Great Break for Photography

This break has been my favorite in a while.  Not only did I get to see my family but I also got to try out my new hunting blind.  It worked better than I thought it would and it allowed me to be closer to the wildlife than I had ever been.  I photographed Cardinals, Blue Jays, Black Cap Chickadee’s, Tufted Titmouse, Squirrels, and a Red Bellied Woodpecker.  Over the period of a few days I’ve taken hundreds of photographs and I have been working on going though them to see what I really got.  I was quite pleased with them overall.  I’m looking forward to my Christmas break because I know I will get some better shots of the birds with the snow in the photographs.  Also the Bald Eagles will be coming back for the winter and I can’t wait. 

I will hopefully be able to upload more images over the next few days.  But I will be really busy with work, because there is only two weeks left of school before the semester ends.  Hope you enjoy the photographs.

One More Week Till Break!

I have one more week till I get to go on break for Thanksgiving, and I can't wait.  I really need a break so I can get outside and enjoy the outdoors.  I havn't taken one photograph while I was at school this year.  So Im hoping while Im home for a week I will finally get a chance to get some good photographs.  Then in about a month I'll be home for winter break.  Which is my favorite time of the year because the bald eagles will finally come dowm for the winter.  Im hoping its a little colder this year because last year was a warm winter and the eagles stayed further north so there was less of them to photograph.  Which cuts down on your chances to get a good picture.  I will hopefully be updating some new pictures during my break.  Till next time.

Marbled Orb Weaver Spider

I am very sorry that I did not get to upload these photographs during my break.  Then I was back in school and very focused on my work.  I finally got a chance today to go over the photographs from my break.  Break was fun, but not long enough.  I spent one day with my father out looking for anything to photograph.  We spent most of the day at the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area, and I got a few shots of a Great Blue Heron but didn't see much else.  I was disappointing to find that the images of them were not great so I decided not to post them.

But when I got home from the trip I took a look around the yard for the first time in a while and I found two crazy looking spiders about the size of a quarter or larger.  I had never seen anything like them before.  There were just so bright in color.  Then I looked them up and found out they were Marbled Orb Weaver Spiders.

I thought it was funny because exactly the same spots that they were in, a few months before there were Micrathena spiders that I took pictures of.  So it was amazing to me to actually get my best shots right in my yard.  This always seems to happen.  Whenever I go out in my garden I always find crazy things.  I was a little disappointed with the last shot because I think the light reflection in the bottom was caused by the white gutter that runs down the house there.  But overall I was happy with them.

I thought this would be a perfect time to upload them just in time for Halloween.  Hope you enjoy them. 

A Break From School!

Finally I'm on a break from school, and i will finally get a chance to get out and do some photography.  It has been raining all day today but I plan on going out tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll find something to photograph.  If I get some good shots I will post them within the next few days.  

Last Trip to State Lands

I am very sorry that I did not get a chance to upload anything in a while.  I have been extremely busy with my classes and have not had a chance to do any work on my blog.  So these two images are the same dragonfly, but one is much closer than the other.  They were both cropped.  The trip was a lot of fun.  I only got a few shots of dragonflies and Butterflies, but none of the Butterflies came out good enough.  The lighting was very poor that day.

So far up at college I haven't seen very much wildlife at all.  I see Ravens, and crows mostly.  Nothing that really interests me.  I'm just hoping to get out and relax one day, and hopefully see something.  The moon was amazing here the other night but I missed my opportunity to get a shot.  I'm very happy to see people are leaving me comments.  It is truly exciting to know that the information I can share is actually being used.  I'm hoping to at least be able to upload weekly until I go on break.  Hope you enjoy the photos.