Western Arab

Well just been tired the past few days. Waking up early to eat before sunrise and going back to bed. Feeling lazy and tired. But I go outside and keep myself busy taking pictures of whatever I find. Here are some of the good ones the past 2 days. I am glad I bought the camera, I am enjoying my time with it.

Wasp Landing

Sneaky Squirrel

Red and white plane

The moon

Well a few weeks ago I found a gecko hanging out on a pine tree in my backyard. I accidentally spotted him as he either fell from a higher branch or jumped down, but he looked like he was falling. This was the first time in four years in Florida that I have seen a gecko in my backyard. I have seen large iguanas in Florida before but not in my yard, but I don’t think I have seen any geckos anywhere in Florida before this.

So today I spotted two of them on the tree in the backyard. At first I didn’t bother them, but then I went in and got my camera. I wasn’t able to find them where I saw them sit last and I moved the tree branches around trying to find them or get some movement from them, but nothing. I almost gave up when I spotted the tail of one of them. And this is when I made my discovery.

The two geckos were mating and I probably disturbed the action they were having. What I do know is that I snapped up pictures of what I can, but not having a zoom lens on hand, I couldn’t get closer than I had. I now know there is more national geographic stuff going on in my backyard than I had thought. And this is the month of Ramadan, the geckos were not fasting!

Gecko a few weeks ago

Gecko Action Today

So I am trying to learn how to use my new canon rebel xs. I have been reading up on aperture or f-stops, shutter speed and iso and have been taking various shots messing around with these settings. It is a lot to take in at the same time that I keep discovering additional settings. The best shots of course are the ones I keep the mode in auto but that will change. I’d like to get some motion shots which would require me using the manual settings such as night shots of cars driving by. I’d like to also get a zoom lens to get some distance shots of birds, planes, insects, landscape, and anything else.

So here is one good shot I got so far. It is a pink flower among others in my yard. It is a pretty small flower but looks bigger in the photo. I cropped the image to 1920×1080 so it can be used as a wallpaper on my screen. Right click save image as to download the full size picture at 1920×1080. Edit: Added another shot of a lizard I took, also cropped to 1920×1080. Love this camera!

pink flower by western arab

Lizard by western arab