Spring Moon

Spring Moon

Spring is finally here. Dogwoods and other trees are blooming. Remember those blooming trees I photographed from my son's school a couple of weeks ago? There are several of those trees all around the campus. When we went out to the school the other day, I spent some time photographing some that were near the playground. I noticed that the Moon was clearly visible in the afternoon sky. So, I played around with it and the flowering trees. This image is my favorite. If you zoom in on the Moon, you can clearly see the craters and texture of the Lunar surface. I thought that the blurred flowers around it made a nice frame.

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Schools (continued with pictures)

Palmetto's Finest

As a continuation from yesterday, and bringing the blog back to photographs, I went out to my son's school yesterday afternoon. While we were there, I took some snapshots of the banners for the awards they received. Not the greatest photographs to be sure, but nice to share the results of the staff and faculty's hard work.

Title 1 Achievement

I promise something a bit nicer for tomorrow.

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Schools

Sorry for the non-photography post today. With all of the negative press that our schools receive in the media, I thought I would just take a moment to mention that we really do like and appreciate our son's school. Yesterday, it was recognized with a couple of awards; one at the state level and one nationally. Here is a link to an article about it in our local paper.

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Fly Away!

Fly Away!

To end the week is this photograph of one of the statues at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens. This was taken late afternoon when the light was starting to turn really nice. It filtered through the trees and illuminated this statue with a nice golden glow.

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During Class

Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens

This was one of the images I took during the afternoon class session. We were supposed to be practicing with our depth of field (DoF), i.e. the amount of the photograph that appears in focus. For this particular picture, the idea was to get as much of if in focus from foreground to background. I'm happy with it, plus it helped to have a good, interesting sky that didn't blow out to all white.

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Strutting Around

Courting Pose

Finally, today we have the male lizard strutting his stuff for his lady. Isn't he a handsome little devil? I'm quite pleased with how all of these photographs of these lizards turned out. A few things about them that could be better, but some of those were due to the location in the conservatory and the lizard's position which didn't lend itself to trying different angles. There was basically only one angle available to see him, so I was kind of stuck with some of the background that I don't like. All-in-all though, I like them.

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And the Suitor

Lizard

This is the male lizard that was trying to court the female in yesterday's photograph. He was moving around on that big leaf trying to get a good view of the female and get a position where she had a good view him. Periodically, he would buff out his neck sack while "singing" to her. It was quite a little show he was putting on for her, although it did seem like he would look at me sometimes wanting some privacy.

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