Feline and Furball Friday

Steven has a weekly photo feature spotlighting our beloved furry friends. I don't post as often as I'd like...so I'm excited to have a picture to share today.

Here are my boys, Indie and Berkeley, out for a run on a snowy day. We had very little snow last year...so we're trying to take every opportunity to enjoy it this season. What is it about dogs and snow?

Still Life

I've come out from under my rock to participate in the latest Blogger Community Photo Challenge. I enjoy doing still life but I don't do it all that often, especially in winter. So today when the light was nice, I put together this little arrangement. I pick up broken shells all the time. I'm fascinated by their form and texture. Being broken or worn makes them that much more interesting to me.




I hope you'll visit everyone else who participated. The link list can be found here.

Another Snowy Owl

I went back out to Jones Beach very early yesterday in hopes of another view of the snowy owl. My luck was not so good overall, I had only a couple of very brief sitings. But, my luck was great in what I happened to see. Unfortunately, I was not quite set up to deal with the situation as quickly as it happened considering the available light.

(What is she talking about???)

I was walking down the path just past sun up and I saw two birds (one light, one dark) in a mid air confrontation. At first, I thought the light one was a gull but the flight didn't seem right and he was a little too plump. I looked through my lens and sure enough, it was a snowy owl. I learned later that the other bird was peregrine falcon (they happen to hate snowy owls). Apparently, he didn't think that beach was big enough for the two of them.

Well, I tried to get a few images in the brief opportunity I had. As I mentioned, I wasn't properly set up. On my previous trip, the owl was just sitting on a dune like a model so I was set for dim light and no motion. Most of my images are pretty blurry. But I got ONE....and I'm so happy with it, the rest doesn't really seem to matter. How about it?!?!