Tag Archives: Photography

Photobombing

Personally, I’ve never been photobombed, but I’ve seen it happen.  Before I go any further, I should explain to those of you who don’t know what photobombing is.  It’s when an uninvited person jumps into a photo at the last second.

I’ve seen a wide range of photobombings.  Everything from teen girls shooting selfies when a friend (or not a friend) crashes the shot, to drunk wedding guests stumbling into the posed shots of the newly wed couple.

But people aren’t the only ones that photobomb.  Oh no.  Our animal friends are no strangers to photobombing.

Check out some hilarious examples here.

Have you ever been photobombed?

Until next time…

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~A.M.

Lunar Eclipse

So, last week on Monday night/Tuesday morning a total lunar eclipse happened.  It was a Blood Moon.  What’s a “Blood Moon” you ask?  Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad, it’s nothing out of a horror movie, it’s just called that because of the way the light reflects off the moon, giving it a red hue.

I’m sure people have heard about it, saw articles online, maybe even went outside and watched, but I figured I’d show my readers a few of the shots I took.

Now, I wasn’t able to capture the red hue to the moon, and, sadly I wasn’t able to capture the entire eclipse.  About halfway to the peak of the eclipse, the clouds rolled in and obscured everything.  Unfortunately for me, that’s what typically happens in my neck of the woods when there’s some kind of celestial event going on.  I’ve missed every meteor shower that’s happened since I’ve been alive (no joke), I’ve missed numerous lunar eclipses, I’ve missed comets, I’ve never seen a falling star (again, no joke), and every time the aurora borealis is supposed to be visible, the sky is swallowed up by clouds.  But, I’ll count my blessings and be thankful I was able to witness this much.

Blood Moon Eclipse 1

Blood Moon Eclipse 2

Blood Moon Eclipse 3

Keep your eyes on the sky!

Until next time…

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~A.M.

The Grass Is Greener…

…In my front yard, apparently.

This past Thursday, I happened to look out my window around dusk and saw two brown deer in my front yard.  I think they were the same two I saw a few weeks ago when the third deer, the albino, was also here.

Speaking of the albino, she showed up again too.  Like I thought, the three weren’t together because the albino chased the other two off…twice.  But they came back…twice.  So, I guess there’s something good about my lawn.

Not only did the deer come back repeatedly, but when I woke up in the morning to feed my cats, the two brown deer were still in my front yard!  That interested my cats.  Two of them climbed into the window while I was trying to take a few pictures.

To escape my cats’ interference, I took a chance and stepped out onto my porch for a better picture.  I expected them to bolt the minute they heard my front door open, but the larger of the two just perked up a little, looked at me, then went right back to nibbling on the grass.  Here are two of the better images I got (I was still half asleep at the time).

 

Two Deer in My Front Yard

 

Deer In My Front Yard

 

They’re such pretty animals.

Until next time…

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~A.M.

Rorschach Test

Everyone’s seen the famous “ink blot” or Rorschach tests before.   The same principle behind them applies to the age-old past time of lying on the grass and looking at the clouds.  Matrixing.  It’s when the brain tries to make sense of random patterns in both visual and audio stimuli.  So when you see that bunny or dragon in the clouds, your brain is matrixing.  When you hear music or a voice in the white noise of the TV or static of the radio, no it’s not the little girl from The Ring coming to get you, your brain is matrixing.

A while ago, as I went to check my mail, I caught a glimpse of an odd little formation on top of a snow bank in my yard.  Time for a little Rorschach test for everyone.

What do you see?

What Do You See?

The brain is neat, huh?

Until next time…

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~A.M.

Wildlife Sighting…In My Yard…

 

 

This past weekend, I decided to partake in a little spring cleaning of my basement. That was quite a task, and not a fun one as I’m sure many of you can relate.
After I managed to clean and rearrange the portion of my basement I was working on, I headed upstairs to my kitchen to clean the dust off my hands and get a drink of water. As I turned toward my fridge for the water, I glanced out my kitchen window. What did I see standing in the middle of my lawn nibbling on the grass peeking out of the remaining snow? A huge white and brown doe. You know, like the song? Doe, a deer, a female deer? Yeah.
I grabbed my camera and started snapping pictures. It was then that I noticed two more brown deer (both female) wandering up the road and into my yard! I knew the grass in my yard was good judging by the amount of wildlife that wandered through over the years I‘ve lived here, but I didn‘t know it was good enough for these beautiful creatures to venture out in the middle of the day.
Here’s one of the better images I took of the white and brown doe. I managed to get this shot because she heard one of my cats meow beside me inside the house. Good hearing, doe.

 

Doe in front yard

 

 

And here’s an image of the other two deer. I don’t think all three were together since the little one seemed to want to play and the white and brown one seemed a little stand-offish toward it.

 

Deer in front yard

 

I’m not usually lucky enough to see wildlife beyond birds in my yard in broad daylight. Deer, raccoons, and other wildlife tend to cross my lawn late in the evening or early in the morning when it’s harder for me to photograph them. Lucky for me these deer decided to stop in my yard.

 
Until next time…
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~A.M.