Suburban Wildlife

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Monday, February 7, 2011

My Assistant


It's a long story. I brought the violet outside for a quick series of natural daylight photographs. All to do with trying to find out why the camera sees the bloom as blue while I see it closer to magenta. Anyway - for the few minutes I was taking photos the Blackcap chickadees kept on flitting in - with no care at all for the stranger at the feeder. As for the color problem, I still don't have a clear answer. However it was an interesting experience. ATB!

6 comments:

Gail said...

I just look and violets and they die.

You are a very talented violet tender.

ChrisJ said...

Great catch of the chickadee and the flower. I love chickadees but they don't live around here. we have to go up into the mountains.

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

Rusty, perhaps the chickadee was just admiring the African violet's colorful bloom? I enjoyed the recent posts on Napoleon too, who is quite a good photo subject...as long as he is fed.

Anonymous said...

Hi Rusty

Great Photo! The little bird seems to know what he likes :-)

~Ron
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Jenn Jilks said...

Isn't that delightful! Great photo. I love it.
I can't get close to our birds. Cat has them wary!~~~
Thank you for visiting my blog !

laurak/ForestWalkArt :) said...

nice shot!!

((i have the same problem when trying to photograph certain colors. the camera sees it differently! weird! no idea!))