Learning, learning, learning...

 Photography classes, continued....
And learning about aperture and time value and ISOs and using them all together to come up with the right exposures to catch a moon ...

 And a snow flake, falling ... or several

Learning to use long lenses ...

 To catch a hawk looking at me ...

From the top of this bridge   (this is after he flew away)

 And to isolate a weed with the froth of winter still clinging to its stem.

 To use my regular lens to isolate a corner in the sun.

And to use my wide angle lens to capture a mountain in the sky.

 I learned that wide angle lenses need a lot of foreground besides background....Because the image above just doesn't have the same interest value as the image below....

... but sometimes the long lens can reach through the foreground to find background images hiding behind the trees.    (Can you find the animals below in the photo above? - they are there.   Scroll to the bottom if you give up.)

But one of the most fun I've had was the day Brent and I got to take photos of my cute niece and her great fiance.   Last I heard, he still plans on marrying her in spite of having to deal with her aunt and uncle for a photo session that lasted several hours.   This photo was captured by Brent.  But it's one of my most favorites.  (Hope I didn't spoil her plans for her invitations...)



And if you gave up on the hiding animals - here's a clue: