Who Knew Illinois has so many waterfalls. Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois.

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Who Knew

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Reflections of the Past

Well, after looking into the shut down of this blog. I was on line with WordPress discussing what happened with my decision to shut this site down.

They automatically changed my site to the Premium plus group. This change put a snag in my travels. They tried to charge my card without my approval. As a result, it went to a fraud alert. So intern, I had to cancel my site so as I could use my card again, by the way, I was at a gas station when this all happened.

We also have been driving and trying to escape this huge rain storm that has been going throughout the Midwest. We have been right in the middle of it for 5 days now.

I have talked to WordPress. They did see that the auto renewal was not checked and did not know how this happened. But, would put my site back on my original plan, if I wanted to. So I chose to reopen it again. I have actually missed posting over the last few days. I have been doing this for 6 years now. I love sharing my photos with all of you.

Thank you for all the encouraging comments. A few of which stated that other folks are thinking of leaving WordPress blogging because of the price.

My suggestion is to call them first and ask what other options are there. They were actually very helpful. Definitely check your subscription yearly. To make sure they don’t automatically charge you for something you are not signed up for.

We are currently on the northern edge of this storm, the rain is easing off today. There is massive flooding all around us. We are thankful to this campground we are at now that let us arrive yesterday at the last moment as we had to evacuate another campground that was down by the Ohio river.

Thank you all, I do appreciate all your comments over the years and I hope to keep blogging and sharing photos for as long as I can.

Reflections of the Past

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New Growth after the fire. We are camped next to an area that had a controlled burn in a bird sanctuary, they do this about every 8 years.

So on today’s walk, I had to photograph the new growth popping up out of the ashes.

New Growth

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Campground Cat – This cat has grown up here at this particular campground that we are at. People take care of it all year. She lives outdoors and the campground has boxes made for the cats to sleep in and get out of the bad weather.

All the cats here have been fixed and they get flee and tick medicine. They also catch rats and snakes. This cat caught a huge rat and left it by our camper. Good Kitty. 🙂

Campground Cat

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Low Angle Shots – Sometimes you just have to get to ground level to take the shot. I know it is hard to do especially as we get older. Getting back up is the hard part. 🙂

Low Angle Shots

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Dog Agility Event February – I have completed my editing for the 2nd dog agility event that we photographed. The folks will have plenty of photos to look through. I had to take a crash course on using Lightroom batch editing, that really helped.

I had used it years ago and never really looked into it again until this month. Now I have time to do some other things again. I look ahead to photographing next years event as well.

Dog Agility Event February

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Sunrises & Sea Shells

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Sunrises & Sea Shells

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Moss Covered Trees and beautiful sand covered trails to walk on.

Moss Covered Trees

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New Campground, well not new but being remodeled since the last hurricane. We had a great time here, I do recommend this park. They were under construction when we were there.

They are doing a great job at rebuilding the area and keeping the natural habitats available as well as building new construction.

Lots of beaches to walk, new campground spots with full hookups.

New sidewalks, roads and utility buildings.

But also keeping a lot of the natural landscapes for wildlife and trails for people to walk on.

New Campground

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Panama City Beach – We stayed at St Andrews State Park right down the beach from Panama City. There is a nice long pier that we stood on to take the photo of the beach. Most all of those buildings on the beach are rentals, condos and a couple of hotels.

We were there during the off season, so it was pretty quiet.

Panama City Beach

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Snow shoe rabbit

Snow white egret

Snow covered deer

Just snow

Snow white sand

Snow

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Older Snow Photos – my niece wanted some snow photo to print for herself. I had to dig into the archives to find some for her.

This first one is Lake Superior a few years ago, I think 5 years ago. Almost completely froze over. That doesn’t happen to often.

Road trip we took 3 years ago heading to Montana to visit my brother. I like this shot because the road looks like a dead end at the base of the mountain.

Older Snow Photos

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Challenging Obstacles – not challenging for the dogs but for the photographer yes. 🙂

This series was a little more difficult to make because the jumps were so close together. A lot of layers and brushing in the dogs on each layer.

The dogs seem to love the tunnels, they come out of there so quick. I had a few blurry shots because I tried to time the click of the shutter button just as they come out of the tunnel.

I could start the burst earlier, but that is more photos I have to go through and throw away. Mainly because I am photographing every dog that I can. I am talking about a couple thousand photos during a 3 day event.

Have a great weekend.

Challenging Obstacles

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Not Going to Make It – you never want to see a dog trip at a contest. But it is inevitable, they run so fast.

Sometimes they get messed up and have to jump over the jump twice, going the other way.

Not Going to Make It

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Combine Multiple Photos in what I call series photography. I have never made a print like this and thought it would be a good way to showcase their dogs jumping all in one photo.

It has to be at the right angle and dogs that start the jump farther back from the poles.

Combine Multiple Photos

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The Little Dogs

The Little Dogs

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My Favorite Shot of the snow week. Have a great weekend.

My Favorite Shot

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It Took a Week for the snow to melt. It is back in the 60’s.

It Took a Week

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Comparison Photos – How quickly things can change.

Comparison Photos

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Art in Snow Drifts – there is just something about snow drifts that I think is artistic. Mostly from the shadows they make. Giving a hint of blue tones in the dark areas against the sun lit areas.

Art in Snow Drifts

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I See You and wish you all a wonderful weekend.

Oh, you may have heard. Yes, there is about a foot of snow along the gulf coast. I have not seen snow in a long time. 27 degrees down here. But pretty.

I See You

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