Posts for: Tom DePuy
May 2, 2015 19:41:25 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
yes it is. I had been shooting some other things earlier and had changed my settings and forgot to change back to your highly suggested setting which is what I usually have my camera set. and this also was in full sun which did not help. shooting before thinking, rather than thinking before shooting. :) :)You must be very careful about proper exposure of small, light-colored subjects. I believe this orbweaver is over-exposed.
May 2, 2015 18:18:49 #
May 2, 2015 18:15:34 #
and I believe passed away also....
we opened the umbrella to our outdoor table today and this was in it...
we opened the umbrella to our outdoor table today and this was in it...
May 2, 2015 18:09:31 #
I tried to take shot's from both side's of this but it was so small that when I got to the other side of it, I could not find it....wind was also blowing , and it was bouncing around , so I could not get a good focus on it, but posting anyway... :)
May 2, 2015 13:13:27 #
your story made me wonder...this is what I found...
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a section so poor that it was nicknamed "The Battlefield." Armstrong had a difficult childhood. His father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis's birth; his mother, who often turned to prostitution, frequently left him with his maternal grandmother. Armstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working. A Jewish family, the Karnofskys, gave young Armstrong a job collecting junk and delivering coal. They also encouraged him to sing and often invited him into their home for meals.
On New Year's Eve in 1912, Armstrong fired his stepfather's gun in the air during a New Year's Eve celebration and was arrested on the spot. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys. There, he received musical instruction on the cornet and fell in love with music. In 1914, the home released him, and he immediately began dreaming of a life making music. While he still had to work odd jobs selling newspapers and hauling coal to the city's famed red-light district, Armstrong began earning a reputation as a fine blues player. One of the greatest cornet players in town, Joe "King" Oliver, began acting as a mentor to the young Armstrong, showing him pointers on the horn and occasionally using him as a sub.
By the end of his teens, Armstrong had grown up fast. In 1918, he married Daisy Parker, a prostitute, commencing a stormy union marked by many arguments and acts of violence. During this time, Armstrong adopted a three-year-old boy named Clarence. The boy's mother, Armstrong's cousin, had died in childbirth. Clarence, who had become mentally disabled from a head injury he had suffered at an early age, was taken care of by Armstrong his entire life.
Meanwhile, Armstrong's reputation as a musician continued to grow: In 1918, he replaced Oliver in Kid Ory's band, then the most popular band in New Orleans. He was soon able to stop working manual labor jobs and began concentrating full-time on his cornet, playing parties, dances, funeral marches and at local "honky-tonks"a name for small bars that typically host musical acts. Beginning in 1919, Armstrong spent his summers playing on riverboats with a band led by Fate Marable. It was on the riverboat that Armstrong honed his music reading skills and eventually had his first encounters with other jazz legends, including Bix Beiderbecke and Jack Teagarden.
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a section so poor that it was nicknamed "The Battlefield." Armstrong had a difficult childhood. His father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis's birth; his mother, who often turned to prostitution, frequently left him with his maternal grandmother. Armstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working. A Jewish family, the Karnofskys, gave young Armstrong a job collecting junk and delivering coal. They also encouraged him to sing and often invited him into their home for meals.
On New Year's Eve in 1912, Armstrong fired his stepfather's gun in the air during a New Year's Eve celebration and was arrested on the spot. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys. There, he received musical instruction on the cornet and fell in love with music. In 1914, the home released him, and he immediately began dreaming of a life making music. While he still had to work odd jobs selling newspapers and hauling coal to the city's famed red-light district, Armstrong began earning a reputation as a fine blues player. One of the greatest cornet players in town, Joe "King" Oliver, began acting as a mentor to the young Armstrong, showing him pointers on the horn and occasionally using him as a sub.
By the end of his teens, Armstrong had grown up fast. In 1918, he married Daisy Parker, a prostitute, commencing a stormy union marked by many arguments and acts of violence. During this time, Armstrong adopted a three-year-old boy named Clarence. The boy's mother, Armstrong's cousin, had died in childbirth. Clarence, who had become mentally disabled from a head injury he had suffered at an early age, was taken care of by Armstrong his entire life.
Meanwhile, Armstrong's reputation as a musician continued to grow: In 1918, he replaced Oliver in Kid Ory's band, then the most popular band in New Orleans. He was soon able to stop working manual labor jobs and began concentrating full-time on his cornet, playing parties, dances, funeral marches and at local "honky-tonks"a name for small bars that typically host musical acts. Beginning in 1919, Armstrong spent his summers playing on riverboats with a band led by Fate Marable. It was on the riverboat that Armstrong honed his music reading skills and eventually had his first encounters with other jazz legends, including Bix Beiderbecke and Jack Teagarden.
May 2, 2015 12:58:51 #
here are a couple of close-up of the nest and egg's
May 1, 2015 04:31:02 #
Apr 30, 2015 09:26:00 #
Apr 30, 2015 05:51:04 #
place some butter on him and BAM you have your butter fly.... :) :)
Apr 30, 2015 05:48:35 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
This is an interesting series, Tom, and your shots are excellent. Be careful!
Thanks Dixie...yes I'm being careful....and thanks for following along.....Tom
Apr 30, 2015 05:46:27 #
Apr 30, 2015 05:45:06 #
we've been mooned again by Erv ...
thanks for posting, could not see it here ...
cloudy?? nope...asleep?? yes....lol
thanks for posting, could not see it here ...
cloudy?? nope...asleep?? yes....lol
Apr 30, 2015 05:39:33 #
Apr 29, 2015 03:38:12 #
Apr 28, 2015 19:20:11 #
Just took a couple of photo's tonight, managed to get half way decent shot's of the eggs....notice the difference in the size of them from top to bottom.....they started laying at the top and I think actually just finished laying at the bottom the night before last...It's been fun for me watching the progression of this...Every night it has had two wasp's on the nest, last night I went to take a couple of photo's and it only had one....no photo...it was pretty testy with me... :) :) never did it come off the nest but, I was more worried about the other sneaking up on me from behind.....
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