Spunk waiting in ambush, napping, and waiting for story time with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Category: Photography
Lightning Show
I was talking to an engineer, who is also an avid photographer, about taking lightning photos when I went up to pick up a piece of equipment he had been working on. We were noting that lightning is easy to photograph, but the danger made up for how easy it is to photograph. On may way home at 11:00 pm, there was a nice lightning show over the city, so I pulled off to the side of the road in the rain, set my camera on top of the car to stabilize it (didn’t have a tripod in the car), and took a few lighting photos before I got soaked in the rain. The results are interesting.
Yard & Clouds
Thunderheads built up in the eastern sky, threatening to give us another early evening thundershower.
Moth Buzz
The hummingbird moth seems to flutter its wings in slightly different patterns from the ghost images of its buzzing wings.
Lavender Mist
Pollock’s title seemed fitting for this curly cosmos.
In The Heat, A Battle
Laurie pointed out that there was a bluebird in the bamboo being attacked by a hummingbird — by the time I got outside with my camera, the bluebird was standing its ground atop the pear tree next to the bamboo. I did get one shot of the hummingbird confronting the bluebird.
So much for 105 @ 5:00. Our weather station reported a wind chill of 111º F (43.9º C) at 3:47 pm yesterday afternoon, about the time the birds were battling (see the last photo).
Sunflowery & 105 @ 5:00
Hot and sunflowery.
Curled Cosmos
Just Another Car In The Wall
1964 Custom Impala
A very well done, highly customized 1964 Chevrolet Impala was in the alley downtown, where a modeling agency was using it as a prop for a photo shoot. They had finished the photo shoot by the time I was leaving the office, but the car was still there. When the owner saw me walking up with my camera, he told me to please take as many photos as I would like. He took me around the car and explained some of the details, and the cost of the various engravings, all done by hand — only $50,000 dollars for the engraving on the chrome on the rear end and spare tire cover in the last photo.
Off Center & Not Even 