terminology. This image displays the beginning of the Spring Phlox explosion that invades or blesses depending on your view, southern Wisconsin in spring.

The colors here both play against each other, and work together at the same time.

Making these sorts of images is merely about composing color and tone.

I have only seen two wild Armadillos in life. Once in a wetland in Oklahoma where it disappeared faster than I could shoot it. With my camera of course. Then this one who could not have cared less about my presence.

It was in southeastern Texas and at one point, I sat on the ground about two feet from it, with camera and tripod.

With all that said, I barely got any usable images. One reason for that was because it was quite dark and raining at the time. That gave me slow shutter speeds and shallow depth of field. Still, sometimes you take what you can get and just appreciate that you got it..

Flight shots of birds are a unique experience. This tern, if memory serves me, was only airborne in a position for me to shoot it, photographically of course, for maybe three or four seconds. I was working with manual focus as well. The good news is, these birds will hover in mid air briefly as they scan for fish in the waters below them.

Every opportunity was always appreciated whether the bird’s face showed or not. I gave thanks and moved on.

I never wanted every image I made of a bird or otherwise, to be a field guide photo where every identifiable mark was in plain view.

Variety is the spice of life and oft times there is more art in the images that don’t fit the criteria of what many buyers want.

Ah dragonflies, art and wildlife in one basket. They always pose so beautifully.

Only birds were a more major subject for me within the realm of wildlife.

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We live in a complex world that is actually overly crowded with information, of which only small portion holds the truth.

The question becomes, how and where to find the truth.

Of course we know what the common vernacular of today is. My truth is my truth, your truth is your truth, and on and on.

So, if one person’s truth is that the earth is flat, does their school teacher give them a passing grade on a test, when they answer that on a test? How about someone who decides murder is acceptable? Should we let them murder? After all, it is their truth.

Most truth is literally identifiable, and can be acknowledged by the majority of honest people.

From a believing Christian (me), who knows his Bible, let me say, long live Israel!!!!

So what’s next?

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In Adam’s sin, we lost everything, in Jesus, we found everything.

Wayne