Category Archives: Animals

Late Summer

Not a lot of camera work this summer. Somehow the year got away. But I’ll get it back. Probably. Fall baseball has started and the lad and I were down at the fields next to the creek. While he was practicing, I wandered around trying not to find snakes. I took this shot of a...

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Seconds Away From Looking At His Arm

These were taken a few weeks ago in Alexandria. Out on the waterfront there was a parrot rescue mission that was letting people handle their birds. They were apparently all rescue birds that needed homes or were just living out their lives in the rescue home. It was quite popular, most of the parrots were...

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Extremes At The Lake

I took a couple of lenses fishing and tried to get far-out and very wide. The first one is at 11mm and is of Kyle. You have to admit, this is the life. Of course, the shot doesn’t reflect what the heat was at the time. This was taken at about 10:00 so the light...

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So I Got A Cat! Or She Got Me!

Don’t know why I got a cat. I swore I would never have a cat again. But…  She’s 10, her previous owners went overseas and would have had to quarantine her for 6 months or more. She was in foster homes for months until she found me. She’s pretty cool…for a cat. Missy shaking all...

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Ground Hogs!!

So I haven’t posted anything in a while, chaos seems to come routinely and disrupts what little process I have. I look outside into the backyard, and…there is this HUGE creature there. I shot this through the window which you can tell by the lack of clarity. I figured that based on its size, this...

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Photo Hogs….er…foxes

So I am working in the yard today and two of the kits decided they needed to play in my space. They gave me time to get a camera but weren’t at all interested in having me point it at them. Got a couple of snaps and then…poof!…they were gone.

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