The 12th day of the 7th month of Emergence

I had the opportunity to photograph one of the chicadees that visit the feeder.

Of course in photography, lighting is everything and these little guys can be tricky to get all the appropriate things lit up...like the eyes.  Eyes, of course, are the window to the soul!  But in photography, you need light up those eyes and get them in focus.  Given all the black and white contrast around the head and what seems to be black eyes, this can be troublesome.

I remember a photographer, a friend, who was on the show circuit up in Maryland for years.  He had some particularly good images content wise.  But almost all of them were out of focus when he first started.  I would tease him unmercifully about the need for glasses as everything looked like it was taken for those 3-D glasses we used to wear in the movies.  That bad.  Finally, about the time I discovered my own need for glasses...........he discovered the answer to his focus problems.  We both showed up at the next shows fully adorned with the appropriate eye wear.  Made all the difference in the world.

However, I still have to depend upon the little green light in the Nikon view finder to make sure that these aging eyes still don't lie.

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