With rain forecast for Sunday, Saturday afternoon was spent back out doors, up at Fords with my photography buddy Paul & his wife, Chris.  The plan was mostly to enjoy the sunshine and hopefully come across some birds, although they few that were there played a winning game of hide-and-seek until we finally gave up and went home.  Sp we gave up on them and ambled about, watching the ice fishermen, and shot some frames as we found them.

With the rain and warmer weather we’ve had throughout the week, the snow is spotty at best, so there’s no sweeping winter landscapes to be had.  The alternative is detail shots, tighter compositions that focus in on the particular instead of the general:

Solitary tree

Pine bark

Moon between the boughs

I’ve had the Sigma 100-400mm mounted to the camera since I bought it almost a month ago, shooting nothing but birds and the odd telephoto landscape in that time.  I started out that way again this time, but given the absence of birds, I figured I’d mix it up and switch to my walk-around lens, the Canon 28-135mm IS.  It’s funny, and maybe it’s just me, but after using any of my lenses continuously for a while, I start to get the itch to use a different one.  (Actually, what I really want to use at the moment is the 17-40mm, but today’s setting just wasn’t right for it.)

I did put the Sigma back on for one final shot, however.  There were about a half-dozen ice fishermen out on the pond, but these guys were by far the most interesting…

Wouldn’t want the other fishermen mistaking you for a bass and trying to hook you…