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POTD: Hummer #1

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Hummer #1
Oro Valley, Arizona
2023

We hung a small hummingbird feeder on at the place we rented in Arizona in January and February, and were quickly rewarded with much company to entertain us while sitting on the patio. I’d sit out there in the afternoons with a cup of tea and my camera and telephoto lens taking way too many photos of them.

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POTD: Free Dance

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Free Dance
Bozeman, Montana
2023

A while back I saw a photo online of a set of about a dozen twigs a that someone had collected that looked like stick figures in various poses. They had placed them all in a grid pattern on a white background and then photographed the group together so you could see all the various “poses” together. It was nice concept and well executed. (Unfortunately I don’t remember where I saw it, probably on Instagram, so can’t post a link too it.) I imagined at the time that it must have taken them quite some time to collect all those figure-like twigs, but my experience the next day perhaps suggests otherwise. On my usual walk through the neighborhood, without trying or even thinking about the stick figure idea, I saw this figure “dancing” across the the sidewalk in front of me. So I brought it home and photographed it with part of a J. M. W. Turner painting as a background.

It’s interesting how a rather quick view of that photo of stick figures subconsciously affected my own way of seeing the world–at least for a day anyway. It’s similar, I guess, to the effect I get from spending time in an art museum–when I leave, everything outside looks like art to me for a while. I’ve been quite successful with using that mindset to my advantage if I happen to be carrying my camera at the time.

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