outdoor photography

Spiderwort with Harvestman I wouldn't call Central Winds Park a great place to look for wildflowers. I've only noticed a few varieties there, but when the birding is slow, it's nice to have something pretty to photograph. I'm using my point and shoot camera here, the Canon Power Shotokan G7X, so the backgrounds are not quite as blurry as using an DSLR with a true macro lens. But I was able to get enough separation between the flower and the background that I didn't think this was too much of a distraction. Wild Petunia Spiderwort is everywhere right now in the garden. I these photos, there's some sort of harvestman on the flower--I guess he doesn't know he's not a true spider. Spiderworts are one of my favorite wildflowers, along with Wild Petunia. Common Beggarticks Along the path there is also plenty of Common Beggar ticks and some yellow flower I haven't identified for certain yet, but I'm pretty sure it's Pineland Nerve...

Spiderwort Flowers This morning my father and I went to Central Winds Park; with the threat of rain, we decided not to go somewhere that required us to walk far from the car.  Central Winds has been pretty slow lately, and I was not expecting much, but with the weather last night, I had the best morning there since this past Fall.  In all I found 11 warblers there: Louisiana Waterthrush, Black-and-white Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Cape May Warbler, Northern Parula, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Prairie Warbler, and Black-throated Green Warbler.  Three of these were the first I've seen in the park this year, and the Black-throated Green Warbler would have been a lifer if I'd seen it yesterday. Spiderwort Flowers Photographically, though, things were difficult.  It was very cloudy and dark for most of the morning,  so I didn't bother to take ...