Photons Everywhere

While being at Callaway Gardens I really tried hard getting a Raptor in flight and in focus. Now I think that my location was just bad. I was off to the side so I had to zoom and focus at the same time which is close to impossible while those birds or prey fly, they are not that slow.

I think the next time I will stay at either where they take off or land (since I know now where that is). That way I should have enough time to frame the shot while they fly towards me.

Here is a shot I think worked out just OK, the others have a much better composition but key elements are either missing or out of focus.

Overall I was somewhat disappointed with Callaway Gardens. Sure, they are nicely maintained and all but when I hear garden, I think flowers. There were a few of those naturally but it was all so spread out.

I prefer the abundance you can get in e.g. the Atlanta Botanical Gardens – either that or you go through wild fields yourself and capture what you love.

Either way, I took a few shots of Flora that I liked, here are a couple of them.

So I finally got around tending to my Raptor Shots from Callaway Gardens in Georgia.
While I have a couple more where they are “in action” I want to share those first.
Unfortunately the action shots are not as tack sharp as I would have hoped. Need a faster zoom lens after all.

Horned Owl

Falcon

Finally spent some time editing the rest of “my fish”. There are a few I will enjoy re-taking when I go back. Having learned a lot about avoding glare, annoying children and un-cooperative fish.

I guess the first one as a tribute to today being Fathers Day

Here are a few more photographs from my visit to the Georgia Aquarium. There are still a few more to come and meanwhile I have taken more shots i.e. Callaway Gardens but they will come soon.

Belluga Wale

Little Yellow Fella

Ugly Cat

Piranha

Last week I paid a visit to the Georgia Aquarium. It is a great place to be and provides a lot of photo opportunities.

Never actually having shot in an Aquarium, the biggest challenge was to fight reflections. Many tanks were way too dark to not use a flash (where allowed) and having other folks cramming around the same glass, you need to be careful not to get them into the focus. Over the next few days/weeks I will be showing some fish here, starting out with two that I find interesting. (I should have written down what they are all called, not easy to research for smaller fish)

These Tuna were at the entrance, seemingly doing circles around you. Quite powerful fish.

If I remember correctly, they are called Clawfish. Easy to Photograph as they don’t move much

This weekend I was at Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Tucker, GA. I attended the Graduation of my Mother-in-Law (MIL) for her Dr. of Ministry and of course was asked to take a few snap-shots of the occasion.
Even though I am not a religious person I find that many churches have a great architectural value. Smoke Rise not excluded which had a very nice looking Sanctuary thus I was more impacted by simpler things like the game the light played, shadowing trees in the frosted glass.

Frosted Glass

It is a very simple photo but the twilight from the outside made it special for me.

The Church itself was rather traditional from the outside. Thus still not bad to look at.

Smoke Rise Church

It is pretty sad to come back to your Blog after literally month of absence. The last shots I posted here were from winter and we are approaching June now.

I have been out a little bit only as you can see from some interesting shots taken at the Dogwood Festival here in Atlanta. Work has just taken up so much of my time that I have not gotten to blogging much and very little taking picture.

I hope you enjoy some of the photos below, you can always see my Full-Size at http://mbgaleria.com. Having a week and a half of Vacation coming up I surely hope to get a tad more active again.

I decided to source my photos from Flickr from now on since I am not sure how much longer I will keep my account with Zenfolio (which is what mbgaleria.com is hosted by). It’s a great service but too pricey for what I do.

Probably my favorite Photo - I love how this guy just does not care, while dancing to Chilean Music

Childsplay

Chill

Care - Another favorite of mine. It captures the essential I think.

Painted

Jumper

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Stretch

Looking good

Warming up

Easy as Pie

Last weekend we ended up getting a little bit of snow here in Atlanta.

Since snow is not that common I decided to get out and take a few shot.

Freezing Flowers

Southern Snow

Snowy Tracks

Snowy Tracks 2

There is a small array of Tubes in Atlanta (Buckhead) that has often caugth my eye. Next time I will go there, it will definately be a night or dusk when they are illuminated but I do think they are very interesting.

The blue sky lend itself to to some up-shots which with the usual grey sky we have here lately would not be as appealing.

Tubes

And of course my alwats (2nd) favorite High-Rise that I picked up on the way

Park Place