Just A Man With A Camera

Another month and we have another one of my 52 week photo challenge images to go through!

This guy came out of a combination of me needing to get a photo in for my own personal photo challenge where I make my own rules, and a desire to shoot something with my Instax camera. I had a busy week full of preparing for company, preparing for a market, adulting, and taking care of my wife who was dealing with a broken foot. The golden hour light was great in my yard, so I wanted to capture something and this lawn ornament caught my eye. I never thought I would be a lawn ornament person, but when Giant Tiger started selling garden gnomes that look likey they are going on adventures with cryptids, I had to buy some of them. So these fellows are off on a trip with a happy sasquatch.  Not much more to it that that, I just love the expressions sculpted on their faces.

June 6th

....and now for something completely different.  I used this photo of this friendly little beaver in my previous post about birding and finding a large flock of pelicans.  I just really loved this image so it got my spot on the weekly photochallenge list.

June 13th

While taking a break from photographing my wife perform with the band she is a part of, I noticed this person close by quietly watching.  Often at these shows I'm fighting for good light for the performers in stage, but in this case the spill over from the stage light created an opportunity for what I think is a fairly compelling image.

June 21st

Over the course of the spring my wife and I have been watching this family of Northern Flickers nest, hatch, raise their babies, and prepare them for flight. At time of posting this, they have all flown the nest and will hopefully be back next year. I did not get the opportunity to catch the young ones them in flight, but the family provided plenty of photographic opportunities over the course of the spring. Additionally, this image provideded me with some excellent opportunities to test out some new software, DXO Photo lab 9. It easily allowed me to mask off and isolate the bird, and make edited to seperate it from the rest of the tree. 

June 28th