passionArt!: Stanley Park: Nature and Scenery with a Camera

So today, Carl and I went for a long long walk. We've undoubtedly walked several miles. Got a work out for sure. The fresh air, scenery, sunshine and exercise was totally worth it. Especially with a camera:

"2 Ducks"

"Stand Alone"

Carl told me "Hey come here" and pointed out this frog. This is about as close as I could get without disturbing this bathing beauty.

"Frog Bath"

Then we came across this lovely creature. He was in scavenging mode. Unfortunately we had nothing to feed him as we've already eaten all our trail mix, though I'm sure with his savvy instincts he must have found what he was looking for eventually. Other than that I was so delighted to be given the opportunity to take these shots:)

"What's for Breakfast?"

I just love how he was giving me this stare as I crouched down to take a picture. He was probably thinkin',"Hey! Whatcha doing?" So cute. :)

"Lookin' Atcha"

Every time when I'm out and about on days like these when the sun is shining, I look for every opportunity to capture how the sun seems to make things glow especially from the right angle. This is why I enjoy the macro function on my handy dandy lil' point-and-shoot Pentax. I don't know the names of these flowers but they were so pretty I couldn't resist.

And these ones caught my attention because they reminded me of real miniature fox gloves. To me they looked like purple caterpillars so I guess that's what I'll call them.

"Purple Caterpillars"

And of course how could I forget the fire weed?

"Fire Weed"

And let there be lotus flowers! The white one just below, I couldn't help but to enhance it with my "glow" technique with Photoshop. The two after are completely un-altered.