Fragile Beauty
Meanwhile…back at the park
A few days ago I reported that I’d seen a swan pair with babies at D.W. Field. They were too far away for pictures but a brief stop there yesterday was much more successful. A gentleman there said there were a total of 3 pairs with cygnets but this time only 1 pair was in sight.
aday.org
I’m not sure how I heard about. Maybe it showed up in my in box but it sounded interesting. The headline read:
Capture daily life on May 15th 2012
On this one single day we ask you to pick up your camera and help us photograph daily life. What is close to you? What matters to you? We will connect your images to images from all around the world, creating a unique online experience where photographs will be shared, compared and explored. Your view on life will be preserved to inspire generations to come.
I was intrigued and of course..hooked. Why not ? I take my camera everywhere just about everyday. So yesterday was May 15 and yes, I had my camera and yes I went out to shoot.
We could submit up to 10 pictures but I chose to offer only 9.
Once I submitted them I got this message:
Thank you and congratulations!
Your photos are now part of history and will be presevered for generations to come.
Until May 22nd we are gathering images from all over the world and process them.
On May 30th we will launch a completely new website featuring all submitted photos.
In the meantime, use your profile page to share your submission with your friends and colleagues or look at selected previews in our news section aday.org/news.
Your profile url: http://www.aday.org/profile/7036
Stay tuned for May 30th!
I checked out the profile link and there were all my uploaded pictures. I hope you’ll check them out too. 🙂 He’s a sample:
A Honking good time
Yesterday I managed a few hours with the camera before I had to be at work. My first stop was the Herring Run aka Oliver Mill Park. I haven’t seen the Great Blue Heron since I got the shot of him eating the fish. It’s been very busy over there with lots of people fishing and even swimming. Plus they have the new bridge which lets people get even closer to the marsh so I don’t know if it’s moved on or if I just keep missing it.
No Big Blue today either but there were a couple of Canada Geese families.
After following those little goslings and their parents around a bit I moved on to The Grist Mill Pond in Plymouth. I wanted to check out the Swans and see if they had any little swans yet. The swan pair in Brockton hatched some cygnets so I thought the Plymouth swans might have hatched too.No luck. They were still on the nest but there’s going to be plenty of Canada Geese. There were 3 more families here and some had quite a few goslings!
Finally some Sun
What a perfect day for Mother’s Day! Yesterday the sun was shining, there was a breeze and the temps reached 80 degrees in many places. My kind of weather. Of course I couldn’t actually enjoy it. I was at work for 12 hours. Yup my Sunday shift starts at 7:30 am and ends at 8pm. I don’t mind , really but yesterday was just too nice to be missed completely.
So when my shift ended at 8 PM I stepped out into a purple tinted twilight. I had to hurry. The sun was just about gone and the light was fading fast but Plymouth Harbor was calling me.
I got there in time to snap off a couple of pictures. I didn’t even have time to set up the tripod! But one might be called a “keeper”. Hope you like it.