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Sunny Side Up

Tim May

The more I use my Canon G15, the more I figure out what it can and cannot do. I set this on AV mode and messed with the settings for a dozen shots or so. One thing for sure is when I do close ups, that high dollar tripod sitting on the backseat floorboard of my truck ought to be put to use. Despite the camera shake and crabby cursing of a bright mid-day sun, the butterfly was a champ in having tremendous patience as I tried to find just the right angle. Continue reading Sunny Side Up

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The On The Farm Daily Cap(s) (325)

Tim May

The Swallows love the mangled barbed wire in the trailer, except when I get too close… For all things grains, crops, seeds, and harvest, the COOP has been the farmer’s go-to place throughout the Great Plains for decades, as this old truck would surely tell if asked…. With the first frost having already come knocking and winter bears down (despite being 72 degrees today), the remnants of a Kansas sunflower stubbornly continues it survival vigilance against the inevitable… Jerry versus the standing-dead Cottonwood (Jerry won, but not without a fight)…. On the High Plains if a tree wants to grow … Continue reading The On The Farm Daily Cap(s) (325)