Yellowstone - glancing back, looking forward

I'm not great at picking pictures to post, tending to post too many rather than choosing a few good ones.  Maybe difficulty sorting the chaff from the chaff?!

Anyway I quite liked the concept of the little video I made for the last blog so I decided to have another go using the pics and some video from last years Yellowstone trip - a bit of nostalgia and increasing my anticipation of another trip back in a few weeks.  I eventually found that the best way to present the video was to load it to Vimeo first, allowing decent quality playback.

Yellowstone 2018 from Brian Williams on Vimeo.

Naples 2018

A consistently favourite part of our annual trip to Florida is being on the beach as the sun comes up, fishing rod and camera in hand.  Fish a bit, snap through the golden hour then fish again.

This year Kay came down with me on the first day and we went to have a look at the osprey nest.in one of the beachside trees.  Last year thy were in the process of rebuilding the nest after the hurricane, and on processing the pics I was taken aback at how much taller it was now - as you can see from the changed height of the main tree limb below - the osprey,s feet in 2018 are higher than it's head was in 2017.

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I still haven't got the picture I want of the black skimmers, but I feel I am gradually creeping nearer the shot I have visualised.  If only I could control the wind direction!

Rather than a long blog of multiple photos from the trip I have put them together into a short (45 seconds) video - I have been playing with the quick video tool in Msoft photo.  If they look soft it's Blogger or YouTube!

Naples 18 from Brian Williams on Vimeo.