at a State Auction…

and the Canadian Geese hasn’t wasted any time…

This was one of those cases where you get what you didn’t intend to get. My favorite form of meditation is to go down to the river (the Delaware River, that is), a few blocks from home, and capture sunsets. (You can see many of those in here). I live in New Jersey, across the river from New Castle, Delaware. New Castle has a civilian airport that is also used by the Delaware National Guard and in the evening there is always a heavy traffic of planes returning to the base. What you see in the picture is the tail of a military plane about to land at the base against the contrast of the sun behind it. I shot some 160 pictures that evening a couple of days ago and this is the only frame where this juxtaposition happened. Now, that airport is about 4 or 5 miles away in a straight line across the river from where I was standing and I was manual focusing my 500mm lens to the distant background of the trees. I guess I can still focus OK…

Spring time is a busy time for wildlife, specially deer, they mate and they are all over the place. It is a good thing to see them in daylight. You definitely don’t want to cruise at 50mph, at night, and have one of these babies jump in front of your car. Costly and deadly, and not always for the deer…