YELLOW FINCH

SEEING RED

     I believe it is a Lesser Goldfinch that fascinates me as I watch it jump around flighty like in the peach tree of our back yard. And I resolve to take a picture of it, hopefully. Thus far, it started yesterday just before sunrise when I set up my camera to take some shots of our beautiful roses in the front yard.   I wanted to give the the sun a chance to pop over the horizon and light up the peach tree in pleasant  early morning glow. It was beautiful.

     And the Lesser Goldfinch  showed up as I hoped, flighty,  jumpy, and singing as he hopped from tree limb to tree limb, and then fly off. I could not get the little bugger locked on in my 55-250 zoom lens. So a failure. For now.

BEAUTY HIDING

BEAUTY HIDING

     Coming home from work yesterday morning late, I had spied a yellow rose appearing somewhat  hidden in the bush behind a few leaves. I loved how it looked and decided later after sunset I would bring out my camera, tripod, shutter release cable and take a few pictures of it and see how it would  turn out. It did not! I had hoped working with the bush and shutter speed, the sun had set behind the horizon almost straight in line with my lenses, and using a UV filter, I'd squeeze off at least one good shot of many. 

     I did not see an eye catcher when reviewing the photo's this morning. Frustrated I turned to look out the office/studio window and noticed it was coming sunrise, with very light moisture or fog in the air to slightly defuse the sun light and the rose bush bright. 

     Well, you can imagine what I did. Grabbed my camera and tripod. Ran down the stairs, carefully, I am to damn old to trip and fall. Cinched my robe tightly so as not to embarrass myself and snapped off a couple of shots focusing on using my f-stop. 

     And I was quite happy with the outcome when looking at the pictures. And critically thinking I could have done better. Nonetheless, enjoy.

Happy Mother Days.

A HAIKU

Canyon Solitude

Calls alone walking seeing

Alone in quiet