Blurry Bat Photos

My hiking group got together for an evening excursion on a Lone Star Riverboat Cruise along Lady Bird Lake, ending up at the Ann W. Richards Bridge (Congress Avenue bridge) at sunset. That’s when the world’s largest urban bat colony takes flight for their nightly feeding. The number of bats is around 750,000. In June, that doubles when all these females give birth: with mothers and babies, that’s 1.5 million bats. It takes more than an hour for all the bats to leave the bridge.

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Looking east of the bridge.

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The view from the crane is probably spectacular.

Bats (30)

Why isn’t anyone out on their patio? Hmm . . .

Bats (29)

It’ll be hard to find a spot on the bridge to wait for the bats.

Waiting for the bats (6)

 

Take Two

Take a photo, copy it, flip it, overlay it on top of the original.

Use this graffiti . . .

Hummingbird Mural (a)

and get this.

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Tractor 1, take 1.

Tractor 2 before

Tractor 1, take 2.

Tractor 2

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Tractor 2, take 1.

Tractor 1 before

Tractor 2, take 2.

Tractor 1

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Sunflower and spider friend.

Sunflower and friend before

Double them up.

Sunflower and friend montage

Dreamscapes

One photography homework was dreamscapes: intentionally and artistically blurring the photo. I can’t tell you how ironic this is to me, as I work really hard using my photography time trying to get crisp, clear photos. Still, I was very happy to learn that my camera will take multiple exposures and overlay them to get this effect. I failed when trying to do this technique using software. Learning something new everyday.

After I took the first set of photos of the Sully doll, I cut him away from the cardboard thinking it would make a better photograph without it in the background. Unfortunately, without the cardboard box Sully won’t sit up straight; he just flops over. Not a good photography model. So the joke’s on me for cutting him away from his packaging. Sometimes I learn more than one thing a day.