This is a contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Blue challenge.
A frozen section of Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan, Canada at dusk.
CFFC: Close Up of Flowers.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Close Up of Flowers.
The centre of a Virginia Spiderwort flower after rain.
Detail of a Polyanthus petal.
Detail of a Coneflower.
Wordless Wednesday: 17th July 2019
July Squares: Blue clouds at dawn.
A contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Blue challenge.
Some blue clouds over the mouth of Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at dawn.
Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Satisfaction.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Satisfaction.
My first thought was of the Rolling Stones song before seeing the Mick Jagger graphic on the challenge page. Somehow I ended up thinking about some of the photos from last year that I submitted for consideration in 2019 calendars.
I submitted the three photos below to a calendar publishing company I hadn’t dealt with before. They were looking for images for a wildlife calendar.
In the end they had so many submissions that they decided to publish a birds calendar as well as the wildlife calendar. All three of my shots made it into the calendars.
To make the 100% success rate all the more satisfying, the shots were taken with a decade old DSLR and a manual focus telephoto lens I purchased used in the mid 1990s.
A young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the rain.
An American Red Squirrel in dappled sunlight.
A juvenile Ruby-throated Hummingbird approaches the feeder.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Detail.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Detail.
I thought about some of the photos of details and it occurred to me that two of the first ones I considered were taken about 40 years apart but with the same lens.
So here’s a selection of shots from my Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 silvernose I purchased in 1976. It’s called a silvernose because it has a polished aluminium ring on the front of the lens. This means that it’s one of the early OM system lenses and that it could be single coated rather than multi coated like modern lenses.
Backlit hoarfrost on a branch taken on a field trip with the Nantwich Natural History Society in the 1990s.
Ivy leaves on a tree trunk given a selective colour treatment. Taken on a walk a few years ago with the lens adapted to a DSLR.
Candle, taken with the lens in the 1970s during a power outage.
Hosta leaves taken with the lens adapted to a mirrorless camera a few weeks ago.
Detail of traction engine wheel taken at a steam rally in the 1980s.
July Squares: Grumpy Great Blue Heron.
A contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Bl6ue challenge.
A double blue with a grumpy looking windblown Great Blue Heron in front of blue water on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
