Little Flowers

Sometimes there's not really a story behind something I take a picture of. I was walking along and I happened to take a liking to this patch of flowers, so I took several pictures of it. Google+ did some automatic enhancements to it, which I'm not sure I think is a good thing to do to a person's pictures, but that's what they did.

I only have this one picture today because the rest were close to identical. You see one and you see 'em all. Another thing Google+ did was make an animation of several of these pictures. It came out so good that I thought about sharing that, but then I remembered how much of a pain animations can be for anyone trying to read a post.

I usually would be back here with a new post on Friday, but I'm going to be pretty busy the rest of the week, so I won't have another post up until Monday. I'd just write one early, but I wouldn't have time for any of the rest of the blogging stuff, so I'm just going to wait. Until then I'll be getting back here to read comments and do as much other stuff as I can. Talk to you later.

Just A Moment With A Robin

I had big plans. I had big plans to go out on the only sunny day of the week to get some great pictures. The only problem? Bugs! That's my excuse. As soon as I got out the door I was attacked by swarms of bugs. I hated it!

I did my best to get some pictures right here at home, because I've been getting some good stuff here lately, but those rotten bugs quickly chased me back into the house. I wanted to exterminate the lot of them. Bugs!

Eventually I decided that I might be overreacting, so I went back outside. I wasn't overreacting. Even though I was still being terrorized and tormented by the mighty swarms of bugs, I decided to get a few pictures anyway. That's how I ended up with these pictures of this robin.

At first the robin just wouldn't stay still, so I got this nice little action shot if the bird running to its next destination. I have to tell you now that I'm not claiming these are the best pictures ever to appear on the internet though. That kind of pictures just aren't my style anyway.

I try to get decent pictures, but what I'm really trying to do is capture the moment. I try to capture something I can talk about, even if what I say ends up having nothing to do with the pictures I'm sharing. How's that for logic?

The bird finally stopped for a little break. I got several pictures of the robin standing in this one spot. Unfortunately it was right between these light pole cables. A little cropping made the pictures slightly better, but still not the perfect shots I was imagining while getting them.

Soon the bird was off again, running to an as yet unknown destination. I like watching robins run along the ground. They seem almost as comfortable on the ground as they are in the air. You can't say that about many kinds of birds.

It seemed as soon as I started getting pictures of this robin it was all over. The bird ran too fast for me to continue. So this is what I have for you today. A few pictures in these short moments of a robin's life. Talk to you later.