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Urban & suburban wildlife photography – sounds like a contradiction like a “square circle,” or an “honest politician.” You do not need long lens or tripods. TGO has many animals. New York City even has loads of animals – beyond the human kind seen in Time Square. I really like this guy on the bank of Lake Judy. I used PhotoShop to place his jaws over the water to show how his lower lips follow the contour of the waves.

MORE ON URBAN WILDLIFE. My daughter lives in a suburb of NYC. Urban wildlife is a key part of her life – often sending me photos of her life. She txt me a video this morning. I wrote back – THANKS FOR ENTERTAINING ME THIS MORNING WITH YOUR WILDLIFE. Here is a frame from her video. She wrote: “See the flightless bird under my bird feeder. To the mouse the dove must look the size of an elephant. But elephants are afraid of mice. HaHa.”

Think about it – a photograph has one job to do – create emotion. The variety of island colors are a large part of my emotional life. In this case, the red of the freighter arouses the emotion of calmness created through the blue.

On the TGO nature trail. Is it Valentine’s Day love in the making? I plan to show the rest of the story at this Fridays photo club meeting. Then I will post it here

Photo-art is like my dreams – not always in focus and often do not make a lot of sense! But, I sure enjoy practicing.

Even if there is only one – Protection is my game said the bee lady – but it was not the game of the cameraman – Guess where that bee went next – yep – ouch!

The instruction manual that came with my drone said “To be a safe drone pilot, you must stay focused”

I wrote: Photography is a great hobby. I spent hours photographing signs in TGO. Last week, Nancy posted an unlimited list of photography things to do. Every day photography can help us enhance the enjoyment of RV travel, nature, or……… Photography lets us explore our creative imagination & exercise our brain. Photography’s advances helps us stay modern – AI, Social Net-works, & things yet to come. Photography is the perfect hobby. Here is a piece of photo art I created:

My son sent me a photo to show the snow in their back yard and tell me that most of Conn had temps in the single digits. I modified his photo to help him think about summer, or better yet, to think about purchasing a home in sunny TGO.  (I think you will know which one I modified.)

I was ask if the person in the middle of my painting I posted yesterday was me – No, here are the three iPhone photos I used to make the PhotoShop painting. The mushrooms were photograhed between the Church and Spartana. The man in the middle was the man with the Fire Engine golf cart at the Christmas Parade – we were clowning around photographing each other. Sandy and Betty were showing off the Nature Center cart. Here is how I did it: I lifted the three people and placed them on the Mushroom photo. Then I composed the photo art piece I wanted. Then I Painted the photo art piece. All done with the tools of PhotoShop. It was, maybe three hours work – oops play. I spent most of my time trying to get a composition I liked. Balance, impact, lines, contrast, focus of attention. I wanted Sandy to be the focus, while not excluding the rest of the photo from the viewer’s attention. My final photo art image is the one I posted yesterday.

Freud said: Engaging in pretend play can be a fun and healthy way for adults to exercise their creativity & relieve stress. So I thought I would pretend I saw people standing under the mushroom. As I painted in Photoshop, I payed close attention to composition. But, since I was just playing, please do not be critical – Haha.