Alan's Accidental Adventures of 2015

Alan

Senior Member
If age has taught me anything it is stop planing and start living. Thus it is with my photography. It is rare that I take the time any more to plan a photo (OK maybe I will sometimes for the 52 challenge) , set up a tripod, wait for just the right lighting etc. and take the shot only to be disappointed with the results. Most of the time I plan to do something about 5 minutes before I do it. I stop along the side of the road because something caught my eye. I grab my camera at home because I saw a bird out my back window. I take a shot with my cell phone because the moment just seems right and it's what is close at hand. I take a walk around a lake because I have an extra 20 minutes and I was driving by anyway. I didn't even plan to start a 2015 thread until a couple minutes ago.

So here it is. My life for 2015 with the accidental photos that I feel are worth posting. And I continue to believe that “Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have someone click the shutter." ...Ansel Adams


So let's start with a Junco and a Titmouse along the side of the parking lot.

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Alan

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Some days the bird gets you! I chased this Kingfisher around and around again today and this is the best it got. I think his cracking sound is just him laughing at me as he flies the other way as soon as I start getting close. It is a love hate relation that we have. :p


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Alan

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A Juvenile Snow Goose. You can see it has more white feathers coming in on the right side than on the left.



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Marilynne

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Some days the bird gets you! I chased this Kingfisher around and around again today and this is the best it got. I think his cracking sound is just him laughing at me as he flies the other way as soon as I start getting close. It is a love hate relation that we have. :p


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They simply are camera shy!!!!!!
 

Roy1961

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i am glad to read someone else finds it hard to shot this little @#$%^&*, i thought it was just me
 

Alan

Senior Member
My poor baby does not like what this weather does to it....... Can't even run it through the car wash as it would freeze before I was finished. (22 degrees F)


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Alan

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PA Farm Show...Spent the day at the Farm Show, it was a little crowded. Have a couple of hundred pictures to go through.

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