This little fella was enjoying the new planter/bird feeder (stress the bird part) and then he looks over at me and plainly says more please...
How do you help but feed them along with the birds.. I don't put too much out in the summer but occasionally I put out a little to let them know it's still here... That way in the winter they'll be here in force...
Well as usual leave me note if you like the photo and be sure to visit my other art work at www.vistaphotos.net
Jeff
Excuse me? by Vistaphotography
All hands on deck!
Well last week we had one morning without rain and this little guy felt brave enough to come visit me on the deck... Of course the fact that he/she has a hurt foot might mean that if he doesn't have to travel to far for breakfast is a good thing.
So she and I shared the peanuts while I snapped a few pictures. We had a great sunny weekend but today it's back to the clouds and rain again... I thought the Olde Farmers Almanac said a cool dry summer... I don't think the weatherman read their words...
Bokah Wednesday?
Or is it wordless Wednesday? I forget...
I had the opportunity last week to fritter away a whole hour on the deck, it happened to be the only sunny morning in weeks so I deserved it!
Anyway I brought out a bag of peanuts which the squirrels and Jays love dearly.
I sat back in the corner of my deck and I would trow the peanuts somewhere in the middle. Then the screeching began. One Jay would tell a few more and then the squirrels came to check the feast.
Check back during the week to see the other comedians who showed up!
Sunny smile!
I often wonder what I've done to deserve my wife but here is one more example. We went out to the Canon Photo Safari at the Crane Estate in Ipswich MA.
There they lend you a camera and lens and give you a flash card which you get to keep.
They give you minimal instruction but do talk about composition and a few other things then you go and walk around the estate (which is incredible).
I picked the 5D MK II with a fish eye lens and she took one of the new Rebel's with a 60mm macro lens. She enjoys getting in real close and telling the story of a flower or mushroom (she loves mushrooms) and this tiny flower is one of her successes from that day.
Jeff Folger
Vistaphotography using pocket wizards to get a bite!
A couple of friends (sisters) who like to play act and happen to be drop dead gorgeous! (Pun intended)
Helped me out with an advertising brochure in Salem.
Strobist info: One 580 to camera right 1/8th power on a flex tt5, shooting through a larson umbrella and one 580 to camera left bare bulb on a PW plus II set at 16th (I think) It was set up above model's head shooting down on them at about 3' distance and the rear one was @5' distance. Both were triggered with a Pocket Wizard tt1 mini and to get the 500th/sec I put a plus in the mini's hotshoe to ensure it fired the plus to camera left.. I just got a second one so I shouldn't have to do this. Now I can shoot at almost any shutter speed with the control ttl.
The right hand one was on Ettl and the one on the left was on a manual plus wizard.
The road less traveled
David Lind from Virginia Breeze down in (where else) Virgina suggested a title for this picture. I love the picture conjured by David Frosts poem where he comments on us taking the road less traveled.
Either metaphorically or literally, the road less traveled usually presents us with many opportunities to enrich our lives. I usually blog about this over on my Yankee Magazine fall foliage blog.
If we don't follow the pack and blaze our own trails we constantly have experiences that our counterparts don't.
I find that during the fall season I seldom take the "published scenic routes" and will instead pick a destination on the map that sounds really neat like "Cooper's Corner". I don't know what's there to photograph or why it's named that but when I get there I hope to answer these questions and find out... One mystery down and millions to go!
That is the fun in exploring, finding answers that won't solve the meaning of life but are to my mind, a definite part of it.
Jeff Folger
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OMG! Maine has a new slogan!!!
I just read an online article from Down East Magazine and while you don't usually see me talk about anything that isn't Yankee Magazine and this article was written by Al Diamon for Down East Magazine yesterday and it's titled: We’re Old, We’re White and We’ve Got Cheap Lobster
The article goes on for a while and is worth your time to read, here is an excerpt: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, what there’s more of in Maine than anywhere else is old, white people.
Updated figures for 2008 released last week show the state is 95.3 percent Caucasian (topping Vermont at 95.2) and has a median age of 42 years (with Vermont again the runner-up at 41.2). The nation as a whole is 66 percent white and has a median age of 36.8 years.
Based on those statistics, it’s probably safe to assume Maine leads the nation in crankiness. That would account for the bill before the Legislature that called for making it illegal for recreational-vehicle owners to park overnight in lots owned by shopping centers and big-box stores.
The measure was initiated by campground owners, who have been losing business to the free parking spots listed on national Web sites. RV owners weren’t pleased by the prospects of having to pay for overnight accommodations and threatened a boycott of the state if the legislation passed. Lawmakers quickly came to their senses and killed the measure, with even its sponsor voting against it.
This led the Maine Office of Tourism to cancel its revised tourism slogan:
“Come on, You Cheapskates, There’s More To Maine Than The Free RV Parking You Get In Every Other State.”
Read the rest here
Jeff Folger
www.yankeefoliage.com
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