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Dragonflies are perhaps the insect there is most photos of on Flickr, but it is a fascinating and beautiful insect, so I just had to post another one!
Blue Dasher perching on one of the more colorful trees. He gave up chase of another dragonfly to keep an eye on me instead!
Shot in Palm Coast Fl
The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to North America. It is resident through most of eastern and central United States and southern Canada, although western populations may be migratory. It breeds in both deciduous and coniferous forests, and is common near and in residential areas. It is predominantly blue with a white chest and underparts, and a blue crest. It has a black, U-shaped collar around its neck and a black border behind the crest. Sexes are similar in size and plumage, and plumage does not vary throughout the year. Four subspecies of the blue jay are recognized.
The blue jay mainly feeds on nuts and seeds such as acorns, soft fruits, arthropods, and occasionally small vertebrates. It typically gleans food from trees, shrubs, and the ground, though it sometimes hawks insects from the air. Like squirrels, blue jays are known to hide nuts for later consumption.[2] It builds an open cup nest in the branches of a tree, which both sexes participate in constructing. The clutch can contain two to seven eggs, which are blueish or light brown with brown spots. Young are altricial, and are brooded by the female for 8–12 days after hatching. They may remain with their parents for one to two months.
The bird's name derives from its noisy, garrulous nature.[3] It is sometimes called a "jaybird"
a "light test" photo that I ran across archiving files. I looked at it and really thought it was a pretty nice portrait. I used my new Universal Exposure filters to see what they would do. Then of course I got caught up an tweaked other little things. I like how real and yet beautiful the image is. At least i think so. I hope Kim thinks so too.
This morning, I took way too many pictures of my son making way too many goofy faces. I have always wanted a picture that isolates his blue eyes.
So I cheated. I got in REAL close. I put it through Decolorizer on my iPad. And then I used Instagram to boost it even more with a filter.
But it made me happy.
Caretta Shiodome, Higashi Shinbashi Minto-ku Tokyo
Many thanks to Michael Drummond (no thneeds needed) who confirmed the identity of this butterfly for me.
I've only previously photographed butterflies once before 11/9/07 when my friend, Debbie Muga, took me to the Rainbow Butterfly Exhibit at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. That 1st time was back in August 2001 when I was just starting to learn to use manual focus, aperture priority and shutter priority with my then Canon Rebel G EOS (SLR) camera and I had the exposures all wrong on just about every photograph! LOL -- I did much better this time! This butterfly is very hard to photograph as it moves faster than most of them, plus it's not often when it does land, that it spreads its wings wide open like with this one and some others that I was able to get of it, unlike other butterflies which often have their wings fully open or almost so..
I used the 300mm focal length on my Canon 75-300mm lens and always remembering what my friend from Langley, British Columbia, Canada, Detlef Klahm, told me about using in-camera flash to freeze as much of the action with something's that moving -- like flowers and trees blowing in the wind, for example, many of the butterfly photographs I took that day I used the in-camera flash to do just that. From what I've seen so far of my slides, it has again worked and I don't think I would have taken as many good ones as I did, if I hadn't used it!
Copyright 2007-2013 by Teresa M. Forrest - Photos by Terry