It quit raining for a second yesterday so I says to Barb "Let's duck into Deming park and maybe take some pics of the ducks!" (I'm even funny in real life) I thought I might get some reflections also since it had been raining for about 3 days and there is a pond also... what could go wrong?
The ducks normally pester the heck out of you for food... not today... today they wanted to be on the other side of the pond... and I don't mean that particular side, just the side I wasn't on. Having left my telephoto in the car I had to send my assistant after it, and by "assistant", I mean wife, and by "sent" I mean begged and faked a bad back with a slight limp until she gave in. But the low grumbling and cursing as she went sent the ducks ever farther away. Still I managed to get these duck shots:Duck 1 Duck 2 Duck 3
    I took a pic of my lovely wife (belated suck up) Barb on the covered bridge, and thinking the shot would look better if she'd stand in the next opening of the bridge, I motioned for her to move over. She, in turn, flipped me a one-digit hand signal back. I was sure it was some sort of photog assistant hand signal that I'm not privy to... and not wanting to show my ignorance... I let it slide... the grumbling continued. Better move on.
    There was also an interesting pattern on the far bank so I took a pic of it cropped in close and rotated it 90 degrees to abstract it even more and it's interesting but I don't know why I like it.
     This poor Horseshoe pit pic is an example of me breaking my cardinal rule of photography (maybe my only rule): Don't let the subject distract you! What I mean is, when we look at something our brain filters out everything extraneous to what it's interested in. We need to be conscious of this, and not lock-in on the subject but also let our eye wander around the edges. Look at what's behind the subject, pointing at the subject, distracting from the subject. You get the idea. I didn't really do that with this shot, if I had, I would have removed the bright leaf on the edge, and also the distracting little stick and messed up area of sand in the upper right and some other things. But I was distracted by standing in the water and finding I had a hole in my shoe. When I asked my assistant if she was going to buy me a new pair soon she... well, just replay the covered bridge paragraph and add sound.
    Having done all the damage I could do at the park we headed home... plus it started pouring again. When we got there it had cleared up and as I was getting out I seen a reflection of our old basketball Goal in the car window. I propped the door open, got a bucket to stand on cause I wanted to also get a reflection of the clouds off a puddle behind the door. But as I was composing it, I didn't like it focused on the basketball goal, or on the water, neither seemed to do it for me so I focused between them and liked the muted colors and soft focus a lot better than I thought I would.

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