There’s only one thing I like better than looking out at the bayou first thing each morning . . . looking out at the moon setting over the bayou.
Once again, I really need a tripod. I took this with no flash, holding the shutter open as long as I dared, while backed up against a porch post to hold steady–but sill not steady enough. I remind myself while I’m shooting, that professionals shoot hundreds of shots just to get that one perfect shot.
“Mommy, what am I? Am I a dog? Am I a cat? Am I a human?” We’ve learned that raccoons exhibit behaviors similar to dogs and cats, but somehow unique. She seems to be a special blend of the two, with a little human toddler mixed in. Those little paws get her into more stuff….
I know that people really can’t “roll in the grave”, which is what, if it were humanly possible, my teetotaling Great Grandmother Adelaide would have been doing last night while I was bottling up and capping said spirits in the kitchen long after everyone else had begun to slumber. Maybe the fact that I waited to do this late at night, in quiet solitude means somewhere back in my ancestry, there might have been some moon shiners doing the same thing in the backwoods of northern Alabama. But wait, Great Grandmother was a teetotaler.
We went to my older sister’s house for Thanksgiving Dinner yesterday, so all the second generation cousins could bury each other in leaves (or fight over the rake) . . . and the first generation cousins could talk about music and movies in a language no one over 40 understands . It was a day…
In our human limitations, we might not ever come to know the reasons that things happen the way they do in our lives–the good or the bad. Somehow, though, we most often seem to ask that question about the unfortunate events.
I am doing some research into different areas of media. Since your input has proved invaluable to me in the past, I am turning to you once more for your input.
This morning, I rushed to the fig tree to see if there were any left for me. While picking yesterday morning, my crazy neighbor from the back street called my cell phone and told me how good my figs are. Say what? Between him and the birds, there might not be enough to make my…
That’s pretty amazing for no tripod. The one thing I like most about digital photography is the way I can take hundreds of photos, and just DELETE the ones I don’t like. I take so many more pictures now that I don’t have to pay first to decide I don’t like them.
Oh I agree that digital makes things so much easier, and cheaper!!! The green dots are the only thing I don’t like about the photo. Not sure what makes those appear. Need to do a little more homework, because there was no flash involved. That was all natural light.
It looks pretty darned good to me. I am surprised we didn’t see each other out there – I was on my porch trying to get the same shot last night. Yours came out a lot better than mine!
You still managed to get some beautiful shots of your view, though!