I sat there and took shot after shot. I was completely oblivious to pretty much everything around me. Which is why it took me quite by surprise when a police officer walked up to me and told me I needed to leave. Apparently this side of the road was a posted ‘No Parking Zone’.
Oops.
I honestly had not even realized that I couldn’t park there. When I pulled up, there was already someone else there taking pictures, so it didn’t even occur to me that perhaps I shouldn’t be there.
If I had noticed the ‘No Parking’ sign before I parked, would I still have stopped anyway?
Ummm . . . yeah. You bet I would have.
An opportunity like this doesn’t come around all the time.
Would I have sat there for an hour like I did? Probably not. Although I do have a tendency to lose track of time when I’m shooting something, as a photographer I try to be very respectful of privacy, private property, rules, and boundaries.
But in my defense, how could I not stop and take a few (or a hundred) digital stills of such majestic creatures? If only Nature would follow posted signs so that us poor humans could sit for as long as we liked and revel in the beauty around us without having to worry about whether or not it’s legal to be there, right?
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Shooting the Eagles – Part 1
One of my wishes as a photographer has been to digitally photograph bald eagles. There is just something about their majesty that has always intrigued me. My husband recently discovered that there is a pond near where his office is located that many bald eagles have 
decided to call home this winter. Since he was on vacation over Christmas break, he agreed to watch the kids while I took off one morning to see if I could capture any digital shots. He was really hoping for one I could print on my digital printer for him to hang in his shop. I got to where he had directed me, parked alongside the road, and was enthralled. There were at least 25 – 30 bald eagles of varying ages flying around and landing in the trees and on the pond a short distance in front of me. It was one of the coolest things I’ve seen in all of my nature photography attempts. I quickly got out my camera, attached my zoom lens, put my camera on my tripod, stepped out of my vehicle and set up the tripod to start shooting. I then quickly took my camera off my tripod, folded it up, threw it in my van and hopped in the passenger side. That wind was stinkin’ cold! So instead I rolled down my window about halfway, propped my camera on that instead, and shot to my heart’s content.
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Posting something as you’re status in Facebook that you didn’t write and asking for a repost if you agree seems to be quite popular. But just like chain letter emails (and printed chain letters when I was younger), I never repost these things, and in fact rarely even read them all the way through. Once I realize it’s one of those kinds of posts, I typically move on. One of my friends posted one this evening that caught my eye, however. It went like this:
“Anyone who was BORN in the 60′s-70′s… We are the last generation who played in the street. We are the 1st who played video games & the last to record songs off the radio on a cassette tape. We learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play from Atari, to super Nintendo. We are the generation of Tom and Jerry & The Flintstones. We traveled in cars without seat belts or air-bags & lived without cell phones. We did not have flat screens, surround sound, iPods, Facebook, Twitter, computers & the Internet…But nevertheless we had a GREAT time!”
I agree, and couldn’t resist responding with a funny remark. I commented on her status as follows:
“Although I was born in 1977, I have to admit I never played in the street. Then again, living off of a highway might have had something to do with that…” Heehee, I just couldn’t help myself.
Another thing that we did more than kids today seem to do was play with stickers. I remember having an actual sticker album in elementary where we would trade them with each other and put them in our albums.
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I have a tendency to get bogged down in the past and the future and forget to focus on the present. I use my digital photos as a way to continue living in the past when I need to put it behind me and move forward. Then I use my tendency to over think things as a way to worry about the future too much. I keep waiting for some kind of sign to point me in the right direction, so I know that I’m taking the correct route with my life and how I’m raising my kids. Instead I should just relax and live each day as it comes and not worry about things that I either can’t change, or can’t predict. Life doesn’t give you a huge banner splayed across the front of your house telling you if you’re right or wrong, you have to figure that out on your own. That seems to be hard for me to remember, though. I guess you could say that I’m so focused on the journey that I forget to look at the scenery sometimes.
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My favorite artist is Terry Redlin. I absolutely adore his paintings. There is just something about them that draws me in. They are 
nostalgic and indicative of a time gone by; a simpler time that really seems to appeal to me. I used to have a digital screen saver of some of his paintings, but I lost the disc at some point so haven’t been able to view it in years. I also have a set of seven Christmas plates that I bought several years ago hanging in my dining room. My favorite piece, however, is the print my husband bought me after we first moved into this house over eight years ago. I had always wanted a Terry Redlin print, but had not felt that we could afford it, so one Christmas he saved up some money and bought me one. It was probably the best Christmas present he ever gave me. What I would love to have now is a book of his paintings. That way I could look at all my favorites whenever I wanted to, but in an affordable way.
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Microsoft has released under an open-source license a beta of a toolkit for integrating Amazon Web services with Windows Phone.
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Microsoft Research has fielded its second Facebook game aimed at helping to understand users’ behavior in social-networking situations.
Microsoft is making available to select testers the technical preview of Office 15 client, server and services as of January 30.
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