Category Archives: Weather

Windmill, Accidentally

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A windmill with purple, blue and lavender skies

I don’t remember it looking that way in person

This is an unaltered photo. Is the sky really that color? No, not even in stormy weather in central Texas. How did it happen? It happened because I was taking photos indoors at B&B Quilting & Gifts and, having just learned how to change the White Balance on my camera, I had it set to Incandescent. And forgot to change it back to Cloudy when I left the shop.

I saw the dark clouds and thought they made a nice contrast background for the windmill. The blue, white, and violet contrast nicely, don’t they? A happy accident.

Skull and Wasp Nest

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Lots of wasps around. No reason to be worried about these.

For the first photo, I was up close and personal (only inches away), using my 40mm lens. I moved very slowly, in hopes of not disturbing the wasps. There were lots of clouds, resulting in the white background. Or it may be overexposed.

Wasp nest in eye socket of cow skull

Wasp nest in cow skull

The second photo was taken on a different day: fewer clouds, bluer sky, with my telephoto lens, 55mm-300mm.

Skull, wasp nest and sunflowers

Skull, wasp nest and sunflowers