Comments on: Photos from the Southern Rockies, Day 2 http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/photos-from-the-southern-rockies-day-2/ Commentary, Reviews and Nature Photography Wed, 22 May 2013 04:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: grkwillariwren http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/photos-from-the-southern-rockies-day-2/#comment-2383 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:41:17 +0000 http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/?p=9882#comment-2383 Oh, stop with the modesty! Those are all fantastic. Love the two birds–they are gorgeous and foregrounded perfectly. You can’t edit nature, i.e., stage the scenery, and still catch an instant shot of a flying critter. That nuthatch wins the avian Olympics for sticking a hanging pose.

I have a physical abhorrence of snakes, always have had, but they are incredible, valuable, beautiful creatures. That ‘not much’ photo is great, centering Mr. Garter just right in his/her surroundings. I just looked at him for a long time, told him not to be insulted with the name common, it’s a human conceit, and
that he is just lovely. I tried breathing calmly all the while, but my blood pressure still rose a bit.

My dad brought home 5-gal paint buckets full of rattlesnakes he had dispatched at the bottom of his ladder when he climbed down from painting barns when I was very young. I think I got a little too up close and personal at the time, eye to eye, with the coiled beauties, along with the accompanying dire warnings from adults. He always avoided running over snakes in the road, etc., but I guess he figured a bite in the leg in an isolated spot wasn’t going to help feed the 7 kids at home playing with their rattles.

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