Creatures, and verse...

July 24, 2014

I got a well-meaning email saying that my photography was getting “worse and worse” and explaining all my faults. Now, I am a HCP..Hopelessly Content Photographer, who posts SMS (Shamelessly Mediocre Shots). So…I thought, what if my photography was verse instead of worse? Here goes…I saw all these in Scandinavia.

Tired of flitting. A little lazy. Stop a minute. Upon a Daisy.

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“Scratch” the race! This young hare cries. Hidden in the high grass Is the tortoise, slow but wise!

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The flower has food in plenty. The bee, therefore, is rolling. As he drinks the nectar up He gathers up the pollen. IMG_5231 This cat was keen upon its hunt. And did not like being snapped. Its agenda was very clear: A mouse, eaten, after getting trapped! IMG_3774 Big Chief One-Feather Sat upon a pole. Hoping for a juicy chick, A shrew, or a vole! IMG_3888 This moth lay on the leaf-litter. Amongst the drops of rain. Will it die where it lies now? Or will it fly again? IMG_5236 Can you see my horns? He asks While running in the wheat. He slants a wary eye at us: Vanishes on graceful feet. IMG_4013 Curling into a fetal ball Is this hedgehog's best defense. I didn't touch him or trouble him.. But caught him with my lens. IMG_5220 Glorying in the sunlight At the prime of his young life. Grassy paddocks and well-cared ease: What does he know of strife? IMG_5213 "Life's a bubble"..so it seems When I watch this foraging duck. He'll migrate soon, for the winter months And survive, if he has good luck! IMG_5149

“I have so many back home!” I cried As we kept seeing European Black Kites. Then, suddenly an Osprey appeared: A dream come true in browns and whites!

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I just looked at the backyard. No announcement. No knock. He arrived…and left..so silently, This European Peacock.

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