Oh... juanita BAY

Tuesday was a hectic day at work... I had a ton of data entry to do, which was complicated and tedious. I knew that I needed to do something creative and figured a trip to Kirkland was in order. Great minds think alike; dma & al were already on their way there.

baby steps
Ok, I am the first to mock those boring nature shots... you know the ones with no interesting lighting, not much of a background, and the wild creature perfectly centered in the frame. That being said, look at my duck picture! I was just happy to get some stinkin bird in focus and filling up most a frame! I didn't crop this pic at all; I know that I could have changed the focus on the duck with a bit of cropping, but I like the movement of the water.

landscaping 101

For this pic, I went back to landscaping 101.... I used a tripod, set the aperture to 25 to get tons of detail, set the timer so that I wouldn't have even the slightest motion blur & used my cokin gradient filter. My horizon was a bit goofy, so I did crop in a wee bit & straighten the pic in photoshop.

macro addiction

I know. In my previous post, I wrote that I am trying to break out my macro world. I was impatient; bird watching takes quite a bit of concentration (... and waiting....); I found myself noticing things to macro. Seriously, I almost macro'd the dock.

Look Closely

I had my 18-135mm lens on my camera, but still lacked the focal distance to get a crisp shot of this "bird" (it has many identities; some say a turkey vulture, some say osprey & recent experts determined it to be a lil' eagle). I knew that even if I cropped in the image would be blurry, so I composed this abstract image of the eagle instead. The sky wasn't really this color; I worked some ps magic.

I am a big fan of the Juanita area & think that this may be my new spot to find some peace and comfort.