Wild Rose and Rosehips

Views From Our House.

Sauk Mountain

Sauk Mountain
A Dark- Eyed Junco

Birds Continued...

Birds

Stellar Jay


Downy Woodpecker

Golden-Crowned Sparrow

House Sparrow

Canon Beach.

These photos are about a year and a half old, but I thought I'd share them with you anyway. They were taken at Canon Beach down in Oregon.

The day at the Marsh

Today, I had this urge to take some pictures, but of what? I couldn't seem to find anything on our property that I haven't photographed already, but yes- I remembered our almost dried up pond, I thought to myself hmm. what could there be to photograph down there? Just a bunch of mucky-sticky mud, insects and frogs, but to my surprise this pond had all sorts of interesting things to photograph; dragonflies, insects, snakes, nests, birds and of course the mud! So, after spending 25 minutes down there I came back up to the house uploaded 114 pics. and here are a few that I took. Enjoy!

Birds

What a lovely trio!
American Goldfinches

A Sparrow

The dried up Pond

A Red-Winged Blackbird's nest.

American Goldfinches.
Song Sparrow (maybe Lincoln, or fox- not certain)
The dried up Pond

Ladybug, snake and umm.. interesting specimens from our pond.

Dragonflies

 

Photography Quotes

“ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

“ Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. – Matt Hardy

“ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt

 “ Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

“ You’ve got to push yourself harder. You’ve got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You’ve got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. – William Albert Allard

“ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

This mornings sun
Light


A frog - I almost stepped on him last night, I took this photo in the dark...

I took these photos last night just before dark.