Monday, January 07, 2019

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.


Saturday, January 05, 2019

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.

2017
 2018
 2017
 2018

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!