A Guest Behind the Lens

Stopped at a park in Speculator, NY

It is a rare event when someone else is behind the lens, and catches me in a photo.  But since I was busy taking care of our new little hound during this stop on the way home, my co-pilot (an apparent undercover shutterbug) grabbed my camera and snapped a couple nice shots of our new boy as I walked him around the park.  Since both me and the puppy were unsuspecting subjects, the photos turned out very nice!  I always prefer a candid style to my photography, with ambient light, and I always think the best poses are the ones unplanned.  So enjoy these shots taken without me behind the lens!

He decided he wanted to be pet, instead of taking a walk

Trying to get him interested in fetching a stick

New Dog on the Blog

Taking a look at his new home in America

 We have a new dog on the blog!!  This young hound is a transplant from Canada!  I drove up to get him at the US/Canada border this week, and had a nice trip through upstate New York.  I hope to post ALOT of pictures in the upcoming days and weeks of him playing with his new buddies.  I also hope to post a few snapshots I took during the trip with the new Nikon D90.  I regret I did not have a polarizer for the new lens, but still it was a beautiful trip and even the quick grab snapshots show how lovely it was along the way.

Stretch break at Lake Erie on way home from Canada

From the Rookery

This year I hit the rookery "jackpot"!  I happened to visit the rookery in the late afternoon when tons of birds were feeding in this marsh pond, and there were tons of herons flying around making noise, and other smaller birds too.  Here are a couple more shots from the rookery.....I could have shot until sundown, but after a solid 20 minutes I shot almost a hundred frames.....after a while I think it would be overkill.  Today's C.H. Spurgeon devotion seemed to be a nice thought for these shots.  Enjoy and stay behind the lens!

By C.H. Spurgeon:  August 2^nd Devotion from

‘Morning and Evening’

"Who works all things after the counsel of His own will." Ephesians 1:11

Our belief in God's wisdom, supposes and necessitates that He has a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation have been—without His design? Is there a fish in the sea, or a fowl in the air, which was left to chance for its formation? Nay, in every bone, joint, and muscle, sinew, gland, and blood-vessel—you mark the presence of a God working everything according to the design of infinite wisdom. And shall God be present in creation, ruling over all, and not in grace? Shall the new creation have fickle free will to preside over it—when divine counsel rules the old creation?

Look at Providence! We know that not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father. Even the hairs of your head are all numbered. God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills of our tribulation in balances. And shall there be a God in providence and not in grace? Shall the shell be ordained by wisdom—and the kernel be left to blind chance. No! He knows the end from the beginning. He sees in its appointed place, not merely the corner-stone which He has laid in fair colors, in the blood of His dear Son—but He beholds in their ordained position—each of the chosen stones taken out of the quarry of nature, and polished by His grace! He sees the whole from corner to cornice, from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle. He has in His mind a clear knowledge of every stone which shall be laid in its prepared space, and how vast the edifice shall be, and when the top-stone shall be brought forth with shoutings of "Grace! Grace! unto it!"

At the last, it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as He willed with His own; and that in every part of the work of grace—He accomplished His purpose, and glorified His own name!

How many birds do YOU see?!