I'm trying to take advantage of the little time we have left with the hummers this summer. They will soon be migrating south for the winter. This little fellow was perched on the top of the shepherd's hook where I have the feeder hanging. Because he was silhouetted against a brighter sky, I tried to …
Weekly Challenge: The Sea
"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused." - Rainer Maria Rilke I have always been drawn to water. There is something about …
Soft Focus Dahlias
Everyone has their personal preference on whether they like their photos completely in focus or with some soft focus. For my flowers, I generally tend to like the soft focus more. My macro lens does a beautiful job of blurring the edges when I use a small aperture. It's a long weekend for us so …
Wildflowers
There are wildflowers growing all along the trails by the river at the Old Mill. Maralee
Something from Nothing?
While I was out taking "focus" photos for the weekly challenge, I saw these weeds through a wife fence. My intention was to try blur out the fence, but I was too close and it didn't make much difference. But I liked how the fence framed the weeds. But it was pretty much a "nothing" …
Through My Lens 