Today let's enjoy a bunch of pictures from that beach day, and maybe identify some of the ways you can tell if a picture is mine.
Looking at the beach from on the fishing dock. And you see some of my usual tricks, such as bringing the feature of interest (the beach) as close to the edge of the photo as I possibly can.
Looking out to the sunset and you can also see how my lens needs cleaning even though I just cleaned it the year before. You may also spot those trees I used for that demonstration of how framing affects the mood of a picture. The camera's a bit off-level and while I do that a lot it's a rather unconsidered angle here. I must not have realized how this was close to but not at level when I took the picture. Anyway, another bit that I love ...
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bunnyhugger swimming, because I like looking at her.
Another of my common tricks: someone at the edge of the frame, looking out of the picture. bunnyhugger says she's read photo instructions that say not to do this and I can't imagine living by that guideline. It's so much more naturally interesting if they're looking at what we can't see.
Now here bunnyhugger looks into frame, and that's still pretty good, but once again she's as close to the corner as I could get away with. Definitely part of my signature.
As bunnyhugger gets to the shallower water she's still taking up an extreme corner position. This is so me.
Enough of my signature for now. We saw a turtle off the dock! Seemed like something around 16 inches, although it's hard to be sure since they were swimming away from any particularly distinct features.
Friend and turtle expert CST believed the turtle was probably hanging around looking for food that I, for one, wasn't going to toss. But other people aren't so good about not screwing up the wildlife. In this case, the turtle seems to have given up on whatever that white thing is and moved on.
Still from a movie I took, showing the turtle emerging from the water to examine plant debris gathered around one of the dock's pilings.
Another still from the movie, showing the turtle examining the plants more.
The turtle now decided to head out. The angle here isn't that exciting, but at least I have the framing elements of the shoreline and the dock as close to the edge of frame as I can.
Before the turtle was gone, though, here's a picture of them fully underwater!
Trivia: Thomas Andrews Hendricks received 42 of the 62 Democratic electoral votes for the election of 1872 (after nominee Horace Greely, who lost, died between the popular and the electoral votes). Hendricks was vice-presidential candidate for Samuel Jones Tilden in 1876 (and lost). He won the vice-presidency in 1884 with Grover Cleveland. Hendricks died in November 1885. Source: From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession, John D Feerick.
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