My life in outdoor photography would have been much poorer if there was no such thing as dew. Be it on the edge of flower petals, or the strands of an orb web, dew has brought interest and flavor and structure to otherwise so, so images.

When you’re on your hands and knees searching for more dew covered subjects, you find other subjects that demand your attention even if they are absent of dew.

Hard rock and green trees make nice companions.

Creating sunrise/sunset silhouettes is fun but it does take patience. I was initially disappointed with the image bellow because the fairly slow shutter speed I used for the scene allowed for some movement, therefore softness in those colorful clouds. The crisp outline of the mountains, seemed to conflict with the soft, wispy clouds. The more I looked at the image, the more I saw an artistic quality to the softness of the clouds. Once again, contrast has its place. You never know.

I cannot imagine what my photographic life would have been like, without birds.

A couple of Rough-legged Hawks. They are winter visitors here.

My favorite avian winter visitor, the Snowy Owl. A shocking blue sky added the finishing touch.

I actually sold some prints of this Black-capped Chickadee back in the day. Without a digital clean-up job for the background either.

It was titled “Cold Feet, Warm Heart”.

A bit of anthropomorphizing but why not?
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A Black-crowned Night Heron with lunch.

A Bittern with lunch.

Preening. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

Flight shots that approach eye level, are always winners. Long lenses help flatten out perspectives and therefore bring critters straight to our position and into our world.

Words

Words can cut like a knife, and they can smell like a sewer. Of course they can also be as sweet as honey, and as satisfying as a pizza on a Saturday night.

They can come from, God, or they can bare the signs of Satan!

While this is supposed to be a photographed blog, I must admit that there have been and always will be more words seen here than photos.

Words are used for decrees of death, and announcements of birth.

Words can be filthy, cheap and hurtful, or clean, rich and a blessing.

We live in a world where there has never been so many words. More words than actions. Of course, that in itself may be a blessing.

I share the Bible on these pages from time to time, and there are words in that book. A journey from the beggining of human existence, to the end of it as we now know it.

Read carefully my words in the previous paragraph, as I did not say that there well be no form of human existence, only that all will be different.

At this time, there is a location on this earth, where invaders chop the heads off of precious little children, and rape woman, sometimes girls as young as six years old, and the world exchanges words and sometimes pictures to describe it, condemn it, and sickeningly, also to support it. Support from even well-known people who are elected to office.

Words can be cheap and ineffective but less nauseating than images. Despite the fact that the perpetrators love sharing the photos of the bloodletting with us.

Hatred, love, peace and violence can be shared though words.

I am grateful for words, but I also hang my head in shame because of words.

Whether it is words, photos, drawings or anything else, evil has its place, but thank God, so does good.

What we do clearly matters, and unfortunately for guys like me who no longer do a lot, what we say also matters. Words!

Below we have the first law ever given to man from God. The Ten Commandments are in every way still valid today. Moses carried these words chiseled in stone to his Jewish brethren.

The original translation of though shall not kill, was though shall not murder I am told.

God Bless,
Wayne