Squirrel eating an orange
Notice the dowel rod stuck in the fence post? I drilled a hole at a 45º angle for the dowel rod to fit in. I have used them to stick half an orange for birds like the Baltimore Oriole and was surprised to see this Gray Squirrel eating the orange.
The Baltimore Orioles make a sometimes make a rare appearance here in my backyard. I have found they love very old and tall trees like those growing along Greenville Creek at Bear's Mill. My trees are all small but this particular Oriole landed in the big old maple tree behind our backyard and must have been there when I cut the orange and stuck the halves on the dowel rods. As I was walking away, going back into our house, I heard some sound that caused me to turn and there was this Baltimore Oriole eating this orange. I must have taken 50 photos with very little variation in any of them.
I have no doubts that someone will wonder why I took so many pictures of this bird or why there are thousands of photos of Coopers Hawks in my archive and I would have to tell them because I was suddenly able to take photos without film; no thanks to Eastman Kodak, but thanks to those who created a revolution in picture taking with digital cameras: Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic Lumix, Sony, and many others.
4 comments:
If this is your first visit, welcome. I am an old man 1t 79 years of age and my picture taking roots go back to a Japanese camera I purchased at a PX (Post Exchange). I still have it and my twin lens reflex camera that mimics the old Rolleiflex that I could not afford.
I very much like to take photos of things using the viewfinder as my guide trying to fill it with the view I want to have and not have to do much cropping in Photoshop or some other photo editing program.
I love this picture. What a lovely love idea. You're a genius, you know!
Maybe I have more of an Einstein problem that I know about. I know my mind races with ideas about everything.
lol You sound a lot like me. I think creative people in general have that problem, er gift. (grin)
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