A few shots from the weekend...........

I had a great time this past weekend at the Camera Council Spring Break Seminar. They put on a great event at a great value! I was in information overload, but was able to visit a couple areas to take some photos.  The first few photos were taken at a local city park. The deer photos were taken at the Tamarac Nature Center. A great place with lots of walking paths. I was heading back to the building when these two youngsters emerged from the grass. They were not tame and were very cautious. May favorite of them is the last picture.  Such sweet eyes.....

Butterflies and Lionfish..................

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Andersen

The Sertoma Butterfly House is not just for butterflies anymore.

If you haven't been there in a while, check out the new Purdy Marine Cove. 

One game in black and white.......

“Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative.”
Basketball Quote by Dan Frisby

Fair to say one of my best friends is

pretty focused in some of these shots!

It was her first State Tournament nod.

Mackie, you did an awesome job

and we are very proud of you!

Butterflies and Flora.............

Some of you might know that I LOVE taking flora pictures. I guess I have a lot of my dad in me! So, it will be no surprise to some that since the butterflies were a bit "fluttery" at the Sertoma Butterfly House this past Saturday, I turned to taking some flower pictures.  I was having fun with the macro lens shooting the fuchsia spiked flowers.  Of course, I had to throw in a butterfly picture also!

 

Eagles....

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow---proverbs

New Years Eve....

This past weekend, I was in Yankton and decided to head out to Paddlewheel Point to take a few pictures. This is an area just south of the Yankton Chamber of Commerce along the Missouri River

and just off the Auld-Brokow Trail. 

Not only did I have a great sunrise to watch, I also had bald eagles flying over my head. At one time there were four of them in the sky above me.  Of course, I was all set up for landscape and macro work, and was unable to take a good picture of the majestic birds. Sometimes it is best to step away from the camera and try to take it all in.  There were geese, ducks and hunters calling in the game birds from the island to take their best shot, but with different equipment than mine! The sun peeked through the clouds offering a nice amber glow to the Meridian Bridge.  The river was nice and still, offering some great reflections. While I stood looking at the calm river, I did a little reflecting myself. Could this really be the same river that caused a lot of destruction this past summer? In fact most of the pictures below were taking in areas where water would have been numerous feet over my head.  She is a powerful old girl, the river.  Not only in shear strength, but it seems that if you grow up around a body of water like this, it keeps drawing you back to her.

I love my hometown of Yankton, South Dakota!

Mother Nature didn't disappoint me with her beauty on the last day of 2011.

 

Out and about at the farm.........