I hope the virus does not keep me inside – by decree or by actually having the disease. I am very careful using Purell, soap, and 6 foot social distance. So far, I am able to spend around 4-6 hours per day out and about.

When indoors, I study and play with photos. I study the question “why we take photographs” – It seems appropriate that I should study the question since I ran the Photo Club here at TGO for many years. 

This is number 8 of one list of many reasons for taking a photograph:

“8. PHOTOGRAPHY LETS YOU SEE THINGS THAT YOU MAY NEVER NOTICE OTHERWISE”

Taking a photograph lets me see things I never noticed when I saw the situation.  I take hundreds of pictures some weeks. How can I do that?  Do I cary my camera along with me all the time? – Yes, I do exactly that. My camera is my cell phone.

When I look at something with my eyes only, I can’t possibly take in every aspect that is within my vision. For instance, a beautiful sunset only lasts so long and I may not notice all aspects of how the colors play on the water.  Or, the snake raised its head and look me in the eye for a split second but I did not notice the twitching of the tail.

Oh my – look at window sill

When back home, I look at the photograph on my computer.  I have all time I want and I see see things I never saw when I snapped it.

But more important is, when outdoors with my camera, I saw things – like a wasp – that I was too slow on the finger to include in the photograph. By the time I snapped the photo the wasp was gone!  So, I use PhotoShop to make the photo show you what I saw even though the camera did not catch it.

I do not use Photoshop all the time – some times it is really as I snapped it – Anyway here are some things I saw that I want you to see too – Some are real and some are fixed up a little to include things that I saw, wanted to see, and did not capture.  Hope you enjoy these few snaps of my time out-and-about as much as I enjoyed being out-and-about.

Looking down our street – horizontal contrails cross rocket vertical contrail

another rocket launch thru clouds over our street

Same street at night – I see God’s rocket – called by us humans the “Moon”

Drummond Island wasp nest

Florida modern construction – no shovel in hand – only cell phones

I love the palm plant , the seed pod color, and the “banana” like clusters above the purple pod

Mom, Pop, and Baby out for a stroll – oops I mean slither!

Love birds!

See, diamond laden spider web near bottom – how about red dot near upper left? What is it?

Oh my – a closer look

As you swing thru life – Go out and about & look at the sky, look at the ground, look at the trees, look at the construction truck – look around at everything – it is fun