Yes, it really has been an entire week, and so we return to our Profiles, featuring Chollum Bargarnthupi. Chollum was kidnapped and sold on the market of color as a slave model, forced to pout, look haughty, or even exuberantly ecstatic about kitchen storage (seen here) for much less than minimum going rates, required to even buy his own upper lip bleach. He escaped with
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Awkward teen years
Reality aves
On one of the cloudier days out at North Topsail, before the rains came, I was walking out the walkway/deck towards the gazebo when I saw movement in the reeds nearby, and had the long lens in hand (with a camera attached, too!) so I could take advantage of it. Unlike the green herons in the area, this one was pretty blasé about my presence.
This is a willet (Tringa semipalmata,)
And yet, ‘snot art
Yet another entry that couldn’t possibly be art, because I don’t do that.
Yeah, it’s almost the same as a frame from the first trip (a metal print of which adorns a door of my desk hutch at Walkabout Studios,) but you know, with the beach running in this direction,
Podcast: Need a do-over
Did you ever wonder about the site title, “Wading-In Photography,” and the emphasis on sandals and water and all that?
It’s because I like things shallow.
On an unrelated note, here’s a podcast:
Walkabout podcast – Not A Vacation
Yeah, it could definitely have been
Magnanimous
Some experts tend to keep mum about their experience, their ‘secrets of the trade,’ and not reveal any information that may give an edge to their ‘competition,’ as if there’s something to be won with that. And some, of course, are fine with imparting information, but at a fee, and charge for everything I teach photography, so yes, I do follow this
Just a wafer thin one
[We’re back out at the beach again.] After the day of rain, we got a little better weather and a nice sunset, still with some high clouds to catch the colors, which in hindsight explains why I didn’t find something sooner – I’d been chiding myself for not paying attention, because I was aware of the moon phases for the trip and the new (dark) moon had fallen just two days
Almost went by me
Today is World Turtle Day, which I only discovered by reading Why Evolution Is True just a few minutes ago. As such, I am ill-prepared, and can only resort to a photo from a few days back for something current.
Curiously, these might be Florida cooters (Pseudemys floridana) based on the habitat and their faint markings, but I wouldn’t confidently inform any investors
Not birds, not beachy
I have just a couple of photos that were taken during the beach trip but aren’t beach related, so we’ll throw them down now.
Within the first day, we would look out the back side of the condo over the moderate expanse of lawn there, bordered by a thicket that separated the lawn from the sound, and see a little medium-brown mound moving around at times. I knew them on sight, having dealt
But still, ‘snot art
We still had a few good days out at the beach, and autofocus stayed locked on tight for this one. It will be a large print soon…