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When I see a maple leaf I automatically think of my country Canada. The red maple leaf is worn on the shoulder of our Canadian Forces members and, as a retired member that was worn proudly by myself for many years. The Maple Leaf is on our flag that flies on all government buildings, many businesses and homes (mine included).
Fall is fading fast here in North Frontenac and I hate to see the leaves fall off the trees as it means they too are getting ready to hunker down for winter that may or may not come with a vengeance - I am saying may in my mind as it is a reality it will arrive but hoping for the may not - the only saving grace is we retired in March so no more winter driving nearly 2 hours each way to get to work on a daily basis.
Have a super Saturday - or what is left of it.
Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with my new Canon EF 40mm f2.8 STM pancake lens (bought myself an early Christmas gift) aperture priority at f2.8 ISO 160 no edits other than resized for the web in ON1 Photo Raw 2022.
A detail of the costa of the frond of a Sabal Palm (Sabal palmetto). One of the many growing in my backyard.
Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 150 - 500 at f11 hand held, resized for the web in ON1 Photo Raw no filters needed.
I wish we had more of these growing all over our property here. They are so pretty, coming in a variety of colours and of course they attract the butterflies and bees.
Canon EOS 1DS Mark III Sigma 105 mm EX DG f2.8 at f5.6 hand held. Resized for the web in ON1 Photo Raw 2021.
I put the Canon 135 vintage lens from my Canon FTB on the Canon EOS 1DS Mark III with an adapter and went out back early this morning to see what I could capture. I love the dreamy look that the vintage lens gives. I shot this wide open on the manual focus vintage lens. I focused on the five tall hay grass on the right and took the shot.
Learning that focus stacking is more complex with a telephoto. More pix needed, through all field depths (imagine more so for macro) .... Buddha laughs at me, but I am not offended: The Universe entertains itself. We are a small part of the audience. It even simulates the smell of rotting meat to attract flies and propagate itself!
Such a look of disgust. It was like I was the paparazzi and this grackle was a famous bird or something when I was taking the photo.
Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 150-500 f5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM hand held aperture priority at f16 edited (cropped and resized for the web only) in ON1 Photo Raw.
Recently I looked out at the pond behind our house and observed this Great Blue Heron as he played with his food, flipping and tossing it and even dropping it, all in an effort to get it lined up properly.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark with a Canon EF 70-200 f4L USM at f4.5 ISO 125 cropped and adjusted the highlights in Lightroom Classic Processing.
The yellow tomatoes are so darn sweet and juicy. The only things we actually got out of our garden this year has been tomatoes, jalapeno peppers and cucumbers. The racoons disseminated our corn a few months back and our squash has not produced at all. This year we were infested up here with caterpillars and GP noticed that he has squash bugs - something he has not had before. Before anyone gets too upset the plastic bags are from ages (years) ago. We always bring our own bags shopping or get paper bags.
Canon EOS 1DS Mark III with the Canon 50mm 1.4 USM at f4 ISO 100. No edits other than cropped my hand out that was holding the bag open.
Once again I got to HUG another grandchild. Our son came to give GP a hand as our chimney cap blew off with a high wind storm we had and our granddaughter came along. She does not mind me taking photos of her so I grabbed a few shots.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon EF 24-70 f2.8L at f4 edited in ON1 Photo Raw 2021.
A couple of days ago, I looked out the back towards the east and spotted this colorful sunrise. I immediately ran and grabbed the nearest camera to capture these colors before they were gone. Got them!
As always, Thank You for visiting. Balancing a full work week and devoting sufficient time to my passion for photography can be difficult. I try to post the very best of my efforts. Your comments, faves and invitations are always welcome.
The Tokina 28-210 on the Canon EOS 1DS mark III shutter priority set at 1/20 I put the lens at the 210mm and then zoomed it back to the 28mm.
This butterfly was drinking from my remaining plant and the caterpillars were enroute here . It's amazing that those caterpillars, pretty in their own right, develop into such a colorful and pretty butterfly.
Mike said it she looked like a person sticking her head out of those cutouts that a person puts their head through at a fair. I took to the challenge! Now,I am, by no means an artist I freely admit. My dad’s artistic skills jumped to my cousin. I am not expecting this to be seen in the National Gallery either. Rather, this is something that I can do to help keep my mind busy during these unprecedented times we are living in. I even created her an instagram account (squirrelinthebirdhouse) to share these creations to.
Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 150-500 hand held Camera Raw the original edited in ON1 Photo Raw 2021 and subsequently this creation in Adobe Photoshop for iPad.
These guys sure have a voracious appetite. I was tending my new, under construction, butterfly garden and noticed the leaves and blooms were gone from one of my milkweed plants. Upon investigation I found these four and one more guilty party.
Blue Ribbon, Manatee County Fair, January 2014. Honorable Mention, The Meadows Annual Photo Show, February 2014.
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Back door. This is what it looks like standing on our back deck. Nothing but Rock and Trees as far as you can see.
I made this photo of our next door neighbor's dog Daisy from our back deck. Though Daisy is a beautiful German Shepherd, she has an annoyingly loud bark. I find she responds to my talking to her by relaxing as she is in this picture I made using my Canon EOS 80D. I found that most any tone of voice will get Daisy's attention. Soft and calm is easier on both of us.
