Osprey Photos from June 2022 @ PSPHarbor
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A Foggy outlook doesn’t have to be foggy…
A fog over the marina is what I awakened to a couple of mornings ago. I waited a bit till I could see the sun starting to show it’s rays then it was time to launch my drone and watch the foggy view roll away from above. The video ends with a rather unique shot – it is actually a 360 view of the marina which you can see better from the image below.
Dogs, Racoons and Rural living
Living in a rural area as I do means living in the vicinity/proximity of wildlife. We have deer, turkeys, rats, raccoons, snakes and even a mountain lion has been sighted on occasion. My dogs for the most part stay reasonably close by but once they get the scent for something to chase -well the chase is on! At night time I have lights for them to wear. Super bright led lights. Sky my Australian Shepherd wears the red lights and Zulu the green lights so I can easily tell them apart when they are running in the dark. Last Tuesday when I got home from work at about 11pm after a double shift I had plans to take the pups for a brief walk around our marina. Mostly just over to the beach but not too far from my dock. We had barely started our walk when Zulu, my 48lb Catahoula took off and ran all the way up to the habour master’s house. I could see his green lights from his collar going crazy as if he was in a fight with something (wild animal) but without the noise from his adversary. I ran to his aid. (This is the first time I have attempted running since my ankle tendon replacement surgery last July – and I mentally took note of this and mentally said a short prayer for both myself and the pup). I was terrified that he was being injured by his prey which I could only assume to be the most common of our night critters, the raccoon. Anyone who has encountered the cute little raccoon up close knows that there cuteness is generally accompanied by a ferocious claw and a temperament that is not prone to surrender. They are vicious animals in the up close and personal!...
Photo 101: Day Seventeen: Glass, Squared
Incorporate glass in today’s image: a window, a mirror, a wine glass, sunglasses, or something else. It doesn’t matter what form the glass takes. Today’s Tip: We’ve practiced shooting at different angles and from unique POVs. How can you interact with glass to create an interesting photo? Look through. Look between. Find an unconventional surface. Experiment with your flash both on and off.
Day Five: Solitude & the “Rule of Thirds”
Instructions: Capture a snapshot that conveys the state of being alone Today’s Tip: framing with the ‘Rule of thirds’ My neighbour meditates daily and she also likes to stretch by lying on her back with legs against the wall. It really is a great stretch if you have the wall space! I noticed her stretching/meditating today and thought it would be a perfect photo for the solitude assignment. I did not get the thirds framing thing to work out quite right but will keep that in mind more for future assignments. She does know I am sharing this photo. And yes I did add a blur to part of the photo outside of the desired focus.
Home: Harmony Of Mind Expressed
Day 1 of Photo101 -another excursion into attempts to blog daily only this time with photos! Today’s assignment: What does home look like or mean to you? Share an image in a new post. When I think of Home I think of it representing the acronym, Harmony Of Mind Expresed. There is a saying, home is where the heart is! For me, home represents beauty, harmony, peace and love. Living in a community of friends, surrounded by the beauty of the ocean, nature and the most incredible sunsets. I am so grateful to have this harmony as a part of my life ….
Community lost without swift response (Daily prompt use it or lose it)
Use It or Lose It Communities are seeming like a lost art in the hustle and bustle of daily life in this ‘civilised world’. How civilised are we if we don’t know our neighbours. Do you know yours? We need one another all the time but sometimes it is only in an emergency when we truly feel and recognise the neighbourly love and care that could be felt every day. I’m grateful to live in a close nit community where we do know and care about one another on a daily basis. We have no security here, no emergency services within close reach. We do have one another and the care and compassion and challenges of this knowledge. Use it or lose it is the subject of this daily prompt and I for one find that it relates to using or losing our sense of community. Love is meant to be shared and if we don’t use and express the love and caring for our neighbours and neighbourhood before you know it though we have people living next door we have lost our real neighbours and community. It was a quiet night. Nothing out of the ordinary. I was at my computer working on some sort of mindless project or perhaps a mindful project… then I thought I heard the distinct sound of two cats at each others throats wailing their dominance. It was high pitched and brief but enough of a commotion in our quiet harbour community for me to go to my door and look out and listen … nothing. Nothing at all. My neighbour Ike in his boat berthed next to mine looked out at the same time and we commented that we had heard this commotion and then went back to our respective activities. Within moments -we...
Time to see the glass ‘half-full’ not ‘half-empty’
Is the glass half full -or half-empty? Are people generally good -or bad? … I like to think people are honest, and by nature, good. I’ve certainly had my share of experiences that could jade that outlook but have found that my own state of thought is in a much better place if I stick to my conviction that people are generally and genuinely good. One of my neighbours (I’ll call him Dan) is one of those truly good people. You can ask him for help or for a favour and not once does he ask why or bat an eye. He is always willing and able to help. Unfortunately, Dan seems to have allowed life to cloud his outlook to some degree. He seems suspicious of strangers and at times even willing to think the worst of his own neighbour(s) ! A rather humourous example of this took place over the last few days. I’ll try and keep this short but will there are several parts to the story. One of my other neighbours, ‘Gary’, was cleaning out his liquor closet and offered ‘Dan’ the remnants of a bottle of vodka. Dan took it gratefully but decided he didn’t like the taste and set it aside. Shortly thereafter another neighbour happened by, and in the spirit of camaraderie Dan offered the vodka to to this other neighbour, ‘Sabrina’. She added it her glass of juice and didn’t consume more than maybe a glass or so when she started to sense that something wasn’t quite right with the taste. After commenting on the taste, both Dan and Sabrina decided to smell the alcohol, and decided that it smelled nothing like vodka! Dan could only think the worst at this point. He became convinced that his neighbour, Gary must have intended death by poisoning for Dan and...
A Windy Night
Living on a boat is full of adventures. There are days when it seems no different than living on land. Then there are days like today when you have no doubt you are living on a boat! This morning the rain was pounding down and there was nothing I could do to convince the dogs to brave the rain and go outside. They were more than happy to wait till a small break in the weather came to go out and do their business. All day the rain came down and the wind gusted through the marina. I actually love this time of year and the storms that brew in the winter time. I love my boat moving in the wind storms as though it were out on the high sea. I don’t know that I loved it so much when I first moved onto my boat 15 years ago. I was still learning the dos and don’t of living on the water. One of the ‘dos’ is being prepared. You must be prepared for the winter storms. Dock lines need to be adjusted, anything that might blow away must be tied down, flashlights ready, and just a willingness to stay alert and pay attention to your own boat and your neighbours’ boats. The biggest don’t would be, don’t put on a bunch of new dock lines right before the rainy season. The rain will cause the lines to stretch out and you will be retying them constantly all winter long. I think the reason I love the windy days and nights so much now has to do with my experience. I know I have done my part to be prepared and I don’t have to worry about sinking, or coming loose from lines. Of course this does not mean I...
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