Photography

 Happy End of April everyone!! It is time to give away April with pollen to a successful May the next day. Happy last day of April Everyone and remember to keep having fun this spring!

 1813: Rubber is patented 1852: The very first Edition of Peters Rogets Thesaurus is published. 1927: The Spirit of St. Louis Arch of the construction is almost complete. 1983: Harlod Washington, is sworn in as Chicagos First Black Mayor.

Welcome back to another post on my blog about my recent trip to Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island located in Georgia. This has been on my bucket list for photography for many years and now I have done it and I loved everything about the nature of Driftwood Beach. This is a Driftwood Tree, I photographed during sunrise conditions while i was out doing a sunrise shot at Driftwood Beach at Jekyll Island and the hotel we were staying at was literally 5 minutes from this beach so I plenty of opportunities to take many different types of wildlife including many crabs, tons of shore birds and Bald Eagles which AL D did not get on his previous trips over to Driftwood Beach when he went there. This is an Adult Bald Eagle which I also photographed at Driftwood Beach. This was the first time I had ever seen an Adult Bald Eagle at beach before . This was my first time that I was able to catch it at Driftwood Beach. This was a very cool day to see 2 Bald Eagles in one day. Theres More to come on my po

Happy Monday color # 31 on my blog. Let's see what I pick out for this weeks Monday color. Its some more rain drops that I photographed after the rain hit a few weeks ago as well to do leaf shots with rain drops on the leaves to make a another composition that worked really well. You can see some different variants of colors in the raindrops which made very different photographs. 

 1745: The Peace of Fusion is signed.  1898: The very first action of the Spanish- American War, The USS Nashville takes on a spanish ship. 1955: The United States Congress, orders all United States coins to say the motto " In God we Trust".

Welcome back to my blog for another Monday Color for my blog and its marks 30 color posts on my blog, so its half way through for the year on blog. So let's see what today color post is for this week. Oh yeah its another macro photography shot I did of a Media Sombra which is perennial part shade flower that I planted also in my courtyard garden along with other flowers that are in my courtyard garden. Media Sombra flowers are really cool to photograph in your part shade garden and they bloom late Spring to Early Summer and they love part shade areas. It has Bubblegum pink flowers that bloom for weeks and then Amber spring yellow spring foliage in the middle of them which makes it really cool to photograph them in these different stages . Have a great Monday Everyone!

Happy Spring Wildlife # 3 on my blog for this time around on a Sunday!  This is Salamander I recently photographed at Eno River with my menotr Al D who cant believe my 500th post on my blog is coming up soon !  This is a fence lizard I also took at the Eno River with my mentor Al D while we were there!

 Hey Hey welcome back to another post on blog , I am going to post mine before Al D walk about posts his from yesterdays outing at Duke Forest. I did several new compositions, that I did not get the last time I was at Duke Forest over a year ago. So this time while me and my mentor Al D we spotted several lizards and five lined skink, A Great Blue Heron Catching a gigantic cathfish was very interesting to watch.  This Great Blue Heron attempted many times to get the catfish down its throat for its meal for the day. This was very interesting to watch it drop it in the River and try to attempt to put it in the right direction for it to swallow for its meal and it tried several times and finally was able to put in the right position for it so i could finally have his meal it caught at the river. This was a real interesting to watch and photograph  this and it was very cool to see a catch at Duke Forest from a Great Blue Heron which , me and my mentor had never seen before at this location

 On this day, 10 years ago a tornado outbreak happened in North Carolina that produced 31 tornadoes in one day which is the record in North Carolina.  At 12:43 pm the National weather service on April 16,2011 issued the first of many tornado warnings that day. And then more tornado thunderstorms starting appearing and made even more severe thunderstorm warnings and even tornado warnings.  A E-F 3 tornado was spotted in Chatham county and moved into Sanford and destroyed the Lowe’s garden center there. An E-F1 tornado struck downtown Raleigh and it produced some E-F 2 damage as well.  Below will be the map of the tornado outbreak in North Carolina on April 16,2011 This was one active day for tornadoes ever in North Carolina history 31 tornadoes in one day this was the day it happened ten years ago and today on April 16,2021 marks ten years since this happened and it’s sunny today on April 16,2021  with no severe active weather with tornadoes at all. 

