Did another road trip to Texas, had some work to do on my mother's house, and of course got in several photo excursions. Here are a few various shots that came out pretty good.
These are in no particular order...most were taken with the Makinon 135mm f2.8 lens, some with the SMC Pentax A 50mm f1.4. All at ISO 200, my usual setting.
Saw a grasshopper jump into the bushes, finally found a spot I could get a shot of it peeking out at me. It kept moving behind the stem to hide, but I got a couple of shots anyway.
ON a day trip to Louisiana, my sister and I stopped at a bridge on Sam Rayburn Lake to get a couple of shots, this dragonfly was sitting there and I couldn't resist. Taken with the 50mm lens.
Stopped along the roadside to get some flower shots, and a bee showed up to do his thing. Got this shot with the 50mm I think.
This bee was really cool looking, red and black and let me get pretty close.
Then Bambi showed up. I followed this little guy down the road about 100 yards, taking pictures all the way, and got a half dozen nice ones. Here it was about 10 feet away walking toward me, I actually had to back up to get everything in the frame, and missed a hoof anyway.
I don't know how the ear got messed up, and wondered where mama was, I'm not entirely sure this deer is not now an orphan. She would have gotten the little one away from me long ago, I followed it for a half hour or so. Thought it was going to walk right up to me, but 6 or 8 feet was as close as it got before finally running off into the woods. I think it may have lasted a lot longer if someone hadn't pulled out of their driveway about a half minute after this shot was taken, then it was over. When they pulled onto the road, the deer scooted, but I motioned to them and they were good enough to stop for a few seconds so I could get in another shot or two.
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