I have hardly used my really nice Nikon camera all year long. When we get ready to go somewhere where I will be taking pictures I just usually opt for my phone lately. It takes pretty amazing pictures and fits in my back pocket. But I have to remember that my Nikon can take pictures and do things my phone cant if I'm willing to take the time to get it out and play with it a bit. I guess it's nice to know it's in the closet waiting for me when I'm ready for it. Anyway I got it out the other day and was just playing with it while the boys were playing in the back yard. Just turned a normal playtime into a mini photo shoot.
I feel like this picture pretty well captures "parenthood"
My Pine tree climbing boys!
This is Grant's Day dream look....we see it often.....sometimes I wish I could see what he is seeing
Then several days later Will and I got home from doing some errands and I went to blow my nose and I spotted a large hawk in the tree out the window. I grabbed my camera and my extra good zoom lens and was able to get some great shots of the beautiful bird. ( I kind a have a love affair with Hawks. Back with Will and I used to drive between McPherson and Emporia to visit his family, or sometimes it was me going to visit him. I used to see so many Red Tailed hawks so I would count how many I would see. It was usually well over 10.) I know we have some that frequent the woods behind out house so it was really cool to get to photograph one. Will and I looked it up in his good old bird book from Ornithology in College. We think it was a Red Shouldered Hawk.
I took advantage of my big zoom lens and was far away but got some great shots
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