September 23, 2019 - Think feathers belonging to birds that think alike. - Makes no sense? Learn more. Read on.

Before I try to make sense – Donald Wyllie sent a photo and some words that do make sense:

**Good grief Gary, what are you drinking? We don’t even have to go that far north to freeze bits of our anatomy off. I think we should encourage Doug Jensen to go and then report back.**
Anyway, we have survived your hurricane which did a lot of damage here but brought a lot of surprised birds. Attached is a wet Skimmer wondering where home is. Thousands of Laughing Gulls all standing around looking tired.
**TGO will be warm enough for us mid December.**
**Donald**

NOW I WILL TRY TO MAKE SENSE:

I have read this: In the Roman empire, many many years ago it was carved in stone -“Repetitio mater studiorum est.” If you are not sure what that means I will tell you.

It says: “Repetition is the mother of all learning” – Those Romans were smart say I.

Cambridge University found you can learn a new language at any age. Their research determined that all you need to do is say a word 160 times in 14 minutes to truly know it. Say they, repetition is the key to learning a new language.

Ask I – how does that apply to Birds-of-a-Feather (BOAF) in the TGO Photo Club? The answer is: The concept of BOAF is to focus on one photographic topic of interest, repeat only that photo interest for awhile, and share with others in your BOAF group:

These are two learning elements for us older folks:

1. REPETITION — BOAF have selected one subject to photograph over and over until we get it right or get bored with it. Then we can move on to something else.

2. SENIOR LEARNING – Learn by doing and sharing with other BOAF members – not from a lecturer and text-book.

So, that is my advertisement for the day.

Here is a partial list (Two dozen) of photograph genres that you may want to choose to BOAF with – on the first three I posted some of my photos – I wish I would have been able to shoot them with a group and get to see their ideas on how to photo the same subjects: