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07/28/2003 Entry: "flat light Sunday"

After Saturday's gum disasters, I'm not surprised that Sunday was a less than stellar photo fun day. It was a typical midAtlantic summer day, hot, hazy, humid. The flat light was less than inspiring. I did play around with the view camera for a bit down at a friend's place on the Magothy River. It was more of a "you dragged the damn camera down here, so you might as well try and use it" experience than an outgushing of photographic creativity. There were a few shots of some skiffs upturned on the shore which may make the day salvageable.

I did play with some slide film for later Polaroid transfer fun. Unlike my own garden this summer, the flowers there were doing quite well, with day lilies and daisies to work with.

While wandering along with the 35mm, I looked over to a small inlet and saw a Great Blue Heron standing in the shallows. Much better camera prey than safe flowers. I tried getting closer, slowly moving towards him, keeping tree trunks between us as much as possible. I was about 150 feet away, much too far for the short telezoom I had with me, when he decided I was too close for comfort. I had no chance of getting a shot on film but still have the picture firmly in my mind of his wide wings lifting his long body into the air. A few leisurely strokes of these big blue feathers and he was gone.

Probably too much to hope for another perfect photo weekend after the delightful ways in which the past few have gone. It wasn't a bad time, just not as good as the previous adventures this month. Maybe I got spoiled? I'll try to keep my optimism intact and look forward to more good times ahead.