It was such a lovely spot — very peaceful and calm. It was the only day all week I carried the big equipment. The rest of the holiday was chronicled with iPhones and a small point & shoot. Mass Audubon owns another beautiful piece of land in the Barnstable area, which we checked out yesterday. We timed the visit for low tide and explored the tidal pools.
I’ve been such a bad blogger, it took me a minute to remember how to make a new post. So sorry. Let’s kick this off with a personal post in honor of the holiday weekend.
We made our first visit to the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, run by Mass Audubon on Cape Cod. What a lovely spot!
We met a very sweet gentleman on our way out to the bay. He stopped when the trail got a little muddy, but was waiting for us on our return with a present for Rachel. He took such delight in presenting her with this crab he had caught for her.
More fun photos from the Sanctuary to follow.
Back to those new year’s “commitments” I mentioned earlier in the week. An important one reads as follows: “Capture beauty, details, and emotion in images, just for me.” As I looked back through my images for 2009, I found lots of great images, but almost all were taken for someone else, for some specific purpose.
I considered attempting to do a 365 project – an image a day, every day. Usually it involves capturing, processing and uploading an image every day – and that is just not going to happen. So instead, I am making a point to grab images when I can, to have a camera with me on drives or when doing the everyday stuff, and to stop when I see something that grabs me, whether it be magical light, interesting clouds, or something funny the kids are doing. And it doesn’t need to be with the serious cameras. The point and shoot or my phone camera will work too.
I haven’t figured out how and where I may share these. I’m throwing them up here and there for the time being, but I will get it all organized as some point.
The scene above was shot this morning on a drive in the Macedon area of Wayne County, with my Canon G10. I was struck by the old windmill, and the interesting contrast to the high-tech wind turbines I’d seen yesterday south of Naples.
A highlight of my trip to Atlanta late last month was a trip to the Botanical Gardens with Tara and Leela. What a lovely spot, full of wonderous sights and smells. Two weeks later, and I believe that I have cleared the pollen from my system and can breath again, but it was still beautiful. My favorite find was a simple one…Wild Columbine growing in the Children’s Garden. It transported me back to my childhood in Wappingers Falls and the woods behind our house. And then together with Leela, we found this bullfrog, full of character. I promised her a photo…
Just for fun, a favorite ever since I carried a bouquet of orchids for my wedding…
And the most wonderful surprise of our visit was the discovery that the Henry Moore exhibit that opened last weekend had been installed early and was ours to enjoy.
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