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Great Egret in Flight
I saw this great egret sitting on the top branch of a dead tree in our pasture. I had my camera with me, but by the time I turned it on and focused, the bird had taken flight. I took a couple of photos anyway, just to see what sort of photo I could get. You just never know.
Great egret in flight
Photography Homework, Considered
Here are some of the photographs that I considered submitting as my homework for my third photography class.
Madison looking towards the park
On the fence, guarding the feeder nearby
Butterfly on pink flower
Some kind of weed pod and its flowers
Wasps in a pine tree
View the two photos I submitted for the Class 3 homework assignment.
Photography Homework: Lunchtime
These are the photographs that I turned in for my Class 3 photography homework assignment. Both my subjects happened to be eating, so I categorized them as “Lunchtime.”
This is Madison having lunch. I saw her and her mother at an adjacent table just as I was leaving a sandwich shop. I asked for permission to photograph the baby and the mother was gracious and agreed.
Yummy
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This is an Argiope aurantia spider, also having lunch. I found the spider while taking photos of a Texas Wood Lizard in my back yard and decided the spider would make a good subject for my homework.
Yummy, in a Mother Nature food-chain way
I must have made at least 11 trips out to the spider web, trying to get a good photo. I was (am) having trouble with my photos being over-exposed. I’d trek out to the web, take seven or eight photos, come back into the house and review them on the computer monitor. Result: Over-exposed. Back out to the spider web. I finally got this one photo that I thought was decent enough to share.
But I’m telling you, if that spider had flinched while I was looking through my camera viewfinder, I would have high-tailed it out of there. It was an overgrown area and I wasn’t thrilled about being there anyway. I was a few inches from an ant mound and I heard rustlings in the tall grasses behind me. If a cricket had landed on me, I would have panicked. If a fire ant had bit me while I was standing there, I’d have had a conniption fit.
Once I thought I saw the spider eyeing me and I started to fret. I didn’t want it to get any ideas about wrapping me up in its web, thinking if it could just catch me, it would be set for life.
I managed to emerge from my photographic safari in the pasture with only a few dozen chigger bites. How lucky can I get.
Art Quilts
The Austin Area Quilt Guild hosted their 2014 quilt show this month. I always come away inspired by the wonderful quilts that people make. One nice thing is that I know some of these people. And while I’m off taking blurry, over-exposed photographs of butterflies and spiders, they create beautiful works of art.
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Pat Creswell won First Place in the Art Quilt division with this quilt, Red Tag. She created it in memory of the trees that we are losing due to the drought. The red tag is put on trees that have died and need to be cut down.
Red Tag by Pat Creswell
Beautiful artistry, fabric, quilting
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Dee Merrill created Blue Women.
Blue Women by Dee Merrill
Lovely contrasting colors
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This beautiful quilt, Georgia, was created by Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert. Georgia was an abandoned cat that Mary Ann and her husband took in.
Georgia by Mary Ann Vaca-Lambert
Georgia close up.
It's a long story ... 