One Fisherman who shouldn’t be

Got a little angry with this guy after he caught what looked like a medium sized Rainbow Trout. I could tell he was having problems, not only handling the slippery fella, but removing the hook. I always thought that “catch and release” meant using barbless hooks. But evidently this guy skipped that class. I could

Sunflower Heaven

Another Sunflower

More Sunflowers

Sunflowers

The season for these wonderful specimens of nature is just around the corner

A dying tree

The grand old pine tree at the center of Wingfield Park, appears to be dying. Once a source of shade from the midday sun, today is looking rather gaunt in it’s appearance. There doesn’t appear to be any new pine needle growth on any of the branches. It’ll be a sad day if and when

Flowers 6/6

River activities on a hot Summer day…

Photoshop Flowers

I don’t normally use Photoshop to process my images, but because it’s part of my subscription, I decided to go on a discovery mission and discovered a filter that enhances lines in images and gives them the perception of depth, like in an oil painting with brush strokes. It works so well with flowers, I

Flowers over the River

Love the color combinations from some of the flowers in the hanging baskets along the river and the bokeh spheres from the sun’s rays bouncing off the water in the first image

It seemed ironic…

…that the Canadian Geese were finding ways to stay out of the water, while the humans were happy to be in the cooling waters of the river on this nearly 90 degree day

Flowers

When I shot the flowers yesterday, I tried using my 105mm macro lens for the closeups. But because it wasn’t calibrated with my D850, the images were unusable. I’ve since calibrated it using the D850 Auto AF Fine Tune and it appears to have been a success…

Flowers with an unexpected guest

Wild Flowers

Tranquility on a Hot Summer Day