Tagged: Photography
Run Robin Run
In the wild life, there are no pedestrian crossings. No street lights. No cops blended to the side street landscape. If those guys run, they run for life. Here, the camera captured how little...
Tree Swallow, the Agile Flyer
I felt lucky when finally I managed to get a decent shot of this bird. There were plenty of swallows and martins at the Belle Isle cruising in their flights over the brooks and...
Signs of Bird Illiteracy Here
OK. Here goes a song of bird illiteracy of the author. Those are the pictures of the birds I made photographs of in the Belle Isle area and failed to identify them. Some of...
Robins of the Hood of Belle Isle
… or should I call them Robin Hoods 🙂 Robin is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. There are plenty of these guys in our area too. In my opinion, robins with...
Sense of Direction
A sense of direction is important to us. We always need something or someone to tell us what, where, when… We are more sophisticated now. Needless to say, even before GPS was invented, before...
Sleek-Looking Cedar Waxwings
In the previously published article Jolly Sitting On the Tree , I incorrectly identified these guys as chickadees. Oh, well, I am still a newbie in studying the birds’ world. It was dark. The sun...
Mourning Dove
Mourning doves are mysterious and pretty. Or, should I say, they do sound mysterious and they do look almost like a watercolor painting- soft, smooth and subtle. The doves on the pictures were met...
Photo Model
For the most part, residents of the Belle Isle Marsh are reluctant to model in front of the camera. This guy was an exception. I was trying to get a nice composition for the...
Big Love Story On the Wire
Quiet often we are so preoccupied with our busy schedules and problems that we don’t really see things like this. I can’t pretend that I am more observant than the others but while learning...