JRVZ1028, originally uploaded by GvilleRick.
As cold as it has been lately I’ve been surprised that we haven’t seen any squirrels in our yard. This afternoon there were a couple, however, so I took a few shots. There was one on the oak tree in our yard that I was able to photograph through the window. When I went outside he took off but I did see this guy across the street. He was a bit more cooperative and posed for me while safely out of reach on a high limb.
JRVZ0983, originally uploaded by GvilleRick.
This is one of my first shots with a new camera, the Pentax K20D. I’ve shot about 800 shots so far mostly at a wrestling match and basketball game at school. I am about to get used to it. It is quite similar to my K10D but between the new features and the changes in the menu items it is taking a little time to tweak it like I want. The extra resolution does allow a little more cropping so that is nice (although the 10.2 megapixels on the K10D never really restricted me much in cropping.) I’m looking forward to
IMGP1187, originally uploaded by GvilleRick.
I often wonder exactly what Socks is thinking about as he sits staring off into space. This shot was taken mainly to experiment with diffused flash and I was pretty happy with how it turned out.
dragonfly6, originally uploaded by GvilleRick.
I have tried for several days to get a photo of a dragonfly but they never seemed to land and moved too quickly to get a decent shot. Today I saw a couple in the front yard. I almost got a shot of one resting on a rail. Finally I saw one land on the japanese maple. I was able to get a few shots with my 70-300 lens. He would fly off but then return.
I went in to switch lenses and he even stayed on the leaf while I set my flash down in different locations. This shot was taken with the on camera flash and an off-camera flash set up below on the ground.
As always, I have several other shots on my Flickr page. Click on the photo above to go there.
