In early June we are still staying home much more than normal. I did go out a few times as the parks begin to re-open and the crowds are not large.
As the shutdown and re-opening proceed, I’m still not going out much since the statistics don’t show the sort of improvement I want to see. So mostly I have limited myself to the yard. I did make an exception to go boating on Lake Lanier in search of Great Blue Herons. We did find some nests, and there were young herons in one of them. I also discovered a hornet nest being actively constructed right outside the kitchen window. It is now gone. 🙂
Visited one of my neighbors early one morning to get the flowers in her yard. All manner of irises blooming along with other stuff. Great fun in a place with many photo ops.
Staying at home during the coronavirus epidemic meant I missed most of the wildflower bloom and a lot of other nice spring color. However, I did have the neighborhood flowers a subjects, so all was not lost. I hope we can get out again in time to catch the ladyslippers on the Wildcat Creek trail in Dawson Forest, but it may be too late already.
We’ve had a lot of rain recently, and that has limited my photographic opportunities a bit. But I did get out one Sunday morning (before the rains came again) to get some pictures of the spring blooms in my yard and neighborhood. All these done with my macro lens.
Was up for the sunrise a couple of times in the first eight days of the month. I went to a new spot, Mary Alice Park near Cumming, GA. The boat launch there offered a nice view. So the first four pictures are from a chilly Sunday morning, and the next three are from one week later. The final two pictures are the ducks at Sims Lake Park in Gwinnett county.
Pictures from a couple of outings. First, I went out just because the rain stopped to see what I might find. I did get raindrops on things at the greenway trailhead, which was nice. I also found a very foggy Lake Lanier at the second highest water level ever recorded. And lastly, I visited Caney Creek Preserve. The most interesting shot, I think, is the see-through reflection of the goose in the lake, and it was done simply by not using a polarizing filter.
A North Georgia Photography Club (NGPC) outing to the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, AL. We all had a great time, and my pictures are below.
The sky was clear, which made the lighting very harsh. It was a challenge to choose and exposure that would keep both the highlights and shadows properly. So I took a number of shots of each compostion.
On the one day with no rain, I made my first visit of the season to the gardens. I was hoping for more blooms, but it seems I was 7-10 days early for that. If we get some sunny days, things will explode with color.
I started out thinking I would use primarily my wide-angle lens, but I ended up using every lens in my bag. The blooms were bent over, not straightening up without some sun, so I had to lay on the ground for many of the pictures. With all the rain we’ve had, it was a trick to stay reasonably clean.
But I’m happy with my results.
We’ve had a very wet past few weeks, so not a lot of opportunities to go shooting. What is here is one gorgeous sunset, the first blooms in the garden, one of our rare snowfalls that amounted to anything, and a foggy morning following the snowfall.