needed boost at 3 a.m. and a couple from the archives.
Have a great day and HAPPY DADS DAY!!!

Saturday Rewind

I was thinking last night while driving about places I’ve been to and the pix I’ve taken and one place kept coming up, Mobile Alabama. This is one of my favorite places to kill a few hours and visit my favorite Battleship, the U.S.S. Alabama. Tere is alot to see and do including the ship and submarine, lots of planes and a bunch of seabirds to photograph, herons, pelicans ect.. So with that said here are a couple of my favorite pix of the sunrise at the pier and the Alabama in all her glory..:-)