02-13-13 Another Web Site??!!!

Yes, I am launching a new web site (visit it now, (please?)). "Why," you ask. To be honest this blog (which is about to celebrate it's 4th anniversary!) is decidedly non-commercial. And my new web site is pointedly commercial. I'm not exactly a starving artist but I but I've found that photography and blogging about photography are expensive habits.This blog will continue at this web address. But it may be moving. And, while I'm at it, my new web site has an address right now that will be changing -- as soon as I'm smart enough to know how to do that.My "Better Photography Blog" will likely be migrating but, for the time being, I am posting it twice. How about bookmarking the new address?Anyway, how about visiting my new site. Even better, how about filling in the contact form? There's nothing in it for me (or for you) other than it is our way of getting to know each other a little better. After all, a blog is a social media and being social often involves a conversation. So let's start one. . . .

80-30-12 Variations On A Theme

Yes, another sunflower shot. They are looking east, incidentally, away from the setting sun. And, yes, they look east all day and all night long. When I was a kid someone told me that they actually turned so they always faced the sun. That would be a form of heliotropism, so my high school biology teacher would say.But sunflowers aren't that ambitious.Canon 5DIII 1/80s f/7.1 ISO100 200mm

08-25-12 Yucca

There isn't much that's real green along Lake Oahe in central South Dakota in late August. But the yucca plant seems to be well adapted to drought conditions and so in some places, that's all that is green.Sometimes, due to erosion along the shores of Oahe, you will see yucca clinging to soil cliffs and if you study them, you will see that they have roots that go down more than 10 feet. That's how they survive.Many South Dakotans have deep roots and that's how we hang on, as well.