Anyway...
I got out my camera and took a few shots. And I know I say this a lot, but damn. Do I have a great camera, or what? The amazing thing about the telephoto is that most of the time I don't use my tripod, just shoot hand-held, and still the images are clear.
So, this morning, after downloading the pictures to my photo program, I was dinking with some special effects, just for fun. I discovered one that I really like called Holga, named after the toy camera first made in Hong Kong in the early 1980s. Now the picture looks kind of 1950s to me...faded B&W and slightly blurry around the edges.
I truly have to start taking my camera with me everywhere I go. The boys and I went out to the county park for our walk today. It was quiet, cool and sunny, perfect for a walk in the wilderness. I watched a hawk glide across the surface of the river and snag a fish out of the water with a lightning strike; saw a raccoon wash its hands on the opposite bank between two boulders as a couple of fishermen drifted past in their aluminum boat, totally oblivious; smiled at a woman picking wild blackberries in a dense thicket, her fingers stained dark blue.
Ah well. I might have missed the chance to photograph these moments, but at least I was able to file them away in my memory bank. And that's almost as good...
