Random Instagrams

Big Baptist in Little Rock.





Squirrel with a big house.





Wheel and shadow.





Bradford Pear trees at night.





Waiting for chapel to end.





Trying to be a tree again.





Purple and yellow crocus.





Vacant house down the street.

B/W Squirrel

I never get tired of photographing squirrels. I am truly in love with my Nikon 80-400mm lens on the D3s.

Desktop Art

Just changed my desktop photo or background image to this. I also let my desktop art folder be my screen saver. Let your computer be your own personal art gallery.

Squirrel

I love the Disney movie UP. I love how the mean dogs all stop and look whenever someone says Squirrel. I had my own squirrel moment today. I left the baseball games early to come back to the office to recover a corrupted CF card for the Bison. I pulled into a parking spot right beside this small tree with the squirrel. I walked around to the passenger side of my car and got my camera and started toward the building and I saw it not 8 ft from me. I think the squirrel's "Person" alert went off about the same time my "Squirrel" alert went off. A beautiful Fox Squirrel in a small tree just a few feet from me and a camera with my longest zoom lens mounted and beautiful light. Some days you just get lucky.

Photo Educational Note: For those of you in my class let me break it down a little more. Limited depth of field was achieved by a combination of three things:
-lens aperture wide open at F5.6,
-long focal length of 400mm, and
-a close distance of about 8 ft.

These very three items were mentioned today while discussing depth-of-field during our review for the test coming up on Thursday.

2 points extra credit to anyone who writes Nice Squirrel Blog Post on your test.

Quiet on Campus

It was so quiet on campus Wednesday afternoon of Thanksgiving Break I spent part of the afternoon out photographing. I think I was the first person this squirrel had seen all day.

Desktop Art

I got this photo while attempting to shoot a squirrel hoping across the front lawn. I was using my trusty P&S camera and it was resting on the ground which made focusing on the squirrel hard. This photo was one of my focusing mistakes. I liked it and if you look closely you can see the squirrel grossly out of focus in the background.

Desktop Art