The temperature was in the mid-40’s yesterday, but I still ventured out to see what was going on at the wetlands. You never know, I thought. I was looking for herons, egrets, and to see if perhaps the painted turtles were out. But there was little activity except for a red-tailed hawk that flew up into a tree, and which I managed to capture from afar.
What’s strange about it is - usually there are red tailed hawks everywhere; they like to sit on the lamp posts to have a clear view. But I haven’t been seeing many of them all summer long.
The light was strange yesterday afternoon, as there was a thick cloud cover coming in, but I still managed to capture a silhouette of a blue heron catching his dinner.
I have several shots of him manipulated the fish so that he could get it to the point where he could swallow it.
Now the shortcomings of my panasonic are beginning to bother me; as these both could have been much better shots.
But…that aside, I’m still thrilled to be out there taking photographs.
I’ve ordered a book to see if I can get over my hesitancy in capturing images of people. I’ve noticed on forums and on websites that photographers are oftentimes shy about taking pictures of people; about how they’ll be received; about privacy issues, etc.
But from what I gather, as long as you’re in a public place, it’s perfectly okay to take pictures.
The problem that I’m having is - I’d like to take pictures of children, but I know that if my kids were little I wouldn’t appreciate someone trying to photograph them.
It conjures up images of weirdos.
I am not a weirdo; I’m simply practicing my photography techniques. So what would be a good way to approach this?
