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Watch some pictures of my life and some random stuff.

One of the many things I enjoy doing is exploring and photographing nature.

So far, I've taken over 3,500 nature photos here in Florida, since I arrived here in mid-December.

Two weeks ago I posted several sunset photos and asked which theme you wanted to see next time. The one theme that got the most votes was Otters.
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So, I selected 13 recent otter photos to post on here now for your viewing enjoyment.

Let me know which one(s) you like the best.

Also, lets take a vote on which theme the next set of photos you would prefer to see
in 2 weeks.
Whichever of the following gets the most votes, will be the next one I post.
Would you prefer to see photos of;

Alligators ?
Purple Gallinule ?
Manatee ?
Osprey ?
Great Egret ?
Little Blue Heron ?
Great Blue Heron ?
Green Heron ?
Tricolored Heron ?
Roseate Spoonbill ?
Flowers ?
Red Shoulder Hawk ?
Limpkin ?
Lizards ?
Turtles ?
Pelicans ?
Quaker Parrots ?
Belted Kingfisher ?
Caracara ?

With no further ado, here's the 13 otter photos;



























If you would like to see more of my otter photos, simply go to this link;

A cool double rainbow somewhere over the west of France.


And so, this afternoon I took this photo from roughly the same spot.
Now, what are the chances of that? Considering that there's about 12 months between each shot.


And with a little help from Photo-filtre™. This --->

Sunset at my brothers place.


Close up one.


Big sky county.


Close up two.


Angry skies.


Close up three.


Have a great weekend y'all

Why I can't delete my picture?

Or suggest your own caption for the following photo, if you like.
Or just enjoy the inventive suggestions of others.

Here's the photo;




No mention of other CS members.

Just an array of random pics. That I take of day to day things that interest me or peak my interest. Some are from my cheap phone camera, while some are from my NIKON. I am not a professional by any means, this is just a passion of mine. I've been told, and wanting to myself, to join some classes to expand my limited knowledge of photography. Tell me what you think, like, dislike or enjoy about my photos please!

Or perhaps she found me, or maybe a bit of both.

It was a really nice day today, very sunny and somewhat warmer than it's been recently.
I ventured out to do some food shopping, check my post office box, and take some photos of the local wildlife.

Regarding the latter, I walked through the woods near Carnegie Lake and found some deer lying ontop of the snow in the woods, near the edge of a property.
Before that I was taking photos of gulls on the lake ice and while doing that, a juvenile black mink walked by within 2 feet of me.
It happened so quickly, that I didn't get time to switch lenses and photograph him. Searching for where he went came up totally empty. Perhaps there was a den nearby, that I never found.

As I walked more in the woods, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a large bird fly.
There were a lot of trees in the way, so I'm still not 100% sure what it was.
However, as I walked another 50 yards or so, I saw an adult female redtail hawk perched on a fairly low branch, perhaps 12 feet up. She was intently watching me. I surmised, that perhaps she was the large bird I saw fly earlier, and that she circled around to come back behind me. I did notice a fairly large nest near the water's edge shortly after she flew.
So, I deduced, that it might be her nest, perhaps having eggs in it.

Either way, I took a lot of good photos of her. Eventually she flew off, higher up, not all that far away. As I crunched my way through the snow,
to get closer to her for more shots and get the sun behind me. She took off again and flew even higher up and on the other side of a canal.

I knew what she was doing. She was trying to lure me away from her nest. Bright bird ! It worked.

On my way back to my car later, I met some fishermen and talked with a couple of them. One young guy and an older one.
The older one is a professor at a university, a fellow biologist (different field) and he also does some work for a private research firm.
He's thinking of retiring early. I told him, that's what I did and I love it. We also talked photography.
I showed him some of my photos that he loved and said that he often sees different birds while fishing that he would love to photograph. He said he has an old Canon Rebel, but wants to upgrade.
So, I gave him a business card, and told him that if he needed advice on cameras & lenses to contact me.

All in all it was a fun day. I hope your Wednesday was good too.

There be lizards!


When my cat was a kitten.

:)


Just some drops of water.


The lone sunflower.


Sunset through the trees.


Have a great weekend. And may your god go with you.

Smiler x

The more I look at this photo, the stranger it seems!