Tamron 70-300 SP f4-5.6 Di – Page 2

Yet Another Tree

I don’t live in a very exciting city, with high rises and fascinating places to go. Little if any long history, with conquistadors and religious wars and so on. Rather, I live in a place where suburbs exist, farm land and ranches are nearby, and the open spaces are places of refuge from long work days. Although I was born in Chicago, most of my life has been spent in rural areas and small towns. Today, I live in the biggest town since I was born, with 127,000 population, but it was designed to include 30% of it being reserved for open space. How lucky am I? Pretty darn lucky!

At Dawn

I have an older 70-300mm lens which I had used on my D7000, but was not sure if it worked on the Nikon Df. It does!

Spring

I was caught by the abundance of green and yellow . . . this is a panorama which I think could be done better by focusing on the flowers and using a smaller aperture to create a better DOF.

Little Friend

The local botanical garden is filled with new growth. Vines, trees, shrubs, bulbs are in bloom. Birds and lizards and coyotes are to be seen, and the squirrels are fatter than fat. I was walking home from my visit when a rustling caught my ear . . . this guy was just bopping around within feet of me, and luckily I could get his portrait before he flew off to explore new territory. This is a Dark-eyed Junco.

The Birds

Today I cleaned up this blog a bit, and in doing so created pages for each month of the years I’ve been doing this . . . over four years. In July of this year, I was not in a good mood about photography or what I was doing. My ego was quite into it, in a bad way. Burn out is not a good thing. While rummaging through things, I came across this picture from February 2014. I rather like it, though it is better suited for Halloween than Thanksgiving!