Great series of animal photos the last few days!

Zsolotripper wrote on Apr 27^th, 2025 at 9:49am:

We were paddling slowly on the quiet stream in the early morning, and I was in the bow.  I was looking for spider webs on the bank to photograph.  My dear husband suddenly said, “Lynda, I think there is a photograph back here.”  I said, “What?”  And he said, “The surface tension of the water with these long grasses—interesting.”  At first I thought he had lost his mind, but when I started photographing them and took a few frames, I realized that he was correct—as he often is when he suggests a shot to me.  There is a pair of the best images, and they make a nice framed set.  I have sold them several times.  Have also sold them with embedded scripture verse:  “He leads me beside still waters” from Psalm 23.  That morning holds some very sweet memories.  Misty shots, spider webs, and the grass photos all take me back in time to a very quiet early morning paddle when we were all alone in the world.

Ditto. 

How the heck did you get so close without disturbing the water tension?

Excellent pics!

Jimbo 

Your sequence of misty morning shots took me back to a September trip that my wife & I made a decade back or so to the northern tier of lakes in Quetico.  We experienced those spider webs, still waters, stillness and the magical feel of it all, too.  I tried to capture it in a BWJ story but your creative eye and photography does a much better job than any words I might ever hope to conjure up.

Your pics are the epitome and spirit of what db's "POD" is all about... the stuff our off-season daydreams are made of.

Thank you for so many contributions over the years and lighting up these pages!

Jimbo 

Personally I feel that Stu wouldn't recognize good photography if it bit him on the ass.  But then Stu and I share a mutual distain for each other.