Needed It and Didn’t Have It

This morning, after preparing the morning meal for Ben and Charlie, I decided to take them for their walk before the meal. It was spur of the moment decision, I was already outside, so off we went. I left my camera in the house. We got down to the end of the driveway and I noticed something in a bare tree across the way and seconds later realized it was a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). I ran back to the house, I’m not quite as feeble as I let on you see, and got my camera, but the woodpecker was gone. We continued our walk when I spotted the bird flying towards me and got this horrible picture.

I don’t post all of the photos that I post here to my Pixels gallery, but I post the photos I like best. Some don’t make the cut.

You can check out my gallery at:

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

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  • tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
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    15 days ago

    @Swede1952@universeodon.com

    Ecch… you take it easy on yourself, Swede. Might not meet your own internal gold standard but I happen to like the image.

    • Swede’s Photographs@universeodon.comOP
      1·
      15 days ago

      @tuban_muzuru@ohai.social

      Thank you. I’m aware that I’m not a good judge of what other people might like. I don’t dislike the composition or the subject. But I was too far away so therefore had to crop the image in a lot creating much noise that needed smoothing out leaving the image without much detail. Having said that, I post a bunch of images without detail simply because I think they look good from an artsy point of view.