A mini vacation after a busy weekend
was just what was needed with a day trip visiting thriftshops
and getting out and
photographing nature…
On Tuesday, driving over to Yankton, South Dakota
to browse through the local thriftshops,
{still searching for old Ball jars to use for table pieces
for our son and his fiancée’s wedding this summer}
I came across the
KOA campgrounds
I’m writing up for the next blogpost.
Then I found the other KOA yesterday morning…
along with these beautiful flowers…
While walking around North Sioux City,
where my son and his fiancé just moved,
I found these sweet flowering plants
growing alongside the walking path.
Sorry, I don’t have any idea what the name
of this sweet pink flowering plant is…
If any of you know the name of this plant,
please let me know!
🙂
I forgot my camera when we drove to the airport last Friday,
however it turned out to be a blessing to be able to borrow my son’s!
This camera is a bit heavier than my little
Canon EOS Rebel especially with the bigger lens.
Please forgive me for some of the photos being
slightly out of focus.
I didn’t find a tripod amongst my son’s things.
But it was fun shooting the photograph above
and the one below.
I was down on my hands and knees {seriously}
for this next shot.
Even came away with grass stains and wet spots on both knees.
😉
I was having The Best Time shooting with his
Canon EOS 70D camera
and
his used and refurbished
Canon Ultrasonic 24-105mm lens!!!
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| The quintessential French Ethereal flower: anything lavender ~ love this! |
He started borrowing this bigger lens
for filming class projects and then quickly
decided he needed to buy one!
He bought it used from
Borrow Lenses
a company which ships lenses to customers
inside well-padded suitcases.
When you are done using a lens
you just ship it back.
🙂
{You can click on the link above to visit Borrow Lenses.}
The Canon Ultrasonic 24-105mm wide-angle lens
is perfect for taking really close-up photographs plus it
creates the “boca” effect that photographers
try really hard to reproduce
{like me!}
where what you are focusing on is “in focus”
and the background and the surrounding area
is slightly to fully blurred.
*called bokeh*
Love it!!!!!
I even just looked up into the sky and shot a few pics of this
cottonwood tree that was next to me!
The leaves were rustling in the light breeze
and interestingly enough
this shot has a 3-D effect to it!
🙂
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| More of these purple lovelies! Perhaps purple loosestrife?? Might be larkspur. |
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| My favorite shot: amazing clouds in a French blue sky! Also, check out the “moving clouds…” Just stare for a bit… 😉 |
This is one of the United States of America’s tri-state areas where South Dakota meets up with Nebraska and Iowa.
The convergence of the Big Sioux and
the Missouri rivers
happens a few miles down Highway 29
from where I shot these photographs,
along this
very lower right tip of South Dakota
where it overlaps with
Nebraska and Iowa.
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| “Gateway to South Dakota” say the words on the blue water tower ~ the opposite side says “Welcome to Iowa.” |
I think I’m going to have to save up my money
for a really long time so I can get a lens like this!
I love how you can shoot photographs
really up-close then turn around
really up-close then turn around
and shoot far away and get photographs
like this landscape portrait.
My son and I will be going over to the
Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve
later this morning so I’ll be sharing
about this lovely place and more photographs
of this beautiful area and my
“second spring” with you soon.
“second spring” with you soon.
Happy Thursday to you!
and
Blessings to you always,
Sharing with:
Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage
