Picture-A-Week 2024 - Week 18

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, April 29 and Sunday, May 5.

 

Mayday! Mayday!

 

Shared photos needed!

 

Please post here!

 

 

Rules: See above

That's it. This isn't a contest.

All photos taken this week are welcome (not just cruising).

Prizes will not be awarded. Discovering the joy of photography is the prize.

The idea is to get folks out using their cameras for more than vacations and toddler birthdays.

Post one. Post many. Up to you.

Have fun with your camera and share your fun with others!

[pierces]

It was a dreary drive up the hill on Sunday morning with a low, heavy overcast and a light drizzle for most of the trip. That was a shame because this is the time of year that the mountain pass which the freeway runs through is very green and quite scenic for a few months until the summer burns the color out of it. The overcast persisted as we started down into the valley and stayed with us until we pulled into the parking lot of our favorite little High Desert café. We immediately noticed something new. On top of the roof were two large, brightly colored metal roosters. We are both fans of whimsical decorations (as our six-foot-long metal garden dinosaur will attest to) and they made us smile as they stood there lit by the first sunlight of the day. 

 

Robot Chicken

 

 

 

 

Dave

[zackiedawg]

Another Saturday, another wetlands walk with camera in hand.  Went out with the 100-400mm lens this weekend rather than the bigger 200-600mm - it's getting too hot and humid to lug the big lens around for 8 miles of walking with a lot of the more exotic winter birds headed home.

 

Bee on purple flower:

 

Mottled duck momma sheltering her ducklings from the heat, and from predators:

 

Pig frog encased in ice (well obviously not in Florida's heat and humidity - the glare from the sun made the water look like ice):

 

Eastern screech owl guarding the entrance to a nest box:

 

Red-shouldered hawk closeup:

 

Red-winged blackbird chick, grown enough to be able to walk out of the nest, but still not able to fly:

 

Green heron chicks, both siblings, daring each other to see who could go farther out on their branches away from the nest:

 

Marsh rabbit:

 

Black-necked stilt out in the shallow flooded mud flats looking for food: