It seems like this is becoming an ongoing series about the skies of Manitoba. It is true that skies are always fascinating. I grew up in a medium town in Holland. Seeing the wide open sky was not always possible and usually if the skies were interesting it was time to get inside, or time to get soaked.
Not so here in Manitoba. The prairies allow for viewing of interesting skies from a distance and stay dry in the process. So here are a few more of my skies.
It’s interesting to see how vision evolves over time. At one time, I started taking pictures and was happy (and amazed) with everything that I got. I was trying out all kinds of things, taking pictures of the world and its mother and grandmother. Everything was good to shoot. Quality was constantly admired and never questioned.
My first “amazing” picture with lots of details was this one. Obviously composition and other elements leave to be desired. So, while this was a nice achievement by itself, it was not enough for me to say that this was all.
Sometimes you think that what you can see at one given moment will always be there. Just to be reminded that these encounters are only for a one-time experience. You wait and wait to see them again, but the occasion never repeats itself.
Often I have thought that this Blue Heron almost lived here. I got one chance to shoot it and have never seen it again. So here are a few of those encounters. It’s always interesting to see what story went on at that particular moment in time.
A few days ago I was going out with a group of fellow photographers. Lead by a photographer-biologist. Or perhaps biologist photographer. The challenge for the day was to shoot everything with a macro lens or in macro mode for as far as possible.
Usually I have my walkabout lens of 28-300mm on my camera but this time it got swapped for a 60mm macro lens. Fixed focus, no zoom but at least auto focus. The camera was at probably one kilogram lighter this way. Getting the shot, however was a whole different ballgame.
I seems like I have been serving too many birds in the last few months. True, it’s pretty easy to get all those birds to pose for a camera, nigh a bird that flies away before posing for a nice album-ready picture.
Of course there will be more birds here, but sometimes a little time-out is nice too. Summer is here, winter is coming, so it’s time to enjoy the sunshine and all opportunities that come with it.