Our World Tuesday: Photo Walking

I took so many shots of my New Year's Eve walk that I'm going to use some I haven't posted yet.

I've already used shots from this same walk on several other posts, but I took a ton of pictures so have many more to choose from.

The great blue heron below almost looked like a sentinel guarding the lake.

After I zoomed in on the heron, it looked like he was standing on one foot.

I need to get motivated to walk more even if its mostly a photo walk.

It doesn't take as much energy to walk if I stop every few steps and take a picture.

The main thing photo walks take is time.

It can take 2 or even 3 times as long to walk around the lake when I take a lot of photographs.

Sometimes I'm astonished to realize how long a walk has taken until I consider that I've taken hundreds of photographs.

Even when I don't spend a lot of time composing each shot, the click, click clicks add up.

I haven't taken very many pictures in the new year but I made up for that on the last day of the old year.

I particularly like to catch reflections in water.

The evergreens around the lake keep some green going year round.

This post is getting longer than I intended.

I didn't count the shots as I uploaded some on flickr to use.

Once they were uploaded I realized I'd picked more than I meant to.

Ironically, it takes more time to be selective and choose a few than it does to wind up with longer posts.

The main problem with picking too many shots for a post is I run out of things to say.

Rather boring of me to have nothing to write about except to say I have nothing to say.

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The Weekend in Black and White: Fishing Frenzy

The dark bird in the water is a cormorant and I got another shot where it had a fish in its mouth so I knew it was having some luck fishing. What surprised me was how the gulls seemed to be encroaching on the cormorant's fishing space. This shot is a little blurrier than I like but there was so much action going on that it was hard to get a clear shot that included the whole group. 

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SkyWatch Friday: Sunrise to Sunset

New Year's eve was a great sky watching day from sunrise to sunset.

The first two shots were taken at sunrise.

The sunrise sky enticed me out after it was a little warmer although still below freezing.

I like walking at the lake when it's cold because there aren't usually many people there.

I enjoy catching reflections in the water.

The sky was particularly good for reflections.

I like shooting reflection shots from different places on the lake.

The bridge and the dam are both usually good spots to shoot from.

The clouds on the lake look like a satin bedspread.

This was one of those days where I took so many sky shots that it was hard to choose which ones to post.

Sunset was just as spectacular as sunrise.

I spent about 45 minutes shooting non stop from my bedroom window.

I like winter for photography at my house because I can see the sky better than when the trees are leafed out.

I like all four seasons but there is something about winter with bare limbs that I particularly like.

I hope everyone is off to a good start in the new year.

I'm off to a lazy start which is nice. 

No big resolutions to break for me.

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ABC Wednesday: Y is for Year

I took the photograph below yesterday on the last day of the year, 2012. I can almost hear the cormorant say yum yum after catching a treat on a cold morning. The shallower part of the lake had a thin coating of ice but in spite of the deep part being liquid I would have yelled yikes if I jumped in.

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