Patience!

With having a bum knee, I have been a little limited as to where I can go and take photos.  So - I am still shooting in my yard.  This first photo was shot in the morning.  I was taking my netflix movie to the mailbox and as I was going back, I noticed the frost on the grass and decided to get my camera and see what I could get.

I was really quite surprised with how much detail I was able to get.  I really like the frost that I was able to capture.  I did crop this just a little in photo shop.  Shutter speed: 1/13; aperture F/16; focal length: 55mm.

Now for the patience.  I decided I would use Bob's super duper long lens and take some photos of the birds in our backyard.  I got all set up and went out on the deck only to have our neighbor's workman start up his big machine to dig up a stump.  No birds.  Later that afternoon, he was gone so I went back out and still no birds.  We always have birds - lots of birds.  So I waited and enjoyed the fact that we were having a little bit of sunshine and finally a little bird showed up to play on our wood pile.  Here is my little friend.

We had to have 3 trees taken down and the wood is in a huge pile.  This little guy was having a great time climbing and flying in and out of the various openings.  I have a feeling that when Bob starts splitting the wood he may find a birds' nest.  We shall see.  I think the little one was worth waiting for.

Shutter speed: 1/100; Aperture: F/5.6; Focal Length: 500 mm.  I also cropped this photo a little in photoshop.  I don't know how to do anything else yet in photoshop!  I will learn.  Both photos were shot in ISO 100.  Hope you like!