 1784: The ist balloon is flown into Ireland. 1861: President Abraham Lincoln, moblizes  the Federal Army. 1912: The RMS Titanic, sinks after being struck by an iceberg at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic Ocean. 1986- The United States Warplanes attack Libya. 

 Hey hey everyone it is Al from his house studios just kidding. I had yet another preying mantis eggsack hatched today but it is  different kind of preying mantis its a European Preying Mantis which is unknown species  to the area of Central North Carolina.  I was able to catch the European  Preying Mantis actually coming out of the foam of the egg sack and caught many pictures of them doing this. It was very interesting to watch it for several minutes and get many photos of it. This photograph on the left was taken right after they started emerging onto this tree which was located right next to the Eurepean Mantis egg sack. They have been very active in my yard this year and this is my 2nd successful preying matis egg sack that hatched so far in 2021 in my front yard. I am hoping to catch some more of them in the process of hatching and matting this year as a another goal for this year. 

Happy Monday Color # 29 on my blog and let's see what todays Monday color is for this blog post. Oh yeah, Its a Columbine Flower that is planted in my courtyard garden with raindrops after it had rained and I decided to some macrophotography on different types of flowers with rain drops to see what photographs I could produce and produced alot of different shots with raindrops on the flowers in the courtyard garden. 

 Happy Spring Wildlife # 2 on my blog for this series of wildlife of spring in North Carolina this year. I recently went out to Jordan Lake with my mentor the Walkabout to see what kinds of birds of different things that spring was producing there and there was plenty to photograph there. This is an Adult Bald eagle I photographed and i have many other pictures of wildlife I did there as well that will posted on this blog post for Spring Wildlife # 2. In this photograph, you see  a Juvenille Bald Eagle which is very different than the adults because it is Juvenille which means its much different color and size compared to the Adult Bald Eagles in the area of Central North Carolina. Juvenile Bald Eagles are really cool to watch and photograph if you are at Jordan Lake at Farrington Boat Ramp which me and mentor where there taking these photographs. This photograph below you see two types of birds that I also photographed at Farrington Boat Ramp while I was there with my photograpghy men

 1789: The United States House of Representatives holds its first meeting ever. 1913: The 17th Admendment is ratified, for direct elections of senators for the 1st time. 1939: Italy invades Albania. 1975: Frank Robinson, of the Cleveland Indians, becomes the 1st black manager of a major league baseball team.

 I finally caught my mentor AL D chimmping for my blog which i will do now for change.He caught me twice. SO take this old walkabout. I have been trying for years to catch this and NOW i have finally caught him Chimping for the first time which is an accomplishment for me finally catching him do it. Lets see how many more times I can catch AL D chimmping for my 500th post coming up soon!

 Happy Monday color 28 on my blog. This one is very special for me. I decided to do a new courtyard garden at my house near my master bedroom and office on March 25,2021 for me to enjoy while I am working or looking at my garden near my master bedroom and office . So this one is variety of colors for this weeks color post for my blog.  I hope you all are enjoying this spring and summer like weather in March and April. 

 Hey Hey welcome back to a new seasonal wildlife theme which I am doing on Sundays Called Spring Wildlife which is very different than in past year, last spring, because I did not think of it until this spring . So I am using it this year for a blog topic for the Spring Wildlife on Sundays until summer then Summer wildlife will be on Saturdays which will be cool to do this year as a new seasonal ideas. Now time to talk about Spring wildlife finally for this post. I have been seeing more birds and wildlife start to get more busy during this time , which is now spring finally and no more darn winter, until this December .  Me and the ground hog Sir Walter Raleigh were right this year about the prediction of an early spring which did happen. The top photograph, you see , is the Great Blue Heron eating a fish and I saw it many times catching and eating fish at my neighborhood pond. This is a Double- Crested  Cormorant that I also photographed at my neighborhood pond but this time, I caught

 1778: Oliver Pollock, creates the dollar sign for money. 1865- At the battle of Five Forks, General Robert E. Lee begins his final offense.  1905: Berlin and Paris are linked by telephone for the first ever in history. 1939: The Spanish Civil War Ends 1954: The United States Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado. 1982: The United States transfers the control of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.