Chicago drawbridge.

This was taken on the Chicago Architecture Center's architectural boat tour of downtown Chicago. Well worth it if you visit Chicago and have the time.

Black-capped chickadees are in constant motion, flitting here/there & hopping around trees. Always have a tough time catching a good pic.

Except on spring days, like yesterday, when they're "distracted" & defending their territories from interlopers.

Gentle roses on Friday. Image from March 2023.

The highly suggestive, perhaps even erotic, center of an impatiens flower. And that's coming from a gay man.

My technique and general philosophy of flower photography consists of the following steps.

Step 1:
Aim for the sexy bits

That is all the steps.

I love Gerbera daisies but my garden is way too hot (surrounded by buildings/concrete) & not too far into summer they go dormant. That's okay but it stays too hot in the Fall for them to truly come back so I may have just use them as a houseplant

Favorite photo from Chicago a few yrs ago. Had recently purchased a Nikon 40mm macro lens which is also an excellent street lens. This trip I decided to restrict myself to the the 40mm only. It was a great challenge and I learned a lot.

The joy of photography is having infinite subjects. The tragedy of photography is not having enough time to photograph them all. This is from two yrs ago. Definitely need make some time to look for more jumping spider's in my garden this year.