Sunflower forest
Sleeping cat
“The truth is, you should always let a sleeping cat lie. Stupid Paparazzo!”
Intermission: Spunk jugging
Green on Green with Purple
A tangle of sunflowers
Let Sleeping Cats Lie?
Tag: butterfly
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Cat
Bumblebee
Cat
Butterfly
Cat
Sunset
Cats: “Just a little kiss, Spunk?” “Cut it out, Silver!”
Dusk
Back In Black
Simple Sunrise
Black Butterfly
Black and yellow dragonfly
Black cats (Gwendolyn, Loki, Glenda)
Black caterpillars
New table and chairs in the Black Bamboo
Inspirational coffee in the Black Bamboo
Sunset
Question Mark
Sunrise
Sunrise looking south. The clouds were mimicking Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree.
Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogations).
It looks leafy
4:30 this morning, looking east. The Pleiades is on the left. Jupiter is in the center.
4:30 this morning, looking south. Saturn is at the top center.
4:30 this morning, looking north. Lots of stars.
4:30 this morning, looking west.
4:30 this morning, looking straight up.
Sunset
Sunset
Sunrise • Butterfly • Dusk
Let There Be Critters
Gwendolyn: “Did you say critters? I see!”
Black-chinned Hummingbird
The Rio Grande is running high.
Canadian Geese on the fly
First Dragonfly photo of the season.
New Mexico Whiptail Lizard. “Whip it. Whip it good!”
A slightly battered butterfly
Fire in the sky
A Morning Song & Moutain Chickadee
Resa’s Tree was having a wild hair day at dawn.
Towhee singing a morning song.
A Mountain Chickadee made a quick stop on the garden cart. I barely got in two shots edgewise.
Butterfly on Brian’s favorite flower.
Lady Banks. Our first rose to bloom.
Contrails at dusk disturbed the ghosts, who went plasmatic on me.
Venus and Sliver Moon in western sky. Clouds, contrails, and stars in southern sky. Stars over luminous cottonwoods in northern sky.
Resa’s Tree blowing off steam after having wild hair at dawn.
Hmmm! Temperatures aligned.
Parade of Planets
Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mars, and Saturn lined up early this morning. Uranus was not visible from Albuquerque, which is just fine. Mercury rises too late to be seen in the morning.
Smoke and Ice at a medieval dinner last night.
Butterfly on the bank in the late afternoon
Mama Owl, a Wowlet, and Daddy Owl late this afternoon.
My New Lens Is A Phone
I was going to buy a ultra-wide-angle lens for my Fuji XE-1 that I used to use as a carry camera. But the 10-24mm zoom lens is quite large, which makes it not as desirable to carry when I’m also carrying the Bazooka on a 7D Mark II body, and the 70-200mm zoom lens a 5Ds body. I have been using my iPhone XE for all street photography and wide-angle photos, stitching together panoramas for ultra-wide-angle shots. I finally decided that since an iPhone 12 Mini was the same price as a Fuji 10-24mm lens, I might as well upgrade my iPhone to the iPhone 12 Mini. The 12 Mini is the same form factor as the old iPhone 5, which is my favorite style of iPhone case, and the camera has wide-angle and super-wide-angle. The iPhone 12 Pro has telephoto, also, but I have the Bazooka and the iPhone 12 is bigger than I like.
What’s really nice with the iPhone 12 Mini is the “Portrait” setting works for any abject or critter as you can see in the photos of the kitties and the America Rose above. The “Portrait” setting on my iPhone SE only worked on human faces. When I tried using it on the cats, or anything else, it said “No faces recognized” and would not take a photo. I’m really happy with the camera on the iPhone 12 Mini.
All photos below were shot with the Bazooka 400mm lens on a Canon 7D Mark II body.
Reakirt’s Blue
Reakirt’s Blue (Echinargus isola) is a tiny butterfly with a wingspan of only 3/4 of an inch (19mm). This one distracted me while I was walking in the bosque this morning.
Off Center & Not Even 