The title of this post is a quote attributed to Yogi Berra and how true it is!
When one is low to the ground with a camera set up to take photos of small things (such as odes) one finds oneself attuned to a world that is hidden in plain sight. There is a lot of “stuff” going on between the ground and six inches of elevation!
Much of the “stuff” one sees are insects, but I often observe other types of critters as well. The immature wood frog is one of those.
I had just stood up from photographing a damselfly and had taken a step or two when I heard a faint rustle in the old leaves underfoot. I quickly dropped to my knees to investigate and after searching for a few minutes, I finally found the source of said rustle… a wood frog the size of my thumbnail, unmoving and doing its best impression of a dried leaf!
I moved a bit trying to find a “window” in the detritus on the ground without scaring away the frog. I successfully found an angle with a clear view of the frog and was rewarded with a nice photo of this fairly common but seldom seen animal.
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Another good subject for a camera set up to photograph odes are small wildflowers. One can easily make nice photos of the flowers nicely isolated against out of focus backgrounds.
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REALLY REALLY like your flowers! Great detail and soft backgrounds. I especially liked the yarrow.
The grasshopper and friends aren’t too bad either.
Comment by Joe Kennedy — 28 June 2015 @ 10:30 PM