I have always struggled to stay “on topic”, or better said , to stay on one topic, when writing or presenting something like a blog.

Long before I began this blog I had one on my old website. One or two pages which began with sharing images, and then deverted readers to the pages where I sold imagery, taught workshops, and other money making things.

I was fairly incapable of sticking to business but sometimes I offered my personal opinions, on everything from photography, politics, and on to religion.

Imagine that!

I also for a time, put out an email to subscribers and sometimes to non- subscribers. The point to the email was to share with potential customers and friends, current and near future specials which were being offered at discount prices. Eventually, the email became more about my opinions on life, personal and not, and sometimes politics, or religion.

Again, imagine that!

In other words, I find it hard to keep my mind on business, when there are more provocative and important subjects to entertain.

Life goes on and while I consistantly change myself a few bits at a time, it is rare for me to do so, in large gulps.

How about you?

With all that said, let us peruse a few images.

I am sure by now all of you know, I love the hours around sunrise and sunset .The magic hours.

As a photographer, I also loved storms. Those two entities together, represent power, and what (seems to be“, magic.

American Bitterns, via a gift from God (there I go again), believe they can, become invisible with their stripes, by standing upright and looking like some branches and blending in. I caught the one below doing just that.

I made it a point not to tell him that I knew what he was up to.

The Julia Butterfly.

The Ruddy Turnstone. A shorebird stretching out.

Feather & and a leaf. Everything’s a photo. At least in my world it is.

Warm and cool colors, such as a warm yellow flowers, and a cool blue sky, create contrast. Contrast is often run away from. I chose to embrace it.

You all know my love for webs as a subject for my camera.

I could watch American Coots for hours. As long as I am watching, why not make some images?

Ah, the male Bobolink. It took me quite a while to get my first photos of this species. I am glad I kept tying because these guys are cool, if you will.

Then there is the Upland Sandpiper.

Sometimes an image is made, well, because it’s there. This unique wood was on shore near a pond, which existed next to a waterfall not far away. I purposefully showed the surrounding environment in the photo.

Sometimes a bit of man such as these fisherman, helps to make the image. The great thing about dark silhouettes, there is no need to identify (or pay), the humans for being in the image.

When I wish you all God’s blessing at the end of a post, I do mean it. Regardless of your beliefs or your politics.

Mathew 7
Ask and it (wisdom) shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, (maybe not immediately but with patience), knock and it shall be opened to you (God’s door)

For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to he who knocks, it shall be opened. (If your heart is sincere before the Lord.)

Discover God for yourself. Do not wrap your life up in what people like me have to say.

God presents us to Him, in three forms. The Father, the Son, & The Holy Spirit. When you know each of them, you will know God. The one God.

Allow God, the Triune God, to know you one on one.

Make it personal.

God Bless,
Wayne