This was taken on January 7, 2007 in my backyard. I love this little guys. I went out and bought two feeders and was told that they won't work. Well I guess I had to prove them wrong. As you can see the hummingbirds like them. I had to crop it out as the feeder was to the left. I wanted to get a tighter crop.
I hope you enjoy them.
99.5% of a #SuperMoon tonight. Playing hard to get behind some dense clouds. Then throw the shutter open for 3.5 secs, F8, ISO400, 200mm. #BackYardPhoto #StratfordOntario #PentaxKS2 #MoonLight #AutumnIsAwesome #NoFilter
The last time I saw him and our other grandkids all together where I could hug them, kiss them and just enjoy being their Gangie was at Christmas here in December 2019. I “saw” him in a drive by visit in March of 2020 when our Premier issued a stay at home order. He could not understand why he had to stay in the car while we stayed on the deck.
Oh, we talked on the phone, used messenger to see each other but, it was not the same. Yesterday, I came home from getting a few groceries to see him running to me. To say I shed a few tears is an understatement.
My daughter-in-law said he was so excited to be coming to see me and, that he was finally allowed to hug me. GP said he heard a tapping on the window to the garage (he is busy fixing the wall) and E. Michael Scott was there saying "where's Gangie?"
When he came running to me to get a hug he said "I bet you don't know how old I am now?" I, of course, had to say "Twenty Five" LOL. He said "No Gangie, I am eight but it has been sooooooooo long since you saw me you could not remember" LOL He told me he can't get the vaccine as he is too young but that OLD people need to get it as they can get really sick and he was glad I got mine.
Our youngest grandson has autism so this pandemic was hard for him but he knew that he would be able to see me at some point. At the beginning he told me I needed to go get a Covid test so that I could go see him. We explained that was not how it worked but when a vaccine was out we would be getting it so we would be able to see him and, all of our grandkids.
I took this photo then showed it to him on the back of the camera laughing saying look it looks like the flowers are growing out of the top of your head. He laughed. I know we are supposed to watch for things growing out of heads when we take photos but, I was more interested in capturing the moment that I had waited so long for.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 24-70 f2.8L at f3.5 ISO 125 and edited in ON1 Photo Raw 2021 - my daughter-in-law loves photos of him in black and white so I used one of the presets.
I made this photo of a the brightly sun lighted tops of a leafy plant after I had watered the steep back yard of the Teddy Ave property that was Melody's home for over two decades in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley District. We have rented the house out since Melody moved into my home just over the hill after we married in 2014. I shot this using my Caono Powershot SX50.
One recent Sunday afternoon I looked out on our pond and saw this crowd on the north bank. Species in the crowd are Wood Storks, Cormorants, Gulls, Snowy Egrets, Black Bellied Whistling Ducks and I'm sure somewhere in that crowd is an Anhinga. Tomorrow, what they were looking at.
As always, Thank You for visiting. Balancing a full work week and devoting sufficient time to my passion for photography can be difficult. I try to post the very best of my efforts. Your comments, faves and invitations are always welcome.
Recently we had a flock of American White Pelicans visit our pond. Apparently the feeding is good as huge flocks, 40-50 or more pelicans, visited us daily and would circle the pond and periodically turn into the grass and like synchronized swimmers they would all rock forward and catch the small bait fish that they herded into the grass. As they moved along the bank and around the pond they swam in a tight, close contact group.
Note that in each photo, there is an egret present. The egret would fly to a grassy patch and the pelicans would swim to that location and feed. The egret would observe and then fly to another patch. Talk about teamwork.
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They are driving us mad. We bought two apple trees and they have started destroying the leaves. They are everywhere. Mike had finally resorted to making a concoction tea that a local up here recommended he try. to spray on the trees. He had wrapped duct tape (sticky side out) up the trunk and even wrapped a fine screen around the leaves portion. Here's hoping his tea works to rid them off our two trees.
Canon EOS 1DS Mark III with a Sigma 105mm EX DG f2.8 at f5.6 hand held. Resized for the web in ON1 Photo Raw 2021.
I bought a Soligar 135mm a while back and every once in a while I throw it on my DSLR with the adapter and see what I can capture. I have not used it on the full frame camera(s) since acquiring them, rather, I used it mainly on my crop sensor 7D.
I focused on the dying / dead weeds/wildflowers so my Cleome blurred in the foreground and took the shot. I cropped in ON1 Photo Raw 2021 and added the Kodachrome preset as I thought it might look good with the "vintage film" look as I was, of course, using a vintage lens on a DSLR.
Shot this at f4 on the Soligar 135mm manual focus lens on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and as I noted I edited it in ON1 Photo Raw 2021 (my now go to editing as Lightroom is finickity these days more often than not).
Have a super day!
This is the first of four photos I made while strolling through the backyard of our San Francisco home. I am always delighted there are so many photo opportunities right outside our back door. This photo is of two of the several statues sculpted by my late friend Helen Jean Phillips, a double Bird of Paradise flower, and the end of a branch of an Asian Pear Tree.