Bee Happy

With spring comes Bees. With Bees comes flowers and trees, and the blossoming of them. As the Bees spread their wonderful, colorful, and joyful cheers, so should you. There is never a day when you shouldn't be happy. What's not to love about flowers and colors that the world provides for us? We have so much to offer, and we can make it even better by offering our strengths with happiness.

Catnap

The best thing about coming home after a long day is coming back and taking a catnap. Now, this might not be your usual catnap, but it works. Thanks to Caroline G. we can see the difference from the cat's catnap versus the human's catnap. I think the cats are better nappers than us. They are at least better than me.

Water Window

Water may be clear when you drink it or when it's still, but when it's falling from a ten-foot spout it makes the things behind it blurry and unfocused. Another part of this is the bottom. The water starts off smooth and uniform but them you move down it and it falls apart. It breaks up into these pieces of hollowed water.

Lily Pads

At a fish pond, which will come later, were Lily Pads. I took this picture from a side angle because the angle that was good was blocked, that I didn't like but when I looked at it again I liked. I like it because you can see the water and the things under the water the give the picture more depth and character.

Bloomed or Not

As Spring comes flowers bloom. Not all of the flowers bloomed though. This one was in-between the two, one bloomed and one decided to wait for a better day. Even though it has not yet bloomed I still find it very interesting. The texture on it is very nice. The curves must be the flowers for the soon to come flower.

Hoo Hoo

This statue of an owl stood on the side of a walkway. My favorite thing about this statue of that the owls head is tilted. I think it is like the owl is asking a question. It seems to be looking deeply at something. What is he looking at? It wasn't a person because he never moved.

Water Works

The way the water flows is downstream. You can't see it but the rest of this, but this flows downhill and ends up in the Infinity Pool. I decided that the best way to view this was through the top of the waterway where the fountains are and the waterway starts.

Infinity Reflection

As I start a mini-series, still in the larger series of Spring, I am opening up with an infinity pool opening onto a lake. This mini-series come from the Dallas Arboretum. There will be many flowers, water features, pools, streams, fish, birds, and much more Spring-like things.

Feather Flashing

Only of the only two times when Peacocks are beautiful to photograph is when they are calling to each other or when they raise their feathers. Luckily for me, this one raised his feathers. I took several rounds of photos of it, so be ready for more. At one point I must have annoyed him because he moved his feathers over me so I couldn't see him.

Bird Tree

In the lower part of the tree where "Hiding Bird" was shot, I spotted another type of bird. I couldn't tell you what type it is, but it's beautiful. It flew in, rested for a minute, called to its friends, then it left. Just like that.

Crouching Cat

Earlier I said there was a cat, here it is. The problem with the cat is that I couldn't get very close to it because it was scared of me. This was about the closest I got to it before it ran away. Although it ran away, I followed it and got some shots but it was hard to run and take pictures at the same time. The pictures were very blurry.

Hiding Bird

Up high in the trees were several Crows. They came in, probably ate, then starting talking to each other. They chirped, clicked, and made all sorts of sound to each other. As they did this more birds came and then, even more, birds came. Soon I was like a bird party. What did that make me? The photographer?

Squirrel Glare

As I walked around, nature was all over the place. There were squirrels, peacocks, birds, and even a cat. This squirrel was looking around, probably at me, as I set my camera close to the ground and take some shots like these. He was in between eating so I think he was a little angry at me for interrupting his dinner.

Spring Squirrel

Happy late Easter! Since this theme is spring and because spring has Easter in it, why not have a picture of the Easter Bunny (squirrel). As this squirrel feasted on some nuts, I crept up and took incredible close-up, eating action shots. I wonder if he ever noticed me.

Eyes

Peacocks have many eyes. They have eyes on their head and on their feathers. As we jump into the new theme at TMannphotography expect to see flowers, springtime bugs, insects, and animals. Animals like birds, squirrels, ducks, and sometimes peacocks. Get excited about this theme because it's going to be a great one. 

Smile

Let's start our transition into Spring! On a wall that was in a kids play area, there was some rain left over and someone decided to draw on it. I believe it is a deformed smiley face, but you can decide. I like how the 2 climbing pieces are in the picture. They add another layer of depth to the picture.

Gone

It's the final day of Colorado. As I close I wanted to end with a bang, so I think I did. The two birds lifted off the rocky beach and flew 20 feet the are about to land in the water. The two geese somehow got the movement on rhythm and flew in unison. I really don't know how because when you walk with someone do you walk in the same stride as them? I think I might have just been lucky.

Lift Off

We have only one bird left. I slowly crept up to the goose and took several pictures every five-ish feet not wanting the goose to leave and me not get a close-up shot. Luckily for me, I was about to take another round of photos when the goose left. It started to run and get speed the stretched out its wings and started to create a force that lifted him up, that's for tomorrow.

2 Left


Continuing from yesterday's picture is this picture. This was the bird that left. As he lifts his wings and starts to fly, his legs drag on the water. He breaks the water and forces it to move while his feet go through. Next we have the other two birds left. What will they be doing?

Stay or Go 

As I crept up to the geese they started to walk away. I knew that once I was close enough to them that they would fly away, but I didn't know how close was close. Obviously, I was too close to one of the geese. Over the next, two to five days will be the final pictures of these birds and Colorado. Then I will move on to a new and more current selection of photo's.