Saturday, March 5, 2022

[Dave]

Good day everyone, and welcome to the weekend.

I'm still working through dozens of yesterday's sunrise photos, but here I'll post a K-M rose photo taken Thursday...

   

[Don]

Good morning Dave, thanks for starting the daily. I slept until 0700 this morning, unprecedented! But I see you were up early as usual. Nice looking blossom there, I like the 2 different colors.

Today I will finish packing for our trip down to Fla starting tomorrow. We'll be meeting my middle sister and her DH for dinner tomorrow night in Tampa, at a restaurant we almost always visit when down there. We will also go back into Tampa for dinner at Columbia restaurant as well as we like that one too. We are staying in Lakeland which is near to the Circle Bar B Ranch Preserve which is our main destination. Weather promises to be hot with days in the mid to upper 80's and nights mid to upper 60's. No rain forecast until toward the end of the week.

I'm taking 2 Nikon digital bodies with a 24-200mm on one and 120-600 on the other. This will be the first time I have really had a chance to put the 24-200 through its paces. Also have the Mamiya 645Pro medium format film camera and the 4x5 pinhole. I decided not to take the Pressman 4x5. I think I probably have enough cameras to keep me busy.

Here are a couple from Circle B from last years trip, which I might have posted over on WC. Just shows a couple of the paths through the area. The guys there were shooting photos of a Barn Owl that was in a tree. They like to roost around that area.

Hmm... you know, I have a roll of 35mm infrared film and with all that green I might just load up one of my 35mm cameras with a red filter and take that along as well.

[Luv2shoot]

Good morning, Dave, and it appears that Ron's Mustard & Ketchup roses enjoyed yesterday's rain that was anticipated by yesterday's image.  Beautiful vibrant colors against a nice dark green background really make that beautiful rose pop.

Don,
On the road again.  Good for you. 
Your trip sounds like it has something for everyone, including getting together with family. Finally, we can resume our life and livelihood. 
DH, I, and our Florida guests went to the St. Armone circle  in Sarasota specifically to dine at the Columbia restaurant there.  We arrived too late at it was a 1 hour and 15-minute wait!  YIKES.  So, we walked to the next restaurant and had delicious half Cuban sandwich and salad there.  If you closed your eyes, except for the ambiance of the Columbian restaurant, you would swear you were eating at white linen-covered tables surrounded by waiters making jugs of minty Mojitos,  pitchers of fruity Sangrias and bowls of their famous tossed salad.  The only thing we missed was the fresh crusty bread and soft creamy butter that they bring to the table before the meal.  I would go back to this restaurant, especially since it was less expensive than the Columbia, but the food was just as good. 

You sound like you are taking enough gear. I am still lucky that I can fit all of my equipment into a makeshift SAMSONITE travel back.  It suits me fine and has enough pockets to hold batteries, chargers, ND filters, etc.  If I should ever get a second camera, though, that would be a different story.

I enjoyed your photos from last year's trip to the Circle B.  I especially like image #2 and the gnarly and expressive tree trunk along the inviting path that leads the viewer into the composition.

Hopefully, you will see lots of birds.  Here is one that posed for me a few weeks ago on one of my morning walks.

[Adamphotoman]

Lorell, Lovely, I like the crop. The whites and blacks set off the yellow orange of the Beak....
Dave, I never tire of your neighbor's roses.
Don, Keep clicking away. Green & I am Green with envy. No green here.

Only colour where I can find it.

   

[Luv2shoot]

Grant, great eye for color, love the soft blue and orange tones. Perfect compliments to each other. And a bright a one cheerful composition. Love that tight crop too.

[Dave]

Thanks Don, Lorell, and Grant.

Don, the tree in #2 is elegant, gracefully arching over the road.

Hi Lorell. Great image of the great egret! Your crop/composition is excellent.

Wonderful colors and composition, Grant. You continue to show us surprising color in a white winter.

I wonder (not for the first time) why it is that leaving the white of the paper to show in a watercolor painting is considered to be an indication of mastery, while in photography stark whites are thought to be a cardinal sin. Lorell's and Grant's photos prove the fallacy of this.